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McCarthy the Accuser. Next day, McCarthy was back in a more familiar role. Flourishing a pink-covered brief of "documentary evidence," he appeared before a Foreign Relations subcommittee to oppose the confirmation of Ambassador at Large Philip Jessup as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. His "documentary evidence" would prove his charge that Jessup "has a great affinity for Communist causes," said McCarthy...
Among Stassen's testimony was the fact that Senator Vandenberg informed him of Jessup's desire for an arms embargo of Nationalist China, an idea which President Truman later Vetoed...
...Lattimore's ten-point proposal, including United States recognition of Communist China, which Stassen, said was substantially adopted by the State Department and approved of by Ambassador-at-large Philip C. Jessup. Jessup's nomination as delegate to the United Nations is due to come up before the Senate Foreign Relation committee today...
...ordered to do a job, and he did that job." Then, diving frequently into his brown bag for a black photostat, a picture, or a wad of congressional transcript, he turned his buckshot on his archenemies, Secretary of State Acheson, Defense Secretary Marshall, and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup. He set the veterans whooping when he offered to take his case against Acheson and Jessup "to a jury of twelve men and twelve women . . . if the President's spokesmen can find a way to get them into court." If the jury found McCarthy's charges untrue...
Nonetheless, McCarthy left his listeners gasping at his bravery when he challenged Duran, Jessup, Acheson & Co. to sue him for libel, since "there is no immunity that surrounds this podium here today." But again the McCarthy tongue had been quicker than the ear. In cold transcript, his apparently offhand statements turned out to be well protected by testimony already in the legislative record, or phrased behind a lawyer's calculated vagueness...