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...tape-recorded the conversations. Then he told his committee, according to Army officials, "The Army is holding Schine hostage to get me to lay off." Cohn had kept a careful eye open for Army cases. When his bellicose boss renewed his interest in the Army, Cohn handed him the Peress case (see box). McCarthy used it on a recent speaking tour, but it attracted little interest. Then it began to boil up. not because McCarthy discovered anything new. but because others made a series of mistakes...
...Fighting Bob." Army Secretary Stevens wrote McCarthy an appeasing letter which confessed the Army's bungling in the Peress case and pledged correction of the procedures which brought it about. Unappeased, McCarthy .called Brigadier (General Ralph Zwicker, commander of Camp Kilmer, N.J., where Peress had been stationed, to the stand. Zwicker, trying to protect his superiors, gave some answers that were less than candid. McCarthy, lashing out, made the outrageous suggestion that Zwicker, an officer with a line combat record, was "not fit to wear that uniform." Zwicker had been insulted, although not publicly pilloried; the hearing was closed...
...McCarthy. Also present: Dirksen, and later, Potter. Stevens started with a complaint about McCarthy's abuse of Zwicker. Retorted McCarthy: How could the Army explain the court-martialing of "a poor, brainwashed G.I."* in contrast to the honorable discharge it handed to a "Fifth Amendment Communist"−Peress...
...Stevens will order completion of the Army's investigation of the Peress case; make "everyone involved" available as witnesses before McCarthy's committee...
...Mundt and Potter. But the draft asked Joe to do three things he would obviously never consent to: 1) admit that he had abused Zwicker, 2) agree that Stevens had been given assurances of McCarthy's future good conduct, and 3) hint that calling Army officers in the Peress case might not be necessary...