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Ex-Aide of WalkerSuspended for SpeechWASHINGTON (AP) — Maj.Archibald E. Roberts has been suspended by the Army while it investigates a speech he madewithout Pentagon clearance. The swift, stiff Pentagon action recalled that taken last year against his former boss, ex-Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker.Roberts told the DAR annualmeeting ‘‘we are at war today and we are losing.”He said the military has no bus-1 iness in politics—but it becomes everybody's business when the mayor of a big city has leftwing leanings. Then he named Yort.v.He said Yortv once was de-__ , , . ... scribed to the House CommitteeRoberts, 46. got a standing ova- ^ l n.Amprj(.an adivities as onemember of a ‘‘Communist faction in the California LegislatureOf Williams. Roberts said:tion from the Daughters of the American Revolution Thursday for an off-the-cuff talk in which he charged some government officials have leftist leanings. HeI I‘‘And it is the responsibility ofapplied that label to G. Mennen everyone when the governor ofWilliams, former governor of Michigan who is now assistant secretary of state for African affairs, and to Mayor Samuel Yorty of Los Angeles.a great state s of such leftist leanings that his fiscal policies brought that state to the edge of bankruptcy.Called RidiculousSo\iet Control\Roberts said ‘‘We are not con-Yorty issued a statement in I.os cerned with civilian control unlesstAngeles saying the charge was the channel of that control ends\ridiculous. He said it serves mightily the Communist objective” by causing confusion which aids subversives.in the office of a Soviet official.” He said a Soviet. Gregory Petrovich Arkadev, U.N. undersecretary for political and security af-tWilliams is traveling in Africa fairs, gets information on all U NIand was unavailable for comment.Thursday night. Roberts got word from his commander at Ft.Lee. Va., Col. John B. Hines, that he ‘‘has been suspended from performance of military duty pend- Chinese ing further investigation of state- sai(j ments made in a public speech in Washington.”* Roberts said he had not been under orders to submit his speech for Pentagon clearance. And he told a reporter ' an investigationactivities and on all U.S. plans for self defense.This included U.S. plans of action during the Korean War against the North Korean andCommunists, Roberts1The DAR had no comment on either the Roberts speech or the Armv action that followed it.Yorty ReplyYorty issued a statement onclto me means that they will hear Roberts’ attack.cFboth sides. I hope that we willhave the truth. I’ve made myposition clear.‘ This allegation stems from an accusation by Arthur James Kent made back in the 1930s againstRoberts delivered his off-the- not only myself but also against cuff talk to the DAR after the the late Gov. Cuthbert Olson,totolothtext of his originally planned ad- Judge John Clark, and the then dress was denied clearance by the Sen. Jack R. Tenney, the then LtJlt;Pentagon, lt was 10 have dealt Gov. Ellis Patterson and others,” with the ‘ pro-blue” troop infor- said Yortv.mation program which Robertssavs he drafted for Gen. Walker.Relieved of Command“Kent was known as the ‘Red burglar’ and was in tail at the lime he made the affidavit con-wwVIflrThe program was used when Walker commanded the 24th Infantry Division m Germany. Stories in a publication called “Overseas Weekly”—which also drew Roberts' fire in the I)AR speech-led to a Pentagon investigation of Walker's program.Walker was lat“r relieved of his command and admonished by the Army on grounds he tried to influence the votes of his men in the 1960a congressional election.taming this allegation. This affi-da\ it w as then flown to Beau-mmont. Tex., and inserted in the House Un-American Activities (Committee) records by Martin Dies a few days before the California election in 1938 in which I and the others named were run-blt;riSth,libning. and this without any notice to the defamed persons.“Tenney took it upon himself toand made derogatory remarks , . „ . ,. . . * ' .1 ater look up Kent who was thenabout prominent Amer cans. He . 1rvHtiiquit the Army last Nov. 2 and now seeks the Democratic nomination for governor of Texas.Roberts, who was Walker’s public information officer, was relieved of his overseas assignment and made a supply officer at Ft Lee He's a native of Denver and a 23-vear Armv veteran.again in jail According to Tenney, Kent admitted he knew none of the persons he defamed♦ IntcWhen the need isDenied Clearance... Agricultural National invites y and talk over your plans. Whatevi a loan to consolidate current bills or for any other worthwhile purpo ready to help you.The Armv notified Roberts lastSaturday that his original speech had been denied clearance saying, among other things, that it would reflect adversely on the armedFIRSTAGRICUL1NATION A1OF BEFforces, and would tend to revive the Walker controversy. Roberts did not seek further Pentagon action, but the speech he delivered did not mention the Army, the pro-blue program or Walker.PITTSFIELDVEMBER EFDEPAi D6POSII I BANK ASSETS 131.000,000i7\rr ¥ Aivr
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The Berkshire Eagle
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