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Moreover, there now exists a procedure, under the McCarran Act, to determine and publicize the subversive character of organizations. This is intended to establish a public and orderly method for taking such action. This procedure calls for an investigation by the Attorney General, with conclusions to be reached by an impartial commission after a full hearing, and with a right to a judicial review...
...basis of our knowledge of the activities of the local group, and in the absence of any official action under the McCarran Act against the National Lawyer's Guild itself, we have felt that it would be an improper interference with the legitimate freedom of our students to take any action towards suppressing this group at the Law School. Erwin N. Griswold Dean, Harvard Law School
Senator Brewster, Senator McCarran, and the others who plumped for economic aid to France, insisted that American dollars would soften the Caudillo's heart and make him a valuable ally against Communism, Spain, it was argued, is crucial as a military base and as a source of military power and strategic materials...
This should be too much even for the strong stomachs of Messrs. Brewster and McCarran. Even if they are impervious to Franco's corruption, to his refusals to put through any kind of democratic reform, to his campaign against the "freemasonry, Protestantism, and prostitution" being smuggled into Spain through Gibralter, their laissez-faire souls should rebel against his refusal to cooperate on strategic materials. Even new ambassador Stanton Griffls, who calls Franco "a perfect gentleman," should be feeling rather ashamed about his mission of "friendship" to Spain...
...commission was given a wide directive to survey the entire tangled mass of anti-subversive legislation, check the operation of the new McCarran law and to look into, the effectiveness of the Government's loyalty and security program. Truman suggested that the group might also consider the problem in relation to state and local government, even in "private groups of all kinds." In, general, they would "seek the wisest balance that can be struck between security and freedom...