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...Albert Shadowitz, an employee from 1943 to 1951 of a company doing Signal Corps work, refused to answer questions. The day after he received his subpoena to appear before McCarthy, Shadowitz said, he drove to Princeton, and talked for an hour to Dr. Albert Einstein, whom he had never met before. Said Shadowitz: "I discussed this matter personally with Dr. Einstein in Princeton, and he advised me not to cooperate with this or any otl.er committee of the same nature." Replied McCarthy, by no means loth to have Einstein's name help his own into print: "I would suggest...
...watch companies, to turn over hundreds of documents concerning their business, and had set a deadline for last week. Said Arde Bulova: "I wanted to answer them very briefly and simply: 'Don't bother me.' But our attorneys told me we had to comply with the subpoena...
Possible espionage concerning Furry's work in the Signal Corps laboratories at Fort Monmouth; N.J., was supposed to be the topic of the investigation. McCarthy's current plan is to hold Furry's hearing in Boston along with the "sizeable number of persons" he intends to subpoena from "Project Lincoln" of Cambridge, the super-secret air force center, dealing with U.S. radur defenses...
President Dwight D. Eisenhower quickly asserted that no one questioned the loyalty of the former President. Brownell hastily agreed with the Chief Executive. Congressman Harold Velde rushed to subpoena Truman but he tripped over his Committee's by-laws and popular resentment. Senator Joseph McCarthy tried to make himself to focal issue in the 1954 election but Eisenhower said he hoped the whole spies-in-government excitement would be a matter of history by the next election and that the GOP would run on its legislative program. Many claimed the President couldn't control his own lieutenants; other praised...
...Harry Truman, in rejecting the subpoena, extended this principle to ex-Presidents, saying: "The doctrine [of separation of powers] would be shattered ... if [the President] would feel during his term of office that his every act might be subject to official inquiry and possible distortion for political purposes." Some constitutional lawyers doubted that Truman, as a private citizen, had a right to reject the subpoena without hearing what questions the committee wanted to ask. They said that he 1) would not have to answer questions relating to state secrets, but 2) would have to answer questions bearing on any charge...