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ee et * Kolson é 8 it ca } Glavin Nichols, (be , Rosen “A eerie —. / Tracy New Line of Attack 5 v. Harbo a Senator McCarthy, who i jle ij ipz Cae Imont_ else, is allacking from a new direction. He naw _” Mobr says that the Tydings committee, ba - Tele. Room of the power of Washington bureaucracy and its Nease — combined highly ta may yet con- vince him that it ¢ Gandy. ve him that it is hopeless ta force acceptance Oe iner proof in support of his charges apainst thé"State Department, The Wisconsin Senator leaves the impression, however, that he is no Gi i iitter an that eis in this Aeht to the Jest e = is ed \ Pile - y 2 rn pe { . This is indeed a new role for the embattled : Oe Senator. Here is a man who has _made specific 2 ‘ : accusations whieh, jf true, are of first impor- MO 4at ' tance. He has said that he bas a list of 57 a § Ae card-carrying Communists who are now in the | oa State Department. And he has also said that he. oy 4) s willifig to rest his whole case on the accuracy Cs f his charge that Owen Lattimore is the *) < g Maauuta teed! ks eee eee witn ess. eke ommunist espionage agent_in this country. The Senator has failed, however, to produce ‘A a_shred of evidence to support elther charge. in| Cie F four Months he has not named one f say . vee hothing of 57, card-carryIng Communists in th ,? / State Department. And yet he has the gall to . ask the country to believe that the fault lies not / , witht him, outwith the Tydings committee. Having failed; and probably being unable, to come up with any proof in support of his really Serious charges, he takes a new stand on the line of the Amerasia case, which etter or worse, Was handled five years ago, and shouts from the housetops that the committee will not listen to his pro} ~—“This is what the military men would call a 7 fF FT rm By } disengaging maneuver. The Amerasia case has its importance, and Senator McCarthy should - * and undoubtedly will be given full opportunity — : to present any evidence bearing on it which he ay have. But what may have been done, or ot done, in the State Department five years i me tome ane of secondary concern, The most important of _ he matters raised by Senator McCarthy wisi . " Whether, as he implies, the State Departmenti . b i ee, continues in [980 to be a nest of C ists. J Page That is the major count in his indictment, and, | having made the char e_should not be per- ‘ - multted £5 SUM@-Ou-Teom andor it / {/~ TMmesHerald —_ v4 This is the consideration which lends force S to Senator Thye’s_suggestion that the Senate Wash. Post Republicans should take a” asponsible paatan™ otis WitTEtthe ener Kerewnime tne Reé- Fach. ¥ pudlicans Have refused to take any position. ach. News _ THait is an attitiide which léaves the n t/) ical advantage wntth” may_ flow from 2 ne McCarthy performance without assuming uly {bil : fl a responsibility for whetdhe-says.and docs fh Nit. Mitral r ics,” admirable brand _. -_ ce th gosh far ! \ i whaee