Word: handmaidens
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Moral or Mental. Far from being biased, said Ervin, he "gave Senator McCarthy the benefit of all doubts, both reasonable and unreasonable." Then Ervin moved to another subject: the McCarthy speech (released to the press but never delivered on the Senate floor) calling the Watkins committee the "unwitting handmaiden" of the Communist Party. Said Ervin: "First, if Senator McCarthy made these fantastic and foul accusations against the members of the Select Committee without believing them to be true, he attempted to assassinate the character of these Senators, and ought to be expelled from membership in the Senate for moral incapacity...
...released his "handmaiden" speech to the press, but cited lack of time as his reason for not making it to the Senate. "There was a shortage of speakers," said Watkins. "At one stage it seemed that we were about ready for a vote on the first amendment because there were no speakers; yet here was a man who told the press he was going to make a speech ... I cannot say that he was afraid to face us, but the facts are there, and we can take notice of them...
...information and uranium to Soviet Russia (a House subcommittee later called Jordan's tale "inherently incredible"). More recently, Jordan has been warning citizens that fluoridation of public water supplies is a Russian plot. The petition being circulated by the Ten Million in effect echoes McCarthy's Communist-handmaiden charge against the Watkins committee. It says: "We point out that the Communists and their un-American cohorts, by vicious propaganda, and through willing stooges and blind but innocent dupes, already have victimized certain members of the U.S. Senate. The insidious influence of these enemies of our way of life...
...session ended with McCarthy deciding he did not have time to deliver his "handmaiden" speech. The Wisconsin Senator's decision pointed up the fact that he was not really trying to impress the Senate, but to grab the headlines and stir dissension. Leaving the Senate floor that afternoon, McCarthy Lawyer Edward Williams was asked by a newsman: "Ed, your boy sure isn't trying to win friends and influence people, is he?" Replied Williams, wearily: "That's one book Joe didn't write...
...Wisconsin Senator's conduct "must be condemned," said Stennis. He called McCarthy's handmaiden speech "a continuation of the slush and slime." It was, he said, "another spot on the escutcheon of the Senate, another splash and splatter." Many more words would be uttered before the debate ended, but quiet John Stennis focused the issue clearly when he said that unless the Senate cen sures McCarthy "something big and fine will have gone from this chamber . . . something wrong will have entered and been accepted...