Word: zwicker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Swinging Doors. Why, McCarthy wanted to know, did "this Fifth Amend ment Communist [get] a hurry-up honorable discharge after I had written Secretary Stevens asking he be court-martialed?" To find out, McCarthy called to the stand Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker, Camp Kilmer's commander. Said the general: regulations prevented him from discussing security cases. Whereupon Joe McCarthy ordered the doors shut for a closed session...
...Before Zwicker testified, Stevens had sent McCarthy a letter saying "We do not defend" the Army's performance in the Peress case, and promising there would be no more such cases. But the letter failed to convince Joe McCarthy that "disgraceful coddling of Communists" in the Army had ended. Said Joe: "I don't think Bob wrote that letter. He was either badly advised or someone wrote it for him-some hungover press-agent." Later Joe elaborated: He had meant "hangover pressagent from the last Administration." With that, the Senator entrained for Albany to keep another date...