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A group of about 250 delegates take an anti-Communist oath en masse at the inaugural meeting of the newly-formed Anti-Communist Committee for a Free China, held at a Chinese public school at 64 Mott Street in Chinatown, June 10, 1951. The committee was formed by representatives of 60 Chinese organizations, representing the bulk of an estimated 40,000 Chinese inhabitants of the metropolitan area.

Photo: Associated Press

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Hillary Clinton just openly accused a current Major in the U.S. Armed Forces and sitting Congresswoman of being personally “groomed” by Vladimir Putin.

Just let that sink in for a minute.

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National Network on Cuba responds to ‘60 Minutes’ interview

The National Network on Cuba (NNOC) deplores and denounces all Cuba-bashing and “red-baiting” attacks on any individuals. We take particular offense to the tone and substance of the Feb. 23, 2020, “60 Minutes” interview conducted by Anderson Cooper, in which he used the example of Cuba to criticize and demean presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

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A youthful Joseph Papp at the box office of the Broadway play Comes a Day, for which he was production stage manager. The picture was taken on November 12, 1958, the day he learned that an arbitrator had ruled in his favor in his complaint against CBS. The network had fired him after he refused to answer questions of a congressional committee probing "un-American activities," i.e., Communism. The arbitrator ordered CBS to re-hire him and pay him $1,500 in back wages (around $16,000 in today's dollars).

Photo: John Lindsay for the AP

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Owen Lattimore, a respected scholar and author who specialized in Asia and China, was accused by Senator Joseph McCarthy of being the top Communist agent in the United States. He and his wife, Eleanor, held a press conference in New York on April 1, 1950, during which he again denied the allegation, saying "no one likes to be splattered with mud, even by a madman." Lattimore said McCarthy's accusations were hampering U.S. officials abroad. "McCarthy's vicious attacks on the highest officials of our State Department are accomplishing results for Russia which exceed their wildest hopes," he declared.

Photo: Tom Fitzsimmons for the AP via Shutterstock

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Protesters outside the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1951.

Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos

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Post Eight of the “We Didn’t Start the Fire” focuses on American politician Joseph McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957.)  McCarthy was elected junior Senator to the state of Wisconsin in 1946 representing the Republic Party. Just four years later McCarthy would from obscurity to become a household name.  

At a speech in front of the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia on Lincoln Day in February 1950, McCarthy would make the declaration that would put him at the forefront of American politics. According to the article M'Carthy Charges Reds Hold U. S. Jobs by Frank Desmond of the The Wheeling Intelligencer dated February 10, 1950:

"While I cannot take the time to name all of the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who, nevertheless, are still working and shaping the policy in the State Department,"

This declaration came on the heels of a number of different events leading to the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s: 

The creation of the Republican-led House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) which sought to eradicate communist subversion in the United States.

The Alger Hiss case that saw U.S. Government official Alger Hiss accused of spying for the Soviet Union in 1948 and convicted of perjury related to espionage in 1950. 

The passing of the McCarran Internal Security Act 64 Stat. 987, (aka the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950,) which required that all “subversives” in the United States submit to government supervision. 

This act would be vetoed by President Harry Truman and subsequently enacted by Congressional override of the Presidential veto. McCarthy’s declaration would put him at the forefront of the fight against Communists in the Government. 

Following the re-election for his Senate seat in 1952, Senator McCarthy would become the chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Government Operations. In this position, McCarthy would pursue those who he believed were anti-American in their Communist leanings through red-baiting coining the term McCarthyism. McCarthy also claimed that those officials who were gay or lesbian would be targeted by enemy agents due to their hidden sexual preferences. In doing so, it was stated that they would be blackmailed by these enemy agents to give up government secrets. 

This would lead to the passage of the signing of Executive Order 10450 of April 27, 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower which established security requirements for Government employment. In doing so, gay and lesbian government employees could be tracked and even fired due to what was described as their “sexual perversion.” Many government employees would end up being terminated from their positions or resign out of fear of persecution.  These acts and declaration led by him and his associates ruined the lives of over two thousand government officials but of many people who worked in Hollywood. 

The downfall of McCarthyism came in 1954 with journalist Edward R. Murrow discrediting Senator McCarthy on his televised program See It Now and with a series of televised hearings known as “Army-McCarthy” hearings that proved that Senator McCarthy was overstepping his authority. Senator McCarthy would be stripped of his chairman position of the Committee on Government Operators. On December 2, 1954, the United States Senator voted 65-22 on Senate Resolution 301 to censure Senator McCarthy for his “inexcusable,” “reprehensible,” “vulgar and insulting” conduct “unbecoming a senator.”

Senator McCarthy would pass away less than three years later on May 2, 1957 due to acute hepatic failure caused by alcohol abuse.

For Further Reading:

MURROW vs.McCARTHY: SEE IT NOW by Joseph Wershba from the New York Times dated March 4, 1979

THE PRESIDENCY: The McCarthy Issue from Time Magazine dated March 8, 1954

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Religious Right Radio Host: Obama Was Under 'Communist Influence' And Couldn't Have Been A Scout (AUDIO)

Religious Right Radio Host: Obama Was Under ‘Communist Influence’ And Couldn’t Have Been A Scout (AUDIO)

In the wake of Donald Trump’s bizarre and unhinged speech to the 2017 Boy Scout Jamboree, a number of observers have drawn sharp contrasts with Barack Obama’s scouting history. While Trump never spent a day in scouting, Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia as the equivalent of a Cub Scout. But a prominent religious right talk show host scoffed at the idea that Obama had been a Scout.…

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