McCarthy's New List

William Benton's earnest demand that Joe McCarthy be expelled forthwith from the Senate (TIME, Aug. 13) had little effect last week on Joe. All he was going to do about that, Joe cracked, was what "you would do if picking geese were yapping at your heels." Joe went right on throwing rocks at the State Department.

Last week he offered to name a list of State officials and underlings who, he charged, were even now being investigated for loyalty. Would he name them off the Senate floor, where he would not have congressional immunity? Sure he would, he told a group of Washington newspapermen, if they would guarantee in advance to print the list--not part of it, but every word of it. "I assume that 20 would sue for libel," Joe said jauntily. "You could win of course, but the costs might first be a couple of $100,000s. I'd be sued too, but I'm willing to take the chance." The newsmen declined. Then Joe, as he has before, read his list from the sanctuary of the Senate floor. He named 26, several of them old McCarthy targets, one of them Ambassador at Large Philip Jessup--"the prize of them all," McCarthy rasped.

The State Department said that one of McCarthy's 26 never worked there. Some have quit, 14 were cleared by State's loyalty board, the rest are "in process through the loyalty program."

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