Word: kohlberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most often named as the archconspirator is Alfred Kohlberg, New York importer, stoutly pro-Nationalist and antiCommunist, who passed some of the ammunition to Senator Joe McCarthy in McCarthy's assault on the State Department. Others accused of being co-conspirators include private U.S. citizens, publishers, Congressmen (chiefly Walter Judd, ex-missionary to China), Senators (chiefly California's Knowland and New Hampshire's Bridges). It was yet to be shown that they had done anything sinister. Principally, they were concerned in saving China from Communism. In this they have some potent allies, ranging in the Senate from...
Leafing through the Latin American edition of TIME, June 11, I was surprised-but not astounded-at the story on ex-Navy Lieut, (jg) William Evans, who got fired from the Navy for his anti-Administration letter to Alfred Kohlberg...
Last March, Lieut. Evans could contain himself no longer. On the ship's bulletin board, he posted a letter he had received, and dashed off a reply to its author, wealthy Manhattan Importer Alfred Kohlberg, violent critic of U.S. China policy and ammunition handler for Senator Joe McCarthy...
...Keep up the good work," he wrote Kohlberg. "I posted your open letter for all the officers on the ship to read . . . That pro-Soviet . . . Administration of ours and our senile, ignorant Congress would rather have Americans slaughtered than attack Red China . . . Damn the United Nations . . . The Roosevelt-Truman -Acheson -United Nations followers should be loaded on ships and used as shock troops in Korea. God bless Alfred Kohlberg. There are too few like him, though...
...Kohlberg sent the letter to every member of Congress (Lieut. Evans had given him permission to publish it). The Navy, getting wind, let out an outraged howl at so blatant a defiance of regulations, convened a Board of Inquiry. Last week the Navy found Lieut. Evans guilty of "grave misconduct" for his abusive language and breach of clearance regulations, stripped him of his commission, and gave him a discharge...