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...anti-Western nor antiDemocratic. Many of them were old-line Liberals, supporters of the late Eleutherios Venizelos, whose picture appeared on many placards and still carried great appeal in remote places where voters did not know that his son Sophocles and ex-Premier George Papandreou allied themselves with the Communist-front E.D.A. in the Democratic Union...
Corsi was attacked by Francis E. Walter (D) of Penna., co-author of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, for alleged association with Communist-front organizations in the 1930's, but Secretary of State John Foster Dulles denied that Corsi lost his job for security reasons...
Ladejinsky, the statement charged, had "required clearance from the Communist Party" to work for Amtorg in 1930. "He may be subject to coercion," because of three sisters living in Soviet Russia. "His trip to the U.S.S.R. in 1939 as a tourist [and] his membership in two Communist-front organizations, as well as information contained in classified reports, [prevent] the necessary security clearance required for the position of attache...
...point the McCarthyite Newark Star-Ledger took over. Under a six-column headline, hard by a two-column picture of a smiling Joe McCarthy, the Star-Ledger reported that the "material" concerned Case's sister Adelaide. The newspaper said that former Communist Bella V. Dodd remembered Adelaide Case "as an active member of several Communist-front groups I helped organize." When Clifford Case saw the story, he canceled all other campaign activities to prepare his reply to this "gutter politics...
Within a few hours after the story was published, more seams of McCarthyism began to show. Bella Dodd, a New York lawyer, said that she had known a "middleaged" Adelaide Case in Communist-front organizations in 1940 and 1941, but she "never related her to" Clifford Case and did not know Case's sister. There was another, older Adelaide Case, no kin, who was a teacher at Teachers College, Columbia University, and who died...