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election last fall by majority of 430,000
tor Margaret Chase Smith (Rep.), Maine,
By a Washington Correspondent of the
time ever came.
McCarthy: On June 6 McCarthy said, "The
payments listea in nis 1949 return.
was not everything it was reported to be.
It
was unceremoniously "bumped," against
Post-Dispatch.
Fact: He would not repeat his charges
FBI wisely refused to submit top-secret in-
These payments indicated he had bor-
was a dirty campaign, just as were those in
her wishes, by McCarthy. Mrs. Smith in-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17,
against Lattimore to reporters off the
formation to the State Department on these
rowed more than $300,000 that year. Mc-
Maryland, Illinois, Utah, Florida, North Caro-
curred McCarthy's ire last June 1 when, in
N the last year Senator McCarthy (Rep.)
floor. He has not resigned.
dangerous individuals."
Carthy's break-down purported to show he
lina and California.
a "declaration of conscience," signed by
Wisconsin, has uttered many wild, unsup-
McCarthy: On a question-and-answer radio
Fact: The FBI did not refuse.
had borrowed about $60,000 from his brother,
Taft made the fear of Communism an issue
her and six other Republicans, she repu-
ported and false charges relating to Com-
program April 21 McCarthy was told: "Sena-
McCarthy: On April 20 McCarthy said the
Howard; about $40,000 from his brother, Wil-
in Ohio. He told the voters the Tydings
diated McCarthyism.
munists and subversion. So far as is known,
tor, you have said that Owen Lattimore was
following was a quotation from a House re-
liam, and more than $100,000 from the Ap-
Committee report on McCarthy's charges of
Hoey, a soft-spoken courtly old-school poli-
there is no complete list of these McCarthy-
the chief architect of our disastrous (Far
port: "Almost anyone and everyone in the
pleton (Wis.) State Bank. The bank refused to
subversion in the State Department was a
tician, has made an enviable record of fair-
isms. The Post-Dispatch has at hand, how-
Eastern) policy. Interrupting, McCarthy
State Department had access to the files," by
explain. No satisfactory explanation of the
"whitewash." The investigating committee
ness and discretion in conducting hearings,
ever, more than 70 taken from the public
said, "Just a minute, I haven't said that."
which he meant loyalty files.
ability of his brothers to lend McCarthy
headed by Tydings labeled McCarthy's
and this may help the situation somewhat.
record. A sampling of this collection fol-
In Chicago May 6 McCarthy stated: "Mr.
Fact: The report actually said:
most
money has been made. Evjue asserted the
charges "a fraud and a hoax," a truth which
The picture seen by the pessimists here,
lows. The charges and facts are given in
Lattimore, as the nation knows, has long
everyone and anyone in the Division has
whole picture was "astounding."
was crystal clear to right-thinking persons
however, is that of McCarthy wringing in-
alternate paragraphs.
been the architect of the State Department's
access to the files." The Division was the
A sidelight on McCarthy's brother Howard's
and which Tydings proved on the Senate
formation from State Department officers be-
McCarthy: At Wheeling Feb. 9, 1950, Mc-
Far Eastern policy. " He repeated this
Division of Security, whose staff necessarily
part in the McCarthy financial picture is
floor.
hind closed doors at the secret appropria-
Carthy said: "I have here in my hand a list
assertion at Milwaukee, Rochester and At-
had access to its own files.
furnished by the 1944 campaign. The com-
The American Federation of Labor has pub-
tions hearings and using it for propaganda
of
205 names made known to the Sec-
lantic City and tried to prove it by citing
McCarthy: On May 6 McCarthy alleged
mittee formed to elect McCarthy to the
lished figures which show, it claims, that
purposes as ranking Republican on the in-
retary of State as being members of the
four of Lattimore's ideas on the subject.
that the loyalty files then being examined
Senate reported receipt of $10,600 from How-
more than $2,000,000 was spent in Ohio to
vestigating group.
Communist Party and who nevertheless were
Fact: American policy on the four points
by a Senate subcommittee were "purged" and
ard McCarthy. That year, Howard McCarthy,
re-elect Taft. Even the religious issue was
3. Senator McCarran (Dem.), Nevada, who
still working and shaping policy in the State
proceeded in a manner different from the
"phony."
an auctioneer, reported income of less than
raised by Taft supporters (perhaps without
incidentally is chairman of the Appropria-
Department." Next day at Salt Lake City
views McCarthy attributed to Lattimore.
Fact: Attorney General J. Howard Mc-
$4000, on state tax returns.
the Senator's knowledge), who spread the
tions subcommittee on the State Department,
he said he had 57 names. In successive
McCarthy: In Rochester May 25 McCarthy
Grath had an examination of the files
McCarthy's demonstration of his opinion
word that Taft's extremely weak labor-backed
has been working ideologically along with
speeches he said there were 206, then 81,
charged that Lattimore told Joseph Barnes
made by the FBI and was informed that
of public morality is not confined to his in-
opponent, Joseph Ferguson, was a Roman
McCarthy. He has set up a Judiciary sub-
then 106 Communists or security risks in the
in a letter "to get rid of all Chinese em-
the files were complete in all details.
come tax returns or his campaign expense
Catholic while Taft was the brother of
committee on security which will investigate
department.
ployes in the Office of War Information who
McCarthy: Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jes-
reports, however.
Charles P. Taft, former president of the Fed-
the execution of his anti-subversive act and
Fact: McCarthy eventually stabilized his
were loyal to Chiang Kai-shek and replace
sup, like Acheson and Lattimore, has been a
eral Council of the Churches of Christ in
will also investigate subversives in and out
figure at 81. Largely through the efforts
In 1941, when McCarthy was sitting as a
them with Chinese Communists."
favorite target of McCarthy. On March 30
America and a noted Protestant layman.
of Government. He has just been voted $75,-
of Representative Frank M. Karsten
Wisconsin Circuit Judge, he refused to en-
Fact: The letter actually read: "In the
McCarthy said that Jessup "has an unusual
These facts seem to have escaped the
000 as a starter.
(Dem.), Missouri, it was shown that charges
force a state milk regulation against im-
circumstances, we have to be extremely
affinity for Communist causes
notice of the Senate Republicans, who have
The Senate has refused to discipline Mc-
in these cases were considered and re-
Fact: Jessup refuted this under oath and
portant dairy companies. His excuse was
careful about our Chinese personnel.
permitted Taft to become their boss and
Carthy and has been criticized for its inac-
jected three years before by a committee
that the law was due to expire in six months.
While we need to avoid recruiting any
in detail.
McCarthy to become his chief lieutenant.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court found Mc-
tion. Many Republicans, privately disgust-
of the Republican Eightieth Congress. No
Chinese Communists, we must be careful
McCarthy: May 15 McCarthy said he had
This represents, of course, a far greater
ed at McCarthy's tactics, realize that for
charge was proved. Pressed for proof,
not to be frightened out of hiring people
presented to the Tydings subcommittee in-
Carthy's conduct in this case "highly im-
triumph for McCarthy than for Taft, since
good or evil he has hit on a formula that
McCarthy said it was in the "files." The
who have been loosely accused of being
vestigating his charges photostats showing
proper" and an "abuse of judicial power.'
McCarthy, only 41 years old, is a first-termer,
might bring them back to power after 20
files were produced but the "proof" was
Communists. For our purposes, it is wise
Jessup was affiliated with "not one, but with
McCarthy's "improper" conduct included
while Taft now is in his third and has
years. Democratic defeats and defensive
not in them.
five Communist-front organizations and was
destroying court records in the milk case.
to recruit as many unaffiliated Chinese as
been the Senate's acknowledged leader in
reactions are more difficult to analyze.
McCarthy: Feb. 20 McCarthy told the Sen-
ate that "there are three big Communists in-
we can, to pick people whose loyalty will
a director of one of the worst of the lot.'
Judge McCarthy also was charged with
domestic matters for years.
One factor unquestionably is that the Sen-
be reasonably assured by the salaries we
Fact: The committee never was able to
granting quick divorces to political friends.
McCarthyism New in U.S.,
ate doesn't know just how to deal with Mc-
volved and I cannot possibly conceive of any
pay them."
find a record that the material was turned
The Wisconsin state constitution forbids a
Carthy.
Secretary of State allowing these big Cóm-
McCarthy: May 6 McCarthy, speaking of
over to it by McCarthy. The subcommittee
judge from remaining on the bench while
But Old on European Scene.
There is nothing secret about McCarthy's
munists who are tremendously important and
John Stewart Service, a State Department
chief counsel subsequently asked McCarthy
running for a non-judicial office, a circum-
of great value to Russia to remain in the
personally for the photostats but never re-
stance which might give rise to the+tempta-
McCarthyism is just about a year old in
operation. He follows a simple totalitarian
official who was mentioned in the Amerasia
the United States, though its totalitarian
formula simple to imitate. How to do
it
State Department." He added the three should
case, said: "Former Under Secretary of State
ceived them.
tion to trade campaign, contributions for
was best expressed by Hitler, whose doctrine
be discharged and immediately prosecuted,
principles are nothing new to Europe. It
and that there was a fourth case which con-
(Joseph) Grew, who had insisted on Service's
McCarthy: "(Jessup) was a director of one
justice.
came to public notice here Feb. 9, 1950, when
is followed daily by Communist propagandists
cerned an individual "in my opinion one of
prosecution
of the worst of such organizations named by
Despite the constitution, Judge McCarthy
McCarthy, in a broadcast from Wheeling,
and often by McCarthy. Since, as Benton
the most dangerous Communists in the State
Fact: Grew replied he did not "insist on
the Attorney General, namely the China Aid
ran first against Senator Wiley and then
W. Va., charged that the State Department
told t the Senate, it seems likely that "a new
Service's prosecution." He authorized his
Counsel of the American League for Peace
against Senator La Follette without resign-
Department."
harbored 205 known Communists, sympa-
and worse siege of irresponsibility lies ahead
Fact: One of the three left the depart-
arrest without knowing his identity.
and Democracy."
ing from the bench.
thizers, fellow-travelers and spies.
of us," it may be useful to recall what Hitler
ment two years before McCarthy de-
McCarthy: "Two days after Dean Acheson
Fact: Jessup never was either a director
In 1949 a disbarment proceeding was
Subsequently in 1950, McCarthy, aided and
said in his book, "Mein Kampf":
manded his discharge; the fourth left 14
took over as Under Secretary of State, John
or member.
taken against McCarthy before the Wisconsin
abetted, if not actually inspired by the Chi-
The greatness of the lie is always
months before.
S. Service was reinstated and promoted."
McCarthy: April 20 McCarthy asked: "Why
Supreme Court. The court ruled:
cago Tribune, created an atmosphere of sus-
a certain factor in being believed; at the
McCarthy: On March 27, McCarthy said of
Fact: After Service was cleared by
a
does he (Jessup) always join Communist
"Under the facts of this case we can
picion and disquiet. Numerous individuals
bottom of their hearts the great masses
Owen Lattimore, head of the Walter Hines
Federal grand jury, Secretary Byrnes and
fronts? Why not anti-Communist organiza-
reach no other conclusion than that the
were smeared. Ammunition was gathered
of a people are more likely to be misled
Page School of International Relations at
Under Secretary Grew reinstated him and
tions?"
defendant by accepting and holding the
for the November elections and fired with
than to be consciously and deliberately
Johns Hopkins University: "Owen Lattimore,
congratulated him. Acheson took over after
Fact: Jessup is active in many anti-Com-
office of United States Senator during the
deadly effect.
bad, and in the primitive simplicity of
the top Soviet espionage agent."
the reinstatement.
munist organizations, including one of the
term for which he was elected circuit
Probably the most glaring example of gen-
their minds they are more easily victim-
Fact: No evidence ever was produced to
McCarthy: Feb. 9 McCarthy said that Serv-
most vociferous, the American Legion. The
judge, did so in violation of the constitu-
uine disservice to the vital interests of the
ized by a large than by a small lie
support this charge.
ice
"under Acheson
was
placed in
Utica Legion post of which he formerly
tion and laws of the State of Wisconsin
United States was the defeat of Tydings. He
some part of even the boldest lie is sure to
McCarthy: Lattimore was described March
charge of all placements and promotions.
was commander.pa a long resolution
and in so doing violated his oath as cir-
was licked by a false slogan (whitewash of
stick
13 by McCarthy as "a consultant in the
Fact: He was not.
thanking Jessup for his "patriotic devo-
cuit judge and as an attorney at law."
Communism) and the employment of tech-
McCarthy has been calling Secretary of
State Department." April 20 on a radio pro-
McCarthy: On March 14 McCarthy assert-
tion" and decrying "the unprincipled, un-
The Supreme Court did not disbar Mc-
niques reminiscent of Adolf Hitler and the
State Dean Acheson the "Red Dean of Fash-
gram McCarthy added, "whether you call
ed that Dr. Harlow Shapley was an employe
justified, unsportsmanlike, un-American
Carthy, however. McCarthy went on to the
present Soviet Russian dictatorship.
ion," which is, of course, nonsensical. But
him technically an employe or not." April 9
of the State Department.
and intolerable conduct of Senator Mc-
Senate. While head of a congressional group
The charge that fydings was soft on the
Hitler also said:
in a telegram to Acheson McCarthy said, "re-
Fact: Dr. Shapley is employed full time
Carthy in this wanton attempt without
exploring housing problems, he accepted a
Communista was so absurd that only the
"The receptive ability of the masses is
gardless of whether Mr. Lattimore is a Rus-
as professor of astronomy at Harvard.
proof or reason to smear and destroy the
$10,000 fee for a manuscript on housing,
technique of Hitler's "Big Lie" could have
very limited, their understanding small;
sian agent." April 8 in Passaic, N.J., speech:
McCarthy: At Milwaukee June 9 McCarthy
good reputation and high standing of so
from the Lustron Corp., manufacturers of
made it stick. By instinct, training, back-
on the other hand, they have a great power
"I will leave it to you whether he is a Com-
said: "I have here a limited number of photo-
devoted and patriotic a citizen."
prefabricated houses-which borrowed $37.-
ground and every other standard, Tydings is
of forgetting. This being so, all effective
munist." March 20 in the Senate: "I fear
stats showing that the FBI gave the State
McCarthy: June 9 at Milwaukee McCarthy
000,000 from the Federal Government, and
a conservative. He is not even a New Dealer.
propaganda must be brought out in the
in the case of Lattimore I may have placed
Department a detailed chart three years ago
stated: "From October 1945 to March 1947
then applied for more millions, before it
Yet the country has been deprived of his
form of slogans until the very last man is
too much stress on the question of whether
showing that there were a total of 124 Soviet
Acheson's law firm was retained by the Com-
went into bankruptcy.
know-how and guidance as the experienced
enabled to comprehend what is meant by
or not he has been an espionage agent." On
agents, Communists, Communist sympathizers
munist Government of Poland to obtain a
By then, however, McCarthy had his $10.000
chairman of the Armed Services Committee
any slogan."
the radio April 21: "I am not going to charge
and suspects in the State Department.
90-million-dollar loan from the United
and the Senate has been deprived of his
McCarthy has also frequently employed
Lattimore with anything.'
Fact: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and
States."
safely pocketed.
brains. at a time when brains are at
a
another technique. It goes like this: "It
Fact: McCarthy's utterances on the Sen-
Assistant Attorney General Peyton Ford
Fact: Acheson severed all connections
At a time when it seemed the Democrats
premium.
appears that (name of person) never actually
ate floor, where he is immune from libel
stated in writing no such chart ever was
with his former law firm five years before
were going to carry Wisconsin, in 1936, he
Other men also went down to defeat,
signed up as a member of the Communist
or slander suits, have often been much
given the State Department.
the conditional approval of the loan. When
began his political career as a Democratic
still others were pilloried, the McCarran
party, and never paid dues. That is the
stronger than his expression elsewhere.
McCarthy: and in my book when the
the loan was granted, the Polish Govern-
candidate for Shawano County District At-
anti-subversive bill was passed over Presi-
same as saying McCarthy does not eat hu-
McCarthy: Feb. 20 McCarthy said, "I will
Federal Bureau of Investigation says these
ment was not Russian-dominated and one
torney-and got beat. Since then he has
dent Truman's veto. executives refused
men are Communist agents.
of the objectives of the loan was to prevent
found it more to his advantage to be
a
man flesh. Yet it may ruin a man's repu-
not say anything on the floor that I wouldn't
Government jobs in fear of being smeared,
tation,
say off of it." He promised to resign If that
Fact: The FBI passed no such judgment.
Communist coup.
Republican.
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"ocrText": "election last fall by majority of 430,000\ntor Margaret Chase Smith (Rep.), Maine,\nBy a Washington Correspondent of the\ntime ever came.\nMcCarthy: On June 6 McCarthy said, \"The\npayments listea in nis 1949 return.\nwas not everything it was reported to be.\nIt\nwas unceremoniously \"bumped,\" against\nPost-Dispatch.\nFact: He would not repeat his charges\nFBI wisely refused to submit top-secret in-\nThese payments indicated he had bor-\nwas a dirty campaign, just as were those in\nher wishes, by McCarthy. Mrs. Smith in-\nWASHINGTON, Feb. 17,\nagainst Lattimore to reporters off the\nformation to the State Department on these\nrowed more than $300,000 that year. Mc-\nMaryland, Illinois, Utah, Florida, North Caro-\ncurred McCarthy's ire last June 1 when, in\nN the last year Senator McCarthy (Rep.)\nfloor. 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So far as is known,\ntor, you have said that Owen Lattimore was\nfollowing was a quotation from a House re-\nliam, and more than $100,000 from the Ap-\nCommittee report on McCarthy's charges of\nHoey, a soft-spoken courtly old-school poli-\nthere is no complete list of these McCarthy-\nthe chief architect of our disastrous (Far\nport: \"Almost anyone and everyone in the\npleton (Wis.) State Bank. The bank refused to\nsubversion in the State Department was a\ntician, has made an enviable record of fair-\nisms. The Post-Dispatch has at hand, how-\nEastern) policy. Interrupting, McCarthy\nState Department had access to the files,\" by\nexplain. No satisfactory explanation of the\n\"whitewash.\" The investigating committee\nness and discretion in conducting hearings,\never, more than 70 taken from the public\nsaid, \"Just a minute, I haven't said that.\"\nwhich he meant loyalty files.\nability of his brothers to lend McCarthy\nheaded by Tydings labeled McCarthy's\nand this may help the situation somewhat.\nrecord. A sampling of this collection fol-\nIn Chicago May 6 McCarthy stated: \"Mr.\nFact: The report actually said:\nmost\nmoney has been made. Evjue asserted the\ncharges \"a fraud and a hoax,\" a truth which\nThe picture seen by the pessimists here,\nlows. The charges and facts are given in\nLattimore, as the nation knows, has long\neveryone and anyone in the Division has\nwhole picture was \"astounding.\"\nwas crystal clear to right-thinking persons\nhowever, is that of McCarthy wringing in-\nalternate paragraphs.\nbeen the architect of the State Department's\naccess to the files.\" The Division was the\nA sidelight on McCarthy's brother Howard's\nand which Tydings proved on the Senate\nformation from State Department officers be-\nMcCarthy: At Wheeling Feb. 9, 1950, Mc-\nFar Eastern policy. \" He repeated this\nDivision of Security, whose staff necessarily\npart in the McCarthy financial picture is\nfloor.\nhind closed doors at the secret appropria-\nCarthy said: \"I have here in my hand a list\nassertion at Milwaukee, Rochester and At-\nhad access to its own files.\nfurnished by the 1944 campaign. The com-\nThe American Federation of Labor has pub-\ntions hearings and using it for propaganda\nof\n205 names made known to the Sec-\nlantic City and tried to prove it by citing\nMcCarthy: On May 6 McCarthy alleged\nmittee formed to elect McCarthy to the\nlished figures which show, it claims, that\npurposes as ranking Republican on the in-\nretary of State as being members of the\nfour of Lattimore's ideas on the subject.\nthat the loyalty files then being examined\nSenate reported receipt of $10,600 from How-\nmore than $2,000,000 was spent in Ohio to\nvestigating group.\nCommunist Party and who nevertheless were\nFact: American policy on the four points\nby a Senate subcommittee were \"purged\" and\nard McCarthy. That year, Howard McCarthy,\nre-elect Taft. Even the religious issue was\n3. Senator McCarran (Dem.), Nevada, who\nstill working and shaping policy in the State\nproceeded in a manner different from the\n\"phony.\"\nan auctioneer, reported income of less than\nraised by Taft supporters (perhaps without\nincidentally is chairman of the Appropria-\nDepartment.\" Next day at Salt Lake City\nviews McCarthy attributed to Lattimore.\nFact: Attorney General J. Howard Mc-\n$4000, on state tax returns.\nthe Senator's knowledge), who spread the\ntions subcommittee on the State Department,\nhe said he had 57 names. In successive\nMcCarthy: In Rochester May 25 McCarthy\nGrath had an examination of the files\nMcCarthy's demonstration of his opinion\nword that Taft's extremely weak labor-backed\nhas been working ideologically along with\nspeeches he said there were 206, then 81,\ncharged that Lattimore told Joseph Barnes\nmade by the FBI and was informed that\nof public morality is not confined to his in-\nopponent, Joseph Ferguson, was a Roman\nMcCarthy. He has set up a Judiciary sub-\nthen 106 Communists or security risks in the\nin a letter \"to get rid of all Chinese em-\nthe files were complete in all details.\ncome tax returns or his campaign expense\nCatholic while Taft was the brother of\ncommittee on security which will investigate\ndepartment.\nployes in the Office of War Information who\nMcCarthy: Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jes-\nreports, however.\nCharles P. Taft, former president of the Fed-\nthe execution of his anti-subversive act and\nFact: McCarthy eventually stabilized his\nwere loyal to Chiang Kai-shek and replace\nsup, like Acheson and Lattimore, has been a\neral Council of the Churches of Christ in\nwill also investigate subversives in and out\nfigure at 81. Largely through the efforts\nIn 1941, when McCarthy was sitting as a\nthem with Chinese Communists.\"\nfavorite target of McCarthy. On March 30\nAmerica and a noted Protestant layman.\nof Government. He has just been voted $75,-\nof Representative Frank M. Karsten\nWisconsin Circuit Judge, he refused to en-\nFact: The letter actually read: \"In the\nMcCarthy said that Jessup \"has an unusual\nThese facts seem to have escaped the\n000 as a starter.\n(Dem.), Missouri, it was shown that charges\nforce a state milk regulation against im-\ncircumstances, we have to be extremely\naffinity for Communist causes\nnotice of the Senate Republicans, who have\nThe Senate has refused to discipline Mc-\nin these cases were considered and re-\nFact: Jessup refuted this under oath and\nportant dairy companies. His excuse was\ncareful about our Chinese personnel.\npermitted Taft to become their boss and\nCarthy and has been criticized for its inac-\njected three years before by a committee\nthat the law was due to expire in six months.\nWhile we need to avoid recruiting any\nin detail.\nMcCarthy to become his chief lieutenant.\nThe Wisconsin Supreme Court found Mc-\ntion. Many Republicans, privately disgust-\nof the Republican Eightieth Congress. No\nChinese Communists, we must be careful\nMcCarthy: May 15 McCarthy said he had\nThis represents, of course, a far greater\ned at McCarthy's tactics, realize that for\ncharge was proved. Pressed for proof,\nnot to be frightened out of hiring people\npresented to the Tydings subcommittee in-\nCarthy's conduct in this case \"highly im-\ntriumph for McCarthy than for Taft, since\ngood or evil he has hit on a formula that\nMcCarthy said it was in the \"files.\" The\nwho have been loosely accused of being\nvestigating his charges photostats showing\nproper\" and an \"abuse of judicial power.'\nMcCarthy, only 41 years old, is a first-termer,\nmight bring them back to power after 20\nfiles were produced but the \"proof\" was\nCommunists. For our purposes, it is wise\nJessup was affiliated with \"not one, but with\nMcCarthy's \"improper\" conduct included\nwhile Taft now is in his third and has\nyears. Democratic defeats and defensive\nnot in them.\nfive Communist-front organizations and was\ndestroying court records in the milk case.\nto recruit as many unaffiliated Chinese as\nbeen the Senate's acknowledged leader in\nreactions are more difficult to analyze.\nMcCarthy: Feb. 20 McCarthy told the Sen-\nate that \"there are three big Communists in-\nwe can, to pick people whose loyalty will\na director of one of the worst of the lot.'\nJudge McCarthy also was charged with\ndomestic matters for years.\nOne factor unquestionably is that the Sen-\nbe reasonably assured by the salaries we\nFact: The committee never was able to\ngranting quick divorces to political friends.\nMcCarthyism New in U.S.,\nate doesn't know just how to deal with Mc-\nvolved and I cannot possibly conceive of any\npay them.\"\nfind a record that the material was turned\nThe Wisconsin state constitution forbids a\nCarthy.\nSecretary of State allowing these big Cóm-\nMcCarthy: May 6 McCarthy, speaking of\nover to it by McCarthy. The subcommittee\njudge from remaining on the bench while\nBut Old on European Scene.\nThere is nothing secret about McCarthy's\nmunists who are tremendously important and\nJohn Stewart Service, a State Department\nchief counsel subsequently asked McCarthy\nrunning for a non-judicial office, a circum-\nof great value to Russia to remain in the\npersonally for the photostats but never re-\nstance which might give rise to the+tempta-\nMcCarthyism is just about a year old in\noperation. He follows a simple totalitarian\nofficial who was mentioned in the Amerasia\nthe United States, though its totalitarian\nformula simple to imitate. How to do\nit\nState Department.\" He added the three should\ncase, said: \"Former Under Secretary of State\nceived them.\ntion to trade campaign, contributions for\nwas best expressed by Hitler, whose doctrine\nbe discharged and immediately prosecuted,\nprinciples are nothing new to Europe. It\nand that there was a fourth case which con-\n(Joseph) Grew, who had insisted on Service's\nMcCarthy: \"(Jessup) was a director of one\njustice.\ncame to public notice here Feb. 9, 1950, when\nis followed daily by Communist propagandists\ncerned an individual \"in my opinion one of\nprosecution\nof the worst of such organizations named by\nDespite the constitution, Judge McCarthy\nMcCarthy, in a broadcast from Wheeling,\nand often by McCarthy. Since, as Benton\nthe most dangerous Communists in the State\nFact: Grew replied he did not \"insist on\nthe Attorney General, namely the China Aid\nran first against Senator Wiley and then\nW. Va., charged that the State Department\ntold t the Senate, it seems likely that \"a new\nService's prosecution.\" He authorized his\nCounsel of the American League for Peace\nagainst Senator La Follette without resign-\nDepartment.\"\nharbored 205 known Communists, sympa-\nand worse siege of irresponsibility lies ahead\nFact: One of the three left the depart-\narrest without knowing his identity.\nand Democracy.\"\ning from the bench.\nthizers, fellow-travelers and spies.\nof us,\" it may be useful to recall what Hitler\nment two years before McCarthy de-\nMcCarthy: \"Two days after Dean Acheson\nFact: Jessup never was either a director\nIn 1949 a disbarment proceeding was\nSubsequently in 1950, McCarthy, aided and\nsaid in his book, \"Mein Kampf\":\nmanded his discharge; the fourth left 14\ntook over as Under Secretary of State, John\nor member.\ntaken against McCarthy before the Wisconsin\nabetted, if not actually inspired by the Chi-\nThe greatness of the lie is always\nmonths before.\nS. Service was reinstated and promoted.\"\nMcCarthy: April 20 McCarthy asked: \"Why\nSupreme Court. The court ruled:\ncago Tribune, created an atmosphere of sus-\na certain factor in being believed; at the\nMcCarthy: On March 27, McCarthy said of\nFact: After Service was cleared by\na\ndoes he (Jessup) always join Communist\n\"Under the facts of this case we can\npicion and disquiet. Numerous individuals\nbottom of their hearts the great masses\nOwen Lattimore, head of the Walter Hines\nFederal grand jury, Secretary Byrnes and\nfronts? Why not anti-Communist organiza-\nreach no other conclusion than that the\nwere smeared. Ammunition was gathered\nof a people are more likely to be misled\nPage School of International Relations at\nUnder Secretary Grew reinstated him and\ntions?\"\ndefendant by accepting and holding the\nfor the November elections and fired with\nthan to be consciously and deliberately\nJohns Hopkins University: \"Owen Lattimore,\ncongratulated him. Acheson took over after\nFact: Jessup is active in many anti-Com-\noffice of United States Senator during the\ndeadly effect.\nbad, and in the primitive simplicity of\nthe top Soviet espionage agent.\"\nthe reinstatement.\nmunist organizations, including one of the\nterm for which he was elected circuit\nProbably the most glaring example of gen-\ntheir minds they are more easily victim-\nFact: No evidence ever was produced to\nMcCarthy: Feb. 9 McCarthy said that Serv-\nmost vociferous, the American Legion. The\njudge, did so in violation of the constitu-\nuine disservice to the vital interests of the\nized by a large than by a small lie\nsupport this charge.\nice\n\"under Acheson\nwas\nplaced in\nUtica Legion post of which he formerly\ntion and laws of the State of Wisconsin\nUnited States was the defeat of Tydings. He\nsome part of even the boldest lie is sure to\nMcCarthy: Lattimore was described March\ncharge of all placements and promotions.\nwas commander.pa a long resolution\nand in so doing violated his oath as cir-\nwas licked by a false slogan (whitewash of\nstick\n13 by McCarthy as \"a consultant in the\nFact: He was not.\nthanking Jessup for his \"patriotic devo-\ncuit judge and as an attorney at law.\"\nCommunism) and the employment of tech-\nMcCarthy has been calling Secretary of\nState Department.\" April 20 on a radio pro-\nMcCarthy: On March 14 McCarthy assert-\ntion\" and decrying \"the unprincipled, un-\nThe Supreme Court did not disbar Mc-\nniques reminiscent of Adolf Hitler and the\nState Dean Acheson the \"Red Dean of Fash-\ngram McCarthy added, \"whether you call\ned that Dr. Harlow Shapley was an employe\njustified, unsportsmanlike, un-American\nCarthy, however. McCarthy went on to the\npresent Soviet Russian dictatorship.\nion,\" which is, of course, nonsensical. But\nhim technically an employe or not.\" April 9\nof the State Department.\nand intolerable conduct of Senator Mc-\nSenate. While head of a congressional group\nThe charge that fydings was soft on the\nHitler also said:\nin a telegram to Acheson McCarthy said, \"re-\nFact: Dr. Shapley is employed full time\nCarthy in this wanton attempt without\nexploring housing problems, he accepted a\nCommunista was so absurd that only the\n\"The receptive ability of the masses is\ngardless of whether Mr. Lattimore is a Rus-\nas professor of astronomy at Harvard.\nproof or reason to smear and destroy the\n$10,000 fee for a manuscript on housing,\ntechnique of Hitler's \"Big Lie\" could have\nvery limited, their understanding small;\nsian agent.\" April 8 in Passaic, N.J., speech:\nMcCarthy: At Milwaukee June 9 McCarthy\ngood reputation and high standing of so\nfrom the Lustron Corp., manufacturers of\nmade it stick. By instinct, training, back-\non the other hand, they have a great power\n\"I will leave it to you whether he is a Com-\nsaid: \"I have here a limited number of photo-\ndevoted and patriotic a citizen.\"\nprefabricated houses-which borrowed $37.-\nground and every other standard, Tydings is\nof forgetting. This being so, all effective\nmunist.\" March 20 in the Senate: \"I fear\nstats showing that the FBI gave the State\nMcCarthy: June 9 at Milwaukee McCarthy\n000,000 from the Federal Government, and\na conservative. He is not even a New Dealer.\npropaganda must be brought out in the\nin the case of Lattimore I may have placed\nDepartment a detailed chart three years ago\nstated: \"From October 1945 to March 1947\nthen applied for more millions, before it\nYet the country has been deprived of his\nform of slogans until the very last man is\ntoo much stress on the question of whether\nshowing that there were a total of 124 Soviet\nAcheson's law firm was retained by the Com-\nwent into bankruptcy.\nknow-how and guidance as the experienced\nenabled to comprehend what is meant by\nor not he has been an espionage agent.\" On\nagents, Communists, Communist sympathizers\nmunist Government of Poland to obtain a\nBy then, however, McCarthy had his $10.000\nchairman of the Armed Services Committee\nany slogan.\"\nthe radio April 21: \"I am not going to charge\nand suspects in the State Department.\n90-million-dollar loan from the United\nand the Senate has been deprived of his\nMcCarthy has also frequently employed\nLattimore with anything.'\nFact: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and\nStates.\"\nsafely pocketed.\nbrains. at a time when brains are at\na\nanother technique. It goes like this: \"It\nFact: McCarthy's utterances on the Sen-\nAssistant Attorney General Peyton Ford\nFact: Acheson severed all connections\nAt a time when it seemed the Democrats\npremium.\nappears that (name of person) never actually\nate floor, where he is immune from libel\nstated in writing no such chart ever was\nwith his former law firm five years before\nwere going to carry Wisconsin, in 1936, he\nOther men also went down to defeat,\nsigned up as a member of the Communist\nor slander suits, have often been much\ngiven the State Department.\nthe conditional approval of the loan. When\nbegan his political career as a Democratic\nstill others were pilloried, the McCarran\nparty, and never paid dues. That is the\nstronger than his expression elsewhere.\nMcCarthy: and in my book when the\nthe loan was granted, the Polish Govern-\ncandidate for Shawano County District At-\nanti-subversive bill was passed over Presi-\nsame as saying McCarthy does not eat hu-\nMcCarthy: Feb. 20 McCarthy said, \"I will\nFederal Bureau of Investigation says these\nment was not Russian-dominated and one\ntorney-and got beat. Since then he has\ndent Truman's veto. executives refused\nmen are Communist agents.\nof the objectives of the loan was to prevent\nfound it more to his advantage to be\na\nman flesh. Yet it may ruin a man's repu-\nnot say anything on the floor that I wouldn't\nGovernment jobs in fear of being smeared,\ntation,\nsay off of it.\" He promised to resign If that\nFact: The FBI passed no such judgment.\nCommunist coup.\nRepublican."
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