Show SPY HUNT No Witches There was to be no witches witches- no whitewash in 10 the senate foreign foreign for for- eign r reI relations e l a t i Ion o n s subcommittees subcommittee's probe of at alleged infiltration of Communists Into the US U.S. state de de- That's what Sen Millard Tydings D. D Md said of ot the investigation when he was named chairman of the committee which was to conduct conduct conduct con con- duct it H. TilE THE NAMING of the committee stemmed from charges by Sen Joseph R. R McCarthy m R. R Wis that an named un-named group of Communists hold hold hold- or have held high held high state department department de de- posts But McCarthy rather put the committee on the spot at the start when he said that if It President Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man persists in his refusal to make state department employee loyalty files fUes available ble an investigation would be useless Mr Truman has so persisted and declared he would ignore the senates senate's action in granting subpoena rights to the committee Indications were that a D court test of the Presidents President's position was in 10 the making if the committee chose to use its subpoena rights and called upon the President to deliver the wanted records TYDINGS DECLINED to pass on this issue at the outset and nd said instead that he expected a full fair and complete investigation of McCarthys McCarthy's charges We will let the chips fall where they may be he said anid and this will willbe be neither a witch-hunt witch nor a whitewash Th The senators a senators senator's intentions no doubt were were good good but but there might I be little to worry worry about where the i chips would fall so 0 long as Mr Truman declined to pass the committee committee corne com com- the axe they needed |