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a we oe em fo ew ag eee a ihiee Wedd aired tl Lo as ate se a é t x 4 a F : ia q t L oe ce) we ‘committee will push the inquiry ‘oO a conclusion as fairly and lly and compietely as we can,” promised. The Committee tomorrow will question former Communist Louis Budenz in closed session. It also has subpoenaed three others. Mr. Budenz testified in open session foreign office and in their Govemn-iof_his talk to giving eviesmce_tn men one of the most critical nours of the Nation's history.” He likened such a method to wholesale ringing of false fire alarms. “It is as thouzh you said to |yourself that the best way to find a fire is to ring every fire alarm in the city,” he remarked. “Not you get all the apparatus out and have it wheeling around through the city you might find one,” Browning Poem Recalied. He compared the attack on the Nfs Department to the Camden, Ni J., incident and also recalled Robert Browning's poem, “Caliban Upon Setebos.” ‘Caliban is talking about this horrible amoral god of his,” Mr. Acheson explained. “He says that his god operates in the way that Caliban himself does on the beach. Along comes, says Caliban, a pro- cession of crabs going down to the sea across the sand, and he says something like this: “"T stand there and I let 20 go that you know of any fire, but if! support of his claim that “never| in its long and honorable history. has the State Department been lin better shape.” He also de- rscribed in detail the functioning) of the loyalty program and the screening processes, i The department personnel con- isists of “honorable, efficient, rep-! resentative and clean-living men ‘and women,” loyal to the de- jpartment, the President and the United States, he insisted. “There is no back-biting, no under-cutting, no jealousy,” said. | He paid special tribute to Gez. George C. Marshall. . In a talk before the newspaper editors lait Thursday night, Senator McCarthy asserted that Gen. Marshall had ‘been “unfitted” to be Secretary ‘of State. Secretary Acheson said he never knew a man with a “surer judgment of people” than Gen, Marshall. Mr. Acheson listed all his as- sistants ‘and key officials In the department, giving their back- last week that high Communist|by. The 2ist I pick up and tearjgrounds and explaining their off a clipper. I Jet three more! work. Officials told him Owen Lattimore, Far Eastern affairs expert, be- go by. The next one I crush in “Bere in this top command,” longed to a Communist cell. Mr.|order to watch it wiggle in agony|he said, “we have men as dis- Lattimore is expected to appear before the committee again in public session later this week in teply to Mr., Budenz. Secretary Acheson's attack Sat- urday night on Senator McCarthy began with a remark that he wanted to “clear away some trash.’ He announced that he would “eo on the offensive and not the defensive” In dealing with arees and insinuations affecting * State Department. cheson Backs Loyalty Program. In biting, increasingly angry tones he described the “right way and the wrong way” of handling any attempted or existing sub- versive {nfiltration in the State Department. The right way he explained, is through the joyalty program. “The wrong way,” he continued, “ls to smear everybody's reputa- tInn to make charges on the basis that Hoone fs not right you trr to find another one you hope will silck: to try to destroy the con- on the sand.’ tinguished, as able, as powerful “It is that degree of vicious|and as vigorous as any of madness which has been going on|predecessors from John Marshall here.” Denies Plea for Sympathy. Secretary Acheson told the edi- tors he did not ask for sympathy. “Rut vou—unhennily vou hy Sub Yyoul—unnappily Fou, | fl lreason of your calling, are pat- ticipants, disgusted participants. but nevertheless participants and than mine,” he said. i In closing he described the situ- ation as “a filthy business.” He! sald he hoped he would never have to speak of It again. He con- cluded that part of his talk by quoting John Donne's lines: “any man's deain diminishes me, becaust I am involved in man- kind | your position is far more serious: to George Marshall ever had the State Department.” He and his associates, he saff,: are “only the intended victims $f; this mad and vicious operation": , ticipants, you are unwilling par-| “And therefore do not send jo know for whom the bell tolls. “It tolls for thee.” fidence, of the people in their! Secretary Acheson devoted much Tr 1 mpees