COMMUNISTS LUCKY TO BE INVESTIGATED BY DIES, MCCARTHY
LYONS, EUGENE
Communists Lucky To Be Investigated By Dies, McCarthy By FUGENE LYONS Contributing Editor, The New Leader THE LUCK of the Communists put a Martin'TOet^fHHiUNImmn ahrff^ffettWl^ in the chair of...
...And are men of such boundless naivete good security risks in the area of foreign acairs...
...serious injury to the Judiciary of this stale...
...Such consistent miscalculation cannot be explained entirely in terms of stupidity...
...Jessup made the point that this organization had not yet been officially designated as subversive...
...Too many commentators and editorial writers seem to have forgotten that public enemy number one is still Stalin, and not McCarthy...
...Yes, Mr...
...See below...
...I hold no brief for reckless charges...
...Perhaps she could not, psychologically, make such a forthright declaration because in her heart she knows that the cure is far from complete...
...by his support of Communist fronts...
...Assuredly we have a right to judge Dr...
...To Democrats he is "Two-Job Joe" or "Reno Joe," references to his refusal to resign his circuit judgeship while campaigning for the U. S. Senate...
...He operates on a very cynical theory of politics and has often explained it to his friends...
...The bold, brassy ways that brought him money at the gaming tables have been transferred to the political arena...
...The Kordas vs...
...The public has no alternative but to identify U»em on the baste of their conduct, the company they keep, the movements and causes they champion...
...the gratification of his ambition was in defiance of the declared public policy and laws of the state of wisconsin...
...Joseph R. McCarthy is many things to many people...
...I imply no slur on the Wisconsin Republican...
...ALL THESE THINGS have combined to send Joe's political steele into a nose-dive back home...
...Other Americans might have had some excuse for mistaking the nature of the organization—but not a specialist in foreign affairs...
...It is not without significance that the Department's plans for the postwar period, elaborated up to 1040, did not even grant the possibility that the Kremlin might not collaborate for a peaceful and democratic "one world...
...The Milwaukee Journal reported in July 1947 that in the three years previous to 1943 his total income amounted to $24,024...
...EARLY IN 1949...
...Even granting that they were "innocents" and "suckers," they have remarkable gall in insulting a legislator who alludes to their undisputed fellow-traveling proclivities...
...s But the hooting and whistling in the press and on the air should not be permitted to drown out the facts that those stebles need cleaning...
...Hit CAMPAION was well fl...
...Where he got the money for the investment has net been explained...
...McCarthy, up to such-and-such a time I was a pushover for Kremlin conspirators...
...His knowledge of Communist skulduggery—a complex subject bristling with booby-traps—was apparently sketchy...
...In the labor temples he is known as "Trigger-happy Joe," a reference to an outburst in his first Washington press conference in which he called for drafting the striking miners into the army and forcing them into the mines under penalty of courts-martial and the firing squad...
...THE POLITICAL MORALITY of McCarthy was revealed in the 1946 campaign when he refused to resign from the bench while running for the Senate, despite the fact that the constitution of the state clearly prohibits a state judge from seeking political office and despite a clear proscription in canon 30 of the code of judicial ethics of the american Bar Association...
...He pleaded that he didn't have to report and pay because he was not a resident of Wisconsin...
...When Arheson refuses to "turn his buck" on a convicted Soviet agent, they arc reminded of an earlier occasion when the sane Arheson, then Assistant Socrjtaxy of State, refused to turn his back on one Harold Glasser, who resigned under -fire and was subsequently named by Elizabeth Bentley as a member of her Soviet "apparatus...
...His payment to the state amounted to $2,677...
...But why should he be so damned proud of the fact that under his leadership, in the course of 14 years, the Institute was notoriously a channel for party-line propaganda...
...Jessup...
...Is deists...
...While the Institute's publication, The Far Eastern Survey, was under Dr...
...The complaint of the board, made up principally of conservative Republicans, said: "It is difficult to conceive of any conduct upon the part of a presiding judge which would bring judges and courts into greater disrepute and contempt than the conduct of the defendant (McCarthy 1. he, as officer of the court, knowingly and willfully, placed the gratification of his personal ambition above the interests of the public and the rights of litigants...
...Jessup held various positions in the Institute of Pacific Relations, including the chairmanship of its American and Pacific councils...
...The kind of comment that limits itself to derogation of McCarthy is mischievously shallow...
...by his readiness, in 1946, to dump our bombs and fissionable products into the ocean...
...These scandals focussed attention on the unethical conduct cf a judge running for office...
...In 1943 his friends put through the Wisconsin legislature a bill that repealed a statute making it a felony for a sitting judge to run for a political office...
...When confronted by state tax authorities with his "oversight," Joe displayed the brass for which he has since become famous...
...IS THERE NO LIMIT to naivete...
...Whatever the Tydings inquiry reveals or conceals, we should not permit the problem itself to be shoved out of sight...
...He never resigned his judgeship...
...But tKank God, I have been fully cured and assure you that now f can be trusted to distinguish between a totalitarian and a hole in the ground...
...were substantially correct...
...he disavowed residence, even though he still held the judgeship of the 10th circuit...
...Jessup's direction, it began a campaign against National China...
...To Ills, rapidly dwindling supporters he is "Wisconsin's Horatio Miles McMllUfl is an editorial writer fee the CtpiMTtmtt of Madison...
...He had dismissed the case against the defendants on the curious grounds that the law which they were accused of violating was going to expire in six months...
...Too much is at stake in foreign policy just now to justify smugness, against this distressing background, on the issue of Kremlin infiltration of the State Department...
...He will be lucky to get a hung Jury at his second trial...
...By MILES McMlLLIN MADISON, Wis...
...His crusade against communism is a frantic attempt to restore his influence to its former level...
...Referring to what it called the 'two Chinas,' it said, in an article signed by Mr.- Bisson: 'One is now generally called Kuomititang China, the other is called Communist China...
...In explaining his sponsorship of an American Russian Institute dinner in October, 1944, Dr...
...Little things like Evjue's hardslugging crusade against Wisconsin Communists through the years mean nothing to Joe...
...The flushing operation, alas, was no bright idea of the State Department but forced on it by pressures from outside...
...If the attack on the State Department proves nothing else, it will be an interesting test of Joe's political faith when he comes up in 1952...
...He began it weeks before his attacks on the State Department...
...The country has a right to wonder how much shrewd malice entered into the equations...
...Would not the State Department have been asked to explain why the lady had been assigned to a sensitive post notwithstanding...
...But I submit that Senator McCarthy is not shooting wild in aiming at Dr...
...He started out in 1936 as a Democratic candidate for district attorney of Shawano county in northern Wisconsin...
...Standing alone, the fact that Dr...
...the court agreed with the charges made against mccarthy by the board and said so: "under the facte of lhie case we can reach no other conclusion :ban ihnt the defendant by accepting snd holding the office of united stales senator during the term for which he was elected circuit judge did so in violation of the terms of the constitution end l»ws of the state of wisconsin ?nd in so doing violated his oath pa * circuit judge and as an attorney 41 law...
...An examination of the rerxjrti^^of^hU^campaign committee disclosed that $18,000 was contributed by his father, his brother and his brother-in-law...
...In 1944 he became a candidate for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Sen* ate, but was defeated in the primary...
...In 1942 he made arrangements to enter the Marines...
...Wlwensln...
...A woman of tougher moral fibre would have said...
...It was inevitable that he would leave a trail of moral squalor in Wisconsin...
...The defendant . . . chose to defy the rules of ethical conduct prescribed by the constitution, the laws of the state of wisconsin, and the members of the profession, in older to attain a selfish personal advantage...
...The wisdom of these proscriptions was never better illustrated than'in the McCarthy campaign...
...He went in with the understanding that he would get a commission, but for political purposes it was advertised that he joined as a private...
...Roberts was a prominent McCarthy supporter and his attorney, Max Litow, was a contributor to the campaign...
...nanced...
...Listening to their howls of outraged innocence, one would suppose that the associations charged against Kenyon and Jessup were mythical...
...The cases were transferred from other courts into that presided over by McCarthy, the divorces granted two or three days after the complaints ware filed...
...Alger," whose spectacular rise to the top in Wisconsin politics stunned the old LaFollette lair...
...lastly, he seems, willy-nilly, to have picked 1943 to be p. non-resident although he was also out of the state and the country a large part of both 1942 and 1944...
...At the same time he squared accounts with the federal government which had been insisting that he also live up to his obligations as a U.S...
...the divorces were processed by a divorce counsel wrTo also acted as campaign mar.at.ti and money-raiser for joe...
...He had invested some $60,000 in the market and made a killing that netted about $42,000, which he failed to report to Wisconsin tax authorities...
...that it published books and articles by people like James S. Allen, Abraham Chapman, Frederick V. Field, Philip Jaffe, Israel Epstein, to mention oply a few on the crimson roster...
...People who play poker with him and know his affinity for the roulette wheels, will tell you what a reckless plunger he is...
...Sr...
...The Roberts vs...
...Actually both of them, by the record and by their own admissions, have had a peculiar weakness for joining crypto-Communist causes...
...The motives and manners and skills of a Senator are utterly irrelevant to that basic menace...
...Evjue has been responsible for uncovering most of Joe derelictions...
...He undertook the mighty task through a series of accidents and could not have been fully prepared for it...
...It does mean that she is muddled—and muddled in a way useful to the Hiss breed...
...Aa a matter of fact, we have the official word of the Department itself that hundreds of its employes have* been flushed out as security risks...
...It is obvious now that he intends to do the same in the big leagues in Washington...
...Would our "liberals" have been so tolerantly forgiving...
...The Journal believes thai judge mccarthy, whose burning ambition for political advancement is accompanied by an astonlakoskf disregard fee things ethical and traditional...
...At that lime the Communist Party had not yet been labeled subversive either...
...To be more descriptive, the one might be called feudal China, other democratic China...
...Certainly he betrayed strategic linitations in choosing Judge Dorothy Kenyon as his initial exhibit...
...He didn't make that so he shot for a circuit judgeship...
...Communism in America is essentially a fifth column, a conspiracy...
...When he was chosen by Acheson to draft a new policy' for the Far Eastafter the tragic bankruptcy of his old policy—the New York World-Telegram wrote editorially: "Over a period of years, Dr...
...The Commissioners, after careful study, brought action before the Supreme Court asking that McCarthy be disciplined...
...a Wisconsin citizen brought, McCarthy's violations of the ethical code to the attention of the Wisconsin State Board of Bar Commissioners...
...Jessup testified in behalf of Hiss at both trials might mean merely that he is a bad judge of character...
...the Journal said...
...This, of course, does not mean that she is still a fellow-traveler...
...He came to statewide attention when the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1941 publicly spanked him for destroying the records in a case in which he had ruled for two large dairy companies charged with violating state law...
...The plaintiff was represented by the law firm of Kersten and McKinnon, both prominent supporters of McCarthy's senatorial ambitions...
...At the very least they have shown a dangerous inability to recognize camouflaged Communst fronts...
...As recently as January 16 of this year, Mis^ Kenyon, speaking m Troy, N. Y., declared: "Alger Hiss is a perfect example of sacrifice to the hysteria created by the Un-American Activities Committee...
...However, these are only party labels...
...Suppose that Miss Kenyon some years ago had joined the GermanAmerican Bund, the Christian Front and twenty more crypto-Fascist outfits...
...The press and radio, if not public opinions have given this man such a clean bill of health that a closer look at his record is rather shocking...
...The circumstance that Alger Hiss worked and prospered in the Department for more than a decade, in the lace of repeated warnings from outside and inside, tell* a melancholy story...
...Kordas oase was transferred from a Milwaukee circuit and Judge McCarthy signed the decree two days after filing...
...does the collapse of China, -fjj Jargc part engineered by a State De» pai-tment clique that counted, along with Alger Hiss, men like John P Davies, Jr., John Stewart Service, John Carter Vincent, Walton Butterworth, Owen Lattimore,, Philip C. J ess up...
...An examination of their income tax returns (open to public inspection in Wisconsin) showed that none of them had the kind of income that would permit such generous contributions...
...McKinnon was listed as a contributor to the campaign...
...They recall the distressing facts of the Amerasia espionage scandal, still visible through th" coats of whitewash...
...Since . am not a political cretin, I shall not pretend that I was sleepwalking—after all, I had forfeited my amateur standing as an innocent sucker by the time I reached my twentieth Stalinist seduction...
...Unhappily the fact must be—and has been—appraised in relation to a lot of other facta...
...During the campaign it was discovered that Judge McCarthy was making his court a mill for "quickie," out-of-circuit divorces for political friends and their clients...
...He said he thought that ought to be done before Congress took "drastic" steps to settle the strike...
...The good doctor may proclaim his pride in the Institute of Pacific Relations...
...He was exposed for granting "quickie," two-day divorces to his political supporters and their clients during the 1946 campaign which sent him to the Senate In place of Bob LaFollette...
...But because the subversive organizations and causes were Communist, not Fascist, she is allowed to get away with Jher comedy of hurt feelings...
...The Milwaukee JournaT charged that "Wisconsin justice'' is being "used 1'j accommodate political supporters of a presiding judge'' and that wisconsin courts were being used "tn settle political debts...
...would say, etc...
...That luck held good when Senator Joseph McCarthy was cast in the role of Herfules cleaning the Augean stables of the State Department...
...His mistake in supposing that they are friends of Stalin is minor compared to their mistake in supposing that the Communist fronts were liberal parlor games...
...Joe was back in Wisconsin on leave during that campaign...
...This caused the conservative and highly respectable Milwaukee Journal to comment as follows in an editorial: "in the year he made his market killing mccarthy took it on himself to choose that he was not a resident of this state although he had spent his life here, voted here, attended wisconsin schools and entered military service here...
...He believes that if you can sell cigarettes, toothpaste and beer that way, you can sell politicians...
...citizen...
...In these capacities he was in close association with such well-known left-wingers as Anna Louise Strong, Guenther Stein, Harriet Lucy Moore, E. C. Carter, Thomas A. Bisson, Andrew Grajdanzev and Frederick Vanderbitt Field...
...JOE IS a combination of many things, but most of all he is man with ferocious ambition and the guts to gamble everything to satisfy it...
...The notion that Communist fronts were kosher before being officially tagged is fantastic...
...No, the Wisconsin Senator did not pull her name out of a hat • * * NOR JESSUP'S...
...These quotes, she conceded when questioned by Senator . Hickenlooper...
...Jessup's ideological affinities by his tolerance for the partyliners in and around his Institute...
...To the Milwaukee Journal he is "Jumpin' Joe," because of his general public irresponsibility...
...TO JUDGE from the cjtralls McCarthy was pulling names at random out of Who's Who when he named people like Miss Kenyon ana or...
...They And it hard to forget how Bullitt, Berle, Grew and others who took a relatively realistic view of Soviet Russia were driven out by proStalinist elements...
...I am, not asserting that he has ever been a fellow-traveler, nor denying his right to join any organization he pleases...
...In the previous year Joe had cleaned up in the stock market...
...A citizen can't exercise his "right to join" but reject all moral responsibility for what he joins—whether it is the Ku Klux Klan or a Nazi Bund or a Communist Bund...
...roberts case wfv also transferred from Milwaukee and the decree signed in two days...
...The same tireless«*ampaigning that was later to send Bob LaFollette back to private life put him on the bench...
...Communists Lucky To Be Investigated By Dies, McCarthy By FUGENE LYONS Contributing Editor, The New Leader THE LUCK of the Communists put a Martin'TOet^fHHiUNImmn ahrff^ffettWl^ in the chair of the House Committee on Un-American Activities...
...He believes that any publicity is good publicity...
...OBSERVERS IN WASHINGTON with a trained nose for Muscovite aromas have long known that the odor was especially acrid in the State Department...
...in those years, when there was no sudden surge of income from market dealings, he did file a wisconsin income tax return...
...Hot one shred of evidence was introduced that Hiss did what he is said to have done...
...He came back to Wisconsin and attacked William T. Evjue, publisher of the Madison Capital Times as a "pro-Communist...
...To the debutantes of the state he is "Wisconsin's most eligible bachelor," though he has never given very serious attention to any young lady...
...At the same time I submit that those who play with Communist pitch huve no cause to complain if some of it sticks to their record...
...OUT HERE in Wisconsin Sen...
...The Man Behind the State Department Probe: Who Is Joe McCarthy...
...Jessup...
...Its agents and stooges do not carry neon signs announcing their association...
...He finally paid up in July, 1947...
...He disavowed residence even though he was planning then to run for the united stales senate in the 1944 republican primary...
...that the only thing the voters re* member is the name they see in the headlines...
...When he appeared at political rallies in his Marine' unifom, he would cutely explain that military regulations prohibited campaigning in uniform, but "if, I were allowed to talk politics...
...See Jonathan Stout's story on page 3 for more details.—Ed...
...They are certain, as is Joe, that he is someday going to be president...
...Suppose that some Senator had then made this fact public...
Vol. 33 • April 1950 • No. 13
