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215 Yeats Old, : House Is Told — Reprewnluive Frank _M.\ kare slen (D,, Mo), yesterday provid cumentation to show that the fhmous ‘81 cases” of Senalor Nie arthy (R. Wis. are two and oe Hit years old and were previously ipvestigated hy two House _syp- coninutlees. Karsten showed further that tle second subcommitice inquiring inte the question, with a Repub- lican majority in the Eightieth Congicss. concluded its investiga-_ tion did not even Warrant a_reporl. because “it was felt the State. pyriinient was handhng the situ thom in a satisfactory manner.” J "The 81 cases of individuals al tygedly employed by the State Deb partment and allegedly pro-Com-vestigation by the FBI and were mufieeor=at a minimum poor approved by the State- sper security risks, were outlined to the ment. As of March, 1948, Kars en Senate in a speech by McCarthyisaid, this was true with respect to. on February 20. more than half of the 57. Taken From List of 108 As of today, The Washingten, The majority, if not all of them, Karsten said yesterday in a state- ment and a House speech, arejtoken, of the 57 and of the 81) are taken from a list of 108 cases con-(still employed _by the State De- sidered during the making of fiscal partment. All have received full year 1949 appropriations for the security clearance through the State Department by a House Sub- State Department's loyalty pro- committee on Appropriations. cedure, and the postaudit of Presi- Then, on March 10 and 12, 1948,dent’s Loyalty Review Board. the same 108 cases were studied by} Said Karsten: ~ a House Subcommittee on Expendi- tures in Executive Departments. Karsten column analysis on nine of thejcases Senator McCarthy has eases to show similarity and oftenjmind are of recent origin. . .°. identity in language between Mc-\There is nothing new about the -Carthy’s statement of the cases andimajority, if not all, of the cases their summary in the 108 list given|mentioned by Senator McCarthy. i the two House Subcommittees, “Any impression that the Amer- | | Karsten's analysis also provided ican people might have that this is the first suggestion of how Me-la matter of recent origin is com- Carthy arrived at a figure—used pletely erroneous. My analysis of in various of his Lincoln Day |these cases shows that many, if not speeches that precipitated thelall of them, were included among present investigation. of Commu: the 108 cases investigated. nist infiltration—of “57 card-carry- ing Communists in the State De- Would Probe for Hoax : “If so, inquiry should be made, partment.” as to whether or not ah d ; ot a hoax, a de- Hearings Showed 57 Employed ceit or a fraud has been practiced | Of the 108 cases considered by|somewhere, by someone, upon the ithe second House Subcommittee,/American people.” Karsten said, “hearings developed that 57 of the individuals were em- ployed in March, 1948, and 51 were not employed. Of the 51 not em- ployed. 23 had never worked for «the Stale Department but were ap- ifjicants for positions.” The re- dybmaining 28 had resigned or were scharged, Thus, it appears that in discussing 81 cases in February of this year, McCarthy was actually talking jabout employes or applicants for State Department jobs as of a date munism “as the most sinister, God- less concept ever conceived to eg- slave mankind,” and that he hat ‘the deceit, the fraud, the inte lectual dishonesty that are the i veterate handmaidens of commu- nism.” But, he said, for the same reasons, “I would have complete Post learned yesterday, 40 of the; original 108 (and by the same! Karsten said he detested com-! : 4-26 Vien ' eubadd Lf! Keg Glavin_, Nichola! Rosen \Tracy \Harbo “¢ Belmont Mohr. Tele. Room__ Nease Z Gandy_ . f . i i f d a 7 ad “ t h. ~* ~ “The allegation has either beqi ay made or the impression convey | / presented a parallelito the American people that the e| rN | Pa contempt for anyone who, through! Page deceit or fraud would seek to in-}: es flame and hoodwink the American |: —s 242 years ago. And when he said that there were “now” 57 Communists Jn the department, he was referring to the fact that two years ago there lwere 57 people in the State De- ‘partment who, in preliminary in- ‘vestigation by the department's security division, were thought to be poor security risks. investigated and Approved Manu uof these, ho subsequently Fiven & 7 people with the assertion that the State Department of their Govern- ment has harbored or is saturated with Communists, “I cannot, in good conscience, sit idly by and see the American people confused with distrust of their own Government at a time} when our Nation needs the greatest’ unity of purpose in its history ti’ Wash. Star meet the world menace of Sovie Wash. News Russia and the slavery and degre . etre which it would impose upon| N.Y. Mirror ——— WAY aired Date: 'Times-Herald —___ Wash. Post iZ —— ‘) in \