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...Nevada's Pat McCarran, a cool-to-Truman Democrat, chairman of the Senate's Internal Security subcommittee, announced that he favors the Southern Democrats' candidate, Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, "because first of all he has shown a determination to clean Communists and subversives and fellow travelers out of the Federal Government...
...Chairman McCarran (banging gavel): "Answer...
...Defense. To rebut this testimony, Lattimore came last week before the McCarran subcommittee with a 50-page statement that bristled with some of the angriest denunciation ever directed by a witness to a congressional inquiry. Lattimore's statement (released to the press before he took the stand) categorically denied that he had ever been a Communist or proCommunist. It minimized his influence on U.S. policymaking and said that actually he stood for containment of Communism, Point Four and peace. It berated the McCarran inquiry as "stacked" against him, accused it of launching "a reign of terror" against U.S. diplomats...
When the professor started to read his statement before the Senators, he found the going rough. At every sentence he was interrupted by indignant questions. Gruff Pat McCarran said the professor's tactics of "intemperate and provocative expressions" were also Communist tactics...
Lattimore had told the Tydings committee that he didn't have a desk in the State Department; he had also told an executive session of the McCarran inquiry that he never took care of the mail of Lauchlin Currie, then an assistant to President Franklin Roosevelt. Under crossexamination, he confessed to being absentminded. He did, after all, remember having a room in Currie's offices in the old State Department building; he used it frequently. Furthermore, it was true that during Currie's absence, he read Currie's mail...