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...listened intently to Reber's testimony, twin furrows appeared on the Senator's brow. Nervously he took notes, pausing from time to time to give ear to the excited whispers of his committee counsel, Roy Cohn, who is also accused by the Army of seeking.favors for Private Schine. Counsel Jenkins leaned close to the microphone, the corners of his cavernous mouth turned down, his Tennessee drawl booming throughout the room. He worked entirely without notes...
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...
...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...
...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 in the middle of my question." McClellan retorted: "I do not want...
...Immense Pride. Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, summoned to Capitol Hill from Foggy Bottom, made a terse appearance, crunching out his answers as decisively as he stumped out his cigarettes. Roy Cohn, he said, had come to him to ask help about getting a direct commission for Schine, but not with the Central Intelligence Agency, because the CIA "was too juicy a subject for investigation . . ." Ray Jenkins asked if young Cohn had tried to high-pressure Smith into action-a suggestion that must have seemed incongruous to the hardrock old soldier. Snapped Smith: "Not me, sir!" His inquiries...