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...cold, cruel prospect is that the free world is close to another big retreat before Communism. To pretend that the Communist diplomatic and military gains are insignificant would be the worst kind of self-deceit. The U.S. can gain its greatest strength and unity if it clearly recognizes that the Communists are being appallingly successful, clearly understands that there is not much leeway left for further retreat...
Much of what the Communists have wrought in China was begun before them by the revolution of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek; the Communists simply stole the revolution by deceit and mutiny while the country struggled against Japan. That power could not have been won without the carefully measured direction, aid and comfort of Communist Russia. The Communist rise in China might have been forestalled by wiser, firmer policies of China's Western friends. But what was relevant to the rest of the world last week was that China's Communists had been able to assemble...
...world is suffering from a multiplicity of fears. We fear the men in the Kremlin, we fear what they will do to our friends around them. We are fearing what unwise investigators will do to us here at home as they try to combat subversion or bribery or deceit within. We fear depression, we fear the loss of jobs. All of these, with their impact on the human mind, make us act almost hysterically...
Senator McCarthy picked last week to withdraw his $2,000,000 libel and slander suit against Connecticut's former Democratic Senator William Benton, who in 1952, after charging that McCarthy had engaged in deceit and was not fit to serve in the Senate, waived his senatorial immunity to Joe's libel suit...
...Hall. Sample McCarthy extravagance: "The Democratic label is now the property of men who have been unwilling to recognize evil or who bent to whispered pleas from the lips of traitors . . . men and women who wear the political label stitched with the idiocy of a Truman, rotted by the deceit of an Acheson, corrupted by the Red slime of a White." Joe worked hard to make his audiences (mostly middle-aged and middle-class), local newspapers and local politicos completely McCarthy-conscious. He rarely mentioned the President, and he ignored the Administration's accomplishments, but carried on his guerrilla...