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McCarthy managed to make a spectacular brawl of it, even though Doctor Matthews had made himself virtually indefensible by charging, in the American Mercury, that "the largest single group supporting the Communist apparatus in the U.S. today is composed of Protestant clergymen" (TIME, July 13). A longtime McCarthy collaborator, Matthews has been feeding Joe information and suggestions perhaps as far back as McCarthy's first out-on-the-limb blast at Communism in the State Department, made at Wheeling, W.Va. in February 1950. Matthews has been a member of what Westbrook Pegler calls "our cell of Red baiters...
Benevolent Exterior. With his pince-nez and some carefully cultivated propaganda about his being a pianist and a profound student of architecture, Beria brought an air of respectability to the secret police, which had become almost unmentionable, so greatly was it feared. The whole apparatus of the NKVD was reorganized. Thousands were released from the prisons and the story put about that this was Stalin's (and Beria's) clemency, and that the real instigators of the purge had been Yagoda and Yezhov. Beneath this relatively benevolent exterior, Beria turned the NKVD into the most ruthless and extensive...
...largest single group supporting the Communist apparatus in the U.S. today is composed of Protestant clergymen." This astounding and inherently uncheckable statement appears in the July issue of the American Mercury under the byline of Joseph B. Matthews. No sooner had his article been spotted than the protests began to crackle...
...Protestant clergymen in front organizations where Communists had a more or less hidden control. Fronts were an important but not the most important part of Red activity in the U.S., and some evidence of duped clergymen is a long way from constituting "the largest single group supporting the Communist apparatus...
...defense plants) when his Communist Party membership came to the attention of Army authorities. He was dropped from the Signal Corps. But he became more valuable than ever to Moscow. He went underground. He became part-owner and operator of a Manhattan machine shop. But secretly he ran an apparatus of spies and informants who passed scientific and technical data to Russian agents, including Anatoli Yakovlev, a clerk in the Russian consulate at New York...