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After taking this for a while, Furcolo decided he had to squirm out from under this criticism. So in the keynote speech at its annual convention banquet, Furcolo told the ADA to disband. The public thought them pink, he said, and this weakened not only their work but the chances of any Democratic candidate they supported. Things, he confided, would be better for liberals and Democrats if the ADA faded away. And, leaving the convention to choke on its dessert, Furcolo went out to renew his campaign as "the man who repudiated the ADA...
...first glance Furcolo has a good point. The ADA will probably never live down its resolution to recognize Communist China, even though it was passed six years ago and repudiated soon after. The ADA has opposed McCarthy with too much dogmatism and too little understanding of the broad social, ethnic and religious attitudes McCarthy symbolizes. And it recognized too late the detrimental effects of Communist teachers on universities, and the inevitability of Congressional investigations. These kind of errors, in the public mind, obscure that ninety percent of the ADA's program that is sound its farm, housing and international policies...
...that the ADA should be the whipping boy of Republican orators is inevitable. The extreme wing of a party always catches the abuse of the opposition. Thomas E. Dewey of New York had to explain away the support of Gerald L. K. Smith every election for ten years. Stevenson campaigned against the mid-western, not the eastern Republicans, as did Churchill against Bevan, William Jennings Bryan against Wall Street, and Jackson against Nicholas Biddle...
...Furcolo's analysis was right, his suggestion was wrong. The ADA's dissolution will not quiet the men who make political capital out of equating liberals with Communists. Once the ADA is dead, they can create whatever fictions they please about its role in the "Communist conspiracy," and ADAers will have no organizational apparatus with which to sue or even answer them. And everyone who ever associated with the ADA will be subject to more branding and whipping than before-including Foster Furcolo...
...most shameful surrenders to political expediency I have ever seen. He employed a sophisticated manner resembling McCarthyism. He seems to have purposely forgotten that ADA was formed in 1947 by militant anti-Communist Liberals to fight Communism. His implied charge of 'leftism' in the ADA is as foolish as it is vicious...