The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 1, 1954, Page 5

M’‘CARTHY ASKS COMMITTEE TO REVERSE SELF By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON (#—Sen. McCar- thy (R-Wis) demanded today that a Senate committee investigating censure charges against him re- verse itself and direct its vice chairman, Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, ( defend further his impartiality. Apparently McCarthy faced an- other rebuff. In advance of a second round. of committee hearings, Johnson stood pat on a statement that he never has said he “personally loathed” McCarthy but had agreed some of his “Democratic colleagues did not like” the Wisconsin senator. Several Senate colleagues said they regard Johnson as fair and imvartial. 5 The committee is considering a censure resolution and 46 specific charges, some of them overlap- ping, ieveled at McCarthy by Senators Flanders (R-Vt), Morse (Ind-Ore) and Fulbright (D-Ark). The charges range from abuse of a witness to slurring fellow sen- ators and showing contempt of a subcommittee that investigated some of McCarthy’s financial and other dealings in 1951. The start of the new hearings on McCarthy coincided with a split verdict from a Senate subcom- mittee that refereed McCarthy’s celebrated row with Army offi- ils. The four subcommittee Repub- licans cleared McCarthy of per- sonally using any improper in- fluence to get special favors for his. former consultant, Pvt. G. David Schine, but said he should have used a firmer hand on his staff. The three Democrats said McCarthy ‘“‘fully. acquiesced in and condoned . . . improper actions” on behalf of Schine and merits “se- vere criticism.” Some of the issues in the Mc- Carthy-Army ruckus, particularly relating to receipt and use of se- cret documents, are the basis of some of the chargés in the new hearings. The subcommittee Re- publicans skipped the secret docu- ment question in their findings but the Democrats said McCar- thy ‘‘may have violated the law” and deserved “severe criticism” for that too. The question of how Johnson Your, Grocer SELLS That Good STAR > * BRAND aucun COFFEE —=- TRY A POUND TODAY — SVRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE ALL GROCERS stands on McCarthy set off the one explosion at yesterday’s cur- tain-raiser hearing on the demands that McCarthy’s conduct be con- demned ‘as tending to bring the Senate into disrepute. With a heavy hand on the gavel, Chairman Watkins (R-Ugah) squelched McCarthy into silence on the issue. He ruled that it had no place in the hearings, that the|is Senate itself set up the committee and the committee has no power to disqualify the Colorado senator or even accept his resignation. McCarthy came through with a countermove. He told newsmen he was send- ing today to Watkins and all five other members of the committee a memo calling for a reversal of the ruling. His attorney, Edward Barret Williams, said that if for any reason a member of the in- vestigating committee “has en- tered this case with a predisposi- tion for or against either side, it ought to be known.” Watkins and other members de-| that clined advance comment on the request for a reversal. Watkins told newsmen that “we | are not investigating any member of the committee” and “we are not concerned” with the accuracy or inaccuracy of a Denver. Post story ‘last March quoting Johnson on McCarthy. That, Watkins said, is “completely immaterial and ir- relevant.” The Denver newspaper quoted Johnson as saying that “in my opinion;there is not a man among the Democratic le a ders of Con- gress who: does not loathe Joe McCarthy.” Johnson assured the committee ina formal statement yesterday that “I have full faith in my abil- ity to weigh the charges which have been made against Sen. Mc- Carthy together with whatever ev- idence may be presented without Prejudice.” He said in an interview today he would have nothing to add to “to reporters, to McCarthy, other senators or anyone else. McCarthy and Williams said they wanted Johnson to say wheth- er or not he was quoted acturate- ly by the Post, that he had prom- ised to say so and hadn’t done it. “If he will tell us he was mis- quoted and never said anything like that,” McCarthy said, “I would believe him over the Denver Post. The Denver Post has been notoriously anti-McCarthy.” The Post’s editor and publisher, Palmer Hoyt, termed McCarthy’s statement “the usual hogwash” and said the Post had criticized him editorially in the past and and would continue to do so “until he- changes his ways.” said they wouldn’t challenge John- son even if he said he was quoted his position to one of impartiality. McCarthy showed reporters a copy of the Post article which also quoted Johnson as saying he and most of his colleagues “on both sides of the aisle in the Senate” were “very pleased over recent de- velopments with references to Mc- Carthy.” The article said Johnson referred specifically to a Flanders speech against McCarthy. “It is pretty important, you see,” McCarthy said, “‘to have a judge sitting on such an important thing as this say that all the leaders loathe you and he is pretty happy about a blast by Flanders. “I think that what Ed has got to do is tell us if he was correctly Yesterday's first-round hearing was pretty decorous and dull until In contrast with the spectacular McCarthy-Army hearings that ran on through 36 days and frequent volcanic upheavals, television and radio were barred and still pic- tures were permitted only before and after the session. Switch To Germany And Spain Seen Pressure Is On To Change EDC Emphasis By JOHN M. HIGHTOER sures are ‘reported building up in the government to make Germany and Spain, rather than France, the - mainstays .of U.S. defense strategy for Western Europe. A major debate on France’s role in this country’s political-military policies was forecast today by in- formed officials, who said the cen- tral question, starkly stated, is this: Should the United States switch its main strategic emphasis, with more of ‘its military aid dollars and supplies, from France to her neighbors on the east and west? Secretary of State Dulles an- nounced yesterday that France’s FAWTU Officer Will Become idea is to give West Germany as Ne: sues So: ye Renae ot 38 Test Pilot ich control over her affairs as West division of the country, block- ing a formal peace treaty. Rearming ‘of Germany under NATO would get around. the ob- jections of French EDC opponents who argued against creation of a kind of supermilitary government among the six EDC nations. But it would solve the German problem in’ a framework in which France would play a much less important role than she would have had in EDC. It would there- fore seem to offer. little hope of improving French-German. rela- tions. a partner in West Europe’s de- fenses against communism ap- pears to be in the cards, here. What is more likely is that the United States and Britain, with other interested countries, press for and eventually find some kind of plan for rearming Ger- many which will get at least grudging acceptance from the French. Meanwhile, there may be some expansion of naval and air base facilities this country is building in Spain, and the assignment of greater importance to Spain’s role in the eyes of American strateg- ists. rejection of the proposed Euro-| Wednesday, September 1, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 pean Defense Community, which envisioned a. 12-division German army, impels the United States “to reappraise its foreign pol- icies.” At the same time he demanded American-British-French action to give West Germany sovereignty. He called also for an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to consider the whole situation. The United States may propose it this NATO meeting that West Germany should be rearmed dir- ectly under NATO. It was learned faa feels that should be the ee Dulles wants the 14-nation NATO meeting to be held at cabinet level —a full-dress session of foreign, defense and finance ministers—and this probably cannot be arranged ‘—— | before. October at the earliest. 10,000 MILE Guaranty on USED CARS with eS NAVARRO, Inc. 601 Duval St. Tel. 2-7041 In a mood. of acknowledged frus- tration though not despair, Dulles left Washington by plane last night for Manila to join ministers ‘of sev- en other nations, starting Monday, in concluding negotiation of a Southeast Asia defense alliance. It is: not yet certain that Wash- ington will take the lead in for- mally proposing German mem- bership in NATO. Some officials say that as a matter of tactics it would be better for one of Ger- many’s neighbors to make the move. The United States and Britain are expected to press France, meanwhile, for prompt agreement for sovereignty for West Germany through a series of “peace con- tracts.” These agreements had been dependent 1 creation of EDC. Now Washington and London want to scrap that-condition. 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Hoppe from Seattle, Wash., wil- liam L. Lancaster from Wetumpka, Ala., and William C. Vincent from Mt. ‘Carmel, Penna. Sept. 1, 1939, Was Dark Day By TOM STONE FRANKFURT (#—Adolf Hitler started World War II 15 years ago today. In the chilly dawn of Sept. 1, 1939, his troops invaded Poland, plunging Europe into war. Within six years Hitler was dead and the defeated German armies had surrendered unconditionally to Scriptures Don’t Help Criminals CINCINNATI (#—“Blessed are the merciful who can forgive false testimony,” quoted Fred C. Bing- ham, 29, in Criminal Court yes- terday. “Blessed are the merciful who give mercy,” chorused Lawrence Collins, 31. Judge John M. Renner listened to their pleas and then said: “I don’t know how you had time | to read the Bible with your crim- inal records.” He then sentenced the pair to one to five years in the Ohio Peni- tentiary for housebreaking, CITIZEN WANT ADS PAY! Lieutenant Commader James W May, USNR, of the Fleet All Weather Training Unit, Atlantic, Boca Chica Field, was released to inactive duty Tuesday. While at FAWTU, he served as Maintenance Officer and as Flight Officer. Ledr. May previously served with Airdevron One (VX-1) as Project Officer from Dee. 1952 to Jan. 1954, He accepted a position as a test pilot for Hughes Aircraft Comp- any, Culve City, California. Ledr. May was formerly with Allison Division, General Motors Corpor- ation of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was employed as an Engineering Test Pilot. He is married to the former Miss Millie Martin. They have two children, Cheryl Andrea, age 3 and Leslie Paula, age 1. The Mays reside at 23 Maine Road in Key West. Ledr. May is a member of the Key West Sailing Club. NEED MONEYS | WE have it! the blow up at the end over; ‘ Both McCarthy and Williams | Johnson. Watkins, a 68-year-old former judge, in ashen-faced anger ig- nored McCarthy’s calls of “Mr. Chairman,” and ‘told the Wiscon- sin senator he was. “out of order” in trying to raise the Johnson-Den- ver Post issue. He gavelled the} session to a close. McCarthy walked out, protesting to reporters: “The most unheard-of thing I ever heard of.” Much of the opening session was | given over to reading into the | record a series of letters between | McCarthy and Senators Gillette | (D-Iowa) and Hennings (D-Mo), | the successive chairmen of a Sen-| ate Rules subcommittee that dug | into McCarthy’s financial affairs | in 1951 and came up with a report Taising numerous questions about them. McCarthy repeatedly turned down invitations to testify about his affairs at that time and his actions are the basis of one of five categories into which the censure charges against him have been compressed. For A Quick Loan pp $300 . See “MAC’ 703 Duval Street TELEPHONE 2-8555 OPENING SPECIAL! 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