EX-GENERAL WALKER ACCUSES RUSK, SWINMAN; HIS TWO-DAY HEARING-A DISASTER FOR RIGHT

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Lx - General Walker Accuses "Rusk Swiunan;
His Two-Day Hearino-A Disaster for U-i
THE CHARGES AT HEARING
By James E. Warner
A Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other" top officials
of the government yesterday were accused of being parts of ':
a "soft on Communism" apparatus.
The charges come from former Army Maj. Gen. Edwin
A Walker, now a Red-hunting crusader seeking the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor of Texas. He completed
two days of free-swinging testimony before the Senate
Armed Services subcommittee, was excused, and emerged
to take a fistic poke at a reporter.
The blow-a glancing right jab to the face-appar-
ently caused no more damage than the former general's
remarks in committee hearings, which smacked of anti-
Communist testimony taken in the heyday of the late Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy's probes.
In.fact, Mr. Walker said Sen. McCarthy, and various
others, including himself and retired General of the Army
"I'm happy to be associated r .,
with Mr. Rostow, He is an' able t;intting his testimony,
and,close colleague." 19,Mr. Walker said: "Insted of
Van Fleet's Opinion State Department policies being
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, made on the basis of CIA esti-
ret., former commander of UN mates, CIA estimates are made
forces in Korea, told Sen. Sym- to fit State Department pol-
ington later that he thought ivies."
Mr. Walker was "completely This and the ""no win" and
out, of line" and that-the former "soft line" policies, the wit-
,general had made "a complete ness charged, resulted in re-
niess" in his testimony. verses in Korea, Cuba and.the
-lit the Pentagon, Secretary Congo. The "apparatus" oper-
McNamara issued a statement ates, he said, through the
saying he had "complete trust United Nations, which he called
and confidence" in Adam "the nearest thing to the
Yarmolinsky,' his special as- . Tower of Babel that's ever been
sistant'attacked Wednesday by built."
Mi. Walker. Blasting away at the CIA
EarlierMr. Yarmolinsky ' and UN, Mr. Walker said that
sail that his public record is ?, UN action against Moise
anti-Corm ti list, although he Tshombe's regime in the Ka-
had attended some young tanga area of the Congo was
Communi,t;;'rtieetings while he , "vicious and outrageous." Mr
Douglas MacArthur had been "framed in a den of iniquity" was "curious."
by soft-on-Communist groups Secretary McNamara said he
"framed in a den of iniquity,"
others being Syngman Rhee of
Korea and the late James For-
restal, who was the first secre-
tary of Defense, he declared.
Mr. Rusk, he said, was on the
staff of Gen. "Vinegar Joe"
Stilwell in the Far East during
the "agarian reform" movement
Which ended in Communist con-
trol of China, and also was'
"member and supporter of 'the.
Institute of Pacific Relations;:
Which' was greatly influenced by
Owen Lattimore." Both the in-
stitute and Mr. Lattimore were
subjects of intense Congres-
sional investigations in earlier
years,
He scoffed/at former Presi-
dent Eisenhower for having
congratulated Russia for photo-
graphing the dark side of the'
'moon, asserting the Soviet pie-
iture. "very likely". was one out
Qf our own Popular Mechanics
apparatus" in the alleged soft-I Chance to Reply
on-conimuni5ni clique, but said! Son. John Stennis, D., Miss.,
he did not know the actual' said that any persons named by
directors of the "apparatus." Mr, Walker would be heard in
Testifying on foreign aid at reply if they desire. There was
another hearing, Secretary' no indication that, either State
Rusk was advised by Sen. Department or Pentagon ofH?-
Stuart Symington, D., Mo., of vials would avail themselves of
the charges. Sen. Symington the opportunity,,for the pros-
said he had a "very high. ant, at least.
Opinion`" of Mr. Rusk's de o }Mr. wallcei'._Chargecl that Mr.
tion to his country, noting .. ~
R
ostow, has been in charge. of
that he had served in the Army,i
operati
under former President Eisen- teliigeiice:: operations Agc of., icy "since .since ntea1 , 195454" "'
'lower and Secretary of Wan
a CIA spokesman,, later said
Henry L. Stimson. i ...
g 1vTi: Rostow was never eiii cloyed
After the belling; Mr; Rusk sl hV tiie:_avencY. ?
said the' charge against 'him was "riot worthy of comment."
As for; those against Mr. It,os-
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.ties, the country is "digging its Germany, which he then corn-
own grave for Khrushchev to manded.
bury us in" and that the grave "The basis, if any, for Mr.
is "three feet deep" already. ? Walker's charges against Ar-
He ' named ' Secretary Rusk thur Sylvester is wholly unclear
and Walt Whitman Rostow, an to me from the record," Mr.
adviser 'to President Kennedy McNamara said, "Lest there be
who is counselor tof the State any doubt on this issue, how-
in government. had reviewed security files on
But he wasn't any more Mr. Yarniol'insky and others
specific yesterday than in his holding top positions at the
preceding. seven hours of testi- Pentagon before, they were
ninny Wednesday. His prin- hired.
cipal targets, Secretary of State 112r. Walkel? had also attacked
Dean Rusk and Defense Secre- Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Dc-
tary Robert S. McNamara, fense Secretary for Public In=
denied his charges, Mr. Rusk formation, as having played 'a
saying they weren't worthy of major part in his resignation
comment, and Mr. McNamara' from the Army after being
issuing a statement of denial.1 chastised for allegedly seeking
Mr. Walker asserted that un- to influence voting of men in
der the Communist-soft poli- the 24th Infantry Division in
Department and one,of the top ever, I wish to state that I
policy planners there, as being have complete trust- and con-