Nationwide protest mounted yesterday against the appointment of Samuel P. Sears '17, outspoken pro-McCarthy lawyer to serve as special counsel for the Senate Investigating Committee during the forthcoming controversial hearings between Senator McCarthy and the Army.

Democrats, including members of the Investigating Committee, yesterday complained on two counts: first, they charged they didn't know Sears had applied for the job; they had thought his services had been solicited. Secondly, Sears stated he had never taken a stand on the McCarthy issue, either "publicly or privately."

But Sears, who according to the Associated Press, telegrammed and asked for the job, had told the CRIMSON in a November, 1952 interview that he had attempted to start a fund drive to aid McCarthy's Senatorial campaign in Wisconsin. Praising McCarthy's value to the nation, Sears at that time called the possible defeat of McCarthy a "blow to the welfare of the United States."

"When I learned of the anti-McCarthy fund," Sears said, "I chased the Senator all over Wisconsin trying to reach him because I wanted to start a fund drive in his behalf.

"I feel that attempts to defeat Senator McCarthy are ill-advised and that the three Harvard professors were barking up the wrong tree in trying to defeat him." Sears referred to the campaign of Archibald MacLeish, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. and Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, all Harvard professors, to raise money to defeat McCarthy in his Senatorial campaign.

"There would undoubtedly be 200 more Communists in the government if it weren't for McCarthy. The Senator has done a great job and will continue to do so. He won't sleep on the job," the CRIMSON story said, quoting Sears.

Protests to Washington

Meanwhile, yesterday, telegrams and editorial protests were both headed towards Washington.

At least one Democratic member of the Investigating Committee who earlier had approved the choice, Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington, said he was waiting for more facts before deciding whether Sears' appointment should be reconsidered. The senior member of the Committee, Senator McClellan (D-Ark.) told reporters last night that he would not have approved the appointment had he known that Sears applied for the job and was a pro-McCarthy man.

Local Democratic leaders said last night they hoped to force either another appointment, or an impartial observer to oversee the whole investigation.

When Sears was interviewed by the Investigating Committee, it was emphasized that he had been solicited for the job, and no mention was made of the fact that he had telegrammed Senator Leverett Saltonstall requesting the job.

Queried by reporters in Washington yesterday, Sears said, "It's going to raise hob with my work in Washington. But I do not feel that any lawyer without special reason should say no."

When he was questioned by the Investigating Committee about the Lubell dispute last year in which Sears demanded that Dean Griswold fire twin Law students David and Jonathan Lubell for invoking the Fifth Amendment, the Boston lawyer said:

No Dispute

"That was no dispute. . . . I had objected to a scholarship fund at the Law School being used to support two students who took refuge in the Fifth Amendment."