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ened McCarthy Threatens To Name ‘Spy Envoy from Senate Floor \ | oays He Will Put Case Before Members Unless Subcommittee Acts BULLETIN i | Chairman Tydings announced vthat a Senate 5! at a Senate subcommiltice to- : bday will begin its s study of of State Department. loyally “files on 81 ” ‘ | es. | persons accused — of being Com- munists, tchow travelers or 5e- curity risks. _ He Je declined to say . immediately ¥ where the . files “would be “examined, a rn By Cecil Holland Senator Met McCarthy. Republican. of Wisconsin. today threatened to take the Senate foor an and name van Al American envoy he _Nag_ace ‘cused d of being e a ‘foreign “arent. “He sai ie said he he “would ido this if the iSenate nate Foreis elon :n Relations subcom- mittee investigating | his charees.af cammunism in the State Depart- ment fa fails to go thoroughly into the_ Case. WIE I get resistance from the committee,” the Wisconsin Repub- lican said, “I will present the case: as best I can on the Senate floor and name tne man.” ' His chares of “foreign agenif'' against the unidentified envoy was made Sunday in a specch i Janesville. Wis. Previously, Ser ator McCarthy said, he had out- lined “only a minor part of the! case” in a February 20 Senate speech. Subcommittee to Meet. ib ’ In that speech Senator MeCar-; May discussed the envoy as a top rast in a total of 81 persons he eeused of being Communists, fel- low travelers or security risks. He said the envoy had supplied ma-: terial to Russian agents and eet- ting 1d of him would “help to bréak the back of the espionage ring within the State Depart-; meni.” benator McCarthy's statements ise made on his return yester) ly d afternoon from a Midwe trip and as the Senate investi] JUL ete’ ‘the text of a prepared speech gating group prepared to look into anata nections watncae ecttmen ten ae in ES Baas ge tae ’ . , Tolson Pal Clegg \ Glavin ae Nichols Rosen: < h Tracy 14; Harbo ‘ Belmont Mohr Tele. Nease Gandy Room tie-Seree“Department loFarty Hits added, “he should be interested on the 81 persons accused by the in the names of two—¥onn of Wisconsin Republican, America employes whose names The subcommittee, headed bYlrecently gave the subcommitted.| | Senator Tydings, Democrat, Maryland, scheduled a ‘to the investigators. \ McCarthy Answers Benton. | President Truman last week ré- ‘versed a stand he had takep previously and agreed to let the epmmittiee see the State Depart- ent filles. He acted after being informed that four other congres- sjonal groups looked into the same files more than two years ago. Senator McCarthy also had a sharp retort for Senator Benton, Democrat, of Connecticut. who said in a Senate speech yesterday that the Wisconsin Republican was “a very talented propagandist of the Soyiet type.” Senator Benton departed from Truman ordered made vent on the Fair Employment Practices bill to attack the McCarthy charges of communism in the, ate Department. | He said Senator McCarthy | knows he can count “on a vague | djstrust of the State Department and, like the Communist propa- gandist, he is ding his best to ex- ploit it by every means.” "Voice of America’ Attacked. “He doesn’t argue, he doesn't answer, he doesn't reason,” the Connecticut Senator said. ‘He hits and runs.” Senator McCarthy said that Senator Benton would be doing the people “a great favor if he would stop sniping at those of us who are trying to get rid of those who endanger this Nation.” | He noted that Senator Benton, ‘former Assistant Secretary of ine in charge of the Voice af merica broadcasts, had recently Ned for a big expansion in thiat ‘rogram. | “Therefore,” Senator MeCart ¥| of|Those individuals have been usinj! | closed |the program for Communist prop). i: study 6 today to pian for thejaganda purposes.” study of the files that President|—-— -_——— - a FO TaD mutepat ne . — Page Times-Herald —— Wash. Post _ Wash. News ___- Wash. Star f. N.Y. Mirror MAYTO 101950 Date: