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“ge N the Senate at the moment Korea looks almost as far away as the land of Oz. The gentlemen have a war of their own in progress, fought mostly with super-heated air. een sngrline 7 art (R.. Wij i a platoon usiness as offici Departn 2 Sénators call each o ames. Tv. aVveL 5 t o Ted in, What this private Iwile war of the slaiesman i costing Us"taxpayers in wages for work that wan't get done until later I Rate to estimate. nd when the gentlemen will get back to the appropriations bill, Which theoretically is the business before them, I have no idea. . * 2 THE reason for the fight is easy and simple to understand: The Foreign Relations sub-committee called Sen. Joe a bum for making his charges against pinkos in high places. Now his defenders are calling the committee men bigger bums for saying such things about a member of their club. Other fights are brewing as offshoots of the original battle and that’s where the thing gets complicated. All messed up in politics and theories about how a gent ought to behave. T sat thru the second day of it and there was Sen. TienryCahot ss), perhaps. the Randsomest senator ini : 'taZO along with Ww members of the sub-committee, Pier Democrats. in-charge he said,_were20..busy ] investigating Sen. McCarthy they never. got arousd te inveshigatig tie j € couldn't say yes, and he couldn't say no U4 ‘, , wef nO ma broke in. . — He was about to catch a plane for his home town, es he said, and he knew when he got there the people were going to ask him one question. - “Tell. me one thine” he nieaded, “Did the senator ‘find_any Communists in the State Department?’ No, Tflid not. men Lodee replied rom here on out the argument turned into a not- so-gentlemanly battle royal. Sen. James Kem _ (8 Mo.) said one reas aybe the a po feng to leave ihe impucation that the Ful and th Attorney Genera in cahoots to suppress the { en, Lodee said he didn't say thg en. Kem said, . Said he asnt insinualing Any- : ve he_ did Le b ne; he eda i bat the Attorney. Genera jed the hands of the FBI in certain. cases, Such the Kansas City vote Traud Page . . Wash. News un: Wash. Star “___- i N.Y. Mirror ce Date: JUL 2.9 saeq