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HE NEEDED AN ISSUE.

NOW THE WITCH HUNTER IS HUNTED.....AND HERE IS THE EVIDENCE

WHICH BLOWs '

OFF

THE LID

McCARTHY

BURIED TREASURE ON

EVEREST

HE main

HOW facing John Hunt, of the British Expedition, is transport.

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problem through the telescope I managed that from the South Colonel to sec

Summit to the top of Everest leader there is a long wall with Everest slope down from the South Summit, and then up to the top. Perhaps the British team will a way round be able to find this wall.

Before he can attempt the final assault on Everest he must have all the neces- sary material and oxygen carried

his up to camp,

last

This problem is enor- mous if you want to equip this camp for four men who must pass the night there safely:

It is necessary

to have two tents weighing rough- ly 24lb., bedding and sleep- ing bags (16lb.) spirit lamps and food (10lb.), and the all-imports it cylinders of oxygen (72b).

If not, and they are forced to climb the wall, this will very their remaining

likely strength.

sap

do Or worse silli, if they

of Everest reach the summit they will be in danger of not

SECOND OF AN

EXCLUSIVE SERIES

ON THE ROOF OF

THE WORLD BY

And this oxygen will be RAYMOND

sufficient

for two men for

only 12 hours. ·

be

It will necessary to

absolutely have four

S

By Terence Feely

The case of

Edward described

A measure of

Counter- He set up his own ENATOR JOE Mc- fire a month later in Wheeling.

spy agency. It has been irre Posniak - as CARTHY, the man West Virginia.

"I have here in my hand," he verently and deliciously de this book-is who sees a Red under sald in a speech, "a list of scribed by the Alsop brothers the lengths to which McCarthy every bed and sub- 205 .ast of names that in the "Saturday. Evening can go, Ills whole case against version round every corner, known to the Secretary of State Post": inst week loosed a broadside as being members of the Com. munist Parly and who never- at Britain.

theless Are still working and shaping policy in the State De-

He shouted for the sink ing of British ships, told Britain she could "be damn ed." and tried to smear Mr Attlee as a Communist.

fortunately, He is not,

the voice of America. But he is a power in the land, a thorn in “Uncle Sam's" fitsh"."

And, by coincidence, Britain receives this week the result of an investigation of the Senator by two U.S. Journelists which tates him apart at the seams Some vicious stuffing falls out. Here, for instance, is some Idea of how McCarthyism start-

partment.

He had no it. The next day, in Denver, the 205 Com- munists became 205 "bad secur- ity risks." And on the follow- ing day, at Salt Lake City, they had been mysteriously trans- muted into "57 card-carrying Communists."

Called to

account in the Senate, his case finally frittered down to "three big Communists involved."

Trapped on the witness stand of a Slate committee and pro- teeted from llbel proceedings by senatorial Immunity, McCarthy fred a reckless salvo of names, The majority of these named did not even work in the State Department. He produced no proof.

Owen

It Was January 7. 1950. Senator Joe McCarthy was re- Jaxing with three friends after dinner at Washington's plush

He was But

one, Professor Colony Restaurant. worried.

He had rough-housed Lattimore, rushed into battle to And McCarthy his way from the backwoods of defend himself. Wisconsin Into the United States had discovered a trick which Sonate. But his political for

was to save him again and again. tunes were ebbing. He badly He had drawn a false lure across needed an issue on which to the drail, which was to give him base his re-election campaign. time to think.

"How about pushing harder for the St Lawrence seaway?" suggested one companion.

McCarthy shook

his head: That hasn't enough sex," he said. "No one gets excited about it."

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"How about Communism an issue?" said another. -And-just-like that, the shambl

ing. barrel-chested Irishman with the trembling, hend de- elded, in the couse of self-

advancement, that the Govern- ment was riddled with Reds.

His performance from then on, as the authors describe it, was almost naive in Its bad faith and lack of scruple. He opened

"McCarthy, The LAMBERT

Europeans und sufficient Swiss mountaineer who

Sherpuporters 29

material

up from

27.660ft.

this has got nearest to the taken must be

25,850ft. to

summit

then

The

getting down to the last camp, most satisfactory

down after coming because decision Colonel Hunt can from the top they must

to reach take, from my experience start climbing again of this mountain, is to have the top of the South Summit

before descending to the two teams.

exmp.

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Jaat

Everything now depends on Colonel Hunt's next moves.

LAST CAMP

He must decide what they THE first, of four men

for at nine will be immediately, Sherpas, will take up the these heights the human body

deteriorates rapidly, material to the last camp--a at 27,500ft.

and eight or

If any of these men feel sufficiently fit to try to reach the summit of Everest after the camp is installed at this altitude, well, let them have a go. I very much doubt whether they will feel like it, but two chances are better than pac.

The more hours he has to walt the less chance he has of having his men in good enough con- dition to make the assault get back after the assault.

or

The monsoon period is rapid- ly approaching. The seracs, or Jce fails, and crevasses changing dally,

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me

In his last letter to The second team can start out two days later from Camp 5 at Colonel Hunt sald they had to tree with two bridges build carrying with them trunks to get over 22,040 ft

Iwa hugo enly their oxygen equipment revasses, They will find

Intermediate Camp 0 installed, then Caunp 7,

Men, The Senator, The jam"," by Jack Ander son and Ronald W. May. Published by Gollanes (184,).

of

the

on

A

State Department) I'would to find stand "A visitor is likely

fall, he said, whom with ils

he was sure heavy Posniak. (McCarthy)

was a Communist. The evidence shoulders hunched forward,

In his huge hands, fell down, whereupon Me- telephone

houting cryptic Instructions to Carthy bounced

up with zone mysterious olly.

"secret F.B.. report" showing. "Yeah, yeah, I can listen but Posnlak was n Red agent.

can't talk. Get me?

The F.B.I. showed the docu- ment to be a blatant forgery. McCarthy WAB not prose cuted

because, Bald the Attorney-General,

"We don't want to make a martyr out of him."

I

You

POCKET CARTOON 'by OSBERT LANCASTER

"I know I've always told everyone that Attlee's a Red but that doesn't give any tuppeny-ha'penny Senator, the right to

say wall

י!

For other reasons, more mysterious, McCarthy has got away with doubtful practices more damning than anything be has ever jovelied against an op- ponent. His "Quickie" divorces, for instance, arranged. for the benefit of political friends when McCarthy was a Wisconsinį judgu with eyes on the Senate, CM

In one instance, he opened a cane while walking up the court- house steps. Here is tho description:

"Are you the lawyer for the plainuff" he naked a lawyer striding beside him.

"Yes,"

"And are you, the lawyer, for the respondent?"

"Yes."

"Are these stipulations cor-

He had also leaped into the headlines in every paper in the country. This had two advant- ages for him. It gave him the publicity he craved and it gave him first blood in the eyes

of really got the goods on the

"]S public. McCarthy knew guy? The Senator glances up the

to note the effect of this drama that the Impression made by a

onslaught could en his visitor. "Yeah? Well, I front-page never be

be wiped out by a back- tell you.. Just mention this sort page denial.

-OL casual to Number One, and The authors reveal how, get his reaction. Okay? Okay,

McCarthy-unable I'll contact you later." meanwhile,

rect?"

"Yes,"

there anything anyone wants to say

bofora wo proceed?"

"No"

Within two minutes it was all

over,

"I don't feel; divorced," said the woman.

ot The investigators state that

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He

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to produce one shred of proot-I would find this kind to support his charges dug up second-hand Hollywood-thriller McCarthy made political capital records of old screening in buffoonery funny if it were not over out of his war service,

for of for the fact that with its ald "BcCarthy

Senator he vestigations at the Library Congress,

has made himself plastered across his test. Bexes, McCarthy changed

them the most feared mon In his returned from thecine, names, ages and served

imping and with a ellation, from up to the Senate as sizzling hot country.

And his power seems to lie Admiral Nimitz, which said that revelations uncovered own investigators. While the in his utter irresponsibility. He although wounded in the leg, Senate got increasingly baffled, does not appear

to care what McCarthy carried on his duties. splashed McCarthy damage he does the Press

But to statesmen.

the book gives this neross their front pages and friends, his own country oven, version.. McCarthy received

to swallow the country began

so long as Joe McCarthy is the "wound" sky-larking In the Big Lie.

rame in the land.

crossing-the-line ceremony.

by

盘

LETTER-TO-AMERICA FROM HOME.

Come on Over

and Join the

DON

IDDON

Je 201

McC. Fun

London, Tuesday, anger of the crowd, he would AM writing this to probably not be lodged in a cell..

The British are in fine humour in the my friends

and look fitter, better dressed, United States: This is and more prosperous than at any a poor time for atime since before the war.. There

between

hope, con- the is a resurgence of wrangle British and the Americans. fidence, and strength. And, more

takes time out from a is wonderful than that, there No one here is in the mood unity and a bounding nation-

allam, for a quarrel,

to recovery diligence..

ond

ORANGEL

I

There are no Jitters here. asked a friend:

"Do you havo

air-raid rehearsals in London?

don't

I don see any shelter signia and

I haven't heard an alrirald. since I leit New giren "My dear fellow. He said: holiday in England Air-rald rehearsals? Good lord,

write from on unfamiliar dateline

to

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not"

I should tell you there is far less apprehension about war with Russla here than in America” and there is absolutely no "preventivo them have told me: "McCarthy's wor" talk as there in dome becoming embarrassing. He circles in the United Stald might have walled until after

This is peate the Coronation."

ATMAZ

Union Jacks Butter from the London and the rest of the roofs of the taxis and the motor- country are getting dressed up cars, and everyone feels pretty for the Coronation. There are good to be living here at such a banners of blue and gold and time as this.

The McCarthy abuse of Mr scarlet on the newly scrubbed Crowns and trumpets bulldings.

Street. Bond

In Clement Attlee did not go down decorate

I am not worried about the T Regent Street there are a thou- well here, but the American

spat-there have sand pink roses and The Mali is apologies did. Mr Attlee was Transatlantic bright with the Coronation back- blunt in his views on the Unley been so many of them and some- MY first night in England I but they are shared by how we seem to endure. States, drop.

Including some millions here, The stands are going up along deep-dyed Tories. the royal route and the capital

some Americans are There has been a vast improve- WHEN he comes down again gay and buoyant, crowded with feel that This two-leam method is one he will probably have to visitors. The people are pouring behaving in a row, crude, and ment, You can get anything you where in the world,"and"I Would

and all the material necessary for the final assault ready for them at Camp 8, the final camp.

last camp at 27,580 ft..

RIGHT MAN

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in from the

free and happy.

How are things The British

Embarrassed

spent in the country at

in Britain? Chiddingfold, in Surrey.There no loveller countryside any-

more

В price. The only give a lot to have house like the one my host badli ne- solution that, I think, offers

seven bridges DB the

provinces and the adolescent fashion, and although want-at scrlous chances of success. Tno build

Even so, prices of food in the quired, allowances for youth, they do not

He took me-to-The Grown ferond Swiss expedition tried crevasses have already changed Continent and they look care- they are always willing to make shortage seems to be money.

are about half of like tantrums and offensive be- restaurants It last

but autumn,

failed form.

This is not the setting for a

those in New York. It is possible for dinner, and as we sipped ale because of violent winds and

haviour. And it must be remembered

squabble with Senator Joseph

to get an occasional steak and in front of the replies the excessively low temperature,

that the tree trunks necessary McCarthy, although he has been

all the fish and fowl you want, old inn, he said: 'I don't think for building these bridges

capturing the headlines here and

and the food, particularly the the psychiatrists would douch cannot be found on the spot. THE SUMMIT

flavour business here.HIGH TAMI the most-discussed

vegetables, has Is probably

The Americans who are hero than the American.

for the Coronation are im They have to, he brought up American in Britain.

Smce I I arrived here I have DRITISHI manners are by any

pressed as I am WWE left at 20,570 ft. the under the most difficult cond

byfiche, strides cylinders of oxygen,

to questioning, standard superb. It is taking

forward Britain has taken.. Some Great come-back tions from the forest thousands been subjected

haven't been here for three or quantity necessary for a serious of feet below. They are brought "What dort of a man is this me some time to get used to all and attempt to reach the top of the

McCarthy? Is he sincere or just the "thank you's, the please's

four years. They a adyYou have world for 'two men leaving the up on the backs of the porters playing for power? Has he a the pardon mo's," I am accus-

DRITAIN and the British are to rub your dych there's been Food, bedding, and tents chance to become President of tomed to New York wallers who, BRIT

even in the best cating places, no longer shabby in ap such a transformation. brouziri up the United States?" have also to be

the beef?" of pearance. There has been a These cylinders of oxygen for these porters. So you seo it

say: "Who gets

An invitation have been hidden 984 ft. below becomes a vicious circle in the

"Wanna 'nother cocktail?" The prodigious cleaning up painting, Not impressed

British this vast camp.

believe in the little polishing, scrubbing, and scout- end.

-ing. You have to look hard to courtestes. Such plans can never be

You must not imagine that see the ravages of the bombing. INCIDENTALLY, 116 Amrican you the British are not beforehand. established

The I

which can The come-back is impressive, correspondenta hère en fover the crowning of the Queeri toll the apathy and, Impressed by the McCarthy there. Ja anything must be made on the spot and

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enll-American and without loss of time.

no truly be called. performarice. There

American Servicemen laziness, which were apparent me the Duke of Norfolk's office is in Britain, no feeling.

no stuffy climate of fear

no in- did magnificent work during the after the war, and even one or very co-operative

two years ago, hayo vanished, are not floods, and the British The assault team may only But I am sure that Colonel fever for investigating,

I am here for a holiday and outs, without which be able to reach, the South Sum- Hunt is the right man in the clination for the smear.

maz could get up at the people to forget visitors, al- have not done much digging or reporter would the hit pp. mit, or what the Swiss expedi- right place, and will not waver

Senator MBCnruly, "you tion called the "consolation when such decisions have to be Speakers Corner in Hyde Park

taken, for he knows, as well as and announce that he was against though they look a liters out questioning, but you don't need Life in London is alesant and summit."

I do, that any wavering now the Coronation, and although ha landish so far away from Main lo be a newspaperman to know guy.

are popular and they that the Conservatives are altting really, should come over for the be bustled off by 'tho Street, No human being his ever can only spell failure and,might

police to protect him from the make friends easily. Some of pretty and guiding the country Corosiation. theno heights, but perhaps, disaster.

The photograph and plan of the exact spot have been given to Colonel Hunt so that he can find them easily, and I hope he will be able to use them.

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