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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 20
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‘admitted in an open letter to Mc |
Carthy that Lattimore was the
man accused. ‘The Sawyers de
'manded ‘that | ‘McCarthy. retract
"his chatges against Lattimore ahd
threatened legal “ection.
Democrats Baiked
_‘The
disrupted a. Democratic Plan to
hoped to draw Hoover into
‘statement that evidence in FBI
filea did ‘not substantiate the
charges, against Lattimore. Mo-
_ |Carthy had said he would “stand
or fal” on the Lattimore case,
But the plan Was hastily dis
carded in view \of McCarthy's
latest assertion that he had new
Information and documents peak ™|
he xpect to present_o1 She |
wa Lee i a
McCarthy memorandum .
om dagen the Lattimore ci ore case, Chal
aon himself with asking Hoove
if all cases.
the Justicerde lepartinent.
“That 18.98 or 99 pér cent cor
rect,” sald Hoover. “In a fev
cases, We hold them back for the
putposé of discovering other mem.
the ring.”
‘trains prpounced that Lat!
ary Lattimore to Be Heard
AP ve ope tall ya wa
to ‘have eft A
dings of Mafyrata von
deemed worthy of
criminal prosecution were sent ta
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mee he has beer stationed on a
| flying back to the United States.
| In w cable shown Tydings, Laqd-
/Miore characterized McCapth}’s
es as “pure moonshine” and
predicted the Wisconsin senat(rg
would “fall flat on his face” in a
tempting to prove them. .
~ Lattimore is a Johns Hopkins
gnjverslty professor. President D.
W. Bronk of the university wrote
Tydings that he had full fajth in
Lattimore. -
Lest night, Sen. Bridges (R> of
New Hampshire took the Senate
floor to charge that the ‘yvreck-
age” of American foreign policy
indicates there is # “master,spy”
in the State department wno has
been aiding the world Communist
‘movement. -—
Btalin ts not superman.”
Bridges. ‘He had help from with a
our ranks, The investigating cort-
mittee must call State Secretady
Acheson who longer than
‘other man has been a key tune
tionary in the State department.
“Must Find Master Spy”
“The committee was not set up
to slap together a. quick hearing,
discredit the testimony of one wit-
ness, calling upor him = single:
handed to perform the duty of
ment of Justice. —
- “We must find the master (py.
the servant of Russia, who mqves
the puppets, Hiss and Wadielzh,
and others, in and out of office,
using them and using our Sthte
department as he wills. Who is
he? I ask ali senators to stay cn
the fob until we get that answer.
Until we find him, we cannot hope
to deal with Stalin on an equal
basis.”
¥arlier, Bridges charged Vice
President Barkley with ‘gag rule”
and “thought contro:" for parila-
mentary tactics in the Senate
which stalled the G.OP. attac
on Ach: '
rriere. were cries of matra '
from the Democratic-side of thi!
afsie: Gem Kefauver (D) of Ter.
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