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Within minutes Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen shot back. Said Stassen: "Senator McCarthy stated in his speech that what he was saying 'sounds fantastic and unbelievable.' What he says is fantastic and unbelievable-and untrue." Stassen declared that the shipment of weapons of any type to the Soviet bloc "has been banned, is banned and will continue to be banned" by the U.S. and her allies. McCarthy, he added, "is frantically reaching for headlines after the sorry spectacle of his record in the recent hearings...
...later press conference Stassen branded McCarthy's speech as false in "just about every paragraph," and charged: "It is one thing to have an honest difference of viewpoint and another thing to give false facts in order to reach a really vicious conclusion...
...Stassen, who had been waiting his chance to lash back at McCarthy ever since a year ago when they tangled over McCarthy's private negotiations with Greek shipowners, had chosen his time well. A year ago, the President did not back Stassen up, instead allowed Secretary of State Dulles to conciliate McCarthy at a sacrifice of Stassen's prestige...
This time it was different. As last week's National Security Council meeting convened, Harold Stassen asked the President: "Did I get out of line at all yesterday?" Ike replied, not a bit; that all Stassen did was call the man a liar to his face...
After a few more minutes in the committee's chilly atmosphere, Stassen abruptly stood up, packed up his charts and went back downtown to his office. If he had stuck to the plain fact that the agreement to relax controls on East-West trade was a necessary concession to the British and French, who are being hard-pressed by the U.S. diplomacy on the political front, the Senators would probably have understood him better. But when he implied that the new trade might soften the heart of Communism-i.e., that Russia makes guns only because...