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David Lawrence —
Morse's Handling of Top Secret
Democrats Criticized for Questioning McCarthy's Use
Os Classified Document in Communist Investigation
There ought to be em
blazoned over the Senate
chamber an age-old slogan:
“Justice —it all depends on
whose ox is gored.”
Thus for months now
several Democrats and two or
three misguided Republicans
in the Senate have been try
ing to crugify Senator Mc-
Carthy for using what they
regard as rough tactics in
dealing with Communist sym
pathizers, Communist. Party
members and the whole ap
paratus by whicH the Soviet
has been trying to infiltrate
American institutions, as well
as the Government.
Senator McCarthy isn’t the
most tactful protagonist in the
world and has made many
mistakes, usually when goaded
by his opponents or by unco
operative witnesses, but the
move to censure him for “acts
unbecoming a Senator” is
transparently aimed at weak
ening—in the court of public
opinion—the influence of the
Nation’s chief prosecutor of
Communist activity.
For several days now, the
Republican leaders have been
at a loss how to meet this
attack, which isn’t just against
Senator McCarthy but is a
carefully designed effort to
smear the whole Republican
administration and party. But
now they have evidently dis
covered that the strongest de
fense is a strong offense.
So Majority Leader Know
land uncovered a bit of recent
history which most people
have forgotten, if indeed many
paid much attention to it
when it happened.
The episode started in the
last days of the 1952 cam
paign with attacks by Demo
cratic Party spokesmen—par
ticularly Mr. Truman—on the
loyalty and honesty of Gen.
Eisenhower. This correspond
ent called attention in a dis
patch of October 30, 1952, to
this effort to smear the Re
publican nominee by impugn
ing his loyalty and integrity,*
and noted that a “top secret”
Doris Fleeson — \
Democracy Protects McCarthy
Senate Moderates, Who Want to Treat Him Like Any
Citizen, Will Be the Ones Who Decide His Fate
Senator McCarthy is being
protected and passionately de
fended on the floor of the
Senate In the name of those
democratic principles he has
done much to destroy.
In his behalf, other Sena
tors—some of them decent,
civilized, conservative men—
Invoke the guarantees of the
Bill of Rights, due process of
law and the honorable tradi
tions of the Senate. Every
legal safeguard, they insist,
must be afforded to the Sena
tor who has sought to make
the Fifth Amendment of the
Constitution a subject for
hissing and a byword.
Senators are not deceived by
the junior Senator from Wis
consin. He is a mefliber of
their profession and they know
better than most people how
he has misused the advantages
and power of his high office.
They know, most of them at
least, how deeply cynical he is
and that it is to him merely
amusing that their better na
tures serve nim as well as their
less attractive timidity.
But an important group
which likes to feel that it is
composed of the moderates and
that their middle way is the
ideal way seems still deter
mined to treat him just like
other people. This group will
decide his fate, not his hard
core of supporters nor the
, MTia.ll group of liberals who are
For the Record—
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Coming —The Family Helicopter j
What Ford Did for Automobiles, Somebody Soon
Is Certain to Do for Ugly Duckling of Aviation
t
By William Howell Wells
(William Howell Wells is a
consultant to book publishers
and a radio commentator. He ■
has contributed to Harper’s
and other magazines.)
Aviation’s ugly duckling, the
helicopter, which was con
sidered a dead duckling five
years ago, has taken a brand
new lease on life. You cannot
turn in your old station wagon
on a new helicopter yet, but it
is beginning to look like a
possibility instead of a pipe
dream. The reason is that, for
the first time, helicopters are
being turned out in quantity—
not in a family model yet, but
that is coming.
In Holland and Belgium,
businessmen are now hopping
from one city to another by
helicopter. No airports are
necessary. In England, British
European Airways is going to
cut 40 minutes off the weary
bus ride from London Airport
to the city by using helicopters.
In the United States, they
have been used up to now only
to carry mail between a few
post offices. Inspect pipe
lines or dust crops. Today
every American air trip begins
and ends with a tiresome
journey, usually 10 to 20 miles,
by bus or taxi, often bucking
city traffic a good part of the
way. But as soon as helicop
ters are freed from the flight
restrictions controlling con
ventional aircraft, airport-to
city service will arrive.
But the real fun will come
whoa we’re driving our own
helicopters. Former Senator
William Benton blazed the trail
document had been “leaked"
for the purpose of political
campaigning.
Senator Knowland now calls
the facts to the attention of
the American people. He says
that a secret, classified docu
ment was made public on Oc
tober 27, 1952, by Senator
Morse of Oregon, a Republi
can who had decided to cam
paign for Gov. Stevenson, the
Democratic nominee, and who
since ..has called himself an
Independent.
The Oregon Senator—who
has been critical of the meth
ods of Senator McCarthy—
says that the document was
released to him by President
Truman, and that the latter, as
Commander in Chief, had a
right to declassify the docu
ment. Senator Knowland, how
ever, says that after the Morse
speech was made, he asked
the Defense Department and
was told that the document was
still classified as “top secret.”
The majority leader says if
Mr. Truman was not just using
official military documents for
political purposes, he should
have released the paper in
question at the White House
to all Americans at the same
time and explained the rea
son for his action.
The point at issue relates to
the withdrawal of American
troops from Korea in 1949
before the recent Korean war.
It is known that the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, of which body
Gen. Eisenhower was a mem
ber, was asked in 1947 for its
opinion on the defense of
American interests in the Par
East and came to the conclu
sion that, if a general war
broke out in the Far East,
there would be no sense in
having American troops bogged
down on the mainland of Asia.
This is a far different thing
from a diplomatic decision by
the President and Secretary of
State to withdraw American
troops when no war was on
and when, as a step in peace
time, the United Nations asked
prepared to fight to the bitter
,end.
It is this same moderate
group, of course, which will go
. down eventually if it does not
find ways to protect itself from
the extremes of the left and
the right. It has temporized,
or tried to, in other countries.
With few exceptions, those
countries “have not stayed the
center course, but swing now
from right to left with perhaps
a weak center in nominal con
trol.
The debate on the Flanders
resolution is serving an edu
cational purpose, therefore,
even if it ends inconclusively.
Unwillingly and perhaps even
unwittingly. Senators have
1 been arguing the problem of
McCarthyism in its wider as
, pects and less and less, as in
j the old days, as a party issue.
They are admitting tacitly how
■ deeply troublesome it is in a
5 political system as easygoing
r as the American way.
Senator Flanders has tried
r to bring home this aspect of
the problem by dubbing Sena
j tor McCarthy a fifth amend
s ment Senator. The Vermonter
[ bluntly says that Senator Mc
-8 Carthy tries to throw a con
- stitutional cloak over his law
s lessness in the same manner
1 as the Communists who hide
1 behind the fifth amendment,
e Senator Hennings, Democrat,
e of Missouri has also forced his
recently when he stumped the
whole State of Connecticut by
helicopter, landing and taking
‘ off on front lawns, village
squares and cow pastures.
Only one important item is
holding us back now—price.
But mass production is in sight
at last, and what Ford did for
automobiles somebody will do
for helicopters. Os course it
will be pleasant to rise straight
up from the lawn and go pin
wheeling along, gazing down
on the crowded superhighway
below—but the real thrill will
begin when we leave the high
ways and head our helicopter
across country to the remote
spots of mountain, field, island,
forest, desert and beach where
no plane, and no automobile,
has ever been able to go.
It was the war in Korea that
brought the helicopter out of
its lowly position as an air
freak and won it respect as a
practical means of air trans
port. From 1937, when the
first flying pinwheel hovered
over the German city of Bre
men. till the Korean War came
along, the helicopter was
brushed aside because it was
so much slower than the air
plane. And the faster planes
became, the less use any one
(except enthusiasts like Sikor
sky) could see for the plod
ding helicopter.
Now we have discovered that
the real trouble Was not with
the helicopter but with the
comparison. When American
troops began to fight in Ko
rea’s mountainous country with
few roads-—and most of them
1 bad—the comparison changed.
all governments to withdraw
their troops. Gen. Eisenhower
in 1952 was criticizing the
American position in having
withdrawn our troops without
getting any guarantees of a
unified Korea, and his speeches
were directed toward a phase
of the problem wholly unre
lated to the specific military
situation with which the se
cret classified document had
been exclusively concerned.
It is a fact, therefore, that
Mr. Truman did allow in a
covert way some of the con
tents of the document to be
used but did not publicly de
classify the whole document
until several days later. This
is what has come to be known
as “Trumanism.”
The fact that a military
paper of the highest confiden
tial nature was “leaked” to one
Senator and its contents made
public by him in the midst of
a political campaign makes a
shambles of the charge that
the Wisconsin Senator is de
serving of censure because he
received and made public ref
erence to a document—dealing
not with military affairs, but
with personnel related
to the work of his own investi
gating committee—which had
been given to him by an em
ploye of the executive branch
of the Government.
There are civil service laws
which encourage the giving of
information by executive em
ployes to Congress, although
there are prohibitions about
transmitting certain confiden
tial information. But appar
ently secret documents of a
military nature can be classi
fied or declassified at will by a
Democratic Party President
without arousing the righteous
indignation of any Democrats
in the United States Senate.
For resolutions of censure evi
dently are.reserved solely for
use against Republicans who
overzealously fight communism.
It all depends on whose ox is
gored.
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colleagues to confront their
dilemma by reminding them
that Senator McCarthy was
repeatedly offered his day in
court and consistently refused
it. Senator Hennings was
chairman of a Senate Priv
ileges and Elections Subcom
mittee which investigated for
mer Senator Benton’s charges
against Senator McCarthy.
He put the question to Sen
ate Majority Leader Know
land: “Can you guarantee that
Senator McCarthy would ap
pear before your committee?
He would never appear before
ours.”
Senator Knowland offered
no guarantees, but said that if
Senator McCarthy should re
fuse again to appear, that
would be a black mark against
him. Why it would be any
more of a black mark than his
earlier refusal to explain his
financial transactions, Senator
Knowland did not explain. /
The roll call by which the
Senate disposes of the Mc-
Carthy issue will constitute a
real judgment of his peers, for
they know him and his works.
If they duck, it will be, on the
basis of their private com
ments, a political judgment
that it is still not safe to
tangle with .him. And it will
strengthen him for a contest
that will only be postponed,
not settled.
Instead of measuring helicop
ters against planes, the Army
began to compare them with
vehicles, and discovered that
helicopters could go all kinds
of places trucks could not.
Even where trucks could go,
helicopters, traveling on a bee
line with no traffic, could get
there.quicker. The Army be
gan by using helicopters for
special emergencies—and ended
by using them all over the
place.
(Copt right, 1954.)
Senate Aide Appointed
To Home Loan Bank Board
Ira A. Dixon, chief clerk of
the Senate Banking and Cur
rency Committee, has been nom
inated by President Eisenhower
to be a member of the Home
Loan Bank Board for a four
year term expiring June 30.1958.
Mr. Dixon, from Kentiand,
Ind., was named to fill a va
cancy that has existed since J.
Alston Adams resigned in June.
1953.
Gen. Eisenhower also sent to
the Senate late yesterday the!
nomination of C. Canby Balder
son, dean of the Wharton School
of Finance and Commerce at the
University of Pennsylvania, to
be a member of the board of
governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
Mr. Balderson was named to
succeed Oliver S. Powell, who re
signed on June 30, 1952. He
would fffl the remainder of a
14-year term beginning February
1. 1952.
LOUIE
Fletcher Knebel- •
Potomac Fever
A fellow with a beard walked into the Senate today, heard
the words, “Joe McCarthy,” and demanded his money back—
they hadn’t changed the feature since he was a boy.
* * * •
Republicans accuse Independent Senator Morse of revealing
a top-secret document from Harry Truman in 1952. Democrats
had a bad year with secrets in ’s2—even the secret ballot got
away from them.
* * * •
Ike names Army Brig. Gen. Vogel to head the TVA. You
can’t beat ol’ Ike. If. they won’t let him sell the New Deal’s
TVA —he’ll draft it into the Army.
* * * * *
A German rocket expert says flying saucers come from
outer space. The flying-saucer folk are afraid to land on earth.
They’ve heard all the cooking is done by the English—and all
the love-making by the Russians.
* * * *
Republican Leader Knowland proposes a committee to weigh
charges against Joe McCarthy. The average American of today
will die of holes in his head—bored to death by McCarthy.
* * * *
American Airlines’ pilots strike for an eight-hour limit on
cross-country flying duty. It isn’t the flying that gets on the
pilot’s nerves after eight hours—it’s the co-pilot.
* * * *
More Senators propose a committee to investigate Joe
McCarthy. This will be known as the McCarthy-McCarthy hear
■ ing. It will recess for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Washington’s
Birthday—and the next ice age.
Life in the U. S.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 3.
—Detective Sergt. J. W. Wingate
said some one broke into the
residence of Mrs. Janice Grof
Sunday and took a S2O bill from
an envelope in a bureau.
Yesterday, he said, the house
was broken into again and a S2O
bill put back in the envelope.
This Could-Be Bad
ST. LOUIS (/P).—Mrs. Flor
ence L. Windisch, in what her
lawyer calls a “new approach
to the problem of working
wives,” yesterday filed an
amended divorce petition ask
ing her husband to repay the
$14,527 she earned as a secre
tary during their marriage.
She charged her earnings
during the marriage “were ap
propriated by her husband and
were used and controlled by
him,” although she never
agreed to such action in writ
ing.
Milton S. Napier, her attor
ney, said he is proceeding un
der the Missouri Married
Women’s Act which provides a
husband may use his wife’s
earnings only if she has agreed
to it in writing.
Fast Action for Sure
DETROIT (&). —Rogers Mc-
Donald, 35, wanted fast action
when he was robbed. He got it.
Yesterday he paid for it.
Mr. McDonald told Recorder’s
Judge Paul E. Krause about the
robbery. He said he pulled a fire
alarm box, thinking it was a
fast way of notifying police.
Judge Krause said it cost the
city SSOO to dispatch five pieces
of equipment in answer to the
alarm. Mr. McDonald was fined
SIOO for turning in a false fire
alarm.
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Just Too Cautious
DETROIT (£*).—Haste makes
waste and for 20-year-old
Starling Mack caution wasn’t
much better.
Mack told Traffic Judge
George T. Murphy he was
trying to stay out of trouble
last Saturday when police ar
rested him on a city freeway.
Mack’s drivers license was
revoked for 90 days July 21
after a minor accident.
Explaniing his arrest, Mack
said:
“I knew If I drove that I
might get into trouble and be
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Mack was arrested for going
too slow—3s miles an hour in
a 55-mile zone on the John
Lodge Expressway.
Noting a previous record of
seven violations in the last
year. Judge Murphy gave
Mack 10 days in jail.
Under Steady Fire
LOS ANGELES (#).—Edward
C. Myers, paper box manufac- *
turer, sued the Hillcrest Coun
try Club, near his home, for
SB,OOO yesterday.
He said he has to send his
children, aged 4 and 2, to nurs
ery school daytimes and can’t
use his back yard. He alleged
it’s under constant daylight
bombardment by golf balls.
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Public Batting Nearly .500
In FBl'Most Wanted' League
By Bill Fuchs
John Q. Public is batting near
ly .500 in the FBl’s “audience
participation" program.
Special Agent Thomas E.'
Bishop reminded members of the i
newly chartered Wheaton Opti
most Club last night that every
one is invited to participate in
this jackpot program. Mr. Bishop
addressed the club’s regular
bi-weekly dinner-meeting at
the Town and Country Inn.
“You don’t get mink coats or
trips around the world.” he said.
“You get the satisfaction of re
moving from society a menace—
someone .who may next prey on
you or your children or the guy
next door.”
68 on I/st Caught.
The FBl’s “jackpot” program
is its “Ten Most Wanted Fugi
tives” program, inaugurated in
March, 1950. Since then, 68
criminals on that list have been
apprehended, and the public has
been responsible for the arrest
of 31 of them.
As one fugitive is caught,
another, selected by bureau Offi
cials, is put on the list.
Only one member of the origi
nal list is still at large. He is
Henry Randolph Mitchell,
wanted for a SIO,OOO bank rob
bery in Williston, Fla., in 1948.
He is 58, stands 5 feet 4Vi inches
and weighs 155 pounds. He has
brownish-gray hair and brown
eyes.
Citixen Traps “Meanest.”
The “meanest” one ever to ap
pear on the list, in Agent Bishop’s
opinion, was Morris Gural
nick, who stabbed his girl friend
a number of times, bit off a
policeman’s finger while being
arrested and helped administer
a merciless and needless beat*
ing to a guard while* escaping
from prison. He was recaptured
when a citizen recognized him
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the 18th district.
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their headquarters must oe
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Should the publicity stunt
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Wanted” program.
The most colorful member of
the list was Frederick Emerson
■ Peters, a confidence man of more ,
! than 130 aliases, who was cap- i
tured by FBI agents here early j ;
in 1952. ‘ i
"Peters didn’t want a whole !
lot of money, just enough to live
comfortably,” Mr. Bishop said.
“His usual pitch wps to make
purchases in a department store
and write a check for more than
the amount owed.
Impersonated Roosevelt.
"He never had trouble identi
fying himself. In fact, he could
give plenty of identification for j
anybody they wanted. Once he
even got aw*y with impersonat-,
ing Franklin D. Roosevelt when
Mr. Roosevelt was assistant sec- I
retary of the Navy.”
Mr. Bishop cahs Joseph Levy
*the unluckiest man to make the
list. Officers arrested him at the
SSO window at the Churchill
Downs Race Track. He never
got to make his bet. And the
horse he planned to play came
in and paid 6 to 1.
A number of persons who have
“hit the FBI Jackpot” prefer
anonymity, and the FBI respects
their wishes in the matter. A few
shun the publicity because of
fear of revenge actfon by the
criminal. They don’t realize how
scared the criminal is, according
to Mr. Bishop, nor how many
other troubles he has.
A case in point is that of
Meyer Dembin, who robbed a
’ bank in Sparkill, N. Y., in 1935
' and fled to the West Coast,
1 where he lived in comparative
;, peace until September, 1950,
; I when he finally made the list.
A year later he turned himself
‘ in.
j “When he turned himself in,
1 he was in a very weakened con
-1 dition,”* Mr. Bishop said. "The
; publicity had ruined his nerves.”
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TCTSPAT. AUGUST «, I—4
Bonn Says'John Took
No Secrets With Him
By Hm Auociotad Ptm*
BADEN BADEN, Germany,
Aug. 3.—The Parliamentary
Committee of Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer’s Christian Demo
cratic Party declares the disap
pearance of West German anti*
spy chief. Dr. Otto John, behind
the Iron Curtain had not dam
aged the West because he knew
no vitally important secrets. ,
The declaration was made yes
terday after a seven-hour com
mittee conference on general
government policies.
Dr. John, head of the Bonn
Republic’s anti-subversive office,
left his West Berlin hotel July
i 20 and went to East Berlin,
j A voice believed to be his has
I since made broadcasts for the
Reds from East Berlin.
The committee also decided to
recommend rejection of the
latest Soviet proposal for an
East-West conference to reopen
the discussions on European de
fense and German reunification.
A communique said the Soviet
proposal contained nothing new.
Richmond Man Heads
VMI Board of Visitors
By th* Associated Press
LEXINGTON. Aug. 3. Vir
ginia Military Institute’s Board
of Visitors has named J. Clifford
, Miller, jr., 46, Richmond busi
nessman, as its president.
,' Mr. Miller succeeds John C.
i Hagan, Jr., Richmond invest
, ment banker, whose board term
. expired June 30.
! The new president has been a
member of ’the board for six
, years. He is past president of the
. VMI Alumni Association and a
s director of VMI Foundation, Inc.
’ He was graduated in 1928.
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