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...Jenner may claim that Communism is always a sufficient reason for hearings on any subject. But we have abundant legislation, both state and federal, on this subject. No investigator has doubted its sufficiency or propriety. It would require the utmost ingenuity to think of legislation more drastic than the McCarran Internal Security Law, the Smith Act, the McCarran-Walter Immigration Law, and other contemporaneous related statutes...
...called at the U.S. embassy with a petition to the State Department, demanding that the U.S. citizenship of Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara, papal nuncio to Ireland, be revoked. His reason: Archbishop O'Hara, a native-born American whose diocese is Savannah-Atlanta, Ga., is violating the McCarran Act by serving as an agent of a foreign power. Said Blanshard, in a press conference over his action: "Americans believe that no American can be a good citizen whose loyalties are divided between his own state and a foreign state...
Emerson noted the "hysterical way people are using these investigations for the advancement of their own careers." Asked to be specific, he named Senators McCarthy, McCarran, and Jenner...
...bitter critic of Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, Las Vegas Sun Publisher Hank Greenspun has more than political disagreements with his state's senior Senator. In a suit filed last spring, Greenspun charged that McCarran had conspired with more than 20 Nevada gambling casino owners to withdraw about $8,000 a month in casino ads from the Sun, thus attempting to silence the paper's criticism of him (TIME, June 16). Last week the $225,000 damage suit charging that McCarran had conspired with the gamblers was settled out of court. Under the terms of the settlement...
American Forum of the Air (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC & NBC-TV). "Is the McCarran-Walter Law Fair?" Discussion by Representative Francis E. Walter and Senator Paul Douglas...