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Balding General Reber told of the efforts to wangle a direct commission for Schine, beginning with a call from McCarthy's office last July 8 and continuing with as many as two or three calls a day from Cohn until the end of the month. Although he did not feel he had been high-pressured by Senator McCarthy, the general was of different mind about Roy Cohn. Said he: in his ten years as the Army's legislative liaison man, he could recall "no instance under which I was put under greater pressure...
...Have a Right to Object." In crossexamination, McCarthy bided his time, feeling his way. Then, with ten minutes to go before the lunchtime recess, he pounced, not on the witness but on Samuel Reber, the general's brother and former Deputy U.S. High Commissioner in Germany. Joe wanted to know if General Reber was aware that his brother "repeatedly had attacked" Cohn and Schine and had them shadowed while they were on their sleuthing expedition through Europe last year. General Reber said he had not known it and, in any event, it would not have affected his testimony...
...line of questioning. The hearing room grew tense; spectators in the rear stood on tiptoe. Could Jenkins, untried in the Washington jungle, accomplish the feat of cutting Joe McCarthy off? Not without a struggle. Joe insisted on his right to show "prejudice" on the part of the witness. Samuel Reber, he said, had made "vicious attacks" on Cohn and Schine. That brought Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan, as spiny and tough as any razorback, into the dispute. Said McClellan: "You are giving testimony. I have a right to object at any time." Said Joe: "Don't object...
Returning to twist the dirk already thrust into the Reber brothers, McCarthy asked General Reber: "Are you aware of the fact that your brother was allowed to resign when charges that he was a bad security risk were made against him as a result of the investigation of this committee?" Jenkins roared in protest. McClellan roared in protest. McCarthy talked on, stuck to his question. General Reber sat in silence, gripping the edges of the witness table until his knuckles showed white. Finally, McCarthy, having made his point over radio and television, dismissed the entire question as unimportant, and grandly...
...West Pointer Reber would not have it so. In a voice thick with emotion, he asked to be allowed to answer the "very serious charge" made against his brother. After another long argument, Reber said simply: ". . . As I understand my brother's case, he retired, as he is entitled to do by law, upon reaching the age of 50 ... I know nothing about any security case involving him." With a sigh of relief, Chairman Mundt dismissed Reber, thanking him for his frank manner-a remark to which McCarthy, who seemed determined to resent any civility, made a formal objection...