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_.the atmosphere was too often not that of seeking to a These three—Tydings*"’Green and MecMahon—~ abruptly voted to stop the McCarthy investigation with the war in Korea afforded a convenient diversion. They hurried to completion the report now announced, clearing every single suapect. They did not permit thei two Republican committee colleagues, Senators Hicken- looper and Henry Cabot Lodge, to inspect their report. They departed from the rules of the Senate by releasing he report to the press before they even tendered it to the full Senate foreign relations committee, in whose name they acted as a subcommittee. Sen. Connally, the New Deal chairman of that committee, limped forward with a summons for the committee to meet and reteive the report 24 hours after it had been published in the nation’s press. Lodge and Hickenlooper would have none of Tydings’ phony clearance. Internationalist and supporter of the Administration’s foreign policy though he is, Lodge found DEMOCRATIC WAIL: ‘WE'D RATHER BE mea the whole proceeding too much for a sensitive stomach. In a separate statement, he asserted: ape i - ee Oe | “The investigation must be set down as superficial inconclusive, The proceedings often lacked impartialit ep