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...never won office again, but as a party district leader dutifully rang doorbells in G.O.P. campaigns. Last year Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson called him to fill the Pentagon's top legal spot as general counsel. Brucker was questioned by Senator Joe McCarthy last March about the frayed old Peress case. When McCarthy, reaching for publicity, accused the President of creating a "conspiracy" of silence, Brucker burst out laughing. "It's not funny," growled Joe. When McCarthy asked military witnesses loaded questions, Brucker interrupted crisply: "Now wait; don't answer that. There are three or four questions...
...Planned, in the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, to reopen the case of ex-Army Dentist Irving Peress, the chief bone of contention in last year's Army-McCarthy hearings...
McCarthy began the week by summoning Utah's Arthur Watkins to appear before the Permanent Investigating Subcommittee. (Among the handful of spectators in the hearing room were Five-Percenter John Maragon. a strong McCarthyite, and Professional Demagogue from Army Secretary Robert Stevens, naming 30 officers involved in the Peress case. Scoffed Joe: "I am afraid we are wasting the time of the Senate if that is all the information you have." Said Watkins: "I do not believe you could ever be satisfied unless you can find somebody that ought to be shot or hung...
...Watkins committee member. Case (who is up for re-election in 1956 in a state where McCarthy has powerful political friends) had suddenly changed his mind about censuring Joe for abusing Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker. Case said he had just learned that the Army had honorably discharged Irving Peress the day after receiving a warning letter from McCarthy. Case's switch came despite the fact that the Peress chronology had been public knowledge for months (TIME, March 8). And Case himself had written the part of the censure resolution that referred to treatment of Zwicker...
Reviewing the case of Major Irving Peress, Welch raked McCarthy, saying, "All he did was wave a bloody shirt." He emphasized that there was no law to prevent Peress from getting an honorable discharge at the time he received it. Concluding, Welch refused to discuss the Watkins' committee hearings. "I'll let it speak for itself," he said...