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...advance, not hinder it ... Communists and fellow travelers [have] risen to positions of trust in our Government ... On that very day when a poor distraught schoolteacher ventured death to jump to freedom . . . the head of our own Government called the exposure of Communists in our Government 'a red herring...
...Harry Truman was going to fight and keep on fighting, come hell or high water. He repeated, for the nth time, that the congressional investigations of Communism were just a political red herring. And as for Tom Dewey's promise to clean the Reds out of Washington-Harry Truman said he thought it was Dewey's intention to clean out Democrats, not Communists...
Commented the New York Herald Tribune, which has previously taken a skeptical view of the committee's work: "The committee has turned up a great deal more than a 'red herring' . . . has been unearthing important facts . . . has thrown valuable light upon the Communist problem...
Were the congressional investigations of Communism in government just a political red herring? Harry Truman said they were-in an anomalous use of a cliché much fancied by Communists. Republicans scoffed that the President's accusation was just a political dodge to get his party off an uncomfortable election-year spot. Of course it was a fact that both parties were playing election-year politics...
...Republicans, said Harry Truman firmly, are using the congressional spy investigations as a "red herring to keep from doing what they ought to do." The investigations had produced no evidence not long known to the FBI and a federal grand jury, he added, and they served no useful purpose. "On the contrary, they are doing irreparable harm to certain persons, seriously impairing the morale of federal employees, and undermining public confidence in the Government...