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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 23

64 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy · 63 pages OCR'd
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rt wae Tolsor - Ladd ‘Clegg Glavia Nichols Rosen : Tracy * Harbo Alden Belmont Laughlin. ‘ Mobr Tele, Room. Neage McCarthy Says He'll Name 29 Anyway \ ——- Gandy Siate- Department Tells Joe__ _ to Go Fly His Citations Cy, By Unied Press The State Department made no ai- i / The State Depariment angrily de. | tempt at iactfully mollifying Sen. fied Sen, Juseph R: McCarthy to-| McCarthy. My. Humeisine said the ee day, and all but dared him to namej Senator's attack was made “for : 29 persons he claims ave security| purely political reasons, and with- / / risks. out regard to the facts.” ° Qn. WT AE, ace la ee wm oe aa dae tea sen. McCarthy promptly accepled+ pe said Sen. McCarthy’s list— the challenge and said he would re-| «,. . - at : veal the names in a Senate speech like your previous lists”—contained “within a few days.” the names of persons not working Sen. MeCarthy said he had made] for the State Department, some who a “reasonable” request that he be/ already have been cleared and oth- assured that the 29 personas belors whose cases actually are pgnd- bared from “secret materials ne. whwe their “loyalty” cases were] 8. pendg before the depariment’s ‘HOLDING HOSTAGE’ loyaltsocurity board. He said the “your indiscriminate lumpihg to- depariment geve him “no choice’! secher of names and the threat to bil to make the names public. make them public,” Mr. Humelsine RAPS ‘THREAT' wrote, “is iantamount to holding hostage the reputation and rights of those employes who have been or may be cleared of the allegations against them.” Sen.. McCarthy said his list of: names “cannot be incorrect” because, be pot it fron Chairman Hirman: Bingham of the Civil Service Com-| mission’s top-level Loyalty Review! Ta an angry leiter laie yesierday, the department told MeCarthy that it would net yield or compromise his “political strategy or threai.” Undersecretary of State Carlisie Hi. ffumelsine, head of the depart- ments loyalny-securly division, wrote the blistering reply to Sen. McCarthy. My. Humelsine said dis- closure of the names would violate Board. President Truman's order forbidding} Told of Sen. McCarthy's state-: release of any information on pend-/ ment, a Staite Department spokes-| Paw man said tha: if Mr. Bingham did, supply the names, “then Sen. Wic-, Carihy and Mr. Bingham wail have, Times-Herald ing loyalty cases. The caustic exchange could be The opeeipg cross-fire of a new row between the State Department and to share the responsibility for max: Sen. MeCaiths. meter public." rane 4 Wash. Post 8 Wasis. Naw . We. a . - I: f ta * X. Mirr - - S| } : i .T ora sas \ . ’ r. ” =e ow . oe pf ee eS 6 No _ ‘NOT RECORDED we 45 8: i lel. re remem eee Dolat See ee — 7
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