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half of another client, which
Schoeppel and 25 other Republi
can Senators signed and sent to
President Truman in 1948 de
manding that the United States
back Indonesia’s fight with the
Netherlands.
Thus, Feltus said, Schoeppel
had “raised a question of guilt by
association that could work both
ways.”
Angrily he said he never has
a communist, never has been
an agent of the Kremlin, and does
not even know any Russians.
Chapman vigorously den i e d
Schoeppel’s charges against him
when he appeared yesterday. The
secretary dared Schoeppel to re
peat them where he would not be
immune from suit for damages.
The cabinet member labelled as
untrue and as “scandal monger
ing, insinuation and slander”
Schoeppel’s assertions that he had
not signed required loyalty oaths
and that he was linked to sub
versive organizations. Chapman
produced copies of loyalty affida
vits he signed in 1941, 1946, 1947
and 1949.
Chapman denied that he had
anything to do with the retention
of Randolph Feltus, a publicity
man. to lobby for statehood for
Alaska. Feltus denied the Sena
tor's charee he had been “an
agent of the Kremlin.”
Schoeppel, a freshman Senator
who was making his, first venture
into a field where Senator McCar
thy <R.-Wis.> preceded him with
communist-in-government charg
es against state department offi
cials, puffed vigorously on his pipe
while Chapman was testifying.
Later Schoeppel told reporters
that he had changed his original
opinion of Chapman “in some re
spects” because the cabinet mem
ber had “cleared up certain angles
which I have been uncertain
about.”
Schoeppel said he had depend
ed oh assistants — principally
Frank Bow, now a Republican
candidate for Congress in Ohio—
to gather the information and pre
pare the Senate speech in which
he made the charges against
Chapman.
Bow is expected to be called for
testimony next week. Democrats
hope then to extract same more
publicity from tho affair.
Schoeppel said he thought his
statements were correct when he
made his speech on Tuesday, but
addod: “I am not going to say they
could not have been checked more
carefully.”
Schoeppel said he never had
any doubt about Chapman’s loy
alty.
When a reporter cited the Sen
ator’s charge that Congressional
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committee records showed a direct
link between Chapman and cer
tain subversive organizations, the
Senator replied.
“That could be taken probably
as a little strong statement.”
Democrats generally took this
as something of a retraction. Sen
! atoi Lucas (D.-Ill.) told reporters
he was “disappointed that by old
, friend Senator Schoeppel has per
I netted himself to become the
hatchet man for Republicans.”
Senator Humphrey (D.-Minn.)
attacked the charges against
Chapman as “irresponsible.” He
told his colleagues that a “Junior
i Dick Tracy” attitude in such mat
ters would just get lawmakers in
trouble. He said he supposed that
when he goes back to Minnesota
I now* he will be asked “Is Chap
' mj*n a Communist?”
i “I though it was an honor to be
a Senator but this Congress has
j den an awful lot to undermine the
confidence of the American peo
ple,” he declared.
Republicans kept publicly silent
| about the somewhat obvious dis
comfiture of their Kansas . col
league But one Republican Sena
tor who is friendly to Schoeppel
said he feared the Chapman inci
dent would offset in part any po
litical gain the Republicans may
have got out of the communist
charges McCarthy has been re
peating for months.
This Senator asked to remain
anonymous.
Feltus, called back before the
committee today, again denied
Schoeppel’s charges that he was
an agent of the Kremlin before
becoming a lobbyist for Alaskan
statehood.
He said in a statement he work
ed for nearly three years as a pub
lic relations man on the payroll
of the Polish ambassador, striv
ing “to create a healthy trade re
lationship” between the U. S. and
Poland, but never did anything of
a disloyal nature.
He said he took the job in Oc
tober, 1946, when “our own gov-j
ernment was pouring UNRRA
funds in Poland and in many ways
was proclaiming freindship for
that country.” He finally resigned
nearly three years later, he said,
without ever having “pleaded Po
land’s political cause” or lobbied
for Poland in Congress.
Specifically he denied the Sen
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ator’s suggestion that he might
have helped the Gdynia-Ameri
can Line Inc., which operates the
steamship Batory, to prepare a
communist propaganda radio pro
gram known as the “Polish Hour.”
He said Schoeppel “with char
acteristic inaccuracy” had mis
stated facts about his employment
with the Office of Civilian De
fense during the war, and said
Schoeppel was wrong in accusing
him of having been an agent for
both the Indonesian government
and the Netherlands government
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when the two were fighting.
Feltus said he quit working for
the Netherlands in 1948 to work
for the American-Indonesian Cor
poration because he considered
Dutch military action in Indone
sia at the time was “an unwar
ranted act of aggression.”
“I might say that the United
Nations and the United States
Senate agreed with my opinion,”
he said, recalling U. N. and Amer
ican protests against the military
action.
Feltus said of Schoeppel:
“I will give him {landsome odds
that my roots in America go deep
er than his. On all sides of my
family my antecedents have been
in this country for at least 150
years. . . . This is my country as
well as the Senators.”
Yesterday he had described
himself as a collateral descendant
of Thomas Jefferson.
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