Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read your articles on the John Birch Society and Operation Abolition with alarm. The Americanists and the House Committee on Un-American Activities show a backward trend toward McCarthyism. Most Americans are loyal to their country. They need rather to be reminded of the basic freedoms upon which it was founded. One of these is the freedom of speech, which includes the right to disagree with an opinion even when it is that of the esteemed House committee-without being classified as Communist or Communist-duped...
...first national report on the John Birch Society-the antediluvian secret society of political right-wingers-appeared in TIME March 10, and was read into the Congressional Record by North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton R. Young. There has been a headline furor almost ever since, with this week's installment reported in THE NATION...
...Justice Earl Warren was once a Republican Governor, Kuchel was tired of getting obviously organized demands for the impeachment of Warren on the ground that he gave "aid and comfort to the Communist conspiracy." By Kuchel's triangulation, the attacks were inspired by the name-calling, semisecret John Birch Society* (TIME. March 10). which has made Warren's impeachment its No. 1 goal...
...Congressman Henry Reuss, Wisconsin Democrat, called for a congressional investigation of Welch and his society. A spokesman for Attorney General Robert Kennedy said that the society's activities were "a matter of concern to the Justice Department." Across the land, newspapers began to print articles inquiring into Birch Society techniques in their own home towns...
...Humbug-hating John Birch was more proud of the U.S. 14th Air Force in which he rose to captain than the whole Navy, and your promotion of him to navy captain he would have spurned. Likewise would he have spurned the use of his great and good name for such a cause as Leader Welch's. On his headstone near Hsuchow, the Chinese wrote his epitaph: "Sha sheng ch'eng jen," which can be translated "He died for humanity," or "He died for righteousness." Leader Welch is doing dishonor to the name of my old friend, who fought...