CASE WILL POSE NEW MCCARTHY VOTE

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 1998
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• Publication Date: December 17, 1954
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(Case Will Pose New McCarthy Vale
By Marquis Childs
CLOSE ASSOCIATES of President
isenhower are now more than ever con
inced that his way of "handling" Sen.
oseph McCarthy has been proved right.
y consistently turning
he other cheek and
responding with a soft
nswer or no answer at
11, the President has let
in until, in this hopeful
7iew, he has alienated
post of his followers.
With McCarthy's direct
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nd the approaching elections in 16, most
epublicans, whether they like it or not,
ust follow the Eisenhower banner. The
alternative is to split the party so violently
that even with the Eisenhower name again
at the head of the ballot viet{ ry would be
mpossible.
If the President hail hit back at Mc-
Carthy, he would merely have given the
Senator an opportunity to trade blows. on
a level of seeming equality with the Chief
Executive. By not engaging in angry ex-
change, much as Mr. Eisenhower has
been tempted to do so, he has main-
tained the dignity of the Presidency above
factional strife. Thus, in the view of his
associates, his stature has increased while
that of McCarthy has dwindled.
Shortly after the new Congress'convenes
Senate Republicans; may be confronted
with another test of whether;,b.eir alle-
giance is to McCarthy or the President.
Senator-elect Clifford P. Case of New
Jersey, who was elected by a hair-line
margin, has announced that in accord. with
a campaign pledge he,will challenge Mc-
Carthy's right to have a place on any
S e n ate committee with investigative
powers. If this challenge should lie put to
a vote, Republicans would be on the spot.
They were on record, 24 to 2%.10-1118t cen-
sure for Senator McCarthy. Bi that was
before the Senator publicly accused the
President of softness toward communism.
DEMOCRATS WHO have been most
active. in opposing McCarthy's,'methods
indignantly reject this benign vow of the
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lan$e,rs of Vermont, 's_eepned stand
almost 'Mei s_ tj a McC4rJhVI 'hriok~bats
flew, thicir ant I oot: Another epublican,
Sen. Ashur Watkins, chairman of the
committee that considered - tie censure
charge, heard himself caller,a;eoward and
a handmaiden for communism.
But individual fortunes to one side, there
is increasing evidence of the extremism of
ose who back McCarthy. A number of
icials in Washington have recently re-
calved in the mail an extraordinary docu-
ment listing the names of 140 individuals?
organizations and publications as followers
the Communist Party line. This is based,
the statement that "on November 24,.
'953, the Communist Party issued orders.
o fight McCarthyism.'"
AMONG THOSE on the Ash;. are Chief!?
Justice Earl Warren; Nelson Itockefelleri ;
Winthrop Aldrich, former held of. the`
Chase N"aial Bank and now Ambassador:
to Great_$r4tain; Secretary of State Jolt`
Foster Dulles; Al l } ,Dulles, head of thi
of the Cowles publications. Both Time -atld
Life are listed as followers of the Com
munist line, as is the Christian Science
Monitor. The document, under the name
of Gregory G. Bern, comes from a post
office ox Itj os Angeles and copies are
offered in w 6lesale lots tip to 400 for $10.,
Carried to such absurd lengths, the ex-
tremist fringe on the right is self-defeating.
That is why some are questioning the wis-
dom of the House IJn-Ameriqan Activities
Committee in intimating tk~t the Depart-
ment of Justice should act'against such
hate groups as the National . Renaissance
Party. While the propoganda they put out
is full of racial and religious hatred, it
reaches for the most part only those of
the lunatic fringe who are already_infected
With the virus of hate.
Such action also would seem to be an
admission that these splinter groups
actually were effective and that Americans
subjected to this kind of propaganda might
be in danger of succumbing to it. While
in some areas in this period of stress and
strain the hatemongers may have a follow-
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President. They say that he-h let others
bear the brunt of the fight take all
the punishment. They point t, e lonely,,
position of,.stjch Democrats-' former
Senf#torsM1ard-Tydings. of land an(
Benton's inch' * f. th
McCarthy sh D~1i~,, $dth
Benton were defeated for r
m had is far survived.