Show r i R 1 M i rs i t I li I LAST T AST week week the background of the Harry Dexter White case was discussed In this column Attorney Attorney At At- Attorney torney General Herbert Brownell charged that the Truman administration was Will lax In its handling tot of the case ease and Implied that the former Presidents President's actions w were re barm harmful to the security of or the Unit United ct States At AI this Ws point the House Un Un- American Activities Committee entered entered en en- the picture by subpoenaing Mr Truman to answer charges before It that he had been lax in his handling the case Mr Truman accepted the subpoena but later refused to honor It on the tha grounds U tt would shatter the constitutional of 01 presidential Independence ence of ot Congress Up until this point Attorney Gen era eral Brownell had been telling his I tide side of ot the controversy that Is ls that White was a Communist spy and the Truman administration kept him In office oilier even Iven when hU hll officials knew of his hil Whites White's Communist activities Then Mr Truman made a It radio and television speech that has hu been termed one of ot the most bitter in tn the history of American politics jn in which he be told his side lid of the story Truman claimed Whit Whitt was Wal kept in the government to further aid an F. F P A. nl I investigation o o White and s I number of ot other persons under suspicion lon at It that time tImo He lie told of 01 talks alks be between high govern overn meet meat officials concerning the tho case cafe and said the tho final anal decision was his own A discussion of this case about which volumes have bave already been written could go CO on forever Who Vho was right and who was wrong Who has won the battle of ot words Not even the most ardent Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- crate will deny that their party has hu not emerged unscathed from the argument But Dut on the other hand many Republicans believe that Brownell weakened his cause when his charge against Truman was ultimately limited to laxity Instead of ot betrayal as was so I strongly hinted in hi the beginning One Republican observer has said that Brownell made the wrong charge at the wrong place at the wrong time Those observers who have looked as 81 objectively at the case as 81 is e possible under WIder the circumstances believe that no one has aa won And Aid d they add the American people have lost The wll wild 1 charges of one side the wilder charges on the other the hysterical cries of politicians at t all levels of government have convinced most Europeans including including ing In those friendly to the United States Statu that Americans have havo gone one crazy And the tho average American on the Main Streets of ot the nation Is I. isso so 10 disgusted with the tho exhibition that he U is ready to wipe off the tho whole thIn thing as 11 just ut politics It seems lOero that tha t no one ono has bas won and aDd the tho American p people opU have suffered |