Word: jessup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wisconsin's noisy Joe McCarthy tried to inject himself into the issue of whether Ambassador Philip Jessup should be confirmed as a delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. A Senate subcommittee split 2 to 2, and the man who cast the decisive vote was New Jersey's Republican Senator H. Alexander Smith...
Smith knew Philip Jessup's part in that policy and disapproved of it. But would a vote to reject Jessup be construed as an acceptance of McCarthy's charges that Jessup was the next thing to a Commu nist? For days, Smith wrestled with this problem. Last week Smith exposed his troubled thinking to public view. He wrote: "I have known Philip Jessup for many years and I have absolute confidence in his integrity, ability and loyalty to his country. I am convinced that he has not and never had any connection with the Communist Party...
Third, every suspect, whether proven innocent or guilty, would undoubtedly suffer from the very allegations that could be made against him under this bill. The current fallacy "Where there is smoke there is fire" has ruined many an able man's career. For example, Philip K. Jessup was never accused (much less proved) by the Senate of being subversive. But he was rejected for the post of UN delegate because "the concerted . . . attacks made on him" led the Senate to believe that "there is a considerable segment of our people who lack confidence...
...interesting Western parallel is shaping up in United States character assassinations. McCarthy's ritualistic assault on Philip Jessup, for example, was denounced by Senator Guy Gillette as a "warped and distorted picture," created by deletions and "unjustified associations of quotations." In other words, trigger-man McCarthy had been caught firing blanks; why, then, did Jessup fall? Why did Gillette himself join with Republicans last week in voting against the nomination for U.N. delegate, despite his own conviction of Ambassador Jessup's loyalty...
Gillette's explanation, in his released statement, has that old, inscrutable look. Because of "the concerted campaign of unfair and unprincipled attacks made on him," it says, there is reason to believe "...there is a considerable segment of our people who lack confidence in Dr. Jessup...