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'} ‘Howse Probers-Gall on Budenz- To List 400 Reds on U.S. Rolls Committee Wants Names Turned Down In Inquiry by Tydings Whitewashers | By WILLARD EDWARDS ™~ : The House un-American activities committee it learned yesterday, 13 prepa many Jeads to evidence of communis yin th galors under Se aryland. Louis F. Budenz, former editor of the Community Dally Worker, |: now a Fordham university pro- fessor, heen bene by the committee, His testi- ferred for some Hime pending a prior investiga- ‘Hon, "When Budenz appeared in ex- ecutive session before the Senate | - -foreign relations subcommittee headed by Tydings, he offered ta prepare a list of 400 names of Communists in government, in- eluding the State department. dings Shelved Offer phe three Democratic membe f the subcommittee, who latér Joined in a whitewash report stat- | ing there were no Communists or security risks in the State depart- ment, were taken aback. Sen, marked that the group would “certainly” want the names. Bu- denz then said he would hav them ready in two weeks. Ques i ; tioning on this topic was. quickly dropped. But the Tydings group never ggain contacted Budenz, it was laornsed and annasred to have na sSEITEd, BNO EPPSSrea tO nave Oe | interest in a list of names which | bore directly upon their investiga-' tion of disloyalty in the State de- partment. Their final report, issued more than a month. later. and con- demned in Senate debate as a whitewash, made no mention of Budenz’ offer which was disclosed cin. & transcript of his secret testi-. mony. — | McMahon (Dj of Connecticut z : ““ffudenz named ela Re ¥. Han- “The Democratic majority of the | aon, State department head of subcommities exonerated. Syomn in: | President Truman's Point 4 spend- volved on the basls of what @as in ing , and Owen Laitti- the secret files, withous. ‘More, a Johns Hopkins university investigation. McCarthy sictartey ae te | -brofessor and State department will show that the subcommittee | unis! never followed up various elepages: and allegations it the Ties. oCe 1 tik, y mittee ce sald the faijure to follow up ~Bydenz’ offer to submit a list of Communists in government! incredible. They immediately 4ebued the subpene for Budenz - whh a view to securing ail -evidence which the Tydings ‘committee neglected to obtain. | Senate debate on the Ty: . subcommittee whitewash will cof- tinue today, with Ben. Ferguson | tory of ef Michigan discussing the > report. Ben. McCarthy (R) of Wis- : consin is scheduled to follow Fer: * guson on the floor. The Wisconsifi senator, whose " charges that the State department is infested with Communists and _feliow travelers precipitaied the te investigation, announ terday that he will read ast two of the secret State nt files in the 81 cases eg- A by the subcomunittee. awe je h. Post Vee ak i 5k ae ae e% Bt an Q in soft : ae md