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...onto the docket. But in these times, for a man to go several years under the label of Red is enough to brand him for life. In extraordinary cases, however, a speed-up in the courts is possible. The Administration is currently making campaign capital of its efforts to ferret out communism. Some of this efficiency should be used to bring the accused to a quick trial...
Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy once called Roy Cohn indispensable in the Senate's effort to ferret out Communists -"as indispensable." the Senator said, "as I am." Last week, however, the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee. Joe McCarthy, chairman, dispensed with the services of the indispensable Mr. Cohn...
Lenin for a Rupee. The policy of the Burmese government is so neutralist that "there are even two rival 'All-Burma Student Unions,' with identical names, one Communist, one anti-Communist." There has been no serious effort to ferret out Communist teachers from the nation's 211 Chinese schools, or any effective attempt to counterbalance the active (100 members) Marxist Chinese Students Association at the University of Rangoon. In Indonesia the problem is much the same. There are some 100 Chinese schools in the country, and many of these show their sympathies by displaying huge portraits...
...fundamental error at the root of the McCarthy problem," said Lippmann, "is to assume that a committee of the legislative branch of the Government [is made up of] 'law-enforcing' officers who 'ferret out crime...
Lippmann argued that it was the function of the Executive branch to enforce the law and ferret out crime. He concluded: "McCarthyism is fundamentally unconstitutional in spirit and in practice...