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br por setepare et aw hy. Sy ne es Sn NEWS BEHIND THE NE | By ERNEST LINDLEY New ‘Jury’ on McCarthy Charges Ren Can’t Entirely Relieve Tydings Body it hecame evident some time ago that the Tydings subcommitiee investigating ihe Me- Carthy charges could not. make a reporr which would he universally accepted. The Democratic inembers gol off to a bad start by jumping on “humping Joe.” They felt justified in doing so because they knew that MeCarthy's original charges of Communist infiltrarion inlo the State Departmeci were based on three and four-year-old information Siace then all the individuals on those old Jisis who remained in ihe Deparimeni had been subjected to new Joyaliy examina- ors, inchiding full FBI ine : vesiigations, Yhe general puhb- / Y lic did not know this, however. fi f yids instead of exploding the Me- if Carthy charges, the Democrats managed io give the impression . that they were neither judicious nor determined to get ta the botlom of his charges. Senator Tydings, in particular, strengthened this impression by - ; what. he said on a few subse- 7. o : jk / } quent gecasions, Jie Jalked ino oh, moe , freely and, on two or three occa- : sions, imprecisely. Few if anv rn members of the Senate doubt ee eee ihat Tydings would fearlessly NOV yong oR DBL expose wrongdoing or serious iad ei Jaxness jf he found them. But 5 JUL 18 You a distance he has to some ex- . wala). prejudiced his position as a an u Upator and judge. a