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...public opinion. 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...
...Security, currently 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...
...line: "Nothing would do more to promote Communism in Latin America than for the U.S. to support a dictator who, like Trujillo, has been guilty of torturing prisoners and trampling on human rights." On the Senate floor, two senatorial admirers of Trujillo-Allen Ellender of Louisiana and James Eastland of Mississippi-put on a music-hall act in support of their favorite dictator. Said Ellender, chairman of the powerful Senate Agricultural Committee: "I wish there were a Trujillo in every country of South and Central America...
...Eastland: Is it not true that the same group in the State Department that had a hand in delivering Cuba to Castro desire to overthrow Trujillo...
...Democratic Landslide: The election wiped me out. There wasn't anything left to talk about because we have Utopia. With Byrd, Eastland and Faubus, what can go wrong? Nelson Rockefeller: He is promising that if elected he will give the kids Little League polo...