Word: peress
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Stevens will order completion of the Army's investigation of the Peress case; make "everyone involved" available as witnesses before McCarthy's committee...
...Mundt and Potter. But the draft asked Joe to do three things he would obviously never consent to: 1) admit that he had abused Zwicker, 2) agree that Stevens had been given assurances of McCarthy's future good conduct, and 3) hint that calling Army officers in the Peress case might not be necessary...
After waiting much too long, the Army last week laid out chapter and verse in the case of Major Irving Peress. The chronology clearly showed that 1) the Army "discovered" Peress and started him on the way out long before Joe McCarthy roared into the picture. 2) the seemingly strange aspects of the case followed a familiar, tangled pattern of Army red tape...
...Peress, a New York City dentist, was commissioned as an Army Reserve captain under the doctors' draft...
...Following the usual routine, Peress filled in his personal-history and loyalty forms. On these forms the inductee may invoke the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution in connection with the loyalty certificate and questions about subversive affiliations. Instead of simply signing the certificate and answering the questions, Peress wrote: "Federal constitutional privilege." As his papers wandered through channels, no one reacted to that notation...