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H..0 thew, 7-16-58) * As Teyrtr Sees Ut: ra Sets History’s Record Straight * By WESTBROOK PEGLER \ IPE O GARRULOUS traipsing | baz00 who ls more and am more frankly the mouthpiece of the revolution, “has published her fourth book since she heard the news, a thousand miles from his side, that her hus- band, had keeled over at Warm Springs in the pres- ence of his old flime of a iove affair dating dack a 1915. This, buok is called “Ejcanor Bases n My Own, The Wo ince Th ite’ House.” If it were true that this fcomale is politically passe and harmiess, kindly and never dishonest, I gould ignore her false statements. But her falsifications of his- tory are acclaimed by a claque of tired old sycophants and exuberant younglings who were in rompers when, for example, she was barn- storming the Eouth Pacific. at public et et ae ee ” PEGLER expense, to visit her friend, Joe Lash, late of the left- wing movement in Washington. Today, I dea) with her faise representation that Senator Joe McCarthy had waged “an attack on the American clergy,” as she clalms to have learned in 1953 in the free atmosphere of Brioni, Yugoslavia, offensive. na Any statement that McCarthy ever permitted “an attack on the American clergy” before his com- mittee or that he himself ever made any such attack is not a mere mistake by an author claiming author- {ty. It is a lic. Not one word of testimony concern- ing the Red infestation of the American clergy ever was adduced before the committee. The uproar was fomented in the White House to discredit McCarthy's campaicn. A columnist for the H-T boasted in print of a trick whereby a telegram “concocted” in the While House was dispatched to a President Eisenhower by a minister, a priest and a a rabbi. Eisenhower then answered each of them in Co sanctimonious, phony indignation at his own hoax. The plain, basic fact was that J. B. Matthews, ,d Fes original fellow-traveler, the chief examiner and informant of the oid Dies Committee, who stands unimpeached, had written an article for the maga- zine, American Mercury, lruthfully exposing con- : tamination of much of the American clergy by the boot Communist conspiracy. His allegations stand un- : refuted to this day. The Herald Tribune, however. 5 created an impression that Matthews’ essay was a ae feat Ot-ortrageous bigotry. _ oo" -- id * o -o# : - -_ sO 28 IAN? pen oe et meee ee cme Tame under a dictatorship which she found not altore irr. 6b... " Tolson mt Noces pr Persons ___ ( 47 JAh ae - rae Room — Holloman —__ Gandy OTe & ior rere f. “ey 2 ° Wash. Post and Timee-Herald Wash. News Wash, Stor N. Y. Heraid Tribune N.Y. Journal-2-4___ American N. Y. Mirror N. Y. Dally News — N. Y. Times ————- Daily Worker ——— - The Worker ® __ 48... New Lecser —__-___ | eye Date :