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Subject: Fw: The Most Hated senator Was Right
Date sent: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:44:05 -0700
He was obnoxious and irascible, but he was right!
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From: Douglas Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Doug Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:30 AM
Subject: The Most Hated senator Was Right
This just came in, and is supported properly with
facts.
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TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 8
2000
Most-hated senator was right
Scholars: Joseph McCarthy's
charges 'now accepted as fact'
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By Jon Basil Utley
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- Although Joseph McCarthy was one of the most demonized
American politicians of the last century, new information --
including half-century-old FBI recordings of Soviet embassy
conversations -- are showing that McCarthy was right in nearly all
his accusations.
"With Joe McCarthy it was the losers who've written the history
which condemns him," said Dan Flynn, director of Accuracy in
Academia's recent national conference on McCarthy, broadcast by
C-SPAN.
Using new information obtained from studies of old Soviet files in
Moscow and now the famous Vanona Intercepts -- FBI recordings of
Soviet embassy communications between 1944-48 -- the record is
showing that McCarthy was essentially right. He had many weaknesses,
but almost every case he charged has now been proven correct. Whether
it was stealing atomic secrets or influencing U.S. foreign policy,
communist victories in the 1940s were fed by an incredibly vast spy
and influence network.
The conference, a gathering of old McCarthyites and younger
scholars, commemorated the senator's first speech, in Wheeling, West
Virginia 50 years ago, when he first held up a list of names of
employees of the State Department whom, he said, were major security
risks. McCarthy questioned how, in six short years after America's
winning of World War II, the communist world was triumphant and had
expanded to include 800 million people.
Of the lists, a key one consisted of 108 names from a House
Appropriations Committee report, of persons declared as "security
risks" in the State Department -- the Lee List. The House committee
chairman had complained that State wasn't bothering to do anything
about the suspects. Details of the list and its accusations were
presented at the conference.
Speakers detailed many of the cover-ups used to smear McCarthy.
Veteran journalist and teacher Stan Evans, director of National
Journalism Center, told of the Tydings Committee, which had
investigated McCarthy's charges of communists in government. Its
report had exonerated everybody. Among the accused it stated
categorically that there was no evidence against Owen Lattimore, a
man McCarthy said was a major figure in the communist conspiracy.
Lattimore had been Roosevelt's key advisor on China policy. Yet Evans
showed evidence from 5,000 pages of FBI files on him -- files
released only a few years ago to the public, although the White House
had access to them.
However, evidence before the committee showed that Lattimore had
supported Soviet policy at every turn, even declaring that the Stalin
purge trials in Russia, "sound like democracy to me." With then-Vice
President Henry Wallace in Russia, Lattimore compared concentration
camps to the Tennessee Valley Authority, and later urged Washington
to abandon China to communism and to withdraw from Japan and Korea.
FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, who had fed information to McCarthy, broke
with him afterwards, fearing McCarthy would prejudice FBI sources of
information for its criminal prosecutions.
Although most of McCarthy's cases involved actual spies and
"security risks," the really important issue was that of communist
influence over American foreign policy, argued Evans. Harry Hopkins,
Roosevelt's closest advisor who lived in the White House, had regular
contacts with Soviet intelligence. He helped bring about the
disastrous Yalta and Pottsdam agreements. The Morganthau Plan, to
prevent German reconstruction and starve the Germans to make them
desperate enough to go communist, was the product of Laughlin Currie
and Harry Dexter White at the Treasury Department. The abandonment of
Chiang Kai-shek by denying military support was the product of "China
Hands" led by John Stewart Service, John Patton Davies, and
Lattimore. Evans described other major spy networks -- in England,
the Burgess Maclean group which infiltrated Washington as well as
London.
Reed Irvine, chairman of Accuracy in Media, told how he himself had
been a leftist in his early career. He had been against McCarthy, but
McCarthy's speeches had made him think and start to read "evidence
that I had avoided." He described how all during his military career
as a Marine officer and later in Japan with the U.S. occupation he
had never hidden his leftist views and later had even been offered a
job at the CIA. Irvine argued that real communists were only in the
hundreds, but that thousands of leftists, such as he, all feared
McCarthy and had wanted him discredited.
Pulling all the latest evidence together was luncheon speaker
Professor Arthur Herman. His new book, "Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining
the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator," and featured in
the Sunday New York Times Magazine, shows the vindication of most of
McCarthy's charges. Herman, who is also coordinator of the
Smithsonian's Western Heritage Program, said that the accuracy of
McCarthy's charges "was no longer a matter of debate," that they are
"now accepted as fact." However, the term "McCarthyism" still remains
in the language.
Asked whether McCarthy had understood all the forces arrayed against
him, Herman said no, that McCarthy hadn't realized he'd be fighting
against much of the Washington establishment. President Truman was
fearful that exposures would reflect on key Democrat officials, he
said, and big media and the academic world were very leftist, a
heritage of the Depression and World War II. High government
officials also feared investigations of their past appointments and
associations with people who turned out to be communists or
sympathizers.
That was the reason McCarthy was so demonized, he said.
Joe McCarthy had been a Marine air gunner, an amateur boxer, a
county judge and towards his end, under constant attack, he began to
drink heavily. Herman said he certainly was over his head and his
fall came about after sweeping attacks on General Marshall and the
Army. Senator Taft and other key supporters began to draw away from
him.
If Robert Kennedy, his competent and well-connected co-counsel, had
stayed on, McCarthy might have behaved more carefully, said Herman.
An argument with other co-counsel Roy Cohn left Cohn in charge, but
Cohn and staffer David Schine were disastrous for McCarthy. Still,
McCarthy's original charges helped bring about Eisenhower's electoral
victory and the defeat of the Democrats and key leftist Democratic
senators such as Tydings of Maryland. Four years after his original
charges, Joe McCarthy was censured by the Senate and died shortly
thereafter.
There is more evidence to come. Herb Rome Stein, another speaker,
who started out with the old House Un-American Activities Committee,
is writing a book about the Vanona FBI intercepts and their links to
other evidence from his comprehensive study in Russia of Soviet
archives, made available to Westerners since the fall of communism.
His book, The Vanona Secrets, will be released by Regnery Gateway
this fall.
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