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...their series on Joe McCarthy, the Scripps-Howard papers (TIME, July 19) stirred up an even bigger furor than they had expected. One of the first and bitterest attacks on the series by the World-Telegram and Sun's Reporter Frederick Woltman came from within the S-H family itself. Nackey Scripps Loeb, 30, heiress to part of the estate of Founder E. W. Scripps and wife of hot-tempered Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader Publisher William Loeb, wired S-H executives: "[Woltman's] smearing of Senator McCarthy [is] rotten, biased journalism, which would make my grandfather...
...appraisal: McCarthy is "a major liability to the cause of anti-Communism." By making it harder for real Communist-fighters to operate effectively, wrote Woltman, McCarthy has actually become an asset to Communism. "He has introduced a slambang, rabble-rousing, hit-and-run technique into the serious business of exposing the Communist conspiracy . . . and thereby disarranged...
...from the world's critical danger spots . . . Unless he has his way, he's willing to destroy the Eisenhower Administration at a time when it's grappling with a world crisis . . . Essentially he's no investigator. He's a headline-maker." Johnny-Come-Lately. Woltman found that McCarthy makes headlines by "wild twisting of facts and near facts [which] repels authorities in the field." For his adversaries, McCarthy has a special technique that "consists of imputing [to them] treason, treasonable motives, plots and conspiracies . . . Those with whose decisions Mr. McCarthy disagrees are, in his book...
...Wiesner, director of the electronics laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who had helped pick the site, then Cohn told the committee that the scientist was now opposed to the Seattle location. Wiesner later told Woltman that Cohn had "misrepresented" his position, that he had never changed his mind about the Seattle site, and that "the sabotage charge was completely unfounded and ridiculous." Said Woltman: "By failing to present [this] vital testimony, Senator McCarthy could report mismanagement approaching sabotage . . . And the world's two largest transmitters now lie useless in Government warehouses." Swallows Come Home. Was there ever...
Truman would have taken the play away from Mr. McCarthy." As a result, said Woltman, McCarthy-has been able to exaggerate and confuse the entire issue of Communism. Said Woltman: "The fact is, there's nothing today like the Red climate in America of ten years ago. The public is alert to the Communist conspiracy . . . The party-liner, who operated openly-and brazenly -in official circles in the 1930s, has disappeared. Communism has lost most of the intellectuals . . . Yet Senator McCarthy continues to use the blunderbuss, firing in all directions at once . . . By his excesses . . . his thumb...