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...Treason) Ralph de Toledano and three others. Columnists Howard Rushmore and Eugene Lyons were let go. All that the editors would say on the record was that they disagreed with Maguire's policies. But the New York World-Telegram and Stm's Pulitzer-Prizewinning Red Expert Frederick Woltman, who knows most of them well, said: "The editors resigned feeling that attempts were being made to introduce anti-Semitic material into the Mercury...
Last week, at a public debate on McCarthy in Sayville, L.I. with Fred Woltman, the Scripps-Howard Communist expert, Rushmore again criticized Cohn. Furthermore, when hecklers got after Woltman for his series walloping McCarthy (TiME. July 19), Rushmore rushed to Woltman's defense. Warned Woltman on the way home: "You'll get fired for this...
Frederick Woltman performed a public service in his recent series on Senator McCarthy [TIME, July 19]. Those of us who equate Communism with those other totalitarian movements, Naziism and Fascism, have been watching the conduct of McCarthy with mixed feelings...
...from McCarthy supporters outnumbered praise for the series by about five to one. But more than half the pro-McCarthy mail was anonymous, while virtually all the anti-McCarthy mail was signed. Said one S-H executive: "The crank mail usually outnumbers the sensible mail about five to one." Woltman, veteran anti-Communist reporter and never a member of the party or anything close to it, got letters addressed to "Comrade Woltman" and "Freddy Jewish Woltman"; he was denounced as everything from a "Communist agent" to "Freddy the Stink," and accused of writing the series only because of "pressure from...
Other papers also got into the act. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News called it "a five-spasm series," while such dailies as the Chattanooga Times hailed it for showing "up Senator McCarthy for the ruthless demagogue he is." Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet expressed astonishment that Woltman, who has "earned widespread support as an anti-Communist writer," could abandon his "fairness, integrity and accuracy" and turn "hatchet man." The Pittsburgh Catholic, weekly newspaper of the Pittsburgh diocese, took an exactly opposite view, called the series a "study which the country needs and for which it has been waiting...