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ee SR NA me tee aes sll a = Four Horsemen ta! Words that desperately needed to be said for the saivation of the country were SpoRE Ken yesterday on the floor of the Senate by Senator Margaret Chas mith of Maine. She was perhaps uniquely qualified to Speak as she did—because she is a woman and a Republican, but above all because her dis- interested patriotism and ersonal integrity are beyond question. Her “declaration of conscience” rk an historic turning point in the road back to America. “As an American,” said Mrs. Smith, “1 want to sea our -Nation recapture th slrength and unity it once had when w fought the enemy instead of ourselves.” A no time in the past 80 years has the strenct of the United States been so sapped by con- flision and disunity. For the confusion she blamed, and juslifiably, “the lack of effec- ive leadership in either the legislative brine or the executive branch of our Gov- riment.” For the disunity she courage- usly pointed the finger of blame at ele- merits in her own party who have tried to “ride to political victory on the Four Horse- men of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.” . Mrs. Smith spoke of long-honored but now forgotten American values—the rights of free expression and of trial by jury in- Stead of trial by accusation. “The American people,” she said, “are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be polilically smeared as ‘Communists’ or ‘Fascists’ by their opponents.. Freedom of Speech is not what it used to be idndmesing, Ithas been so abused by some that it is nu fxencised by others.” And then, without Inentloning Senalor McCarthy but in words te trust he could not have misunderstood, jhe declared: "I don't like the way the Sen- ate has been made a rendervous for vilifica- bon, for selfish political gain at the sacri- - fica of individual reputations and national unity. I am not proud of the way we smear ouisiders from_the Moor of the Senate and hide behind the cloak of congressional im- —— miuuily and still piace ourselves beyond crilicism on the Noor o e Senate. As an merican, T am shocke @ way Repubij- ‘ans_anT-DEMOCrAS-aNES are playing di- ne anne ate playin . the Com munist design of ‘con- rary a arbo a Imont “ Mohr Tel e. Room Nease p fo Gandy _ We believe that the six Hepub. 3 | joined Mrs. Smith in her magni - “ a, elaration constitufe an honor 7 Tobey,” Aiken, Morse, Ives, Thye and Hendrickson. “It is high time.” they agreed, “that we stopped thinking politically as Republicans and Democrats about eleciiony and started thinking patrictically as Americans about national security based on individual free- eniiy pased on inilividual free. dom.” It was this same conviction that led The Washington Post recently to propose a Commission on Security to aid the country jn this kind of unpattisan, national thinkin We need ihe counsel o ho are above the vulgar political battle, men who can be listed in the great battle for national @- dem tion, | Page Times-Herald ____ Wash, Post Jo Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror py "1 Date: Lian iy ar a gr et