And Senator McCarthy never claimed that Drew Pearson, Dean Acheson, and George Marshall were in any way supporting Communism — but their actions minimized the problem and made it easier for the Communist moles to do their work.
TBP:
If you honestly believe that McCarthy never claimed that Pearson, Acheson, and Marshall were “in any way supporting Communism” — then you are so incredibly ignorant that you have totally disqualified yourself as a credible person.
With respect to Acheson, read this McCarthy speech:
http://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/DC/JRM/JRM_1950_Hyattsville_excpt.pdf
With respect to Marshall, read this McCarthy speech:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1951mccarthy-marshall.html
The entire premise underlying McCarthy’s accusation regarding “a conspiracy so immense” — was that TRAITORS were devising and implementing the foreign policy of the United States. And McCarthy used every possible opportunity to attack and defame both Acheson and Marshall as major and conscious instruments of that “conspiracy”
In case you missed this message the first time I posted it, I copy it again below for your reference. I received the following email from Dr. John E. Haynes.
Klehr and I have repeated made clear that neither Venona, Moscow archival material, nor Vassiliev’s notebooks provide any meaningful vindication for McCarthy.
First, that there had been significant Soviet espionage and Communist infiltration of key government agencies was not a view originating with McCarthy. That point had been publicly and vigorously advanced years before McCarthy arrived on the scene by, among others, Elizabeth Bentley, Whittaker Chambers, and Louis Budenz. The evidence that has emerged since the early 1990s certainly corroborates and vindicates their charges and the particulars of their testimony.
Second, Joseph McCarthy, however, went beyond them by claiming that the espionage and infiltration occurred with the knowledge and assistance of key Truman administration officials, namely Secretary of Defense and State George Marshall and Secretary of State Dean Acheson, both part of McCarthy’s ‘a conspiracy so immense’.
There is no support in the new evidence for what was new in McCarthy’s charges or for the particular persons he named such as Acheson and Marshall. When McCarthy was right, he was not original and was only repeating charges made years earlier by others. When he was original, he was wrong.
For my view of McCarthy, see
http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page58.html and
http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2007/12/mccarthy-accord.html “
TBP:
With respect to Drew Pearson, McCarthy made 7 speeches about McCarthy from the libel-proof Senate floor. On 12/15/50, McCarthy described Pearson as the “diabolically” clever
“voice of international communism,” and a “prostitute of journalism,” and a “Moscow-directed character assassin.”
Let’s substitute YOUR name for Pearson’s name.
If someone attacked and described you as “a voice of international communism” and a “Moscow-directed character assassin”, would you STILL believe that your critic “never claimed” that you were “in any way supporting Communism” OR would you instruct your lawyer to commence a libel lawsuit?