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Not many months ago an official report condemning Joe McCarthy would have set off an emotional H-bomb across the U.S. But last week, after the Watkins Committee recommended that the U.S. Senate censure the junior member from Wisconsin (TIME, Oct. 4), there was no explosion. The press, the politicians...
The loudest senatorial reaction came from a close friend of McCarthy. Indiana's Republican William Jenner. Jenner complained that the Watkins Committee had ignored "the most important evidence" that the "Communist world conspiracy" is attempting to discredit McCarthy. His analysis seemed to disregard an important fact: the Watkins Committee...
Paging Olsen & Johnson. Paving the way for McCarthy's defense when the Senate meets Nov. 8, McCarthy's attorney, Edward Bennett Williams, filed with the Watkins' Committee a "bill of exceptions." It was a legalistic defense, based almost entirely upon points that had been considered and rejected...
The Sick List. Until the Senate acts (and probably afterward), the Watkins report stands as the most crushing blow that has fallen upon Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy since his spectacular political career began. Last week, when the committee was putting the final touches on its report, McCarthy canceled the...
As the Watkins committee put the finishing touches on the report that may finish Senator McCarthy as a major force in U.S. politics, TIME and LIFE Correspondent Emmet John Hughes cabled from London an estimate of the harm McCarthy had done to U.S. policy in Europe. Wrote Hughes: