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...unreasonable." Then Ervin moved to another subject: the McCarthy speech (released to the press but never delivered on the Senate floor) calling the Watkins committee the "unwitting handmaiden" of the Communist Party. Said Ervin: "First, if Senator McCarthy made these fantastic and foul accusations against the members of the Select Committee without believing them to be true, he attempted to assassinate the character of these Senators, and ought to be expelled from membership in the Senate for moral incapacity. Second, if Senator McCarthy made these fantastic and foul accusations against the six Senators who served on the Select Committee...
...must be remembered," Watkins continued, "that the members of the Select Committee were practically drafted for the job, and, so far as I am concerned, it was the most unpleasant task I have ever had to perform in all my public life. I am asking my colleagues: What are you-and you-and you-going to do about...
Sitting next to each other in their regular places on the Republican side of the aisle were McCarthy and Utah's frail, grey Arthur Watkins, chairman of the select committee which recommended censure. Their chairs were only a couple of feet apart, but the space between their shoulders was twice that (each man leaned away from the other), and the distance between their convictions was immeasurable...
...cowardly conduct" for demanding that future questions be put in writing.) When McCarthy repeated his old charge that some of the Watkins Committee members were biased against him, Watkins had a quick answer: "The only time it would be possible to get a completely neutral person would be to select one who was deaf, dumb and blind, and was a moron to start with...
Losing Constructively. George Leader's long leap from Willow Brook Farm to the Statehouse in Harrisburg could only happen in Pennsylvania politics. Last February, when the state's top Democrats met in Harrisburg to select a gubernatorial candidate, Leader was just an uninvited nonentity. On the face of it, the logical Democratic candidate was Philadelphia's District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, who had given John Fine a hard fight in the gubernatorial race of 1950. But Dilworth, and his friend, Philadelphia's Mayor Joseph Clark, were embroiled in a nasty intraparty battle over a new city charter...