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Senator McCarthy plans to ask for a congressional investigation of the whole Geneva episode at the beginning of the January session. The Wisconsin Republican will contend that the Geneva debacle cannot be laid to “surprising Soviet tactics” or Mr. Molotov’s “shocking attitude,” or any other variant of the bad luck theme; he will maintain that the cause was gross incompetence in the Executive branch, which owes Congress a full explanation.

McCarthy, the only national figure to warn last summer of the pitfalls of top-level negotiations with the Kremlin (he said the U.S. was “cooperating in the Communist peace-offensive” by playing “the role of straight-man for the Soviet Union”) and a vigorous critic of the “spirit of Geneva” ever since, is boiling—not because his own advice was ignored but because he has come across Communist Party documents that plainly and publicly disclosed, in advance, Communist purposes in calling for top-level negotiations, and set forth the tactics the Communists planned to use during the negotiations.

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Senator McCarthy plans to ask for a congressional investigation of the whole Geneva episode at the beginning of the January session. The Wisconsin Republican will contend that the Geneva debacle cannot be laid to “surprising Soviet tactics” or Mr. Molotov’s “shocking attitude,” or any other variant of the bad luck theme; he will maintain that the cause was gross incompetence in the Executive branch, which owes Congress a full explanation.

McCarthy, the only national figure to warn last summer of the pitfalls of top-level negotiations with the Kremlin (he said the U.S. was “cooperating in the Communist peace-offensive” by playing “the role of straight-man for the Soviet Union”) and a vigorous critic of the “spirit of Geneva” ever since, is boiling—not because his own advice was ignored but because he has come across Communist Party documents that plainly and publicly disclosed, in advance, Communist purposes in calling for top-level negotiations, and set forth the tactics the Communists planned to use during the negotiations.