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étide=cte es, . an impasse seems ta-save beer reached,” remarked Sen. Hicken looper. “It is beyond my concep tion how this committee can in vestigate charges if we have the door shut {n our faces on informa ee : Mic tion in the hands af the govern y: “reckless ear ried ment.” .@ "against the State —_ partimentseret have iS dared oe McGrath Cites Precedents La OE err Peete gate | gtecomatn said almost every Pree ay ent, from George Washington Acheson for political motives. on down, had declined, for rea. . wor ao _ Igons of public policy, to furnis | Secret Mertin _Uveed Be confidential papers tq conegres- | Ben. Smith (R) of New Jersey | sional committees. He satd the said the investigating committes|courts had recornized “tals con should hold all meetings im ‘secret atitutional prerogative of the hergafter. Ben. Thye (R) of Min- Chief Executive a . nebota declared “the fears and| Hoover declared that persons questions fn the public mind will furnishing information to the FBI never be allayed until the records| “must have the security of know- in the attorney general’s office ing that their confidence will ngt Ihave been made available to the|be broken.” The disclosure of t | committee.” : . . contents of the tiles, he insifte . Smith. agreed that there was would reveal confidential. proc} hi ” dures and techniques which wou]i ‘fio possible justification” for|T 2" ierul to “criminals, fore! agents and subversives.” _- Hickeniooper aud Sen, Lodge (R) of Massachusetts noted there ; : was no question of making tne shanese ater developments Ore. files’ public but merely of mak- Grath and Hoover and the testi- ing them available to the commit- mony of Mrs. Esther Caukin tee for scrutiny to determine the Brunauer, $9,800 a year State de. truth or falsity of charges made partment’ official named by Mc-| Seals government employes. But Carthy as a security risk, She the two government officials in- swore at a morning session of the sisted any privileges glvene the stbcommittee. that she hed never subcormitiee > you ommittees ih beep @ Communist or, Communist precedent for over © sympathizer and had been cleared the future which might not be of disloyalty charges by a State 50 trustworthy. department board in 1948. - Mrs. Brunaper’s Testimony . The two chief Jaw enforcement officers of the nation joined In aj, NUS. Brunauer, a middleagei. protest against disclosure of evi- bespectacled woman, soberly clqd dence compiled by the FBI in its in & dark blue sult rite te F F : rimme 8 . igvestigation of federal payrollers. had been international relations * tree Expected to Refuse | [director of the American Asso § smranmicggrangretesrag art BM Gt AF de 8 carts ema big ‘were “born fi politica.” . stg atin ccf PS aly weeds Sy ogmeenigear = + + eT - ciation of University Women for e Senate group by unanimous!17 years before she joined the ste vote was directed to sub-|State department in 1944. Her poena the government records on|present title ts assistant director Feb. 22. No subpoeng has been: for policy Malson of the United issued and -‘Tydings walted ®/Nations education social and cul- month before sending a Formal re-| tural organization. , ry quest | to Mr. ‘Truman at Key West], gne was accompanied by herl a es for het se The Presiden’ ts ex-|}usband, Stephen, a Navy depart: pec cGrath-Hoover! ment bureau of ordnance official. Ji -a—_————irll testimony as @ basis for refusing.)who was also named a security Under questioning by subcom-|/risk by McCarthy, Mrs, Brunauer mittee members, McGrath and/admitted her ane ate Unfed Hoover both insisted there was no|born, who came to -the Unijed method af supplying the Senate|States when he was 18, ii2 en with data wtlhout betraying com|a member of the Young Worx:rs fidential gources of information./league. an organization founj ed Heaxerwmaid he was opposed evt perated by the Communis