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Dr. Javits and Mr. Hide

The leading candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in New York—he is also New York’s attorney general—appeared on September 5 before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. He was there, he said, to refute certain “vicious rumors” concerning his past political associations. And when he had completed his testimony, the nation’s press was pretty well agreed as to what Jacob Javits had said: He had denied that he had knowingly sought Communist advice and support in his postwar campaigns for Congress; he had denied having sought or received the backing of the American Labor Party (Communist-dominated) for his 1946 and 1948 campaigns; he had denied witting Communist associations. But—as the reporters also agreed—his testimony was inconsistent at some points with that of previous subcommittee witnesses; and this, they suggested, might stand in the way of his getting the Senatorial nomination.

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Dr. Javits and Mr. Hide

The leading candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in New York—he is also New York’s attorney general—appeared on September 5 before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. He was there, he said, to refute certain “vicious rumors” concerning his past political associations. And when he had completed his testimony, the nation’s press was pretty well agreed as to what Jacob Javits had said: He had denied that he had knowingly sought Communist advice and support in his postwar campaigns for Congress; he had denied having sought or received the backing of the American Labor Party (Communist-dominated) for his 1946 and 1948 campaigns; he had denied witting Communist associations. But—as the reporters also agreed—his testimony was inconsistent at some points with that of previous subcommittee witnesses; and this, they suggested, might stand in the way of his getting the Senatorial nomination.