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i Kennan Worried ~~ State Dept. Morale Hurt By McCarthy _~May 5 (NYHT}—: George enna t' thaState Depa snt_warned to- | night that the department might | lose most of its “quiet, sensitive | and gifted” {op olncials =! ent atmosphere of “abuse and deri- tjon”” continues Speaking in the home State of Senator Joseph k, WicCarthy, Re- publican, who has charged that there are Communist, sex perverts and poor security risks in the Slate Department, Kennan told a meet- ing of shisistituts on United “Na- tions Foteign ~-Policy “that me mental strain of fighting the cold war left ton. officials with very slender margin of physical and spitigisl energy Ip aber rHaieate. | “I must tell you,” he said, “that! the atmosphere of public life in: Washington does not have to de-| teriorate much further to producel a situation in which very few of our more quiet and sensitive and gifted people will be able to con- tinue. in Government.” He warned that unless the nited States could mobilize its best brains for prosecution of the cold war there could be no prom- \sing assurances of the outcome. It was “not fair” to these men, he said, to make them scapegoats | of whatever dissatisfaction and be-; wilderment the country might feel} tencerning its international posi-! tion. Neither was it fair to the: Qreat body of citizens, he added.. Perbaps only those who have, lived many years in totalitarian’ countries can feel how vitally ; Important it was to preserve “the! spirit of tolerance and liberality, In our relations with each other} and the readiness to give the other; fellow the benefit of tha doubt, Where doubt exists,” Kengan said, Milwau 4-2t -Tgleon ya \ Ladd. _ : Cierg _.. Glavi Nichols Rosen racy. / Har bo L Belmon Mobr ; Tele. Nease Room _ “ ‘ ' Page Times-Herald Wash. Post 3. Wash. News ee Wash. Star —_——- N.Y. Mirror hay v i9ue Date: