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...shouting that he was "rooting out the skunks," just how many Communists has Joe rooted out? The answer: none. At best, he might claim an assist on three minor and borderline cases which Government investigators had already spotted. Joe tries to include himself in by saying: "We got Alger Hiss...
Marzani out, Wadleigh, George Shaw Wheeler and a few others." McCarthy had nothing to do with any of them. Hiss was flushed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Wadleigh, like Hiss, was named by Whittaker Chambers. Judith Coplon (who was employed in the Justice Department) was arrested by the FBI. Marzani was uncovered by the State Department's own loyalty investigation in 1946. George Shaw Wheeler was never in the State Department, but with the U.S. Military Government in Germany; he was denounced by Michigan's Representative George A. Dondero in 1947 and eased out while facing...
...Nerve. On such a miserable showing as an 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...
Although Buckley was a well-known, controversial figure during his undergraduate days, few of his old friends have come to his support. As editor of the Yale Daily News, Buckley condemned Truman, Acheson, Hiss, Humphrey, and Bowles. He backed the MaCarran Act, the Taft-Hartley Law, and the Committee on Un-American Activities. He waged incessant warfare against liberal professors and anyone who wasn't Christian and individualist. A few days ago however, the News said in an editorial that "The Buckley book is characterized by naivete, misinformation.... and the crassest dogmatism. It is an... attempt to construct...
...former State Department expert on Latin America, asserts Woltman, had been linked by testimony with the Alger Hiss inquiry. Friends of Duggan have strongly defended him against all attacks on his reputation...