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c™ a McCarthy's Charges Toleon ot } ream Are No Red Herrings, Clery . ; Sheen. ‘Writer Declares ei aa . U. 5. Envoy in Bern Traey 5 Named as Causing —-= j Nueasy Feeling’ Mohr i og By Dorothy Thompson Tele. Room aN The dogged accusations by Sen- Nease ~ stor McCarthy, ,Republican. of Gand yo Wisconsin, that the administra. rn ee ‘ tion harbors Communist sympa- thizers is indignantly denied by administration supporters, who challenge the Benater to name, names. The Senator has refused on the gtound that publicity might em- barrass the investigative egencies, This column {s willing to name &® Man who holds “an important Ustening post in Europe" and whose presence has caused some queasy feeling. The United States Minis Switzerland is John! tein Vincent, who previously was Gifelor of the Office of Par Eastern Affairs of the State De- partment. While in China, he was . constantiy under attack for his strong left-wing sympathies. tt was during this time that the department saw the Chinese Com- |. munists ag simple agrarian re- formers and worked for a Chinese coalition government to include Jihe Communists, Employed under Mr. Vincent in , the legation at Bern is an ex-|- tremely dubious character, ‘ Hungarian citizen, George Ottiike Ottlik. during’ the earlier, short- ved Hungarian Communist re- gime of Bela Kun, was in the Hungarian diplomatic service, also in Bern. When Nazism began to Fae in Hungary, he espoused its ee : eee x ee ee? i a - e fl ause and as editor of the great ' sn a StGH~BURUARE URiY, Peaster fova, turned it into a Mazi sheet. Headed Nazi Agency. When Hungary was occupied by the Germans he became head of the Nazi press chamber, whose duty it was to keep the press in jine. In short, in the world of Journalism, He was Huneari paisa Marita}, harm ne, tas. a ut os wee Just why these activities shouid | mend his empleryment—in Mr. Vincent's legstion poses a question. He is reportedly «m- ployed merely as a translator. But Switzerland is full of translators who, in the past, have rendered loyal services to the Western _tause. It seems an odd combina- ion—a minister with Mr. Vin- ‘| cent’s views and an ex-Nazi. The case of Prof. Klaus Fuchs has been ellowed to quiet down.! . IT do not think it should. It ts charged that he began submitting atomic research information to Russia in 1945. That same yehr the Canadian government, put én the scent by the Russian cipher clerk, Igor Gouzenko, uncovered an extensive Soviet spy ring oper- ating in Canada, and involving Fuchs’ eminent colleague, Prof.” Allan Nonn May. Canadian in-, vestigation revealed that a larger | rig was operating in the United ates. Prime Minister Macken-| zie King passed on all information! and personally discussed the sub- Ject with President Truman in Washington, when he visited the: in November, 1945, Worked on Fuchs Case. One may certainly inguire whgt was done to trace down fe! anadian leads in the four years} at elapsed before the arrest of ehs. “Human Events” charges, at “evidence fustifying the ar-° st of Fuchs has been available v4 / for five years. But the FBI was) - Poe a Hot alowed to investigate atomic espionage until 1947 and, it is said, has been working on the Fuchs case for less than a year.” it ts all very well for the Presi- Geni to denounce charges as “red herrings,” but the wartime cagli- tion with Russia did introdu Communists and Communit mpathizers into important Got emment posts. And no thorough housecleaning has ever occurred. In times Hke these, American Government officials must not only be innocent of anti-American sympathies; they must be. free even of suspicion of such nym pathies. Because there are not un-! grounded reasons for suspicion,’ morale is extremely bad in our official and diplomatic agencies in Many parts of the world (par- ticularly the Far Fast) where junior officials distrust seniors ad vice versa. And morale is more importaht than possession of an H-bomb. (Releazed by the Ben Bridicaie, Ines Times-He) Wash. Pex Wash. hoor Wash. Sta. N.Y. Mirro: