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Boomer ee RP ergs ee ee ec, : 1 ( 1950 “The results obtained during the field training of the One Hundred and Ninth Anti- airctaft Artillery Brigade are ample proef of the capablilties of the brigade commander andataf. * * ° The brigade commander ja tO be cOmibended for his inluative, snergy. and etithusiaam Which har been so largely responsible for the success of the camp. Through the brigade Sommander's varied ex- periences be bas acq an Intimate knowl- edge of human natube, and as a result hes been able to instill in his entire command & yery high morale and a desire to reflect credit upon the cltizen-soldier of our country."— "Feld Traloing lospection Report, Fifth army Inspection Team, August 7, 1946. ’ “This unit’ has progressed rapidly and shows evidence of excellent lesdership.“— ApDus) Armory Inspection Report, Inspector General Fifth Army, January 2, 1040. ; “This is the second Geld training phase in which this unit has taken pert. * * ° The excellent results shown by the units under their command are due to a considera- ble degree to the organisational ability and systematic supervision of the brigade cam- mender and his staff. An examination of the brigade commander's record and bis conduet in the field indjcate that he is well qualified both as an executive and a troop co - @er."—Field Training Inepection Report, Fifth Army Inspection Tear. August M, 1048. “Based on techoicaVproftiency, condition ‘of equipment, camp and range discipline, courtesy and morale, the training standard existing in the One Hundred and Ninth Anti- aircraft Artillery Brigade, Dlincis National Guard, as compared with other National Guard units, ia superior."—Report of M&aff Visit by Representative of Chief Army Field Forces, September 7, 1049. COMMUNISTS IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. President, I wish to discuss a subject tonight which concerns me more than does any other subject I have ever discussed before this body, and perhaps more than any other subject [shall ever have the good fortune to discuss in the future. It not only concerns me, but it disturbs and fright- ens me. About 10 days ago, at Wheeling, W. Va., in making a Lincoln Day speech, I made the statement that there @re presently in the State Department a very sizable’ group of active Communists. I made the further statement, Mr. President, that of one smal] group which had been screened by the President's own security agency, the State Department refused to discharge approximately 255 of those individuals. . The Becretary of Btate promptly de- nied my statement and said there was not « single Communist in the State De- partment. I thereafter sent a telegram to the President, which I should like to read at this time: President Hake’ &. Tavmak, White House, Washington, D.C. In the Lincoln Day speech at Wheeling Thureday night I steted thet the Btate De- partment harbors « nest of Communists and Comoruniet sympethieers who are halning to shape our foveign policy. I further stated that I have in my possession the names of 57 Communists who are in the State Depart- ment at present A Siate Department epokes- man promptly denied this, claiming that there is not « single Communist in the De- pertment. You can convince yourself cf the falsity of the State Department olaim very casily. You will recall that you person- ally appointed a board to screen State De- partment employees for the purpose of weed- ing out fellow travelere—men Whom the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE board considered dangerous to the sectrity of this Mation. Your board did pe patnstak- tng job, and named hundreds which hed bean listed a dangerous to the security of ths Nation, because of eommunistic tom ee prs ee While the records are not available to me, know absolutely of of one group of eppros- mately 300 certified to the Secretary for dis- charge because of communism. He actually only discharged approximately 86. I under- d that this was done after Jengthy con- ti: on with the now-convicted traitor, iiss. I would suggest, therefore, Mr. ent. that you aimply pick up your phone and ask Mr. Acheson how many of those Whom your board had labeled as dan- gerous: Communists he failed to * The day the House Un-American Activities Committes exposed Alger Hiss as an tmpor- tent link in an international Communist apy ring you signed an order forbidding the Btate Department's giving any information in re gard to the disioyalty or the communistic connections of anyone in thet Department to the Congress. Despite this State Department black-out, we bave deen abie to somplle a list of BT Communists in the State Department, This list is available to you but you can get a much longer list by ordering Becretary Ache- eon to give you a Ust of thoee whom Four own board listed as being disloyal and who ere still working in the State Department. TI helleve the following is the minimum which ean be expected of you in this case. 1. That you demand that Acheson give you and the proper congreasionsl committee the Dames and a completa report on all of those who were placed in the Department by Alger Hiss, and all of those still working In the Btate Department who were listed by your board as bed security risks because of thelr communistic connections. 3. That you promptly revoke the order in which gou provided under no circumstances could 'k congressional committee obtain any information or help in exposing Communists. | Pallure on your part will label the Demo- eratic Party of being ths bediellor of international communism. Certainly this label io not deserved by the hundreds of thousands of loyal American Democrats throughout the Nation, and by the sisable numbat of able loyal) Democrats in both the Benste and the House. Mr. President, the only answer I have received to this telegram was the state- ment by the President at his press con- ference to the effect that there was not a word of truth in the telegram. Bubsequently, the Demecratic leader of the Genate—at least, the alleged lead- er—tade a speech in Chicago in which he repeated substantially what the Pres- ident said, except that he went one atep further and stated: Tf I bed mid the nasty things that Mc- CagTar has about the State Department, I would be ashamed all my life. He also said there was not a word of truth in my charge. I think it is un- fortunate, not because I am concerned with what the senior Senator from Dli- nols happens to think, but because be occupies such an important position. I believe, if we are going to roct out the fifth column in the State Department, we should have the wholebearted coop- eration of both Democrats and Republi- ean s—— Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? Mr. McCARTHY. Wait until I finish. ff the Genator wil! stay with me for the next few hours he wil] learn a great many - facts. I have never refused to yield infiltration into any country than is the Benator from Illinois. -What I am ask- ing the Benator to do-~and I hope he will do it, and the country wants him to do it—te to follow through with the speech which he made in Wheeling, W. Va., in which he stated more than 200 persons working in the State Depart- ment were known to the Secretary of Btate to be members of the Communist Party. If the Benator made that state- ment—and that is what has been re- ported—I want him to name those Com- munists. If there are card-carrying Communists in the Gtate Department, the Benator from Tltinols will go along With the Renator from Wiscone!n in any way possible to remove those Commu- nists from the rolls. The Senator does not have to do as he did in Salt Lake City and say, “I am not charging these four people with being Communists.” Tne Senator is privileged to name them all in the Senate, and lf those people are not Communists he will be protected. That is all I want the Senator to do. Hf the Benstor names those 305 card-carrying Communists, and he proves to be right, the Genator he has said about the Genator from Wisconsin. . Mr. McCARTHY. I wish to thank the @istinguished Senator from Llinois for bis views, but I should like to assure him that I will not say anything on the Benate floor which I will not say off the floor. On the day when I take advan- tage of the security we have on the Sen- ate floor, on that day I will resign from the Senate. Anything I say on the floor of the Senate at any time will be repeated nf the A Ci Lie sour. Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, wil) the Senator yield? Mr. McCARTHY. Not until I have finished answering the question of the Senator from Hnols. The Benator called my attention to something, and Tam glad he did; otherwise I might have overlocked it. Incidentally, the speech in Reno, Nev., and that in Wheeling. W. Va., Were recorded, so there is no question