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Stevens gave many televiewers the impression that he was evading. But this impression arose from McCarthy's assumption that "orders" were given or taken by Stevens in this case. Stevens and his aides had probably consulted with scores of officials during the development of the Cohn-Schine affair. One made this suggestion, another wrote that sentence. To unscramble all that would be clearly impossible-and irrelevant. An official often tries to dodge responsibility by retreating into the bureaucratic maze. Stevens did the opposite. He took the responsibility and sought no refuge in "orders." Finally, Stevens succeeded in making this...
...done, the second half of Brownell's strategy could proceed: to keep the McCarthy wing from using its anti-Communist crusade so rashly that it interfered with the operations of the Army and other important parts of the government. This is the meaning of the preparation of the Cohn-Schine charges...
...Sokolsky acted as a go-between who tried to make peace between McCarthy and the Army, and the terms were pretty much McCarthy's terms. Sokolsky, said Adams, proposed to him that if the Army gave Private G. David Schine some of the special treatment McCarthy and Roy Cohn wanted, then Sokolsky in return could assure Adams McCarthy would ease up his investigation of the Army...
...influence with some members of the McCarthy committee and its staff. Sokolsky and McCarthy are old friends, dating back to around 1950 when McCarthy was a novice in the field of anti-Communism and sought advice from such "specialists" as Sokolsky. It was Sokolsky, his friends say, who brought Cohn and Schine to the attention of McCarthy and got them their jobs with the subcommittee. Ever since, Cohn has acknowledged his deep respect for Sokolsky, considers him a father-confessor available for consultation and advice. From Washington Cohn often phones Sokolsky in New York, and one newsman who admires both...
...since then, various activities of McCarthy have been criticized by Eisenhower's Vice-President, his Foreign Aid Director, and his Secretary of Defense. His political worth has been questioned by no less a man than Chairman Hall of the Republican National Committee. Insofar as the publication of the Cohn-Schine charges were the turning point in McCarthy's national popularity, they too, it turns out, were the result of a deliberate decision by the White House. It is impossible to view this string of events without concluding, to borrow a favorite expression from Red-hunters themselves, that they were...