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...witness stand this week, slightly windburned from a brief Montana vacation. It was his 14th day of testimony. He was called for only one purpose, carefully specified by Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins: was Stevens responsible for the Administration's actions in the case of Private G. David Schine? Or did the responsibility lie higher, perhaps in the White House...
Stevens gave many televiewers the impression that he was evading. But this impression arose from McCarthy's assumption that "orders" were given or taken by Stevens in this case. Stevens and his aides had probably consulted with scores of officials during the development of the Cohn-Schine affair. One made this suggestion, another wrote that sentence. To unscramble all that would be clearly impossible-and irrelevant. An official often tries to dodge responsibility by retreating into the bureaucratic maze. Stevens did the opposite. He took the responsibility and sought no refuge in "orders." Finally, Stevens succeeded in making this...
From Kentucky, word trickled out that Private G. (for Gerard) David Schine, whose failure to become an Army officer has stirred some talk lately, has been a full-fledged colonel all along. His spot commission (in Kentucky only) came a year ago as a result of a request from his friend Colonel Anna Friedman, whose own lofty office is Keeper of the Great Seal of Kentucky Colonels...
...done, the second half of Brownell's strategy could proceed: to keep the McCarthy wing from using its anti-Communist crusade so rashly that it interfered with the operations of the Army and other important parts of the government. This is the meaning of the preparation of the Cohn-Schine charges...
...since then, various activities of McCarthy have been criticized by Eisenhower's Vice-President, his Foreign Aid Director, and his Secretary of Defense. His political worth has been questioned by no less a man than Chairman Hall of the Republican National Committee. Insofar as the publication of the Cohn-Schine charges were the turning point in McCarthy's national popularity, they too, it turns out, were the result of a deliberate decision by the White House. It is impossible to view this string of events without concluding, to borrow a favorite expression from Red-hunters themselves, that they were...