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abowt what Isaid. I do not belleve I mentioned the figure 205. I believe I said “over 200." The President said, “It is just a lie. There is nothing to it.” I have before me a letter which was reproduced in the Concazssional Rzc- omp on August 1, 1946, at page Aés92. It is a letter from James*F. Byrnes, for- mer Secretary of State. Ik deals with the screening of the first group, of about 3,0C0. There were = great number of Bubsequent screenings. This was the be- ginning. Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? Mr. McCARTHY. Please let me fin- \ , geh. The Senator will have all the time F “ In the world to ask questions, and I shal) be very glad to yield to the Benator for that purpose, and he can even make short speeches and take all the time he wants. Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, the Ben- . from Dlinois | er McCARTHY. I do not yield at = this time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wisconsin deglineg to yield. Mr. McCARTHY. The letter deals with the first group of 3.000 which was screened. The President—and I think wisely so—set up a board to screen the employees who were coming to the State Department from the various war agen- eles of the War Department. There were thousands of unusual characters in some of those war agencies. Former Secretary Byrnes in his letter. which is reproduced in the Concrerssionat Recosp, says this: Pursuant to Execut!vt order, approximately " €.000 employees have been transferred to the Department of State from warious war agen- cles such as the OSS. FEA. OW. OLAA. and so forth. Of these 4.000 employees. the case Kistories of approximately 3.000 heve been subjected to a preliminary examination, as a result of which a recommendation against permanent employment has been made in 385 eases by the screening committee to which you refer tn your letter. titi meaal In other words, former Becretary fr Byrnes said that 285 of those men are un- safe risks. He goes on to say that of this : “number only 79 have been removed Of the 57 I mentioned some are from this group of 205, and some are from subse- f quent groups which have been screeled * but not discharged. ; I might say in that confection that the ‘ investigative agency of the State Depart- ment has done an excellent Job. The files show that they went into great detail in labeling Communists as such. The only trouble is that after the Investigative agency had properly labeled these men as Communists the State Department re- fused to discharge them. I shall give . detailed cases. Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President-—— Mr. McCARTHY. Ag to the 57 whose ; memes the Senator is demanding, if he : will be patient and sit down—-— Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, in view of the statements made, the Senater should yield. Mr. McCARTHY. I shal! yield at this time only for a question. I shall not yield for any lengthy speeches by the Senator from Illinois. If he wishes to ask a ques- tlon, I shal) be glad to answer it. ~ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, did the Senator say at Wheeling, W. Va., - Thursday night that 205 persons work- ing for the State Department were known by the Secretary of State to be members of the Communist Party, or words to that effect? Did he call the attention of the country to the fact that 205 men in the State Department were card-carrying Comm ts? Did the Senator say that? That ts What I should like to know. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. President. I ‘ask unanimous consent at this time to insert in the Recorn a copy of the speech which I made at Wheeling, W. Va. Mr. LUCAS. Cannot the Senator an- swer "Yes or “No?” Mr. MCCARTHY. I will ask the Ben- ator please not to interrupt me. I wil! yield ta him later, I will give him all the chance in the world. Mr. LUCAS. I asked the Senator a fery simple question. Mr. McCARTHY. I ask at this time g unanimous tonsent to be allowed to in- sert in the Recon a copy of the speech which I made at Wheeling, W. Va. and at Reno, Nev. It was the same speech. Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, I object. Mr. McCARTHY. In that case f shall read the speech into the Recorp. Mr, LUCAS. We want to hear ft. Mr. McCARTHY. The speech reads: Ladiet and gentlemen, tonight as we cele- brate the one bundred gnd forty-fret birth- day of one of the greatest men in American history, I would tike to be able to talk about what a glorious day today is in the history of the world. As we celebrate the birth of this mac who xith bis whole heart and soul hated war, I #ould like to be able to speak of peace in our time, of war being outlawed, and of World-wide disarmament. These would be truly appropriate things to be able to mention as we ceiebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. T hope the Senator from Dlinois will stay for this. Mr. LUCAS. I shall be right here. Tam coming over to the Republican side of the aisle so that I will not miss any- thing. Mr. McCARTHY. I am sure the Sen- ator will not miss anything. The speech proceeded: - Five years after a world war been wor. men's hearts ahould anticipate a long peace. and men's minds should be free from the heavy weight that comes with war. But this is not such a period—for this ls not a period of peace. This is « time of the “cold war.” This is a time when all the world is split into two vast, incressingly hostile armed campe— a time of s great armaments race. Today we can almost physically hear the mutterings and rumblings of an invigorated god of war. You can see it, feel it, and bear ft ail the way from the bills of Indochina, from the shores of Formosa, right over into the very heart of Burope itself. The one encouraging thing ls that the “mad gnoment” has not yet arrived for the firing of the gun or the exploding of the bomb which will set civilisation about the fina) task of destroying iteelf. There is & bope for peace if we finally decide that no longer can we safely blind our eyes and close cur ears to those facts which are shaping w; ( - The great difference between cur western Christian work and the etheistic Communist world in not political, ladies and gentlemen, it ia moral. There are other differences, of instance, the Marxian ides of confiscating the Jand and factories and running the entire economy as 4 single enterprise ls momentoms. Likewise, Lenin's inventian of the one-party Police state as a way to make Marz's idea Work is hardly less momentous. a Stalin's resolute across of these fweo ideas, of course, did much to divides the world. With only those differences, how- ever, the East and the West could most cer- tainly still live in peace. The real, basic difference. however, Hes in the religion of immoralism—invented by Marz, preached feverishly by Lenin, and car- ried to unimaginable etremes by Stalin. This religion of immoralism, if the Red haif of the world wins--and wel] it may—this re- Ugion of immoralism will more deeply wound end damage mankind than any conceivable economic or political system. Karl Marx dismissed God as « hoax, and Lenin and Stalin have added in clear-cut, Unmistakable language their resolwe that no mation, no people who believe in a God, can ° exist side by side with their communistic state. Karl Marx, for szample, expelled people from his Communist Party for mentioning such things as justice, humanity, of moral. ity, He celled this soulful ravings and sloppy sentimentality. While Lincoin was s relatively young man in his late thirties, Kar! Marx boasted that the Communist specter was beunting Europe. Bince that time, hundreds of millions af peo- Ple and vast areas of the world have fallen under Communist domination. Today, leas than 100 years after Lincoln's death, Stalin brags that this Communist specter is not onty hsunting the world, but is gbout to com. Pletely subjugate !t. Todey we are engaged to & final, all-cut battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of Gmimuniam have selected this as the time. And, ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down—they are truly down. IT might say for the benefit of the Ben- ator from Tlinois that what I am read- ing was taken from a recording of the speech. I did not use a written speech that night. I continue the reading: Lest there be any doubt that the time has been chosen, let us go directly to the leader of communiam today—Joseph Stalin, Here lb what he said—not back in 1938, not before the war, not during the war—but 9 years after the last war wes ended: “To think that the Communist revolution can be carried out peacefully, within the framework of a Christian democracy, means ons hag elther gone out of one’s mind and lost all normal understanding, or has grossly and or repudiated the Oomhimunist revroly- And this is what was said by Lenin in 1918, “We are living.” said Lenin, “not merely in a state, but in a system of states, and the ex- istence of the Soviat Republic aide by side with Christian states for a Jong time is un- aha Soviet Republic and the Bourgeois states will - be inevitable.” Ladies and gentlemen, can there be anyons here tonight who is so blind as to say that the war ls not ont Can there be anyone who falls to realim that the Communist world hee said, “The time is now"’—that this is the ¢ for the show-down between the demo- FEBRUARY 20