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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, January 10, 1956
THIS I BELIEVE
The letter which appears on this page made me stop and think
about the comments I made last week about “justice.” Was I correct
in my statements about the senator from Wisconsin? And could I
accept the ruling of the federal judge that McCarthy stepped out of
line in that particular case? Was it the justice that I called it?—and
can I judge just what is just or not, as the letter asks ?
I called McCarthy “an overstuffed bag of wind;” I said that
he was now “deflated;” and that his reign of a few years was
demagoguery. Was I justified? I think so. I think the record
of national hysteria brought about by the man will back me up.
America was caught short by the Cold War which was forced upon
us by the Soviet Union. And this war of nerves brought about a re
action—a reaction, by the way, that has paralleled similar reactions
following all of our great wars. Hatred, suspicion, distrust invaded all
of the hopes that World War II was, as all wars are hoped to be,
the last war. And the disciples of hate prospered during this reaction,
led by McCarthy who justified his means by the end result.
McCarthy was an unknown senator in 1948, holding a record in
the Senate that was undistinguished for any great work. He needed
something to justify his re-election, as it has been traced back that
he probably would have not been returned to Congress. In the re
action to Communists, and unfortunately to anything- that smelled to
McCarthy like liberalism or intellectualism, the Wisconsin senator found
his path to victory. Now check the definition of a “demagogue”.
This path was the heights of unreason—accusation based on
little and sometimes even on apparent false facts. McCarthy’s use
of guilt by association came close to causing a panic over the nation.
This guilt by association strikes at the heart of the beliefs of our
Founding Fathers about a fair trial and the right of the accused to
confront his accusers. But, too often, these accusers were “profession
als” who “had to be protected”—or thy didn’t exist. Many of the ac
cusations wei'e based on the type of one-man probe that was ruled
illegal by the judge in the case under discussion. And, here, may I
point out—sorrowfully—that the reference to the judge’s prior asso
ciation, if any, with Harvard sounds only too much like guilt by asso
ciation. An insinuation—not intended as the writer says—but there all
the same.
I am against Communism—a statement that I make not in the
fear that a charge might be lodged against me but because I just
do not believe in Communism as a creed. My philosophy is in
separably intertwined with the philosophy of liberalism, with its
belief in the dignity and value of human beings, in the protection
of the civil rights and in its belief in rationalism.
But just as I am against Communism, I am also against doctrines
of hate and fear that turn a country into a fr-enzy of mass hysteria.
Read George Orwell’s “1984” sometime—a look at totalitarism. And
McCax-thy pi-obably went as far toward totalitarism as anyone in this
country ever did. Read this book, and then say “thanks” that the
American people, as they have always done, came to their senses.
And McCarthy’s present popularity in our nation is proof enough of the
“deflation.”
So, if the words I used were taken as “name-calling, I am sorry.
I have no wish to engage in such a pxactice. But, if my words were
taken as a “description”—I intended them to be.
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Editor, Battalion:
With considei-abla sux-px-ise, I
read your Jan. 6 editox-ial concern
ing “justice.”
I was fii-st stx-uck by the woi'ds
used in description of a senator of
the Uxxited States, i.e., “ovex-stuffed
bag of wind,” “deflated” and “de-
mogoguei-y.” Afe these not stx-ange
words, to come from the pen of oxxe
of a group of purpox-texs of jus
tice, intellect, and therefox-e one
who is, against name calling.
You make x-efex-ence to a judge’s
recent rulixxg which concerned Sen
ator Joseph McCarthy’s subvex-sion-
probing of a Hax-vax-d University
research, assistant. I believe that
it might be possible for you to dig
up — and print — information con-
cei-ning any pxiox* association be
tween the judge who handed down
the decision axxd Harvard Univer
sity. Do not misundei-stand me,
please. I do not say that the judge
was not just in his ruling—but
then, can you or I or anyone else
say that he was just?
Carlos Grider, ’55
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