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PAGE FOUR
THE PUEBLO STAR-JOURNAL AND CHIEFTAIN
Published Morning and Evening, Except Sunday Evening,
Every Day in the Year By
The Star-Journal Publishing Corporation
Frank S. Hoag, President
Frank S. Hoag Jr., Publisher
Member of The Associated Press The United Press; American
Newspaper Publishers Association; Colorado Press Association;
The Audit Bureau of Circulation.
Senator McCarthy Is The Nation's
Number One Demagogue
Senator Joseph McCarthy that Presi-
is seeking a republican "who is for
sale" to take over the secretary of state's job so Dean
Acheson can retire in a blaze of "red" glory is an in-
temperate and disgusting statement.
One of the things which this nation needs, regardless
of who may be responsible for its demise in the past, is
a foreign policy that is approved and supported by both
parties as a bi-partisan approach to our international
relations. We concede that the Truman administration
tossed the bi-partisan foreign policy overboard several
years ago after Senator Vandenberg was not able to
continue, because of ill health, to hold the two sides
together. Even the democrats of the foreign relations
committee of the senate and the house concede in most
respects that the president rode roughshod over those
of the republican party who had been such a great_
help to present a united front for this country in the
past.
Regardless of what the situation has been, the best
thing that could happen for the welfare of the demo-
cratic party and particularly for the nation, would be
to have a meeting of minds on our foreign policy.
But the charges of such conscienceless persons as
Senator McCarthy, that any republican who accepts the
sécretary of state's job has sold out to the democrats
and is a traitor, is a challenge to every intelligent per-
son in this country. Henry L. Stimson and Colonel
Frank Knox are two outstanding republicans who ac-
cepted cabinet positions under President Roosevelt,
when the international situation seemed to indicate
that such a move was for the best interests of the
United States. Certainly these two men did not sell
out and by so doing did not endorse those in the state
department who seemed to be very sympathetic and
understanding in the communist cause thruout the
world.
Senator McCarthy is a clever, scheming and skillful
assassin of the character of anyone whom he can, by
innuendo and half-truths, cause public embarrassment
without an opportunity to reply directly against him.
Senator McCarthy is the nation's number one dema-
gogue and is a worse blot on the supposedly good repu-
tation of the senate of the United States than Huey
Long ever was.
Under senatorial immunity Senator McCarthy may
say anything he chooses on the floor of the senate
about anyone and be immune from any suits for libel
or damages. Away from the senate he has never dared
to repeat his charges in most cases and when he does
link individuals with a suspicion of communists sym-
pathy he does it with a sufficient smattering of refer-
ence to other reports by government agencies to con-
tinue to escape civil actions against him.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey completed a trip to Asia
recently and is scheduled to report to President Tru-
man Thursday. We suppose Senator McCarthy would
include Governor Dewey in his category of republicans
being for sale because he accepted the assignment to
travel thruout the Orient and report back to the presi-
dent.
We hope the senate is sufficiently cognizant of what
is happening to its reputation thruout the country and
thruout the world, that it will endeavor to draft rules
designed to forestall a continuation of such tactics as
those used by Senator McCarthy.