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ee , Glavin _.---. +. . “Why NotAREAL . ., wl, ] ad nee = ; invest igat ion? EXATOR MeCARTHY’g real cha ote. " f just the persistent employment of lefteavangers..__. THLE, the Pydings eomuttee shows no-melina- bh the Government. ne — tio to tvestigate properly Senator MecCar- | His real charge is that a pro-Commupast. poticy.-; thy 's chorges against the State Department, contrived our diplomatic defeat in Chi — Justead, we sce Adninistration supporters | military adversities of the Nationalists; that con- Snelniding New Deal members of the eommittee— sequently our defensive position in the Pacific has participating ina vindictive vendetta agaist Sen- {been jeopardized; and that a prespective Commu- ater MeCarthy on the floor of Congress. Gut them imtimdatory effort DISCREDITED ITSELF when Senator Chavez of New Mexico mmpugned his own religious fatth—which is also Senator MeCarthy’s—in a refuted attempt to dam- age au important witness, 1 { nist conquest of South Asia will deprive us of stra- tegic materials and isolate us from natural allies. Senator McCarthy alleged that Prof. Owen Lattimore has been a ‘‘chief architect” of this de- featist poliey. Heallewed that others in and around the State Department collaborated im our undoing. These are matters that can be readily inves- tigated. | 9 Documentary evidence is PUBLICLY | ACTUALLY, there is not much mystery behind the MeCarthy charges. Vhe Wisconsin Republican alleged that the aie State Department. am prem beter ist | AVATLABLE in the State Department’s White sympathizers, aud tat the FBI files conta cu- | Book” on China and in other official papers. mncitary evidence Thereot, . The requirement is a drastic inquiry into tne —Thesstitebeparmment, and the White House, | State Department’s Far Eastern methods. tov, derided this charge. — And the Tydings group, belonging ‘0 tne een Rut the public remembered Alger Hiss—and | atc Fovcign Relations Committee, has jurisicuon was nof impressed. _ to conduct A GENUINE INVESTIGATION, Presitent Lrmnan, withholding the FBI data, gave the committee some old files of the State De- a O FAR, the subcommittec has made HARDLY partment itsel?. A GESTURE in this direction. - “Plainly, the New Deal tactic is to BELITTLE This is not the way for a committee of the VE MeCARTIVY CHARGES as merely an ill- United States senate To demeran Tseit. gn a A informed and futile “Red hunt.” Tt is certainly not the way for the rqpre- , What the Tydings committee seems to ignore entatives of tle sovereign state to safeguard the is that such a maneuver WOULD LEAVE THE _kecurity of THE UNITED STATES. REAL INDICTMENT UNANSWERED. oT —- yf - db Moreover, it would leave the nation exposed t A] MORTAL DANGER with which Congres pe? should be gravely concerned. Tal av f . wee ee . Me phe) The Baltimore News Post es ay Bnitimore, Md, \U - Mry 23,1950 \ yg es A 4 fo 1 . } ta ete ped T ee eee Be roy coe iar +