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— THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. David Lawrence LOUIE —By Horry Honan thtesdat, December a. i*s« A-27 McCarthy Lost His Own Battle Constantine Brown — But the Passions of the Hour May Return to Plague Foreign Policy Debate Delayed The Senate for Many Decades Yet to Come Next Congress Is Likely to Give Very Close Scrutiny This week marks a milestone vestigating communism have his own battle, and his col- To Dealing in American history. For this been pilloried, beginning with leagues in the Senate were not Administration's With Asian Problems week sees the beginning of the Representative Martin Dies of able to rise above the passions An immediate “great debate” what shaky Western bloc and on by the White House be- end of effective investigation Texas, Democrat. After the of the hour or their own sense over our foreign policies with are doing it with apparent suc- cause it would go against our by committees of Congress into treatment given Senator Mc- of indignation to refuse to particular regard to Commu- cess. Moscow is making goo- commitments to our allies. communistic activities inside Carthy, what Senator will wish write into the record a prece- nist China may be avoided, The backers of a “stronger’* or outsidfe the Government. to risk censure or public cal- dent that will plague the Sen- because: (1) The present goo eyes at Western Europe pdlicy in the Senate are will- Adoption of the censure mo- umny? Recalcitrant witnesses for decades to come. The session is supposed to deal and hopes within the next ing to go along for the time tion against Senator McCar- Will be encouraged to new de- closing hours of the debate principally with the McCar- year or so to have our major being with the Executive's thy means the squelching of fiance of congressional inqui- yesterday showed how per- thy censure issue; <2) Pres- allies across the Atlantic ac- promises and wait until all all effective efforts in that di- ries. plexed and bewildered some of ident Eisenhower and Secre- cept their co-existence lollypop. present diplomatic means of rection not only by the Wis- Already proposals are being the Senators were as they tary Dulles are not keen to In Asia the Communists have freeing the American prison- consin Senator himself but made that a joint committee struggled with the legal phases have a complete airing of the adopted a political-military ers and hostages are ex- those of any other Senator. be formed from members of only to find themselves influ- problem, and (3) the majority aggressive policy. After the hausted. They are opposed, For the die has been cast. both houses to deal with the enced finally by the personal- of the Senators are anxious spectacular victory in Indo- however, to having this mat- In response to a widespread investigation of Communists. ity prejudices involved. to return to their States and china, which is expected by ter lost in the shuffle of use- wave of passion throughout But any one familiar with the Abuse of Senator McCarthy to enjoy a rest before the 84th all who look at the situation less diplomatic notes; or to the country, the Senate, by an techniques of congressional during the debate and the use Congress convenes on Jan- realistically to place the whole have it settled by “wide con- overwhelming majority, hak committees knows that this is of intemperate language about uary 3. area in the Communist fold cessions” to the Chinese voted resolutions of censure an insidious way to kill off 'him rendered absurd the pious There is no doubt, however, within a year or less, the men Communists which will amount which will frighten any other any effective inquiry. Joint statement that the Senate was that unless the Peiping regime in Peiping have adopted the to ransoming of our men in Senator in the future who committees have no central- trying to uphold its own dig- nommiZtCmmimimt Nw—- changes its present tune com- Chinese version of “ride him uniform and civilians who ventures to pursue an investi- ized responsibility, and it is nity. As for “traditional con- pletely or some means is de- cowboy.” They are making have had the misfortune to gation of communism. difficult for a staff to be as- duct,” the Senate has never vised before next January to threatening feints toward For- fall into Communist hands. Likewise, free speech as the sembled which can do an effi- been any different from what obtain the liberation of the mosa and at the same time are The “great debate” on our Senate has known it hereto- cient job under such joint it has been this week. Sen- Fletcher Knebel — American prisoners and hos- treating the Americans wh'o foreign policy which is ex- fore has now been abolished control. ator Lehman, for instance, tages in the Reds’ hands, the have the misfortune to fall pected to take place between and only those Senators who So, for all practical pur- made a bitter attack on Sen- administration's foreign poli- into their hands far worse than now and next February will conform —in their thinking poses, the fight that has been ator McCarthy in violation of cies will be subjected to a very they fared in the last century, have a twofold purpose: A and speaking—to the dictates made by a valiant group of Senate rules, but all that hap- Potomac Fever close scrutiny by the next when they were captured by re-examination of our policies of a temporary majority in the Barbary Americans other than Sena- pened to him was an order to Republican Congress. rulers of the in the Far East and a careful Senate ckn hereafter McCarthy expose Senate Leader Knowland sides with Joe Mc- scrutiny alliances the feel tor to com- take his seat and a moment Carthy. As an crusader, Republican Floor Leader Coast. These actions of the of what our safe against the adoption munism inside America old Eisenhower Knowland is due to be Peiping regime are not to mean in the light of present of has later he was permitted to pro- a knight garter. Every time King Ike hears his Khowdand will be in the fore- due censure resolutions. been ceed. Nobody mentioned cen- made of the a mere cruelty instinct. They world developments. lost. these days, something snaps. front of this move. If this sit- It is ironical that a crusade Much of the responsibility name are carefully planned as a po- sure for him. * * # * uation concerning the Ameri- which began on the theory for what has happened, curi- The fact remains only litical device to make America that Federal jobs by 5,000 cans held in China is not radi- that Senator McCarthy was ously enouglf. must borne increased in October. Presumably these lose whatever it may be the man who fought commu- were memory experts just the election to remind cally improved by early next “face” Freighter stifling free speech and insist- by Senator McCarthy himself. nism has will be hired before still have in the Far East. |U.S. Seizes Been or cen- Republicans year, he is expected to have ing on conformity of thought As a tactician in the fight the voters how much the had cut the Federal There is no basic quarrel sured. Senator McCarthy, of payroll. the support of many Republi- now has wound up with re- against him personally, he has course, between the Executive and the a deserved a rebuke for * * * * cans and Democrats for a striction upon the members of made blunder after (blunder. his attacks on fellow Senators, Senate leadership about the On Illegal Sale Count More than 2,000 years before the Senate voted on Joe Mc- “more virile”policy in the Far the United States Senate He had a good case on legal but many of those same at- necessity of putting an end By th« Associated Press Carthy, said: "Mankind injustice, fearing that East. themselves who may hereafter and constitutional grounds provoked. Plato censure to these wanton insults by tacks were And the they may be the victims of because they Contrary is being BALTIMORE, Dec. 2. —The try to express a dissenting but he muffed it—indeed, he Watkins committee itself held it and not shrink to what the Communists. Only their t it—by insisting from committing it.” whispered in Washington po- Government has seized viewpoint. forfeited on provocation * * methods differ. Federal that is a basis for * * there is no actual Many Senators in fact, constant attacks on his fellow withholding censure litical circles President Eisenhower and the freighter Compass on a com- in certain The Navy says two guided-missile cruisers will join the fleet. rift between the White House most of them will deny Senators at the special session circumstances. Secretary of State Dulles are plaint that the war-surplus ship vehemently that their censure that began November 8. Warfare is improving. Soon you’ll never know what hit you—- and the California Senator as anxious as everybody else The net result of it all is and the guy who fired It will never be sure what he shoot- except possibly in the inter- has been flying the American resolution Senator “I realize,” a Senator who not only a defeat for Senator was to put an end to the Com- pretation of the functions of although McCarthy means any such voted against Senator McCar- McCarthy—who will, ing at. munist misdeeds. They feel flag its owners are of course, * * * * administration's floor drastic change. They will in- thy said to this correspondent appeal to the country the duty bound, however, to be Greek citizens.

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