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wr per fe se gg Pt 2 nn; wee ibe! OSG pet MPI Be ON ¥ wr a ney ak jt has seemed to some McCarthy was su of Communist influe EOGR’ of us that Sen, pporting his charges ] ees in the State De- partment with more noise than evidence, Hut italso has heen apparent that a ‘Sur- Was the Wisconsin Republican be the Communists at their awn game, simply hs outshouting them? Gy was he the ccincidental beneficiary of a ground swell et public resentment apainst official indif- ference to a very real menace to natio security ? ating nal pf Whatever the explanation we are ean- are vinced that Sen. McCarthy Wimself is_a iactor to be Jteckoned with since heaving him present his case before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. His speech was londed with tough, perti- nent _questions which could not_be Jang off.” He was equally adept at cH. He was equal ansWering questions directed at Tint, Asked wh he hadnt hamed the Commmumnisis in the. State Departnient, he said he would name names - when the department's files were opened — to fim, adding: “Tf those files proved that” . MeCaythy was a_liar, they would damn | well be_epened tomorrow.” That challenge may have to be answered the next time President Truman takes the rlump. It's whistle-stop language. The Senator cited the case of a man who allegedly” was investigate tas by the State Denirtient toralty board be- fare Tally quitting and taking up activ (primunist: Party work: “Eleven tir nes the President's loyalt veview board lacked the guts te order th man fired,” he charged. That, too, is whistle-stop stuff. ~ There was the case of Gouge Wheeler, now attacking American foreign policy from behind the Tron Curtain Why was this man “cleared “for highly” important ‘State Department work in Europe? Why, indeed? br, Philip C. Jessup has just been ap- ointed head of the S _Department’s igh policy board, which will map our cold “Why does _he_always join Communist fronts ; Why not anti-Communist organi- zations 7? Sen. McCarthy asked, submitting photostatic evidence Dr. Jessup had been a member of five “fronts.” Joe McCarthy will not be alone in questioning this ap- pointment, particularly when it is recalled that Dr. Jessup gave a character testi- monial for Alger Hiss as lately as last year, Whatavar ha nisi: Pe APO ye Git Hay have lacked to sup- port his charges at the outset, Sen. Me- Carthy is picking up new ammunition and finding new targets as he goes along. St isn’t all just old stuff, either, hut material - feflecting upon persons now in G ig now in Govern nent service, which will question tha in} egrity of the Government itself uniess j 8 rebutted to the public's satisfaction, eee . — LTOrEOr Ladd. Clegg Glavin Nichols _ Rosen _ Tracy Harbo __ Belmon' Mobr_ Tele. Roa Nease_ Gandy Page f Tyas Pon te foe, rd / Times-Herald Wash. Post — Wash, News _1C >, Wash, Star __ fay w np , N.Y. Mirror __ a < — Date: