Word: mccarthyism
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...public men on all sides of any question get shocking letters-and no cause can be judged by the virulence of its letter writers. Nevertheless, Arkansas Democratic Senator William Fulbright had a point to make last week about the "character of what has come to be known as McCarthyism." To illustrate his point, Fulbright inserted in the Congressional Record some letters he has received from followers of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Excerpts...
...Senate, the debate has swung around McCarthy the man, and McCarthy the ill-behaved Senator. Thus, many liberals, revolted by the abusive McCarthy tactics, tend to dismiss all his adherents as either malicious or stupid people. Such an attitude, however, underestimates the movement and suggests no solution to McCarthyism as a political problem. The censure split in the Senate parallels a more serious split in the nation, a division particularly deep in matters of foreign policy. The McCarthyitcs' overriding fear of internal communism, whatever its elements of opportunism, reflects in some cases a sincere conviction that the country...
Next day, McCarthy gave the press a speech which he planned (he said) to make to the Senate the following day. It was the usual attempt to equate anti-McCarthyism with pro-Communism-but this was the first time McCarthy had tried that line on such recognized conservatives as the members of the Watkins Committee. Said he: "I would have the American people recognize, and contemplate in dread, the fact that the Communist Party -a relatively small group of deadly conspirators-has now extended its tentacles to that most respected of American bodies, the U.S. Senate; that it has made...
...This is certainly an ill-timed decision by the Academies," Petersberger declared. "Their announcement seems to eradicate confidence in the Bill of Rights at a time when McCarthyism is being argued on the floor of the Senato...
...damn mike is in his way," some one shouted four times as Roy spoke. He talked fluently about the danger of anti-McCarthyism, except when he stopped to allow loud applause for the "patriots" or boos for the "McCarthy attackers...