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f Ney oye oe i 4 ; é g that the country was Iinter- sted in cleaning out the Stat epartment and would not tak whitewash inquiry kindly dings was asked by more than}! ohe constituent if he was bein; influenced by his father-In-law, Joseph E. Davies, former ambas- sador to Russia who wrote the pro-Russian “Mission to Moscow.” Sentiment is Reversed By the end of the week, a re-' markable change was evident in the attitude of the Democratic members of the subcommittee. McCarthy was permitted to pro-; ceed without interruption and poured into the record a great) amount of detall concerning nine officials, whom he named pub- licly, and several others whose names he gave the subcommittea privately. He promised by the next day to present the probers with the names of some 125 per- sons whose loyalty records should be investigated. The ‘chairman appointed a counsel! and investigators. an- nounced that the State depart, ment had agreed to open its files’ for examination, and emphat- ically announced the subcommit- tee would “lean over raf ip an effort to conduct an hongst igquiry. The best that the State depa en now can hope to get fr e Senate investigation, it is be- lieved, is a3 face-saving report as- jfar in charging he could prove there were 57 card-carrying Com- Munists in the State department. l Experienced investigators have ong ei onceded the virtual im- sossibility of proving tha oving that any faaiaua 4 card-carrying Com hist, In the 12 years that ittee on “anAmertcan ‘activities has functioned at pro- ion] few instances, notabi |t the cases fhe cates Maine sinvolvng Hollywood int writers. None Carried Cards Communists infiltrating the government are Ularly warned to ‘conceal “their party Tiembership, —ibVestigators nove. NONE Of thé “icir persons—Aiss, Whitlaker Chambers, He Jub jan Wadleigh and Harry D. W. “Hamed as Soviel Informants ie the Alger Hiss trial ever carried party, cer s. epaiee. of Commiunis ‘ar operations, was admittedly un’ in “selecting ‘the “chid-aFbying” phrase. Wheat, he actually said, a éheck of his first “‘puble Speen | al Wheeling, W. Val revealed, wag that the $7 employes were Telthes : g Communists ort " | arecarryih uniy eyal “to the Commupfst r The Wisconsin senator, in Bis Ppearances before the subcam- ittee, had modified this asser- tion to assert that his evidence, serting that McCarthy went too | amplifled from ‘arious sources in recent weeks, indicates violation more than 190 State depa ent employes, past and prese f Secretary Acheson's own “‘log- lity yardstick.” Four Types of Risks ick,’ as given Feb. 28 to the Senate appropriations committee, classifies “security risks" into into 1 ‘four “Categories, as fol- ° ae “A person who engages in, supports or advocates treason, subversion or sedition, or who is a member of, affiliated with, or .in sympathetic association with ‘Communist, Nazi or Fas cist Parties, or ‘of any foreign or do- mestic party or movement which seeks to alter the form of the government by unconstitutional means, or who consistently be- eves in or supports the idealogies and policies of such a party or movement. 2, A person engaged in espid nage or acting directly or indirectiy under foreign government instruc- "tions or who deliberately performs ‘his duties to serve the interests of ‘another government. 3. A petson who knowingly di- vulges classified information for ransmission to a foreign govern- ent or who is so consistently ir sponsible In the handling of assified information as to indl- te extreme lack of care or judgment. 4. A person who has habitual -or close association witn persons ‘known or believed to be in cate- ,gories 1 and 2, to an extent which would justify the conclusion th he might divulge classified autho lity. He Follows Definitions Under these definitions of dis- loyalty, McCarthy asserted, all the persons he has thus far named publicly are suspect. The case of Miss Kenyon, whose ‘\term as American representative on a United Nations commission was terminated last Jan, 1, has been cited by opponents of Mc ‘Carthy a5 an outrageous example of maligning an innocent person. Yet Miss Kenyon, who did not deny her connections with at least 28 Communist fronts, so desig- nated by the attorney general and other official agencies, was cer tainly a subject for investigation under the “security risk” charac teristics outlined in categories 1 and 4, McCarthy noted, FBI report on Miss ¥ pectlons was in the hands of the Stale _depar' OYalty Fick clested her-But the record: BnOWws she Was not even ues t in nm of *'c of or ganizations Advocating a for gn ideology. Accepting the woman's vigorous stimony before the subcommitiga at she never “know!ngly” nged to a Communist front, & yalty- board still was lax in n ‘seeking that testimony, McCarth a ee hs, meme — | Acheson Is Just ‘Mosquito’ to Red LONDON. 3 March 18 (AP). AChoik prime min- ister ) i described Secretary ‘of ‘State Acheson teday as “a mosquito trying to shatter the fortresa of world peace.” In a statement commenting on Acheson's speech Wednes- day at San Francisco on U.S. policy toward Asia, Chau as-. serted: . “The affairs of the Asian peoples must be settled by themselves and must. never be interfered with by such American imperialists as Acheson and company on the other side of the ocean.” Times Herald Pave 1 and 2 enn 18