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...first stages of the fight against Charles E. Bohlen's confirmation as Ambassador to Russia were based on Bohlen's political background. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy and Nevada's Pat McCarran said that they were against Bohlen because he was part & parcel of the Roosevelt-Truman-Acheson foreign policy. Last week the battleground suddenly shifted from policy to what Joe McCarthy called "security...
Acid & Orders. Senators Bridges, McCarthy and McCarran were refueled rather than reassured. Democrat McCarran charged that Dulles had cleared Bohlen despite objections by Robert Walter Scott McLeod, the State Department's chief security officer, who used to be Styles Bridges' administrative assistant. The case, said McCarran, was the "acid test" of whether the new State Department is any different from...
With Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Alexander Wiley at his elbow, Foster Dulles called in the press and flatly denied what McCarran said. The FBI report on Bohlen, said Dulles, contained entirely unsubstantiated rumors. (The FBI, following its longtime practice, did not evaluate the material in its report.) McLeod (who fired 24 homosexuals in his first three weeks on the job) had called the FBI material to Dulles' attention, but McLeod had not evaluated it. So, said Dulles, there were no differences between him and McLeod. Dulles' own evaluation of the derogatory material: "There is not a whisper...
Picking up McCarran's remark about a test, Dulles said that since there had been a full investigation of Bohlen and that the President and the Foreign Relations Committee had been fully informed of it, the whole case was merely "an acid test of the orderly process of our Government...
...hostility ranged in degree. Michigan's Homer Ferguson and California's William Knowland were not really happy about the nomination. Nevada's crusty Democrat, Pat McCarran, joined the GOP opposition; Bohlen's link with Yalta, he said, is "enough for me." Ohio's Robert Taft, in his role of Republican pacifier, thought the Moscow ambassadorship not important enough for a big intraparty battle. "Our Russian ambassador can't do anything. He is in a box at Moscow. All he can do is observe and report. He will not influence policy materially...