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...exposer of Reds, how has Joe McCarthy created such an uproar and kept it roaring? A large part of the answer is that Joe McCarthy in 1950 had hit a highly sensitive public nerve. When McCarthy first spoke up, Hiss, whose case Truman had called "a red herring," had just been convicted, and Acheson had declared: "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss." The U.S. people had just begun to realize fully the malevolence of the enemy they faced. Abroad, the West had suffered a grievous setback in the loss of China to Communism...
...Herring. In February 1950, Senator McCarthy made a speech at Wheeling, W.Va., in which he charged-without proof then or thereafter-that Dean Acheson knew of 205 Communists working in the State Department. It was not much of a speech, and McCarthy at that time was not a well known senator. Yet subsequent, and inconsistent, reiterations of that speech led to headlines throughout the nation. More significantly, McCarthy began to draw the intense interest of millions of Americans. Joe had stumbled onto something big. He is no man to let go of a political asset...
Throughout the investigation of Communists in Government, Truman, Acheson & Co. gave the impression that they thought the whole thing was nonsense. Truman called the Hiss case "a red herring." To this day, neither Truman nor Acheson has ever expressed a sense of outrage over Reds in Washington comparable to the indignation that Truman last week poured on Joe McCarthy...
...surface waters. Here is the snake-mackerel, up from the depths, first seen in living form by the Kon-Tiki expedition; here the uncountable creatures called plankton, a community of minute animals and plants. In the ocean food cycle, plankton is eaten by such small fish as the herring, small fish by larger ones like the tuna, larger ones by squids, and all of these by whales. To survive, sea creatures assume remarkable disguises: the Sargasso Sea slug has a soft, shapeless body, exactly like the vegetation in which it lives; another fish mimics weeds even to the point...
Most scoffers who had once called Communism in Hollywood a red herring were long since convinced that it was much more Red than herring. But last week, just in case there were still any skeptics left, the House Un-American Activities Committee scooped some more prize specimens, into...