Word: mccarranism
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When John Brode '52 lost his citizenship during the Korean War for leaving the country to avoid the draft, he could not have guessed that he would be running for a seat on the Cambridge City Council in 1975. But the McCarran Act, the instrument of Brode's exile, was declared unconstitutional in 1957, enabling him to return...
...Glitter Gulch has rarely been that reticent. Born in Brooklyn 65 years ago, Herman Milton Greenspun hit Las Vegas after a World War II Army hitch and bought an ailing Vegas newspaper. He quickly won national prominence-and circulation-with slashing attacks on Senators Joseph McCarthy and Patrick McCarran, whose Red baiting offended him. McCarran died in 1954 in Hawthorne, Nev., just after giving a speech in which he exclaimed: "Greenspunism must be defeated!" Since then, the whip of Greenspunism has been laid mostly on local figures, including Howard Hughes, who left for the Bahamas in 1970. Greenspun grew uneasy...
...easy to agree, during the fifties, that while the "heretics" might not be blameless, their punishments far outweighed their crimes. Certainly, their inquisitors represented a reactionary force, while the "heretics," for the most part, advocated social reform and perhaps social revolution. What's more, innocent bystanders suffered--because McCarthy, McCarran and their cohorts, especially on the local level, rarely exercised a surgeon's care in excising the red sores from the body politic...
...agree, during the Fifties, that while the "heretics" might not be blameless, their punishments far outweighed their crimes. Certainly, their inquisitors represented a reactionary force, while the "heretics," for the most part, advocated social reform and perhaps social revolution. What's more, many innocent people suffered--because McCarthy, McCarran and their cohorts, especially on the local level, rarely exercised a surgeon's care in excising the red sores from the body politic...
...Aldo Mario Bellei, who challenged the constitutionality of the McCarran Act in the Supreme Court case, is no longer an American. Son of an American mother and an Italian father, Bellei, now 31, was born and brought up in Italy. As a youth, he visited the U.S. on his mother's passport; in 1952, the State Department issued Bellei his own passport, which was routinely approved until his 23rd birthday. Then, in 1966, the American consul in Rome informed him that he had lost his U.S. citizenship. Now living in Rome, Bellei spent years fighting for his right...