Word: mccarthyism
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While I deplore McCarthyism, we must give him credit for giving the Jessups, Lattimores and Achesons the limelight and an opportunity of exposing themselves, perhaps not as Communists, but for certain as mere second-guessers in a game that may well be the life and death of the whole free world...
...people see that McCarthyism can snowball until Joe becomes Adolf and our right to dissent is lost...
...letters received on the McCarthy story, 177 disliked Senator McCarthy, 146 liked him. The 63 others commented generally on the story and McCarthyism, without taking sides...
...Your recent write-ups on organized vice, municipal corruption, McCarthyism and moral deviation in high places surely must have brought home to a lot of readers the one salient fact that the U.S. . . . shouldn't be allowed to fumble on as a self-governing country...
...Kinds of Bad Sentries. More than Joe McCarthy went into the making of McCarthyism. It would never have become a force if mistakes of policy had not led the U.S. into a position that alarmed the public. Long before McCarthy, the U.S. had been slipping into the lazy fallacy that all ideas, policies and political systems are approximately equal-a state of mind very different from the valid principle that all men have a right to express their ideas, however bad. Part of the U.S. public, overtolerant of bad ideas, was a sucker for McCarthy's bigoted effort...