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...President declined to back a proposal made by California's Senator Bill Knowland to name Russia as an aggressor in Korea. When a reporter mentioned Joe McCarthy's opposition to Charles ("Chip") Bohlen as ambassador to Moscow, Eisenhower backed Bohlen's nomination. He went on record against New York's Daniel Reed on a tax cut, and against Senator John W. Bricker's proposed constitutional amendment to limit the treatymaking power...
...first stages of the fight against Charles E. Bohlen's confirmation as Ambassador to Russia were based on Bohlen's political background. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy and Nevada's Pat McCarran said that they were against Bohlen because he was part & parcel of the Roosevelt-Truman-Acheson foreign policy. Last week the battleground suddenly shifted from policy to what Joe McCarthy called "security...
...objections to Bohlen were not made public. Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter F. George, defending Bohlen, said that the charges were based on an FBI investigation of Bohlen which included an anonymous letter, rumors, and hearsay reports that Bohlen had associated in the past with some "dissolute persons." One day last week, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent three hours before the Foreign Relations Committee discussing the new charges in secret. After the long session ended, a reassured committee resoundingly (15-0) approved "Chip" Bohlen...
Acid & Orders. Senators Bridges, McCarthy and McCarran were refueled rather than reassured. Democrat McCarran charged that Dulles had cleared Bohlen despite objections by Robert Walter Scott McLeod, the State Department's chief security officer, who used to be Styles Bridges' administrative assistant. The case, said McCarran, was the "acid test" of whether the new State Department is any different from...
With Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Alexander Wiley at his elbow, Foster Dulles called in the press and flatly denied what McCarran said. The FBI report on Bohlen, said Dulles, contained entirely unsubstantiated rumors. (The FBI, following its longtime practice, did not evaluate the material in its report.) McLeod (who fired 24 homosexuals in his first three weeks on the job) had called the FBI material to Dulles' attention, but McLeod had not evaluated it. So, said Dulles, there were no differences between him and McLeod. Dulles' own evaluation of the derogatory material: "There is not a whisper...