ATTACKS ON McCARTHY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27366, 3 June 1954, Page 11

ATTACKS ON McCARTHY

Republicans Hit At Methods

(Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June k Senator Joseph McCarthy was under attack on several fronts today. Senator Ralph Flanders (Republican. Vermont), speaking in the Senate, accused Senator McCarthy off splitting the nation, the Republican Party, a»d the Roman Catholic Church. He said Senator McCarthy “could not have done a better job” for the Communists if he were in their pay. Senator Flanders said that the ArmyMcCarthy inquiry had not dug into “the real heart of the mystery—the personal relationships” between Senator McCarthy, Mr Roy Cohn, and Private G. David Schine. He said that Senator McCarthy's anti-Communist campaign “completely parallels that of Adolf Hitler. and asserted that Senator McCarthy inspired “foreboding” among Jews. He (fid not say there was such a move afoot Senator McCarthy stirred up a new row with the Administration last week by appealing to Federal workers to come to him with any information about subversion or corruption, regardless of Presidential orders to the C °The Attorney-General, Mr Brownell, in a statement approved by President Eisenhower, said anyone making such a request was trying to usurp the powers of the executive branch and was breaking the “law of our land.” Senator Flanders’s speech came, less than 24 hours after President Eisenhower, in what was interpreted as a new thrust at Senator McCarthy, in a speech in New York, attacked gogues thirsty for personal P°we r who turned if good citizens into bitter foes over the Communist issue. Senator McCarthy, who was not in ! the Senate when Senator Flanders spoke, said later he did not know whether Senator Flanders’s attack stemmed from “viciousness or i senility.” He said Senator Flanders ■ should be called to testify in the Army-McCarthy hearings. Senator > Flanders should give any information J he might have under oath.

“Invitation to Anarchy” Mr Emanuel Celler, Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives for New York, introduced a resolution calling on the AttorneyGeneral to investigate what Mr Celler called Senator McCarthy s “spy network.” He said that Senator McCarthy’s practices were “an invitation to anarchy.” _ Senator Homer Ferguson (Republican, Michigan) today joined a growing list of Republican leaders disputing Senator McCarthy’s claim that he had authority to receive secrets from Government employees. Senator Ferguson, who is chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, also said in answer to a question that he would want to hear from members of the Senate Government Operations Committee before passing judgment on any move to remove Senator McCarthy as

The Senate Republican leader. Senator William Knowland (California), Senator H. Alexander-Smith (Republican. New Jersey), and Senator James Duff (Republican, Pennsylvania) have sided with President Eisenhower and the Administration in the clash. Senator Ferguson said today he did not believe members of the Senate should invite Federal workers “to leave their loyalty to the Administration and owe their homage to the Senate.”

“They should go to the President first,” he said. “I don’t think we should invite everybody who has a complaint to come fi~st to Congress,” Senator Ferguson said. “I am sure the executive is just as anxious as Congress to clean up all corruption, subversion, and all other crimes as we are in the Senate and House, we oueht to co-operate in that desire.” Mr Mark Ethridge, owner of the Louisville “Courier-Journal,” in a speech at New Orleans today said that the term McCarthyism flattered “the evil genius of the Senator from Wisconsin too much” and that “he is only an archangel of darkness, not the devil ' himself.” He said McCarthyism threatened to make America “destroy the foundations and abandon the postulates of its faith.” “Our illness goes deeper than one man,” he said. “It is a malady of the soul that summons all the evil forces of the Inquisition, the Cheka, Hitlerism, Stalinism, the Ku Klux Klan, and all those nauseous forces which claim dominion over the conduct and souls of other men.” In the hunt for subversives, he said, “real subversives are created who would whittle away ancient and hardwon liberties.” Mr Ethridge described the encouragement of an elaborate informer system as “close to the Nazi and Communist cell system”