Word: mccarthyism
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...broke with Eisenhower when Harvard's James Conant was appointed High Commissioner to Germany and the rift has been widening ever since. Harry Truman, who knows how to use a thumb himself, introduced "McCarthyism" into the Harry Dexter White case, and Joe made the speech in which he tried to set himself up as the issue in the 1954 congressional elections, an issue which Eisenhower has emphatically said he does not want. Eisenhower & Co. have failed to make McCarthy fade away, and that failure is going to hurt in the fall of 1954 if it has not been corrected...
Yesterday's statement is an intelligent piece of analysis, both of the central issue of the recent McCarthy-Stevens dispute and of the larger threat of McCarthyism in beclouding Eisenhower's basic program. The President rightly defends the independence and authority of the executive branch of the Government and criticizes the complete "disregard of fair play" which has characterized McCarthy's recent Congressional inquiries. But the effect of his statements is largely vitiated by his continual unwillingness to openly oppose the Senator and what he stands for. So cautious is Eisenhower that he persists in his two-year policy...
...borne out by his address. He does not even support , as I believe a good many Harvard students do, the recognition of Red China as the de facto regime of that nation. Yet because of the vicious and totally false picture of his views presented by the American McCarthyism, a picture apparently accepted to some degree by the Crimeds, he is presented as a radical and unorthodox figure...
...original topic was: Resolved, That McCarthyism is beneficial to the United States. After some disagreement, however, the topic has been tentatively restated: Resolved, That investigation of subversives be restricted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Crimson will defend the affirmative...
...uproar that followed, a Labor Member of Parliament challenged British Chief Scout Lord Rowallan to debate forthwith the question: "Whether a Boy Scout can be a Communist." As Communists paraded the streets outside Westminster urging the government to "put McCarthyism out of the Boy Scouts," Lord Rowallan declared firmly: "We have a duty to our boys and parents to protect them from undue influences...