Word: mccarthyism
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When Mrs. Roosevelt, at this late date, refers to Alger Hiss's "alleged" treasonable act (TIME, Oct. 26), I am flabbergasted. If any one thing is responsible for McCarthyism, it is such muddled emotional thinking by people who should know better...
...This is the final indication of Republican irresponsibility," he continued. "It is the acceptance by the administration of the political philosophy of McCarthyism." Howe said he felt that Brownell's action was obviously political in purpose. "In the long run the Republicans will lose far more than they can gain by continuing these witch hunts. What kind of support can Eisenhower expect from the Democrats if his administration arouses such bitterness...
...they evince a curious disquietude at the series of Boston Post articles by John Fox on the same subject using a great deal more lineage than would be required for my rejected "defense" in order to express their concern. And they becloud the issue by dragging in phrases like "McCarthyism," "The Chicago Tribune of the East Coast," "Kremlin Newspapers in Hub Library," "The Harvard Study of Russia. . ." and name like McCarran, Hoyt, McCormick, Conant and others. Further, they talk all around the subject without attempting in any way, shape or manner to answer Mr. Fox's articles...
...nations he had visited, Stevenson had conducted himself with a nonpartisan sense of responsibility, wisdom and tact. What had he been called on to explain most often? "McCarthyism," said Stevenson with no pause at all. He was cautiously optimistic about the state of the world. "We have been winning the cold war, step by step," he said. "In consequence, the danger of world war has diminished ... for the present." But the picture also had its dark side-which Democrat Stevenson by implication laid at the door of the Eisenhower Administration. Said he: "Just now, unhappily, [U.S.] prestige and moral influence...
Your concise summary of the double fakery known as McCarthyism [TIME, June 29] is the definitive statement on the subject and avoids the hogwash which has too frequently been slopped over this issue from both sides. There is a rational, honorable position precisely between the European neutralists' phony worry over American freedoms and the Senator's phony picture of our subversion...