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Meanwhile, in Cambridge, Galbraith said he did not wish to modify his original statement, which accused Capehart of quoting him out of context. The senator last night vigorously denied he had deleted passages from the section of the Marshall Plan pamphlet he quoted over...
John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, last night accused Senator Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) of deliberately quoting a pamphlet of his out of context in a television broadcast yesterday afternoon, and denied that the pamphlet "praised Communism," as the senator had charged...
Galbraith answered that "the pamphlet warns of the danger of Communism. the paragraphs the Senator read explain its appeal to the European masses. Those that follow, which the Senator did not read, tell of the resulting danger." He explained that the pamphlet had been written to point out the danger of Communism and the fallacy in assuming that the Marshall Plan would be sufficient in the fight against Communist domination in Europe...
...senator cannot plead ignorance of the import of the document," Galbraith said. "I wired him of its nature before the show was filmed." Galbraith noted that Capehart had not only quoted the pamphlet out of Context, but had omitted qualifying phrases from the text...
...economist called attention to the fact that the pamphlet, published by the National Planning Association, was "in general supported by a statement signed among others, by Milton s. Eisenhower, brother of the President and Allen W. Dulles, brother of the secretary of state...