Word: witch-hunt
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Harper's gets about 1,900 manuscripts a month, and reads them all. Some of the best stuff is unsolicited: Columbia Historian Henry Steele Commager's article on the witch-hunt mentality ("Who Is Loyal to America?") which 65,000 readers requested in reprint, came in the morning mail. Ex-Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson arrived in person with his headline-making article on "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb...
...unbearable--in both senses. Edgar Bergen spins a new version of Jack and the Beanstalk, but while the beanstalk flourishes nicely, Bergen's tale doesn't. The reason why Bongo was cut short probably stems from Hollywood's fronetic fear of Communists; but it seems too bad that the witch-hunt has finally extended to make-believe hears...
...other Communist-front can carry along well-meaning youth in the most despicable form of political exploitation, the real job is not to look under the bed but to offer a genuine progressive program in the democratic organizations. A witch-hunt indiscriminately pinning the Red label to independent-thinking individuals or magnifying the significance of the neurotic schoolboy Party Liner will only serve to arouse thousands of students across the country in defense of civil liberties. The informed in every stratum of society will surely resist obvious hysteria-shenanigans. Republican leaders are inviting near-unanimous condemnation from intelligent citizens...
...said that "we oppose any attempt of communist or fascist forces to infiltrate AVC and divert it from its liberal goals. We propose no purges. We are merely spelling out what is implicit in AVC's program: that no communist or fascist can honestly join AVC. The cry of 'witch-hunt' is an attempt at political blackmail to confuse the issue...
...Browder foresaw, if Dewey were elected: the Soviet would be warned that the U.S. was determined to stop cooperating with it as soon as possible ; no postwar world security organization would be possible ; John L. Lewis would seize control of the U.S. labor movement; the G.O.P. would start a "witch-hunt" through the U.S. for hidden Communists; a series of strike waves would ensue; and finally, "all hope of orderly and peaceful progress, national and international, will disappear...