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Mr. £ £. eréman _ Mre Nikos 2. Me Be Sone Mr. Herbo __ Mr. Mohr Mr. P: Mr. Mr. Mr, S-ro00 | Mx. Veanterrow. Tele. Rocm Mr. Heiloman__ Sajunder the oan cepleos at veeansi ce De Ly Sante. \eporde} rad Len Five Years And 80 Investigations as Al bvnein West Virginia In the year 1950 a‘elatively unknown freshman senator named McCarthy shocked the nation by an- nouncing that he had a list of 205 card-car- rsing Comununists in the Denartment of state. Later he changed this figure to 81, still later tu 57, and after much debate, he finally handed ta the old Tsedings Commit. tee of the Senate a list of 80. No matter what Mgure he used, the shock didn’t grow Iess, One Communist in the Department of State. card-carrving or not. is one too many. Five vears have passed, McCarthy has become a national figure, al! the people he aay al been named on have subjected fear, and anguish, and scorn, and endless investigation, and now it appears to be fi- nally and definitely established that there were no Communists in the Department of State in 1950, and ihat uione of the people McCarthy named were disioval. The deter- mination has been made by a Republican ad- ministration, acting through its assistant secretary of state, Thurston EB. orton. ng To 28 Hall Here are the facts as Mr. Morton has given them in his letter to Senator Olin D. Johnston {D} of South Carolina: ‘Of the SO emplovees charged by McCar- thy; four have been removed from office tl security. program but with no Piero Evening “ribune Daily “orld Pictorind late toe tan HuS list 10 lesa a Reeds te: ‘ookley rlexico Chronics mi “srona Daily I: “dependent -orris Procres - > scondido Daily Times 60 FEB 18 1955 “vyersicde Daily Presa ~verside interprise Glo Date Palm “dvocate : Miss Gandy. abe finding of Communism or disloyait:’; ome Was removed for “unsuitability,” a persop- ne] action not connected with security; three resigned while their cases Were being investigated bat the invostigation -conchuid- ed with the finding that (ney were oni Con. a munists or disloyal; 32 resigned after inves- tigation but for other reasons; ten are still working for the government in other agen- cies; four had limited appointments for which time has now expired: eight were sep- arated from the Department wher it re- duced its forees carly in the new administira- tion; one retired honorawvly; one is ncw dead; seven Were never empléved by the State De- partment, and the rest are still emploved. To give McCarthy ois greatest due, it seems probable thai the government might have been beiter off without some o7 the people McCarthy named as Cormraunists. MeCarthy adherants have always argued that they didn't mind his exaggerations so long as there was some truth in what he said. This his a:vument ha: always seriaed to us to be dangcrous—-would the same people teach a child to tell the truth part of the time?—but it is not pertinent anyhow. The Republican administration has now revealed that there was no truth in what he’ said. ~s mie x _ 7 “ade Tribune /-2# 5 ; - fo ECORDED 17 1855 KOT 6 Fee