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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 24
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McUarthy Promises
Names of 29 Today
Rr ihe Assoclaved Press pens.” f
Scrator Joseph F. MMcCarthy;echarges ranging from associa-|| This morning about 26 ceport. |
(R-Wis.} sai. ec.tcrday i: in-(tion with Communists to Com-| ers and photographers apnea ee
tended to give the Senate thejmunist affitialions. at Meaney oe Press. United
nares of 29 past or present em. said. he Wnonsin Pepublican Press and International News
ployes of the State Department whose loyalty is in doubt should Service told the Senator pry
whese loyalty has been ques-|be suspended, on the reasoning | Statements he offered would pe
tioned, He tele 2 news confer-|that “if an employe is charged | handled on but they would give
ence he would disclose the|With embezzling from a bank, | one ne vance ommitmerts.
nares in a speech on the Senate ee dont jet im still have ac-! McCarthy then made plain,
floor today. ' When he suggested suspen.‘ that he would not give out the |
“Some very high officials” are | sions to Secretary of State Dean, Dames at his office. one |
on .ue list, McCarthy said. He! Acheson and sought assurances ,Was not surprised that t @ press
reported most of the employes|shat suspected employes were | lassociations had mot given him
aré under investigation on | not being allowed to see secret | |the assurances th dancer ef
| Papers, McCarthy said, he got i recognized the danger of)
{ The Associated Press, United
-Peess and Internatio Fert News
Service refused to ive him tech
assurance. A spokesman for the .
Assceiated Press said: “The As-|
sociated Press will make ‘0
commitments of any kind to
Sen. McCarthy. The Associated
Press’ responsibility is to report,
the news if and when it hap-'
“oauing | ‘ Yibel suits if names were uséd/
ae saying in effect, ‘go to fsthont the privilege of congyes:|
; At the time, the department sional immunity. go.
| accused McCarthy of “a political “* —
strategem.” It said some of the.
persons involved were not in the |
department, while others had’
been cleared. ‘ 1
McCarthy said yesterday he |
belicved 24 persons on his list:
are still with the State Depart.
ment, He said his information!
is that two others have been sus: !
pended, two have resigned and | of
one has been cleared. Among: , __.
those involved, he said, are “a_ 2 ye,
foreign affairs specialist, an edi- “* i
tor-writer, 4 divisional assistant, Ma yg Igh
an Ambassador at Large.” :
The Senator added that he
knew all those on the list would A eee any
be cleared in the State Depart- ,
ment’s own loyalty procedures.
“In four years the State Depart:
‘ment has never found a single
lindividual unfit for State De.
partment Service in its loyalty
proceedings,” he said.
Tuesday night on a television
program McCarthy offered to
give out the names from his
office yesterday “if any cue of
the three major press services
will give me -ssurance in writing
oe they will make those nams
pubSe without my having named
ltherk on the Senate floor.”
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