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Needed: a Referee. The Schine case had clearly forced the issue of who was lying, McCarthy or Army Secretary Robert Stevens. McCarthy denied that he and his 27-year-old counsel, Roy Cohn, had demanded special treatment and numerous petty favors for Draftee Schine. He lashed back with desperate countercharges, e.g., the Army was using Schine as a "hostage" to "blackmail" him and, to take the heat off itself, had offered tips on "dirt" in the other services. Stevens denied the countercharges...
...committee decided to settle the controversy by investigating I) the Army's investigation of Roy Conn's activities on behalf of Schine, and 2) McCarthy's countercharges. McCarthy stepped down as chairman, freely admitting that he had "prejudged" the case since he had questioned Cohn and was "fully satisfied" that no "unfair influence" had been used. South Dakota's amiable, rotund Karl Mundt reluctantly accepted an "unwelcome promotion" to the chair after failing to persuade the Armed Services Committee that it should arbitrate the incendiary political dilemma...
Mundt's inquiry, the committee decided, will be "to the exclusion of all other hearings," i.e., McCarthy may not begin new probes until the committee has finished scrutinizing his own activities. Senator McCarthy, declining to disqualify himself completely, will continue as a committee member; and Counsel Cohn, though removed from any part in the proceedings except as a witness, will continue on the committee's payroll...
Senator McCarthy pointed out that the Army was walking into a long-range fight with Mr. Cohn and that even if Mr. Cohn resigned or was fired from the committee staff, he would carry on his campaign against the Army from outside Washington...
When Committee Counsel Roy Cohn insisted that there was secret evidence, which he could not produce, that Mrs. Moss was a Communist, Arkansas Democratic Senator John L. McClellan bitterly decried "convicting people by rumor and hearsay and innuendo." When Mrs. Moss admitted that she knew a Negro named "Rob Hall" (whom Cohn identified by name as a representative of the Communist Daily Worker), a reporter reminded Democratic members in a whisper that the Worker's Hall (its longtime Washington correspondent) is a white man. Cohn blandly promised to "check" the discrepancy...