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...what is ordered ... In Spain public opinion is disregarded, and anybody who wants to read the news has to look anywhere except in newspapers." Spain's rigid press censorship dates from the civil war, when Franco published a "provisional law" giving the state the right to appoint and dismiss editors. By daily directives to editors, the government also dictates what to print and what not to print. As a result Spanish newspapers have fallen into such low esteem that the combined circulation of all seven of Madrid's dailies does not even equal the circulation of one daily...
...uncovered a spy high up in Truman's Treasury Department. Brownell followed this exposure with requests for "new and powerful constitutional weapons" to fight subversion. They included death for peacetime espionage, provisions for compulsory testimony before government tribunals, the right to deprive communists of citizenship and the ability to dismiss them from defense plants. Appearing on television, he claimed credit for jailing 36 Communist party members under the Smith Act but neglected to say that Truman, with much less fanfare, had jailed over...
...June, 1953, Harvard Corporation refused to dismiss Dr. Daniel Fine (a Teaching Fellow at the Medical School) although, because of possible self-incrimination, he had refused to answer questions regarding present or past Communist Party membership. He, also, had indicated that he had no proper ground for doing so by stating, to the trustees of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, that he had never been a Party member in his case also, the Corporation declined to order removal, but took the ambiguous action of permitting him not to be reappointed...
...alert to the danger of Communist infiltration, we should not have exaggerated fears." By the time he got through, Herb Brownell had done more than outline the Administration's coordinated program-"within the framework of the Constitution"-against the internal Communist threat. He had done his best to dismiss McCarthyism as irrelevant to the real job of fighting Communism...
...second bill would allow employers to dismiss from defense plants during a national emergency any person whose record showed he was likely to engage in sabotage or espionage. Such a measure was in force during World War H, and experience indicates that unless great discretion is used in its application, it can become a weapon of personal vindictiveness. It is conceivable, for example, that one employee might report another from motives that are personal, not patriotic...