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President Harry S. Truman's address at Symphony Hall, Boston, MA, 9:30 p.m. He had been campaigning on behalf of the Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign. In this speech President Truman refers to Senator Joseph McCarthy and the subject of national security and hysteria in America. In his opening remarks he referred to Governor Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts and Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, chairman of the occasion. Later he referred to Representative John F. Kennedy, Democratic candidate for Senator, Frederick C. Hailer, Thomas P. O'Neill, and David J. Crowley, Democratic candidates for Representative, all of Massachusetts, Walter B. Smith, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, General of the Army George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army, 1939-45, and Senators William E. Jennet of Indiana and Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin.