Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early November, just before the Committee adjourned, Trygve Lie resigned. Senator McCarran was quick to read this as the results of the "disclosures of the Committee." And only three days later, on November 14, Abraham H. Feller, the U.N.'s legal counsel, tore himself from his wife's grasp to leap from his twelve story apartment window...
...been described as "absolutely demoralized," by the crippling of its staff and the injection of an atmosphere of fear into the United Nations. Many delegations including the Canadians, British and French have protested vigorously against the process. Their protest is, at bottom, a deep concern with any extension of McCarran's investigation to other parts of the U.N. Although Lie has protested that the Secretariat works in a "glass house," and is "unfertile soil" for subversives, he has not resisted the Committee's pressures. The French and British protests arise from the uncertainty at where the investigation, if extended, would...
Trying to quell growing resentment against the firing of two professors who refused to answer accusations posed by the McCarran Committee, Rutgers University recently distributed copies of the Chafee-Sutherland dictum on the legal duty of citizens to testify before judicial or legislative bodies, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...heels of a running controversy over the firing of two Rutgers professors for refusing to answer accusations before the McCarran Committee, a Rutgers faculty man yesterday blasted Professors Zechariah Chafee, Jr., and Arthur E. Sutherland for their stand on the legal duty of citizens to testify before judicial and legislative bodies...
...second main objection, Ramsey explained is that under former immigration laws many of America's most important physicists entered the country without being subject to the regular immigration quota. But under the McCarran Act this is impossible, with the result that the movement of foreign scientific talent to this country will slow down or cease...