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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1951
Case Against McCarthy
FOR FOUR years the American people
have allowed Senator Joseph Raymond
McCarthy of Wisconsin to usurp the au-
thority vested in him by perpetrating one
of the greatest plots of character assassina-
tions concocted in modern history.
Never in the history of our Congress
has one legislator slandered so many pri-
vate individuals without apparent cause
or proof.r
We believe it is high time for the people
to strike back at McCarthy's malicious at-
tacks and prevent him from being a further
influence in the augmenting crisis.
Congress is empowered by the Federal
constitution to impeach any of its members
found guilty of misdemeanors, high crimes
or treason. This power was tested in 1798
when Senator William Blount of Tennessee
was tried and acquitted.
Since that time, no Senator has been
tried or impeached. Impeachment in a
legislature is very rare. But McCarthy's
detrimental influence is also very rare.
We shall attempt to prove that impeach-
ment of McCarthy would be justified on le-
gal grounds and beneficial on moral grounds.
For ten cogent reasons we recommend that
Senator McCarthy beremoved from the
national legislature:
(1) He has been accused of suppressing
evidence in various cases in his former role
as judge in Wisconsin. A move was made for
his disbarment and much damaging evidence
was brought to bear against him. However,
because of the strong judicial tradition
which opposes taking such drastic action
against judges, he was acquitted.
(2) He has been found to have granted
quick divorces and other swift legal deci-
sions to people who made large contribu-
tions to his political campaign funds.
(3) He has repeatedly manipulated his
state income tax returns to evade paying a
single cent. In 1943, for example, the rec-
ords show that his income was approxi-
mately $43,000. However, he reported that
he had no income at that time and was
never formally charged with the strongly
suspected evasion.
(4) He has violated his own state's con-
stitution. In 1946, when he ran for the Sen-
ate, he was still serving as a state judge.
This dual role is prohibited by the Wiscon-
sin constitution.
(5) He has saved some of the most brutal
of Hitler's mass murderers from execution.
He headed a Congressional commission in-
vestigating the "unjust" legal retaliation
against SS men of the Third Reich whom
he claimed were not morally responsible for
their crimes.
By throwing up a smoke screen around .
the investigation, he managed to save a
number of SS men from paying the penal-
ty for the slaughter of at least 80 un-
armed American prisoners and 100 Belgian
civilians during the Battle of the Bulge.
(6) He has accused, depending upon his
mood at the moment, from one to 205 em-
ployes of the State Department of being
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Communists. He drew his list of names,
which became increasingly smaller, from the
two-year-old files of the House Un-Ameri-
can Activities Committee. The persons nam-
ed had been investigated by the Committee
and found not guilty of Communist charges.
His charges shifted with amazing ra-
pidity, keeping always one step ahead of
the truth. One by one, his accusations
against Dorothy Kenyon, Philip Jessup,
John Service, Harlow Shapley and Anna
Rosenberg (to name only a few) proved to
be complete fiascos. The Senator is not
only indiscreet-he lies.
(7) He has himself admitted his own fail-
ure and incompetence. He promised that he
would "stand or fall" on his serious, libelous
charges against Owen Lattimore. He fell but
a gullible reading public propped him up.
Not one charge against Lattimore was
substantiated by fact. The only thing the
investigation proved was that Lattimore
was an unusually acute analyst of Orien-
tal affairs and that, far from being the
"architect of Far Eastern policy," his ad-
vice was not heeded often enough.
(8) He has as recently as last November
engaged in corrupt campaign activities. In
the Butler-Tydings Maryland senatorial
campaign, the damaging picture which
showed Tydings and former Communist
chief Earl Browder together was instigated
by McCarthy. This photograph, which play-
ed great political dividends for Butler, was
a faked composite shot.
Also, McCarthy's henchmen took Bal-
timore printer Donald Fedder on an all-
night "ride" to obtain from him a letter
which proved that Butler had violated the
Corrupt Practices Act by receiving exces-
sive campaign contributions.
(9) He has made the obviously ridiculous
charge that Washington columnist Drew
Pearson is a "spokesman for international
Communism." In this case, as in all the oth-
ers, he has refused to come out from hiding
in his cave of Congressional immunity and
make his charges publicly so the accused
can sue him for libel.
(10) He has by virtue of his constant re-
course to the Big Lie as a political bludgeon
written his own impeachment. What higher
crimes could be committed than sowing the
seeds of disunity among our people by base-
less condemnations of our leaders, commit-
ting ruthless and malicious slander of pri-
vate citizens behind the cowardly screen of
Congressional immunity and playing on the
misguided emotions of a. free people in tur-
bulent times?
To paraphrase the late Huey Long-if
Communism ever comes to this country, it
will come in the form of anti-Communism.
We feel that McCarthy represents as great
a threat to democracy as the Kremlin.
Tolerance of political differences is part
of our American heritage; but McCarthy's
demagoguery cannot be treated as mere
innocuous deviation from the convention-
al pattern. McCarthyism and all its evil
implications represent a "clear and present
danger" to the free world.
We recommend that all citizens take an
active part in terminating this pseudo-crus-
ade.
Americans have not only the opportunity
but the duty to request that their Congress-
m e n initiate impeachment proceedings
against Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy.
-Barnes Connable and Crawford Young
Art & Politics
YOU CAN SPOT him easily at any gather-
ing of "aesthetes"; the bespectacled,
feiercely serious liberal, intent on saving the
cause of free expression. He is the one who
supports avant-gardism against all comers,
although he scarcely ever has any real know-
ledge of what he is defending.
He will scream for liberality, which, to
him, usually means the same thing as
clearing art of all the sentimentality and
crassness of our modern day world. He
will heartily damn American civilization,
claiming that free enterprise has ruined
freedom of expression, and takes a maso-
chistic pleasure in being "persecuted" in
return.
He is aloof; in his aloofness often lies a
frustrated contempt of the society he is
"forced" to live in. In his spasm of revul-
sion, he has spotted the ideal freedom of-
fered by the classless society of ultimate
Marxism. In a similar spasm, he has seized
on what he likes to call freedom of expres-
sion as a personal aesthetic crusade.
IT WOULD BE easy enough to expose the
falsity of this man's position. By his own
canon of artistic freedom, he reasonably asks
that we accept the latest efforts of avant-
garde, but, in the same breath, asks that
we throw out the modern romantics. For
example, Rachmaninoff is called decadent
and trite, not through any serious conside-
ration of his personal merit, but merely be-
cause he is a member of a "decadent" school.
But it is not our purpose to show the
weakness of his treatment of the idea of
intellectual freedom. We will assume that
he is not a dilettante, but that he has a
true definition of that liberty; that his ab-
horrence of American civilization was ra-
tionally and coolly arrived at.
The most serious aspect of this man's
viewpoint is the ideological position into
which he may be led. Hampered by the
"stifling" effects of contemporary American
life, he has made a wild grab and come up
with Marxism. This is a concept which
agrees with him; its ultimate goal, the class-
less society, clicks into place with his op-
pressions and neuroses, and he has found a
creed. This society, hopefully enough, will
offer him the intellectual freedom which he
feels he must have.
As he happens to be trundling the cause
of "art" along with him, he seems to form,
somehow, a messianic impression of him-
self as a deliverer of the "finer things"
from the crassness which will undoubtedly
be their death.
Though few enlightened people would dis-
agree that the greatest freedom would exist,
as the Marxist thesis claims, in the class-
less society, the method of reaching this
fine state is questionable. The catch comes
when our hypothetical "liberal" turns to
Russian Communism as a practical expe-
dient.
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THE THREATS to intellectual freedom
from the forces necessarily existent in
the democratic systems of the United States
and England are certainly great. The writer,
for example, must first of all look to his
market, to the people who he expects will
read what he writes. He must consider their
desires and attempt to satisfy them, or be
ignored. He must become involved, to some
extent at least, in the tangles of business
procedure. He must often prostitute his en-
deavors, particularly in Britain, to some ag-
ency which will help support him when he
falls on lean times.
Add to this the sometimes warped pub-
lic feeling of °what is "right" and what
constitutes truth, and we have the tra-
ditional picture of the beleagered literary
man in his confused world.
The hot-eyed and basically short sighted
liberal cannot see beyond these obstacles,
however, and thunders off in a sweeping are
to the left. He will leave all behind, and
achieve his classless and free society through
Communism.
This fellow's actions would be quite laud-
able, but nobody has yet proven that the
Communist party is bent on getting the
freedom of a classless society. It is impossible
to regard the Russia of 1951 as anything
other than a totalitarian dictatorship. Yet
he seems to believe, or at least would have
us believe, that artistic freedom lies in that
direction.
IN THE CASE OF literature, totalitarian
society such as is now represented by Rus-
sia spells certain death. When the words
must be turned to make anything other
than the truth, it becomes impossible to
write anything but the baldest journalistic
propaganda.
Imaginative literature would suffer a
similar fate, simply because it must con-
form to the artificiality of the totalitarian
society itselt; it must become artificial, re-
flecting neither truth of fact nor emotion-
al sincerity.
History shows that literature cannot sur-
vive in such an atmosphere; never before in
history has the atmosphere been so intellect-
ually stifling as in the Communist state.
Literature would be aborted before it ever
reached the perfect freedom of the classless
civilization.
The talk of the self-styled liberals (and
this term is used arbitrarily, for want of
a better one) may have an intriguing ap-
peal, what with their blasting of "senti-
"Who Says I Haven't Got A Foreign Policy?"
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Jan. 22.
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Lectures
nar: Wed., Jan. 17, Room 101, W.
Engineering, 4 p.m. Mr. Newton
will speak on "Some Engineering
Uses of,-Radioactive Materials."
Geometry Seminar: There will
be no meeting of the Seminar this
week.
Mathematics 183: Will meet in
Rm. 2084 E. Engineering, Wed.,
Jan. 17, at 10 a.m.
The Teacher's Oath will be ad-
ministered to all February can-
didates for the teacher's certi-
ficate on Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Jan. 17 and 18, Room 1437,
U.E.S. This is a requirement for
the teacher's certificate.
Speech 36 will be given at 11
a.m., Monday, Wednesday - and
Friday the second semester.
Doctoral Examination for Ro-
ger Cecil Norton, German; the-
sis: "Basic Themes in the Lyric
Poetry of Max Dauthendey;"
Wed. Jan. 17, 102D Tappan Hall,
4 p.m. Chairman, F. B. Wahr.
Doctoral Examination for Ah-
mad Mohamad Shaaban, Civil
Engineering; thesis: "RelatingA
the Shearing Strength of Clay
Soils to the Bearing Capacity of
Clay Foundations." Wed., Jan.
17, 1224 E. Engineering Bldg., 3
p.m. Chairman, W. S. Housel.
Pre-social work undergraduates:
All undergraduates interested in
the field of social work are in-
vited to attend a meeting Wed.,
Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m. in the Hussey
Room at the League. Dr. Arthur
Dunham, Acting Director of the
U. of M. School of Social Work,
and Mrs. Cranefield, also of that
faculty, will speak briefly on the
subject, Social Work: Preparation,
and Opportunities. Ample oppor-
tunity will be provided for ques-
tions and discussion.
Concerts
Horowitz Concert Postponed on
Doctor's orders. New date will be
announced as soon as possible. It
will be appreciated if readers will
notify their out-of-town musical
friends who may have tickets.
Events Today
Congregational, Disciple, Evan-
gelical and Reformed Guild: Sup-
per Discussion, 5:30 p.m. at the
Guild House.
Roger Williams Guild: Wed. Tes
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6 p.m.
Wesleyan Foundation: Do-Drop-
In for tea and chatter at the guild.
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To the Editor:
NOW THAT the nations of the
world have talked themselves^
into a stalemate and are lookingI
for something sharper than words
to throw at each other, we find
the United Nations becoming thet
subject of bitter attack as a fail-
ure and a fruitless waste of time.
There is a growing realization<
among the peoples of the world<
that very little serious and sincere-
effort to seek peace is being made
by members of the UN.
Yet when the United Nations3
Charter was ratified in the happy
days of 1945 very few of us didt
not hold out great hopes for the
success that the principles of thisi
international roundtable wouldI
bring. On paper the plan for openI
discussion of international prob-i
lems looked like the final rewardi
of years of struggle.I
Our long sought after goal ofE
"open diplomacy" has proven a'
failure. Diplomats have ceased to1
regard UN open meetings as a
clearing house for peae proposals.
Most countries are very success-
fully using the UN as an outlet
for a constant stream of propa-
ganda.,
To my mind the time has come]
when we have to recognize that
diplomacy with an audience won't
work. Diplomats can't evolve com-
promises and yield sovereignty un-
der the watching eyes of millions.-
Therefore, it is only natural that
nations with something to lose will
continually deliver carefully pre-
pared propaganda lectures to fel-
low UN members who are simul-
taneously writing their own re-
buttals. The alternative is one men
have fought against for decades,
but unfortunately its practical
chances for success are consider-
ably better.
Close the doors again. And let
the statemen settle our problems
without the theatrics. The past
has shown us that behind closed
doors there is a genuina possibili-
ty of international agreement. In
fact most of the significant set-
tlements the world has seen have
been negotiated in secret. . .
And if a reversion to secret di-
plomacy is impossible at this stage
of the game, then at least let's
make sure we're winning the bat-
tle of lies. The people of the world
are watching.
-Bob Layton
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Peace . . .
To the Editor:
AN ARTICLE of several weeks
ago quoted Dean Haywood
Keniston's view about the power
of the people to prevent war. He
said at the Lane Hall peace con-
ference: "The decisions are out-
side of the hands of the peo-
ple . . . "
I cannot agree with this view.
I cannot agree that the five hun-
dred million signatories to the
Stockholm Peace Appeal carry no
weight in the capitals ofthe
world. I cannot agree that the
pleas of the Warsaw Peace Con-
gress, carrying with them the
yearnings of millions and -mil-
lions of men and women, have no
effect in deciding whether or not
BARINABIY
there will be war. It does not ap-
pear to me that the popular re-
vulsion in Europe against a wart
with China and against the use
of the atomic bomb in Korea did
not help to tip the scales away
from war. I am unable to con-1
clude that the eight hundred let-
ters and telegrams per hour thatt
Truman received after the re-
verses began in Korea, messages
expressing the demand of Ameri-
cans to prevent the spread of war
-I am unable to conclude they
were without effect.
Yes, the power for peace lies1
with the people of all countries,,
not with a handful of men who
can roll back the ocean tide.
Peace will vanquish war. Peace
is stronger than war, but it is
necessary for everyone who loves
peace deeply to struggle for it,
to make her and his voice heard
in every possible way. We cannot
leave the initiative to someone,
else; we cannot believe that our
voices count for nothing, that
they are too small, too insigni-
ficant.
The decisions for war are not
yet made. The voices of millions1
of people must be listened to by
the governments of the world.
War can start only when the peo-,
ple are silent.
We Americans are not alone in
the struggle for peace. I saw the
passionate desire of the Czech-
oslovakian people for peace this
summer. I spoke with students of
France, of South Africa, of the
Soviet Union, of many, many
countries, and I saw that there is
one universal struggle going on
in the world, and one universal
determination: that there will be
no war, that the people have the
power to prevent war.
The outcome depends on no
one else but ourselves, the ordi-
nary Americans, Italians, Niger-
ians, Russians.
Who will be blameless if war
comes and he or she did not lift
a finger to prevent it? Who will
be blameless if she or he says:
the decisions are outside of my
hands, and by silence, acquiesces
to a sentence of death?
-Myron Sharpe, Grad.
MacArthur's Prose.. .
ALONG WITH other commenta-
tors, we've had occasion from
time to time to remark on the odd-
ly celestial prose style of General
MacArthur. If it will cheer him
any in what may otherwise be a
bleak period for him, we extend
our congratulations on the terse,
a typical communicatior he sent
to John Foster Dulles approving
the State Department's note to
Russia on Japan. According to the
papers, it said, in toto, "Reply to
Malik on the Japanese peace trea-
ty question is a honey." The ad-
mirable conciseness and simplici-
ty of this message, and its felic-
itous termination, should not go
unacclaimed. Our compliments to
General MacArthur. It is exceed-
ingly comforting to know that de-
spite his long absence from our
midst, he retains at least one tiny
fragment of our earthy native id-
iom.
-The New Yorker
ON THE
Washington Merry-Go Round
WITu DREW PEARSON
University Museums Lecture.
"Animal Life in Michigan During
the Ice Age" (illustrated). Dr.
Claude Hibbard, Associate Pro-
fessor of Geology and Curator of
Vertebrate Paleontology i n the
Museum of Paleonotology. Wed.,
Jan. 17, 8:15 p.m., School of Pub-
lic Health Auditorium.
University Lecture, auspices of
the School of Music. "Music and
the Eighteenth Century." Dr.
Curt Sachs, Lecturer in the Grad-
uate School of Liberal Arts, New
York University, and President of
the American Musicological Soci-
ety, Thurs., Jan. 18, 4:15 p.m.,
Rackham Amphitheatre.
Lecture, auspices of the De-
partment of Zoology. "The Pro-
perties of Cytoplasmic Particles"
(illustrated). Dr. M. J. Kopac,
Professor of Biology, New York
University. Thurs., Jan. 18, 7:30
p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre.
University Lecture in Journa-
lism: Michael Straight, editor of
the New Republic will address a
journalism assembly at 4:15 p.m.,
Thurs., Jan. 18, Rackham Lecture
Hall. Subject: "Peace Without
Appeasement-Can Liberal Jour-
nalism Provide the Answer." Op-
en to the public.
Academic Notices
Political Science 52: Final Ex-
amination, January 29, 9-12 a.m.
Room assignments as follows:
Sections 1 & 5 (Laing)-2231 A.H.
Sections 2 & 4 (Filley)-1025 A.H.
Sections 3 & 10, (Vernon)--229
A.H.
Section 6 (Abbott)-4 A.H.
Sections 7, 8 & 9 (Bretton)-1025
A.H.
Bacteriology Seminar. Wed.,
Jan. 17, 10:00 a.m., in Rm. 1520
E. Medical Bldg. Speaker: Dr.
Carl Lawrence. Subject: Chemo-
therapy of Mycotic Infections.
Botanical Seminar: "Studies or
callus development and adventi-
tious bud production in stem cut-
tings. of Lombardy Poplar.'
Speaker: Mr. Seymour Shapiro
Wed., Jan. 17, 4 p.m., Room 1139,
Natural Science Bldg.
Chemistry Seminar: Prof. L. O
Brockway will discuss "Structures
and Bindings in Iodohalides.'
Wed., Jan. 17, 4:07 p.m., Roon
1308, Chemistry Bldg.
Engineering Mechanics Semi-
W ASHINGTON-President Truman isn't
likely to move on it, but some of his
genuine well-wishers have been dropping
discreet hints that the most important
thing he can do to bring about national
unity is appoint two top Republicans to his
cabinet-including possibly Governor Dewey
as Secretary of State.
Most unfortunate difficulty about the
current bickering over foreign policy is
the reaction abroad. All over Europe
there has been indecision and dismay.
The recent foreign-policy controversies
came on top of the Korean disaster, also
on top of the President's music-critic
letter, both of which increased lack of
confidence among our allies.
Most people don't realize it, but the music-
critic letter was published all the way from
Africa to Norway. To the man in the street
it may have been humorous, but to the
Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of
Europe, it aroused fear that the head of
the United States government might lose
his temper, not merely over a music critic
but over a potential enemy, and plunge
the world into war.
For these and other reasons, some of
the top Democrats in Washington ardent-
ly hope for more unity, even if it means
surrounding the President with a few
Republicans.
of State Acheson would be glad to bow out
in favor of Dewey in the interest of national
unity. Acheson and Dewey have been con-
ferring privately for the last six months,
and several times Dewey has come to Ache-
son's support. Finally, Acheson had pri-
vately hoped to leave the State Department,
though he does not want to do so under fire.
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MORSE SAYS NO
DURING EVERY recent election, Wayne
Morse, the independent, pro-labor Sena-
tor from Oregon, has waltzed out into the
politial arena to make speeches for his
conservative anti-labor GOP colleagues. No
matter how much Morse disagreed with
those colleagues, he rallied to their support
at election time-even making a speech
against his close friend, Democratic Sen.
Paul Douglas of Illinois, in favor of the
Chicago Tribune's candidate, Curley Brooks.
Now, however, Morse says "no more."
Failure of Republican leaders to put Morse
on the important GOP policy committee of
the Senate was too much.
"They need not think they can get me
to campaign all around the country for
reactionary candidates," he told friends,
"and then discipline me in the Republican
conference by not putting me on the policy
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