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Fairbank, who was in San Francisco ready to embark, immediately wired Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada) asking for a chance to testify before his Internal Security Committee "to answer libelous ex-Communist accusations...
...came back to the capital as head of the visa division, he confined himself to rigid administration of the immigration laws, surrounded himself with experienced men, kept a policy of complete honesty and forthrightness with legislators. His policy worked out so well that even Nevada's crusty Pat McCarran, self-appointed watchdog of the gates to the U.S., once called the visa division "an American fifth column in the State Department...
...five weeks, the Senate subcommittee on Internal Security has gone about its hearings on Far Eastern policy with an air of quiet authority. The quiet was imposed by Nevada's canny old Pat McCarran, committee chairman, who sensed that the public might be fed up with theatrics and McCarthy-style scare tactics; McCarran set his sessions in a small, fourth-floor capital committee room, banned play-by-play television and newsreel coverage. The air of authority stems from the fact that committee investigators swooped down on a Massachusetts barn last February and seized some 300,000 letters and memoranda...
...Peace Mobilization) an I.P.R. trustee. When Field was called before the Senate committee, he wryly listed his occupation as "prisoner" because he was under arrest for contempt of court (in the bail-jumping case of the four top U.S. Communist leaders-TIME, July 16). He bantered affably with Pat McCarran and refused, on the ground of possible selfincrimination, to say whether he was a Communist or had written for Communist publications. Ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers took the stand to testify that Field was a member of the Communist underground in 1937. Louis Budenz, onetime Daily Worker managing editor, described Field...
...Senator McCarran, friend of Dictator Franco, called a conference (not a Judiciary Committee meeting) in his office May 29 at which a $52 million loan to Spain was discussed. When State Department. ECA and Export-Import Bank officials got there, they had to talk it out in the presence of Spanish Ambassador José Felix de Lequierica, who had been invited by McCarran...