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...Soldier Eisenhower, have always been "singularly free of suspicion of disloyalty. Their courage and their devotion have been proved in peace as well as on the battlefields of war." Specifically included in the President's tribute was the immediate target of McCarthy's wrath-Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker, commander at Camp Kilmer, N.J., where Dentist Peress was stationed...
...This silly tempest in a teapot arose because we dared to bring to light the cold, unpleasant facts about a Fifth Amendment Communist officer ... It now appears that for some reason he was a sacred cow of certain Army brass." In clear reference to General Zwicker, McCarthy said: "If a stupid, arrogant or witless man in a position of power appears before our committee and is found aiding the Communist Party, he will be exposed...
...with the use of the word "browbeaten." McCarthy, who usually reacts at once, lapsed into two minutes of silence. When he spoke, it was slowly and deliberately: "I've very carefully explained to the Secretary that he is the Secretary and not running the committee. He knows that Zwicker was not denied counsel. He never asked for counsel ... I agree that no one should be browbeaten before any committee, and the Secretary should have gone a step further and said nobody should be murdered before a committee either...
...Dirksen picked up the draft statement from its authors, repaired to the Senate cloakroom, where he huddled in Meeting No, 7 with McCarthy, Mundt and Potter. But the draft asked Joe to do three things he would obviously never consent to: 1) admit that he had abused Zwicker, 2) agree that Stevens had been given assurances of McCarthy's future good conduct, and 3) hint that calling Army officers in the Peress case might not be necessary...
...learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel . . . There was ... no reason to doubt the general's good faith. There is nothing ... to suggest that he was a party to a conspiracy to protect Communists . . . Senator McCarthy's behavior toward General Zwicker . . . has injured his cause of driving the disloyal from the Government service." The Tribune, no doubt, will return to the McCarthy corner, but its editorial was a sharp warning that no large group of Republicans will put up with all of his methods...