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Thanks for the unraveling of Harry Dexter White [Nov. 23], a gloriously written piece...
After months of necessarily dry or unfavorable reporting on "their" administration in Washington, TIME gobbled up Brownell's exhumation of the Harry Dexter White case like a hungry goat an empty...
Your cover story on Harry Dexter White is a beginning answer, appropriate and timely, to the urgent public need for background information and clarification on what so much of the press glibly termed (in the autumn of 1952) "the mess in Washington." More must come, a great deal more . . . I see three great areas of need in this clarification: 1) a study of the term "McCarthyism" . . . 2) a study of the "climate of treason" . . .3) 3 study of the unsound philosophies of social reform that made it possible to undermine democratic principles of loyalty, of patriotism, and of objective morality...
...McCarthy had nothing whatever to do with the Harry Dexter White case. Nevertheless, he horned in last week and posed as the Hercules of this and all other exposures of Communists in the Government. As usual, the door was opened for McCarthy by "a McCarthy baiter. Harry Truman gave the Wisconsin Senator his opening by using a well-worn anti-anti-Communist technique; he denounced Attorney General Herbert Brownell's handling of the White case as "McCarthyism...
Without naming Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., he said the Harry Dexter White case had been brought up "by the same politician who engineered the ruthless, reckless attack on the ethics of Senator Taft and his followers in the last Republican Convention." Apparently untroubled by taking the side of the Republican element he had often condemned as "the Old Guard," Stevenson went on to define his stand on the exposure of Communists in Government. "Root out, I say. agents .of this satanic worldwide conspiracy, disclose the mistakes and failures of the past, assess the responsibility, let the chips fall where...