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...McCarthy Dictatorship...
...exultation comes to a halt with the discussion of McCarthysim and the age of suspicion. Wechsler's closing pages bear a depressing resemblance to the opening ones of a 1936 novel on dictatorship in America by Singular Lewis. Entitled It Can't Happen Here, Lewis' work tells how it could happen here. His hero, Doremus Jesseup, is a newspaperman not unlike Wechsler, and his dictator is a politician named Berzelius Windrip. In Wechsler's age of suspicion, an embryonic Windrip is incubating; only a cessation of panic and a new faith in freedom, the editor of the Post warns...
...Festering Wound. "Liberty . . . is something more than a political phenomenon, as tyrannical dictatorship contends; it is more than an economic phenomenon, as some disciples of free enterprise maintain. It is something more mature than that dream of rights without responsibilities which historic liberalism envisioned; it is certainly different from that terrorism of responsibilities without rights which Communism imposes. It is something wiser than free thought, and something freer than dictated thought. For freedom has its roots in man's spiritual nature. It does not arise out of any social organization, or any constitution, or any part...
...known to be operating underground. Political trials are now public. The dictator's new leniency in elections may be, as skeptics see, a mere transient gesture. But it could also be that the ex-professor now recalls, in his quiet old age, what he once said years ago: "Dictatorship is essentially a formula of transition ... It should not seek permanence...
...staff have free access to all the records of the Jenner Subcommittee and if he had any question about me he could easily have ascertained the facts. It is improbable that he is acquainted with my long public record of unalterable opposition to all forms of totalitarian dictatorship--that of political demagogues who seek to establish thought control in the U.S.A., as well as that of Communist Party officials. But the record is clear: I was speaking and writing about the dangers of Soviet Communism long before the senator launched his anti-Communist campaign...