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Coiimie Probers Split on Worth Of Loyalty Files’ ! Senate investigators of State! department Communism, study: ing loyalty files under guard st. the White House, yesterday split. oncerning the future course’ of einqiiry, Four members of the Sepate | forelen relations subcommittee ended a second day of perusing cioloes apm as ane a employes named as security rigk; ti Sen. McCarthy. (B)of wis consin., This preliminary investigatio convinced _the Republican minor- ity, Sens. Hickenlooper of Jowa. and Lodge of Massachusetts, that the files alone could not form a basis for_conclusians. Tydings Wants Quick Report But chairman Tydines of Taryland and his Democratic oleague, Sen. Green of Rhode sland, expressed the opinion that the records could be exa fred in a two-week period and leport rushed through. en. Hickenlooper, “absen Ss icken wibsen Wednesday, joine | House study group and Jooked! throurh Three files He later told eporers that he_ disagreed swie- len with _Tydings’ statement that the State department ree | ords™ would “prove the truth_or' falsity of MeCarthy's ¢ “This Matter goes far beyond the “McCarthy chiatwes.“-ne~sa “The resolytion._under which we Bre Acting. demands thet "ye eXAmine the bro: esti of whether dislova employes, past or presmnit weit employed by the) State department. I am bein ent much information which Ndependent of the material fur ished by Sen. McCarthy, @homosh Study Favored__ “Wei are just beginning on these 81 files and it will be a num-! ber of weeks, at least. before we: can make a thorough study of: them.” “You cannot get a complete: Picture of an employe just by studying a file on him,” agreed | Lodge. “You must summon wit-, nesses who can be questioned bout information in the records.” | Both Republican senators com.-! lained of the “strings” attached! 9 President Truman's opening of | he files which reversed his pre-; Vious stand. The barring of com-! Mittee staff members was pro- tested. And the refusal to permit ; senators to take notes, made dur- ing the file examination, out of! the White House, was criticized as making an adequate study i possible. Files Calied Incompleta_ + No st ml, ‘fre available, it_was charged, on! | mé-ol the most important _offi-! als Bécised by McCarthy. Among; these “Are OwelrtLattimore, a con- Tanto Far East bolicy; John. aan a cé. a Toréien olfice exe, tive how under investigation by a, loyalt¥ Board? And Haldore- :. 60n, Chiel of tne? making Plans Tor Mr Truman's "Point 4" program for spreading American aonars In “Yar corners of the earth, nnd “Ii the House, the un-Americ activities committee recommendd citation of 39 witnesses for col | tempt in connection with the rp-! cent inquiry into communism Sp! Hawaii. | . 4 NDE = WR A/e fe KOU Hi ORDED 85> JUL 8 1950 ee —_— - - Ladd ae Mohr = Tolson ‘ Clege Glavia, Ni chel 8, Rosen Tracy Harbo - Belmont \ \ Tele. Room Nease Gandy — Page Times-Herald ; Wash. Post —_— Wash. Newe Wash. Star ___ N.Y. Mirror _ WAY T2 1950 Date: