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: & Amerasia Data i} y McCarthy, Re McGrath fo Act Soon on Baring “Promises mises Decision | On Grand Jury Plea To Inform Public } By the Associoted Press : ;, Attorn ney General McGrath said thday the . Justice e Department ft decide, _so0n n whether to make a full report on the 1945 Amerasia case as recommended by 4 by a Fedaral errand jury. “Nir MeGrath's comment to a re- perfer came after a week end bristling with new developments ‘davalving the charges of Senator ablican, of Wiscon—— hin that the “State Department harbors Communists and Commu- nist sv ‘mpathizers, THAt IP a LOIACT A key part of those charges. Senator McCar rthy hi has said, con- cains iné Hve- ‘year-old episode i in whith Six persons were arrested after the FBI had found hundreds of 8écerét Government documents iW thé offices of the “defunct mag- azine Amérasia- “Republicans Blast McCarthy, Thr: se were the developments: 1. Three more Republicans jolied those party members who have criticized Senator Mc- Carthy's methods in attacking the pace Department.” The three— fovs Earl Warren of Californin qgnd James H. Dufl of Pennsylr | qinia, and Senator Bridges New Hampshire—also had rome triticiem of the way Democrats have handied the Communist-in- 'Govenmment issue. | 2. An official transcript of tesLi- jmony taken by the Senate Com- jmitice investigating Senator Mc- [Carthy’s charges showed that. ‘Amerasia defendant Emmanuel S. Larsen spoke of former Navy ‘Lt. Andrew Roth as a “real Com- jmumist” and “the principal con- SspPiratoer’ in the case, | 3. Senator McCarthy demanded ‘that the Senate inquiry group open its doors to the pubiic when it takes testimony Thursday from State Department consular official Joly S. Service—another of the ab accused in the Amerasia ejfi-. de five years ago. The commit- the plans to hear Mry Service, hs’ i has other Amerasia witnessis,' Dehind closed doors, ‘partment _ the first o oppor tunity arty. Gov. Duff said he, feels \khe administration hasn't é... Btate Department ne- emed-Senator McCarthy-or— oy Hberate distortion of the public! -tecord” In saying that Dean Ache- ;San—now Secretary of State—had thelped create a Red Poland by {approving a $90 million Joan to ‘that country in 1946, ' ' Meeling Sought by Spellman. 5, (Aeticials oscloned that Cardi- nal, ‘\Speliman—F SOURLL Lhe | meeting _ g he Tad Friday with Deputy, Undersecretary of State! John ExXPeuritoy—possibly to dis- cuss un} ed States representation at “the Vaticat an. Mr. 1] Peurifoy de- niea that he had speculation jnitiated the meeting so he could ask the Cardinal to “call off” Senator McCarthy. Attorney General Mc¢Grath dis | cussed the grand jury's actic with a reporter al after returnine, from a trip to the West Coast. | He said he had not had yt had & chance to ce to make a careful 8 study of The jury's views. mafter_with_ | officials ini ihe ¢ de-| Ihave.” “Mr. McGrath said. In ones Senator Knowiland, Republican, of California. said the Ju tice Department “would be well adjised” to follow € grand jury's! suiigestion_fc for a statement on ae case, accompanied b scli}y- tidn of fhe Government papers Cee pe which figured in It: “Dewey's Reachion “Mixed.” Govs. Warren and Duff ex-! pressed their criticism of Senator: McCarthy's methods in separate] interviews at the Governors’ Con- ference at White Sulphur Springs,: W.Va. Both accused Senator Mc- Carthy of failing to furnish evi- dence supporting his charges. “T personally don't like to see blanket accusations made against groups of individuais or individ- uals standing alone,” Gov, Warren said. “No good can come out of such charges unless there is the intention to prove such statements and accusations in accordance with our laws and democratic processes.’ i Gav. Thomas E. Dewey of Nev | York, also at the conference. sah is “mixed.” Bridces Criticizes Methods. @ Senator Bridges made known his differences with Senator Mc- Carthy on a television broadcast yesterday. He called the Wiscon- sin Senator's aims praiseworthy, but added: | — a “[ think I would have adopted | different methods.” All three men pointed some of their criticism at the opposition Irlean” with all the facts ubversives in government. G arren criticized Democrats ¢n | . | jthe Senate inquiry grown. indi- Gewese believes they have | been entirely objective in their investigation. Senator Bridges commented that the State De-: partment hes a number of ques- tions to answer on its security | selup. ; None of the three reforred spe- jcifically to the Amerasia which in recent weeks has become the main object of attention in connection with Senator Mc- Carlhy's charges. Larsen. a former State Depart- ment employe who was one of thre | jleading figures in the case, testh-/ fied before ihe Senate committde | June 5 and 6. Copies of his test tmony were cbtained over the wee I end hy same wnewemen t ma oy some newsimicn. | Brief Phone Interview Cited. In it, Larsen said he based his| description of Lt. Roth as a “real’ Communist" on “his presence! iTight now with Ho Chih Minh, the | Communist leader in Indo-China,” Lt, Roth is new in Burone after! ispending Several vears as Far ; ‘Eastern correspondent for The! ation magazine. Editor Freda’ fctrehwvey said she had covered: both sides in the Indo Mh mala oak iat ahGaGe Cnina trugale about two years ago, but he said his only contact with Ho Chih Minh was throurn a tele- phone interview of a few minutes duration which Lt. Roth arranged ‘while in Indonesia. Senator McCarthy, in a new attack on the Senate investigat.' ing.committee, accused it yester} day of “irying to botile up Sery ice’s testimony” on the Amer case by holding its re, Ane hind criosed doors. “The time for secrecy and Shee up in the Amerasia case ended a: long time ago,” he said. i Chairman Tydings of the com- | mitice said in a radio broadcast. thal pertinent information on the: ease wil] be mace public when the! inguiry is completed. Ile added: . “All I want to do in this case! is to make a fair, square, com- plete job of investigating—-neither « witch-hunting nor whitewashing, | let the chips fail where they may. “There are some people who ant me to witeh-hunt. ‘Thefe e probably some who want ni th whitewash. As far as JT vern it, I shail do neither." —_—_—_—o INDEXED - 13 | ye Wash . cht ‘olson "inn apf 4 Choc ye avin Nicho Rosen ne rbo Post Ad f- 2 pe 2 > Raph. News Wash. Star N,.¥. Mirror case. i ( 3 dimont Mobr Tele. Nease Room cinies-Herald ——