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Retort Prosaic. A reserved man, full of the knowledge that any Washington official has to dodge his share of flying tomahawks, Forrestal made little effort to counter the attacks. Goaded, he finally prepared a long, prosaic letter to send Congressmen who received anxious and puzzled inquiries from radio listeners.
The Pace-Setters. The hunt was a case history in government by pressure. The hunters were Communists, Zionists, Wallaceites, liberals, deserving Democrats who coveted his job, and gossip columnists-a faction as mixed as their motives. Henry Wallace was one of the earliest pacesetters, sounding the accusatory note: ex-Wall...
So did the New York Post and the weekly Nation, but they had a different reason. Forrestal had stirred them up by wanting to put Germany back on her feet, as essential to European recovery. He had enraged them in the Palestine dispute by urging that the U.S. be mindful...
Standing at Valley Forge. Columnist Walter Winchell caught the scent. He echoed the baying from the far left, also saw Forrestal plotting a Wall Street dictatorship. Leaping on a civil-defense bill prepared at Forrestal's direction, he shrilled that if the bill passed, "you may be in jail...
Winchell's. friend Drew Pearson, a longtime Forrestal enemy, and Pearson's old partner, Robert Allen, joined the chase. Presumably they were aided and abetted by dozens of Washington officeholders who have come to hate Forrestal for his views and his insistence on urging them. They turned their...