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(ates Says McCarthy Can Tell Senate Committee bo. 0 od Press Scnate Demogratic Leader Scott W. Lucas promised today to mito thee early airing nf Sen, Joseph R’ teCarthy’ s charges of Communist infiltration into the State Depart- ment, He said he would confer im! mediately with Chairman Tom, Connally (D:, Tex.) of the For- , eign Relations Committee about ' an open hearing on Sen. McCar-, thy’s charge that 81 Communists: and fellow travelers have wormed their way into the Ad-: ministration’s top echelons. He said Sen. McCarthy should be put under oath and compelled to identify the 81 cases he reviewed on the Senate floor last night. Sen. McCarthy has mentioned no names. Sen. McCarthy teld the Senate among other things that one per- . son who failed to get a loyalty - clearance at the State Department now is a speech writer in the Whiic House. He also charged that there - is a Red ring in the State Depai!- 4 ane 2 fe ee . ment headed by a subversive “Big ‘ . Three.” ~ NX GOT PROOF, HE SAYS a a ‘ He said afterwards that he has t no objection to reveajing the iden- - tities of these individuals in open . hearings before any Senate com- mittee, vy) Sen. McCarthy said he could back p his charges with documents t rom State Department files. He j a efused to say where he got them . D SEN. McCARTHY , ut he told the Senate that “were kK / n. a ‘ : not for some good loyal Ameri- _ At anonymous cases _.@cans in the State Department, I'd “not be able to do this.” His speech prompted the most violent Senate debate of the year. Sen. Brien McMahon (D., Conn.) accused Sen. MeCarthy of “star chamber” proceedings and “ex parte trials.” ONE IS WOMAN | Despite persistent needlngf by | f Sens _Luegs and McMahon, Sen. "Mc: ! i Carthy refused to divulge any names be whatsoever. He referred to the "Big Three” in the State Depariment AS, SITNGTON OF TLY CLS ; 4 250 eases “One, Two and 81.” . ween? a \ t ‘. | Case BI. he said. actually was atmol +divion ; : aM ) woman. é has a “great deal of }} *) 9% ——a ‘ control over the news used on the rOruary nls 1950 Voice of America,” he added, and is “doing the United States immeas- urable damage." Sen. McCarthy said all three; should not only be fired, but prose- j cuted. — ALY half of the 81 cases which: . cue a ee fee ON! rthy cited involved per- tor Vek ice of America or. . ” Wiinaf dan ee EEE