Word: carthyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gallant hopes of yesterday have given way to the sorry confusion of today. [They] have been replaced by the four fears-fear of depression; fear of Communism; fear of ourselves; fear, if you please, of freedom itself." Stevenson did not name Senator McCarthy during an obvious attack on Mc-Carthyism, in which, he charged, "the Bill of Rights is besieged, ancient liberties infringed." He did, however, mention Attorney General Herbert Brownell, "the chief law-enforcement officer of the nation, the very embodiment of our concept of justice, [who] has even imputed disloyalty or Communist sympathy to a former President while...
Meanwhile, for the first time, Virginia's powerful and respected Senator Harry Byrd delivered a pointed attack on Mc-Carthyism. "Mr. Matthews," he said, "should give names and facts to sustain his charge or stand convicted as a cheap demagogue, willing to blacken the character of his fellow Americans for his own notoriety and personal gain...
...President had presented the nine Americans on the commission with a great opportunity and grave responsibility. The problem of security was obvious and compelling. But no one wanted the throttling kind of thought control inspired by Mc-Carthyism and leading, as Harry Truman aptly put it, to "the deadly imposition of conformity." Many a plain citizen, confused and alarmed by all the whirling words, would listen carefully to a quiet, disinterested voice that spoke with knowledge and authority. The commission might fail; but if it could find the way to security with freedom, it would earn a nation...