Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson, of course, was making the dangerous assumption that men act in good faith. The past decade has shown how easy it is to turn an investigating committee into a vigilante squad, and a very recent case in point is the persecution of Linus Pauling by Senators Eastland and Dodd...
...investigating communism in the peace movement. They have demanded of Pauling the names of those scientists whom he had asked to help circulate a petition calling for an end to nuclear testing and a general agreement on disarmament. The biochemist has refused to release the names and Eastland and Dodd are now threatening to cite Pauling for contempt of Congress...
...spare. Some Senators grumbled that the U.S. should not have allowed Russia, an Ivan-come-lately with no valid claim in Antarctica, to be a partner in the treaty. "It amounts to putting the free world and the slave world on the same footing," complained Connecticut's Thomas Dodd. Thundered Georgia's Richard Russell, recalling the exploits of the late Explorer Byrd (brother of Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd): "This treaty would certainly be a dismal conclusion to one of the brightest and proudest chapters of American history...
...testimony had made him appear a Communist sympathizer, Pauling wrote to the paper: "Your very poor article about me has strengthened my opinion that the Times is rapidly becoming an unreliable newspaper." Appearing at Johns Hopkins University for a speech, Pauling called the Senate subcommittee's Tom Dodd a "militarist...
...Replied Dodd, who has in fact made a Senate name for himself as an articulate advocate of international law and order...