Word: peress
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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President Eisenhower took a deep breath, put on his glasses, picked up a sheaf of papers held together by a metal ring, and faced the 256 reporters at his news conference. Then the President began to read his "last word" on Joe McCarthy's Peress case against the Army...
...Standards'of Fair Play." The Army, Ike began, had made serious errors in its handling of Major Irving Peress, who was promoted and given an honorable discharge after his loyalty became seriously in doubt. But this fact did not reflect on the patriotism of U.S. military leaders who, said Old Soldier Eisenhower, have always been "singularly free of suspicion of disloyalty. Their courage and their devotion have been proved in peace as well as on the battlefields of war." Specifically included in the President's tribute was the immediate target of McCarthy's wrath-Brigadier General Ralph...
...Peress went back to Camp Kilmer and asked for an immediate discharge. He was a hot case; his wish was promptly forwarded to the Pentagon. The Pentagon approved immediate.separation. The same day, in a letter, Senator McCarthy asked the Army to hold and court-martial Peress...
...Despite McCarthy's request, the Army honorably discharged Peress...
...Just 31 days after Peress filled in his papers, the Army issued a new directive providing that the personal history and loyalty forms be filled in before (instead of after) a commission is granted. Under this new order, which had no connection with the Peress case, a number of physicians and dentists who refused to sign the loyalty certificate have been drafted as privates and are doing the same work as commissioned Army doctors and dentists. The Army is now checking the forms of its drafted physicians and dentists to determine whether other Fifth Amendment cases have gone unnoticed