Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program, shows that Malenkov's regime feels the need to work up popularity with Russia's restless people. It promises them three years concentration on consumer goods, and in effect implies three years of peace. A dictator, of course, may renege overnight on his promises, but the extent and specific details of the current propaganda will make a sudden reversal difficult...
Friday's editorial gave the reasons why compulsory testimony coupled with immunity grants will help to determine more quickly the extent of the communist problem in the United States, and thus lead to a clear distinction between liberal and communist beliefs. Any law which requires this testimony, however, must assure the witness all the rights which he forfeits by testifying. The Fifth Amendment provides that no witness in a criminal case can be forced to testify against himself. This the courts have construed to mean that no witness before a Congressional committee must give an answer which may tend...
...reasons given in yesterday's editorial for a bill to compel testimony before Congressional committees was this: as long as witnesses kept the real extent of Communist infiltration indistinct through use of the Fifth Amendment, such infiltration could be magnified by cheap politicians. The latest McCarthy-Furry affair is a timely example. McCarthy stated, that, in closed hearings, Furry refused to testify about radar espionage and indoctrination of students. With this as a springboard, he could call the University "a smelly mess," where members of the Communist Party are currently on the faculty, feeding students "Communist philosophy...
...long as the actual extent of Communist Infiltration is unknown, it will be magnified by cheap politicians like Senator McCarthy. So long as investigating committees must pry information from unwilling witnesses, totalitarians of the right will be able to undermine the public's faith not only in America's churches and universities, but in the working of its democracy...
...deeper than is now apparent. People who have been too long in a university community may not be fully aware of the virtual unanimity with which the American public supports the purpose of the committees--with votes, mail, and public meetings. The public is determined to know the full extent of Communist treason, and the story can either be told the slow, painful way, a now, on quickly and completely, as with a compulsory testimony...