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i j 4 | : ~ } ra : } . * “3 “ae on ~ oO & fauel, ATGNNG ICC UU eu PEAKING OF POLITICS, we must note that the Truman Administration is having one whale of a hard time making McCarthy look bad. To make McCarthy look bad is a must for the Trumanites because of the creeping realization among the people that the fiery Senator from Wis- consin, despite an occasional tendency toward a ald Wha wtteh hae eqamething Bibel, lds MUILIT Udi sy. That realization among the people is not good for Trumanite chances in the Fall congressional elections. 7 i So Dean Acheson’s State Department was stung into whipping up an aggrieved reply to MeCarthy charges that Acheson, himself, in 1946 as Acting Secretary of State, pushed and approved a loan of $96,000,000 to Poland, then already in he grip of the Communists. The State Department pooh-poohed Me varthy,. “still had hopes that the Mikolajczyk government, then in power in Poland, might be saved fron} Russian domination.” - A plausible-sounding explanation—exceyt that there are two people who know the records¢hfiko- lajezvk, now _a refugee from Communist Poland <a Sin that country. yr. Mikolajezyk says the government ruling in Poland at the time was “certainly not” a Miko- lajezyk government; he was just a member; the Communists were seizing power; they dominated economic policies. He soon had to flee for his life, Mr. Lane says the State Department reply,to McCarthy is “ridiculous.” HH: was_on the scene the ti at tne tne. e taken as acauie Communist policies -O e Warsaw regime, Yet he received cables e more anites try to fan out M r arthy’s fire, the better it seems to burn. R ned “Acheson” informing him he was overrule nd the Ioan would be granted. Tt was. LL baal Best Lng é er 4 gel Glayi Ni he Tracy . Harbo a fn Belmont M4 fy Mohr Tele. Room__ It said that in 1946 the departmeng INDEXED - AL a pe Lie Page Times-Herald __ Wash. Post Wash. News . Wash. Star _— N.Y. Mirror [3