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America's Retreat from Victory by Sen. Joseph McCarthy

BACKGROUND

LEADING UP TO THE MARSHALL SPEECH

On June 14, 1951, I reviewed the public career of George Catlett Marshall from the beginning of World War II before the United States Senate. It was an exhaustive review, running to 72,000 words, drawn from the acknowledged sources of this period.

Among the questions raised by that speech were these: What were McCarthy's motives' Why did McCarthy single out the Secretary of Defense and spend so much time preparing such a searching docuмentation of his history?

Those questions recalled the advice given me by some of my friends before I gave the history of George Marshall." Don't do it, McCarthy," they said. "Marshall has been built into such a great hero in the eyes of the people that you will destroy yourself politically if you lay hands on the laurels of this great man."

My answer to those well-meaning friends was that the reason the world is in such a tragic state today is that too many politicians have been doing only that which they consider politically wise -- only that which is safe for their own
political fortunes.

Communism and tv today proved that Senator McCarthy was right

Communism and tv today proved that Senator McCarthy was right

Of course he was right. Hollywood became so pro-Communist by the late 1930's that pro-Soviet films were routinely turned out and anti-Communist films couldn't even be made. These days it is considered "blasphemous" by our Taliban of modernity to insult ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs but in the 1950's the infamous "Hollywood Ten" could be members of the Communist Party and escape scrutiny.