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re re eed ne 2s a ver eC ie i he ek ies Ce ee ra at eg a ie Tg ea a Tel Wei % OLE PEE LE i ny pe 8 ie Oe. oe Truman Answer ToMcCarthy Due In Talk Tonight Acheson Denounces i Charges as ‘Mad, . Vicious and Filthy’ By Robert K. Walsh Charges by Senator McCarthy, Republican, of Wisconsin of com- munism in the State Department —charges denounced by Secretary of State Acheson as “mad, vicious and @lthwy?" gra a4¢¥meartad tn hea BG Siwy -—-eTt TAPTUta w Pt answered by President Truman tonight. The President, in a scheduled 10 p.m. address before the Federal Bar Association at the Hotel Stat- ler, will discuss the Government loyalty program. Aminintrati sources indicated he might go far to back up the attack made ol ;Senator McCarthy Saturday night! by. Secretary Acheson. i Br. the mrecence Ganntnw Wy, In the presence of Senator Mc- rthy at the closing dinner of | the American Society of News- pdper Editors, Mr. Acheson com- pared the Wisconsin Senator’s| drive against the department to; the 1949 Camden, N. J., tragedy in which a “madman came out on the street with a revolver and without purpose. without sense and without direction just shot people.” We cod me woo «} such expressions suc cAy 5 “filthy business” and vielous madness” in his off-the-record talk that was released for pub- lication late yesterday by the ate Department. He did n ention Senator McCarthy me, but the several hundre | e4itors and thelr guests knew wh he meant. | | “gone by the boards now.” The! McCarthy Promises Reply, Leaving soon after “Sétrevaty Acheson finished the hour-long talk, Senator McCarthy told re- porters that “in my own time I will reply.” He commented later that Mr. Acheson's criticism ‘in- dicates he goes along 100 per cent with the Truman-Tydings-McMa- te Une that the real criminals ¢ those who try to expose and t rid-of Communists and ner- rts in the State Department.” This was regarded in some quarters as including a bdidst against President Truman's - mark some time ago that Senatbr McCarthy was one of the Krem- lin’s greatest assets.’ Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, heads the Senate For- eign Relations subcommittee in- vestigating the McCarthy charges that theState Department harbors Communists and fellow travelers. Senator McMahon, Democrat, of Connecticut, is a subcommittee | member. Committee to Meet Today, The committee was to meet in olosed session at 10:30 a.m. today discuss the inquiry. Chair ial dings sald all e Pp by the committee will go to —Tyy they come up with a spy i Communist,” h he PBI had tackled it at the start. ‘Looking back on it, it micht have been better if the Senate, instead of conducting this investi- gation itself, had durned it all Se over fate I cRatees” ihgrghie ee and then make a repor is_com- mittee. They would have done] a much better Job, in ‘my opinion, en we can do with our limited The Maryland Senator ml however, that such a course 5 Mobr Tele. Roor Nease Gandy Times-Herald _ Wash. Post _ Wash. Newa _ Wash. Star f N.Y. Mirror _ APR 52491 Date: