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ee ern nant 2 « FE LATEST NEWS: Wasi ston, Jan. 3f YR tee ' n ay described Sen. McC: : thy as a pathu.o™ "il charac- ; ¥ ter wf = isin and, in effect, a lian. His ..ast was evoked at his |:vess conference by a question regarding the Senator's charge this week that Phillee*Nash, a special White House assistant concerned with minority prob~ lems, had close associations with Communists in 1940. Nash has dented this and frieinds have charged that MeCarthy picked him as a target because oy tae pata ghd, Nash's sister has been active in an anti-MeCarthy Wisconsin cam- paign. The President, who may not be ‘quoted directly, said that the Sen- ator’s altack on Nash was the same kind that the pathological Mr. McCarthy makes on all pov- ernment workers he does not like. Asked whether he thought MeCarthy was telling the truth in chiming FBI evidence to back his allegations, the Presi- dent responded by asking the re- porters whether MeCarthy ever told the truth. If he did, said Truman, he-—the President— | didn’t knew it. | Questioned regarding another McCarthy claim that he had Loy- jalty Revies Board evidence to phe eva eee back eallicr red charges against Davj Lloyd. a Presidential admin- ‘istiative assistant, and asked where he thought this data came Fateal Tres from. Truman rentied that han PRESIDENT TRUMAN APR wie wWwat— ; Carthy did mot need any informa- Lashes out. tion in carrying out his fob as a i 4 : character assassin. That was his|President pointedly reminded the > business, the President added. press that he himself had ne im- + nan api rent reference to the; munity to hide behind, = fatt that’.McCarthy has made ‘ ° . + mést of his charges against indi- © viduals in the Senate, where he " -_ ? hap legal immunity from sult, the Whether motivated by npelitica * ber the anger that flares quickly y Y - ; when those close to him are under % ; eee “attack, the President's denuncia- * : tion of MeCarthy was forthright Z “and vieorots. Trumau has gene after the : [Senator before, but nol so sharply & sand not by name. It may be that a he just Gas had tee much of the Py iman amd bis free-wheeling vi- Fd tuperation, Or. as some here think a! .. Ode hpi apy Beek) more likety, he has acerpted the fact that McCarthyism is going ty be a campaisn issue and has ce cided that the time has come to iStrike out. If so, he bas picked a moment | when, accerding to all accounts, MeCarthyvism is al its Jowest ebb in the country and the Senator's specches and charges no longer are treated alwys as news. In the presen instance, for exam- ple, Truman's blast at the Sen- ator will bring to many news paper readers their first know! edee (hat Metarthy had beer Tiding again and firing at ney tarcels. While the President's attack ig welcomed in anti-McCarlhy cireles where, there are some who argue that Truman is engared in a loy- alt¥ business differing from Mc- Carthy's in method and manner but not in ullimate effect, and that Trinmmnan cannot effectively meet the McCarthy issue until he reverses himself on the whole loy- ‘alty edifice that he erected. Other- ‘wise, It is urged, he may find him- self simply arzuine to the country Unat he has done the job better and more neatiy than the } Spatholig¢ical Mrtartiy © z pee