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a see ica agitate at WANS tena a by ge lag ag be riage UN hg aig aati eee oR iS ho ceo Lie fone Pe TY aa By Murrey Marder Post Reporter (wT) 7 @ * s Vr oe _\e ‘) iMeGarthy Charges-White House-Aide‘+hilleo oS ecarth also had some ad- Loyally Review Bourd and the ; vice or he Civil Service Loy-|FBI subsequently turned in “10 Senator Joseph R. “MeCarthy | alty eview Board, from whose | separate reports” on Nash. ‘eonhidential aera eta Tae Ferenc at- CR-Wis.), AHhough the Review Baard tie ee es SEC a Pa ee OVI tara ierd charged yester “I edly—dtstlosed excery that | then ordered a new seek for that FBI reports show Philleo! jave"Tesulted In_an stiga-| Nash, McCarthy said siden- Pore a White Jlouse alde, was| ion"Ul-the baarTs own secre tial Aide Donald a Communist. ‘ity. MeCarthy said they disclose | Peon “asked that the complete files “IT may say for the benefit of} be sent to the White House.” that Nash “had been in close: ‘the Loyally”” Rev Review Board,”|They were, said McCarthy, and contact with ihe Communist! saidtteCar McCarthy, tb {hat— thos. heed |were never returned to the : | underground in ring. Nash, a special assis{ant to. cleared by the White House lest “loyd. the President on-minority prob-! lems, immediately branded the ; accusation “a contemptible lie.”: He flatly denied that he is or was a Communist or had “any-' thing to do with the Commu- nist movement.” Nash, who is 42. and a native | of Wisconsin, said McCarthy an- parentiy “has been stung” a an anti-MeCarthy advertisement | signed by Nash's sister, Jean, and 12 other Democrats and Republicans. The advertisement last Mon- day in the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune .dealt with “the jmenace of McCarthyism” un- ‘der the heading, “Citizens vs. McCarthy.” Nash, a former lecturer on anthropology at the University | of Toronto, worked for the Of. fice of War Information during | ‘World War JI. In 1945 ne | ‘same to the White House as as- sistant to David K. Niles. When Niles resigned, .Nash succeeded ‘to his job. | ‘T have absolutely nothing to hide and never have had,” Nash said last night. McCarthy referred to him as a $17,500-a-year aide, while the | White House said Nash's salary: is $10,800. | The Wisconsin Senator, whose. | ‘“advice” is anathema to the Tresident, said yesterday that: esigeni, Sala Yesercey SRAL | le was speaking ‘ ‘principally, r. he ear of President Ha xy Truman.” he President is unaware of reports on Nash. He said “I assure” > INDEXED - 93 Washington: not ibvestigate. their—.slafl to. board. and in the early 1940s permitted | find oul how J..got—this ma- his home in Toronto to he used | i teriat™ hy members of a Canadian spy. Othe White House, he said. McCarthy, on January 15. sim- ilarly charged the White House lwith intervening to obtain loy- was ally files on Aide David Demar- Tlavd ranliad that fiouse | CSL oye anOy repilea inat \hé was ready to answer all ques- tions at ail times, and had done, so. i There were nine points in the) FBI reports on Nash, McCarthy |! said. For reasons he did not | disclose, he said he would not} ‘read four of them into the rec-| ord. They show, said McCarthy, af Nash in the ‘ ‘early 40s was alttnding Communist meeti Bs an had ofRinialler, taina aaa Giictiaiwy joined ne ! Cofmunist Party;” “That r-! ingythe early "40s parts of fhe| Communist spy ring in Can a | All reports on it went McCarthy said Nash eit amet were using his home in Toronto ly contributed to the su : ort of | a point of rendezvous, and | the Canadian Tribune, the -of- | me of them were living | ficial organ of the Communist Party in Canada.” | McCarthy said they also show! He said he will “assifue" nash fas ‘a close associate of| President Truman does Inat neo € convicted Canadian: know that, but when he q es, Communists” and had “fnancial- he should “get rid of" Nashh Kort port yay TPJAN 81 1952 i ee Ak j i Te al mateo The Washington Post Tarnianryw AN. 14G>D