View source for Senator McCarthy Refuses Comment On Davis Spy Guilt, Arizona Sun (Article, November 1951)

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===Senator McCarthy Refuses Comment On Davis' Spy Guilt===

Washington, D. C. (NNPA)

Apparently Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin, does not reciprocate the high respect which Charles E Davis, convicted spy, has for him.

Davis was convicted by a Swiss court last month of illegal spying on behalf of Senator McCarthy and others to the prejudice of Senator Benton, and was deported to the United States. He spent several days last week at the Dunbar Hotel in Washington.

Told by a reporter that Davis had said his relations with him were still "very friendly" since he had not heard from the senator's lips that that he was finished with him, Senator McCarthy last Friday declined to comment.

"I have nothing to say about Davis," Senator McCarthy said. "He is just one of 10,000 people who sent in information -- some good and some bad. His was mostly bad."

Davis is scheduled to appear before the Senate Elections and Privileges subcommittee which is investigating charges filed by Senator William Benton, Democrat, of Connecticut, that Senator McCarthy is unfit to hold his senate seat.

Among the charges is one that Davis, an admitted homosexual ex-Communist, was convicted as a personal spy on Senator McCarthy's payroll and that Davis tried to frame an American diplomat, John Carter Vincent, with a fake telegram linking him to Communists.

Davis said he will not engage in any activity conducted against McCarthy. "I do not wish to be used as a political football nor to be an instrument to oust the senator.