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...been a close friend of at least ten Government workers who had been named as spies. Three days later, at his farm in New Hampshire, White suddenly died of a heart attack. Liberals cried that he was a martyr and used his case as the supreme example of 'witch-hunting...
...White was fired, or that they believed him to be disloyal. In fact, White, who died on Aug. 16, 1948, apparently of a heart attack, three days after being questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee, has been considered in pro-Truman quarters as an innocent martyr to "witch hunters...
...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...
Last week Kentucky's Senator Earle Clements wired the White House demanding that the Army relieve Horse Cave of its "mortal danger." He was refused. That left Horse Cave just where it started: fearfully waiting for the rain which might release a surge of the witch's brew...
...even more important, the CRIMSON has adopted an antiquated ,line of reasoning which has been thoroughly rejected by our legal system. The witch-hunts of nearly 200 years ago were conducted on the premise that there are witches though it could not be proven that here are practitioners of witchcraft. The CRIMSON's reasoning in the though a person can not be condemned on the basis of his work, on the contrary his work will "shine," he is to be condemned because of "Innumerable public records" none of which remotely refer to that person. Which state that infiltrators' do exist...