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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 21
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| @aeehraid again he mad ,
veiled comments about McCarthy. Gandy.
“Anything I say on the Senate
floor," he sneered, “I'll say out-
side the Senate floor and I won't
‘retract it whenal'm aut.” ™
He spoke of “men of little char-.
acler who would prefer to serv:
their own ends rather than theif;
country.” i
He began by insisting that wh
a Senator of the United States sas |
i is baund to carry the most serious
| weight.
That is why, he indicated, Me-/
j Carthy’s remarks of February, 9:
)ihis year, in Wheeling, W. Va., that
‘there was a spy ring in the State
:Depariment, that there were 205
‘card-carrying members in the de-
‘partment, and that Secretary of.
‘State Acheson knew about them
‘but was doing nothing to get rid of ; .
|them made such a tremendous im- r . bone
ninscion
| Pa scstn.
L
In elaborate demonstration, he
squght to show that McCarthy had
agtually said that, but had lied to
tfle Cenate later in denying he said
it.
Tydings pointed to a record of
a McCarthy speech. “There is the
voice," he said, “and it is not the
voice of truth.”
There is not much doubt, he
went on, what McCarthy said, and
that he later denied saying it.
“That's why I said that a hoax:
and a fraud was perpetrated on!
the United States,” Tydings roared,’
“any, by the eternal God, that’s,
true.”
At the end of the day, MeCarthy,
issued a short statement saying’
Tydings had “tried 1o notify Com-' :
‘munists in Government that they |
are safe in their positions.” i Page
However, he said, as a result off
his charges, (we of the peop. ‘
‘mentioned mn his famous “BY. :
ieases” have already left the Gov, Times-Herald ~~
jernment. One was not named, but;
‘the other, said McCarthy, was his.
jCase 19, ‘which he said was Wil! Wash. Post.
‘liam W. Remington. d to be. AS
(The 81 cases purporte
lthose of present or former’ State. Wash. Ne
I Carthy pre employes. ing Pam , a *
Carthy presented Case No 0; “
‘the Senate, it was so vague as to! - » Wash. Star ———
ver been a Staie Department)
| unidentifiable. Remington has, i
ploye. Editor's note.] rah . N.Y. Mirror -——-
cots
|McCarthy ‘Golden Voice’
'To Be Heard in Private
By the United Freas .
! Senator Millard E, Tydings (D.,
Md.) is going to stage civate
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