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Senator Karl Mundt (R-S. Dak.) and John T. Flynn, once chairman of the America First Committee, have both agreed to speak at the University early this winter under the sponsorship of the Harvard Conservative Club, its president, David B. Cole '55 said yesterday...
...liberal record, particularly on issues of foreign policy, welfare and civil rights. But it is far from "left-wing," as his votes on two key issues indicate: he voted for the Taft-Hartley law; he voted against the Brannan Plan. In 1948 he helped Richard Nixon draft the Mundt-Nixon subversives-control bill. The Case record does not follow any party line; it follows the conscience of thinking, independent, careful Clifford Case...
...public has noted several styles in Senate committee chairmen, from the forceful intelligence with which Georgia's Richard Russell conducted the MacArthur hearings to the good-natured bumbling of Karl Mundt at the Army-McCarthy hearings. Last week came a chairman with a different style. Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins, 67, began presiding over the special Senate committee on whether to recommend censure of Senator Joe McCarthy. He was quiet, polite, clearheaded-and very stubborn when pushed...
This week, after a brief vacation at a La Jolla, Calif, resort (where his visit coincided, as it did last year, with that of J. Edgar Hoover), Joe McCarthy returned to Washington to face the Watkins investigation of his past deeds, and to hear the Mundt committee's verdict on his scrap with the Army. The verdict was not clear...
...Mundt committee's seven Senators had agonized day after day over shadings of opinions. In the end they settled on two reports: a majority report, signed by the four Republicans, a minority report, signed by the three Democrats. The two reports differed somewhat in appraising the behavior of Army Secretary Robert Stevens and Counselor John Adams. And while the Democrats rapped McCarthy, the Republicans merely chid...