Hearst Editorial

Into Hearst's New York Journal-American and out to the 16-paper Hearst chain last week went an editorial reappraisal of Senator Joe McCarthy titled "Joe's Slip." Said the editorial: "The Hearst newspapers invariably have supported Senator Joseph McCarthy, the hard-swinging Wisconsin Republican, in his campaign to force Communists and their fellow travelers from positions of authority in the State Department.

"Right now, however, we're at a loss to discover why Senator McCarthy chose to make an issue of the nomination of Charles ('Chip') Bohlen as President Eisenhower's --and the country's--ambassador to Soviet Russia. The fact that Senator McCarthy thinks other people are more qualified is not relevant. The fact is that President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles tapped Bohlen for the job because they thought he was the best-equipped candidate they could find. Joe McCarthy has performed herculean service in the campaign to root subversives from the fabric of American Government. But he has not been alone in this challenging task. People like Bob Taft of Ohio and Bill Knowland of California and Homer Ferguson of Michigan trained their sights on the Communist menace long before . . .

"And we can be sure that Senators Taft, Knowland and Ferguson would have hardly stood still for the Bohlen appointment if they had not convinced themselves that President Eisenhower's choice was far from being a security risk. Matter of fact, McCarthy now concedes that Chip Bohlen is not a 'security risk.' Senator McCarthy, if we read him aright, now bases his opposition on darker, more sinister innuendoes usually associated with Communist smear campaigns, such as the one organized . . . to discredit Whittaker Chambers' testimony against Alger Hiss . . .

"We've had enough of this kind of malicious mischief in American life."

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