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Although he was confined to a Reno hospital bed last week, Nevada's blustering Senator Pat McCarran still managed -somewhat like the Queen Elizabeth whistling in drydock-to issue a blast at the State Department. At first glance, it seemed fairly routine: the Senator noted with alarm that 18 leftist U.S. labor leaders got visas for England, France and Italy last spring and then went blithely on to Moscow, took part in the Reds' May Day ceremonies and issued anti-American propaganda...
...McCarran did not stop there. Passports, he made clear, should have been denied all 18. "While our boys fight Communism in Korea," he roared, "our State Department lets the enemy's civilian agents move at will between here and Moscow." This was a direct slap at a respected State Department functionary named Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley. Washington politicos reacted with the same horrified fascination they might have felt if the Senator had kicked a baby-or criticized J. Edgar Hoover...
When she read Senator McCarran's blast last week, Mrs. Shipley knew just what to say: "Preposterous!" That was all that was needed. "I want to make it abundantly clear," an aghast Pat McCarran cried the next day, "that the laxity . . . is not chargeable against [Mrs. Shipley] the chief of the passport division. It is apparent that [she] has simply not had the cooperation of the topflight officials of the department...
Biddle contends that post-war hysteria has produced such bills as New York's Feingold Law, Maryland's Ober Law, and the McCarran Act ("A curious hodgepodge of unwise and unworkable provisions.") He praised President Truman for the Federal Loyalty Procedure...
...night. A capacity crowd of five hundred people jammed the school auditorium to hear a lecture sponsored by the St. Gregory's Church Holy Name Society. This lecture received almost no advance publicity, but the speaker was to be ex-Communist, ex-managing editor of the Daily Worker, ex-McCarran Committee witness, Louis F. Budenz...