1952-11-01 — Page 5

AN ISM CALLED SENATOR JOE

By R. M. MacCOLL

Washington.

WHAT an extraordinary VV fellow this: Joo Mc- Carthy fatho Sinator-who at 48 is one of the stormiest petrels even stormy America has ever seen!'

His fascinating story has just been told by two news paper reporters, Jack Ander- Ron and Donald May, in a book called "McCarthy The Man--the Senator-The Iam."

A restless and highly atrung bachelor, with great muscular strength, tremend-j ous vitality and unexpected shyness in the presence of small groups of strangers, McCarthy has, bullied his way into national promír- ence, crowding. headlines- and the admiration and hatred, about equally balanc-| ed, of 156 million Americans,

PRIVATE SPIES

IT is as the unrelenting denouncer of Communists that McCarthy is best known..

So much so that other and strange facets of the McCarthy story lead to become, foigutter.

What, for example, could be more weird than the case of McCarthy's private spy system?

SENATOR MCCANTITY

At the time he had a troupe of 16. "special agents" working for him in various parts lets to world, busily digging up facts enable him to make new accusa- tions of pro-Communism.,

in Switzerland one of his informants, a young Negro named Chacles, Davis, got into consider able trouble. He wound up with eight months in gaol and was then deported by the Swiss authorities for having tried to compromise the American Minis ter to Switzerland with a fake telegram making it appear as if the Minister were himself; a

Communist.

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ONE MAN'S BIRTHDAY

Could it mean a new era in our diplomacy?

I HOPE SO

by 'JUNIUS'

*REDEN must ·Before waiving the " tako, some quick Sixty Rule for Sir decisions,

William.I advise "Mr.

M

On present Eden. to consider some

form mistakes are rolling of the highlights of

I

Maybe it was bad luck on

man's shoes. But worse was to follow.

A year later Chamberlain and Hallfax selected Strang to go to Moscow and negotiate a defence treaty with Russia, which might have stopped Hitler's plan of aggression.

in June

1930

4

"From a room

in the Foreign Office.

... Sår William Strang

The other members were' Mr Winant, the American Ambas- sador in London, and M. Gusev. the Soviet 'Ambasındor. Winant was emotional, talkative, an Idealist. Gusev was more silent even than Strang. He had been on offer of the Soviet State polico bofore becoming 1 diplomat.

All through 1944, year of victories, these three sat in Lancaster House, at the head of The Mall, in Londen, carving up the map of Europe, shifting paper, millions of people westwards; and drafting sur- render agreements.

on

POWDER-BARREL

THEY drew up the nightmare scheme that has today. put British and American troops in Berlin at the far end of 100 -miles of Soviet-controlled. rall-

and roads.

Strong and Winant forgot to arrange that the Western Allies should have 'a' right i of way 'through the Soviet zone to

Berlin.

Chester Struggle

For

has

Wiimot, in "The Europe," suggested that it was partly due to American failure to capture Berlin that Russia has expanded her power in Europe so success- fully.

But in fact the p

powder-barrel needed. Impatient men begged legacy of the Berlin enclave was for posts as for from London the work of Foreign Office and as 'possible.

State Department experts.

Later, when the. Russians

:

Tremendous desk stamina was

Once

there?

had we taken

ОУСГ Д

out from the Foreign Office British foreign policy in the Strang having to fill a big as fast as they did when past 15 years. Among them Mr Herbert Morrison was were: Foreign Secretary. Black- The 1988 Munich crimin mail in Persia, anubs in the

The 1989 Masoow flasco. The 1944 pesce

frontiers Pacific, hollow explanations nmddle. about Herr Krupp, the kow- The 1951 Persian scuttle. tow to Japan!”

Thu 1952 Pucillo wiron Sir William had the mis- How is it that when the fortune

At Moscow to be personally Government changes the associated with the first Strang had to deal with Molotov. Strangstuck it out, and in blockaded Berlin, and we woke

who was already being tempted 1942 became head. of the blunders go on just the three of these episodes.

up to

to the danger, angry questions by Hitler and Ribbentrop to Northern Department, dealing were asked in the House of same? Largely because the How did Strang rise to make an alliance with Germany. with Rusalan affaire..

Once Commons, senior officials of the figure in affairs of this At that moment Russia was more he was in a key position.

scared of attack by Hiler.

Why He absorbed statistics about commitment in Berlin without Foreign Office continue to nature?

Molotov : proposed a defence make policy whichever The son of + Government is in power.

Scottish ine-up of Russia with all East Russia. He became The Expert ensuring a right of way to get farmer he was a scholarship European States.

on Russin, Frist in and last to

Generals blamed themselves These men

leave the office, he rarely re publicly for not getting a tran- more boy with a first-rate exam- are powerful than most Cabinet paper mind. He did so well

“A CLERK' laxed, except to garden at his sit agreement in writing carly

suburban home. Ministers.

at Palmer's Grammar

on. They need not have; apolo- CITRANG, belleving that, this School, Essex, and London would offend Germany and Foreign

There was, grumbling in the 'gised.

The 'omission was that of the. that the old University that in 1919 he alarm neutral States, argued service was splitting into two defunct European Advisory

camps-the Gentlemen and the Commission, passed high into the Foreign against it.

Weeks Office.

of delay followed. Players. formation to Senator McCarthy, the past five years has

Lloyd George, chafing in retiro-

TOP-HEAVY Then he jumped into ment, growled that we had sent Davis was acting in the interests been Sir William Strang. He eminence very quickly. In "a Foreign Office clerk to ne- the distant posts, of a foreign intelligence service.

MEANWHILE a new Fer McCarthy, representative of is practically unknown to 1938 Vansittart was moved gotiate with the most powerful staying at the centre.

manent Chief of the Foreign the Opposition in the American the man in the street. Ап

Office was wanted, and what Senate, seoks to collect informa-

from the post of Permanent military. slow with which to confound the top official in the Foreign Chief. Neville Chamberlain, over a

world. He has been in Moscow

choice more obvious than Bir. William Strang? Truman Administration

None

know better how establish a connivance between foreign policy run into his who rather fancied himself about minor details."

manage. as a foreign affairs expert,

the .new the diplomatie and consular corps hands. The advice he gives.

top-heavy Then' Ribbentrop turned up in he knew little Moscow and signed an agree-

machinery of the Foreign Office. of his country and the Com-

although is the advice of The Depart about munist world"

But Strang had sat too long at the world outsido ment in a matter of hours. The McCARTHYISM

the centre himself. Iment. He wields tremendous

advice British mission had to go home. OOL-HEADED, Britain, found his is McCarthyism? It was, influence.

frosty-eyed,

Under the regime he personi defined by General Contad

During the war big changes unacceptable.''

Strong tolled on and sald fles, the Foreign Office has re- took place in the Foreign Office. nothing. He had no elegant peatedly been overtaken by It absorbed the Department of folble such as Vansittart's ver- events. It is no Overseas Trade and the Con- sifying.

D Registry-General of Foreign Affairs.

Has Mr Eden the foresight, the energy and the determina- and indecision? Hon to. break down bureaucracy. Can be restore strength and wisdom to this unhappy de- Sir partment?

UNKNOWN indictment: "In supplying in- PERMANENT Chief for

Said the court, in a blistering

WHAT

and Service all the threads of

Sir William, now at the Snow, head of the State Depart-aummit of an extraordinary ment's Loyalty and Security Board, in a furious exchange diplomatic career, will be 60 during a Senate committee hear in January.

atatements not based on fact."

a word, ut is or, issue which

BAD LUCK

Government in the

month

chattering

The Gentlemen were going to the Players

1

In both camps the betting was high that Strang, leading. Player, would become Perma- nent Chief of the Foreign Office;

FATEFUL JOB

than

to

more today

Under the CHAMBERLAIN, although sular Service, merging them He had no personal policy and

he gavo Vansittart the with the diplomatic to make one no passionate convictions. ing, as "the making of publie "Sixty Rule" he should then title of Diplomatic Advirer much enlarged Foreign Service,

He was simply an admirable But McCarthyism is more than retire.

The staff of 1,500, in which a civil servant, rapidly adapting to the Cabinet, began to assumed huge political propor- But Mr Churchill often rely more on the opinions of few men had taken the decisions himself to a changing world and

before the war, was increased to dealing in fileted diplomacy. Alons in 1952, and the presidential waives the rule to keep his Sir Horace Wilson, head of its present total of 11,000.

Knighted in 1943 contenders had to face up to The Senator from Wisconsin Is team of advisers together. the Treasury. But from the Nobody took decisions any Willam took, on the most To do so he must sweep out And Mr. Eden may wish Foreign Office it was Strong more. Stacks of telegrams fateful job since. he had flown to the present. regime, and choose. to keep Strang, the elec- he took with him to Bad daily, and baskets of circulating Moscow in 1939. That bawiing, brawling voice tronic brain of the Foreign Godesberg and Munich on documents made it obvious that pointed British member of the polley of Britain,

paper work was replacing the three-Power European Advisory Office, by his side. --

the appeasement mission. old style' of diplomacy.'

Commission.

not the sort of man you can ignore.

will rise more and more often In the counsels at America.

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