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Saltonstall and nine other Republicans joined 37 Democrats in voting to amend the act. The real surprise was that 20 Republicans and one Democrat (Nevada's McCarran) held out. The House, after almost as bitter an argument, passed the amendment by 220 to 105 (100 Republicans, five Democrats...
With Scissors & Paste. One bill bore the name of Nevada's portly Pat McCarran. Actually it had started out as a catchall of five different anti-Communist measures. McCarran had gone to work with scissors and paste, put in a few ideas of his own and laid the result before the Senate. His omnibus bill was a clumsy-looking vehicle. Nevertheless it moved. It moved along the path of recent court opinions which found Communism a clear and present danger, branded the basic aims of Communism as criminal in intent. It was aimed at Communists and their organizations...
Above & Below. It was against the omnibus McCarran measure that Paul Douglas, like Harry Truman, first cried out in the name of civil rights. The bill, said Douglas, "can easily lead to the smearing of innocent persons." He seized on the provision making it a crime to "contribute substantially" to the establishment of a dictatorship in the U.S. Who was to say what "substantially" meant...
Douglas also had another argument against the McCarran bill. He argued: the McCarran "blunderbuss" would not accomplish what it set out to do. What was to prevent Communist groups from changing their names as often as they were cited, from arguing their cases interminably through the courts? He argued that the bill would merely drive the Communists underground and out of sight; it was better to keep them in sight. The fact was, the McCarran bill would probably drive the Reds underground. But that was its chief usefulness. The reiterated Communist threat to go underground is political blackmail; there never...
...With the McCarran bill out of the way and the rest of its major chores all but completed, Congress was fidgety and anxious to be off for home and the hustings. But nobody dared leave until Harry Truman had made up his mind whether to veto of sign the anti-Communist bill; unless Congress is in session ten days after the bill goes to the White House, the President could quietly smother it to death with a pocket veto.† Between fidgets last week, the Congress...