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With Canadian newspapers storming against "McCarthyism in Canada," the Canadian government quietly finessed the request. External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson announced that Gouzenko had nothing new to tell, and now said that the Chicago Tribune had misquoted him. The matter might have ended there but for Gouzenko, who is soon to publish his first novel. He stood by his statement that he wanted to talk. With that, the Jenner committee forwarded a second request for an interview...
...Soviet zone magazine Berliner II-lustrierte, all hot and bothered, disclosed the power responsible for last year's Republican victory, for U.S. policy in Germany, and for McCarthyism. It turned out to be none other than Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Her function, said the magazine in a full-page expose, is to make people forget why Joe and Tom had to die in Korea, how [Americans] are cashing in throughout West Germany, and about the rising cost of living . . . Not by coincidence did this appeal to the nerves begin at the height of the American presidential election...
When President Eisenhower at his press conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) remarked that he was ready to take the judgment of the correspondents in his audience as to whether or not his administration had embraced "McCarthyism," the polling wheels began to grind. The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James ("Scotty") Reston promptly set his staff to work calling the 179 newsmen who had been at the conference to find out what their opinion...
...foggy. Nevertheless, concluded the Times survey: "The prevailing opinion . . . was that [Truman's] charge could not be sustained against [Eisenhower], but that it applied" to other parts of the Republican Administration. A representative answer: "I believe I would say that the President has not embraced 'McCarthyism' at all, personally. I do think that Brownell went so far in his accusation as to utilize, even if unwittingly, the McCarthy technique...
Moore said that although the HYRC did not formally lend its support to the Committee's statement backing President Pusey's stand on McCarthyism, it did not state any disapproval...