CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -- APPENDIX

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• Publication Date: November 28, 1967
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November 28, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX
With permission, I submit the text of
.e News editorial of November 18:
SAGGING MAIL BAG
One rein the Post Office must ask Amerl-
-%Sa this year to mail their Christmas
and packages early is that-figuratively
.wring--the postman's legs are buckling
,der the weight of his mail bag.
Now at 82 million pieces annually, the vol-
:ne of mail has more than doubled in 20
,oars, equal half the world's total and seems
destined to top 100 billion pieces by 1976.
Yet the system responsible for handling
this soaring volume is often archaic. The vast
majority (00 per cent) of federally owned
office space was built in the 1930s or earlier.
Many postal operations are 30 years behind
current technology, according to Postmaster
General O'Brien. And despite advances made
with the ZIP code, the sorting of most mail is
still a peek-and-poke operation alongside
rows and rows of pigeon holes.
"Unless we face up to the need for quick
and far-reaching changes," Mr. O'Brien said
recently, "our postal service may collapse
tinder the weight of the fast-growing de-
mands heaped upon it"
With deterioration so prevalent, it's not
,urprising that the post office reacts to the
challenge of delivering a record nine-billion
pieces of mail by Christmas a bit like Santa
a, his big night: with great longing to get
o early start.
For the long run, the department has a
new Bureau of Research and Engineering,
headed by former Buffalonian Dr. Leo Packer,
to design the most appropriate types of mod-
ernization. But this large investment must be
phased over the years. Meanwhile, most
Americans had still better heed those plain-
tive post office pleas to "mail your Christmas
cards early this yearl"
one that Mr. Macmillan gave in another crisis
over a suspected spy (Vassall) : fear of being
sneered at as a McCarthyite. As Peter Simple
of the London Telegraph put it, "the word
McCarthyism [has] the paralyzing effect of,
nerve gas."
It is indeed a shocking indictment of lib-
eralism that its major contribution to "so-
cial advance" was to hand the Communist
conspirators a defensive weapon probably
more potent than the 5th Amendment's pro-
vision against.self-incrimination.
The fiction of "McCarthyism," which de
luded even some of Joe McCarthy's colleagues
in the Senate, has become a sort of Terror
operating against anybody in public life, or
in the press and education system, who un-
dertook to expose or frustrate the Commu-
nist drive to take over the world.
It has been, as Miss West wrote 14 years
ago, "much easier,. much more popular, much
safer, to follow the middle-class fashion of
today and repeat what may or may not be
true, but is certainly irrevelant: that we are
all much superior to Sen. McCarthy."
It's all pretty humiliating, but Americans
have a distaste for being "had" twice and
we may be fortunate enough to experience a
New Wave of McCarthyism. Should that hap-
pen, the Communists might conceivably find
their erstwhile liberal errand boys really ter-
rified, this time terrified enough to refuse to
pull more Communist chestnuts out of the.
fire. Or is that just too naive?
lie that all the talk they had been hearing In Great Britain, the former Tory Prime
of how the U.S.A. was in the grip of hysteria Minister Harold Macmillan used McCarthy-
in
the course of which "people of liberal ism to explain the outcry against Philby, V
opinions are dragged before inquisitorial after our own CIA had tipped off the British
committees to be defamed and insulted on on Philby's activities. This was as early as
the unsupported evidence of informers of the 1955, but Mr. Macmillan fatuously dismissed
lowest character," was a lot of bilge. the matter with the statement that there was
In the course of her article Miss West re- "no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby had
viewed the successes which the Communists at any time betrayed the interests of this
had had in penetrating the American "power country."
structure," and then raised the question: Old Boy network? Well, Philby and Mac- -
Why do people in America and Britain de- millan are both "public school" Old Boys,
nounce those who seek to expose the Com- but the more probable answer is the same
Miss West's answer was this: "The imme-
diate reason is the hypnotic' power of the
word "McCarthyism": the belief that the
United States is at present practically gov-
erned by a dictator named Joe McCarthy,
that he invented and cohtrols.the investiga-
tions and uses them as the instruments of
his tyranny."
Miss West went on to demonstrate the
absurdity of this myth and added that the
myth has been of tremendous use to the
Communists, for one reason because it caused
a large section of the public to "regard per-
sons called before the committees as delicate
Davids braving a gross Goliath, and such of
them as were Communists would get the
benefit of the doubt."
Despite Miss West's thoughtful analysis-
to say nothing of what those of us who
"lived through McCarthyism" could see with
dur own eyes-the myth is still routine doc-
trine among liberals and is taken seriously
by too many others who ought to know
better.
It is no surprise to find Archibald Mao-
Leieh blasting bff with the plain fabrication
that in the "McCarthy era" to dedicate a
public library was "an act of defiance and
protest--defiance not of a demagogue in
Congress alone, but of the whole miasma of
suspicion and censorship he had let loose
on the country." This is the kind of fiction
McCarthyism Used To Shield Subversion which liberals feed each other.
More disturbing is to find a careful his-
EXTENSION OF REMARKS torian like A. L. Rowse in The Churchill,
i
HON. JOHN R. RARICK
compar
ng the anti-Papist hysteria in 17th
Century England to "that which the United
States experienced under McCarthy." How-
ever, in the American edition of the book
OF LOUISIANA . the phrase "under McCarthy" is changed
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to "a short while ago," and Mr. Rowse con-
Tuesday, November 28, 1967 cedes that "there was a certain amount of
justification for this fear."
Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, in the And howl Now we have the Philby case,
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of November 7, and with it the revelation that the belief
1967, and again in the Appendix of the in "McCarthyism" is not just something to
argue RECORD of November 21, I quoted articles about with but, as Miss West
predicted, a weapon n which the Communists
dealing with subversion in high echelons have used most effectively in their effort to
of our Government and the modus oper- paralyze the will of the anti-Communist
FOIAb3b A 5837
The M-16 Rifle
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
of
HON. EMILIO Q. DADDARIO
OF CONNECTICUT
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, November 27, 1967
Mr. DADDARIO. Mr. Speaker, Brig.
Gen. S. L. A. Marshall recently wrote an
cerned. Who doesn't recall the obscene perform. article which appeared in the New York' .
require investigation by authorized com- to be "persecuted" by Sen. McCarthy in order In the war, and the congressional study
mittees of the Congress with tspot- to pose as heroic fighters in the battle for and report it provoked. His article adds
pub Congress with the h procedure spot- free speech? But how many of us then recog. much useful background to the discus-
light of full 'l
nized these exhibitionists as instruments, sion and should be available to the Mem-
will undoubtedly evoke a cry of that
y persecu- willing or deluded, in the Communist plan berg in providing perspective to their
tion as an emotional shield to protect. to blunt public authority in its far from de- analysis. I offer it for the RECORD:
those under investigation. termined effort to thwart the conspiracy?
A most enlightening article by Fred- ? The extent of the damage caused and the M-16 CRITICISM CALLED SUPERFICIAL
erick Nelson on how such smear weapons number of lives lost because of the sudcess (By Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall)
-as used by subversives in the Philby of Soviet agent Harold Philby in worming Following a battle, American combat forces
case-was published in the November 25, his way to the top in British intelligence may do not systematically collect and analyze
19G7, issue of Human Events, a weekly unimpeded operations of Philby, George The fact is that they have never done so.
newspaper of Washington, D.C. Blake and the two dipsodiplon;ats Burgess The death of dependable data on this sub-
As the article should be of interest to and McLean, the Soviet apparatus doubtless ject is not more conspicuous in Vietnam
all Members of the Congress, especially possesses an impressive dossier on Western than was the case in Korea or in France dur-
those on Investigating committees, I anti-Red activity, supposedly "secret" and ing either World War.
quote it as part of my remarks: otherwise. Artiller en o tl th
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HOW CRIES OF "MCCARTHTISM" AIDED PHILET
(By Frederic Nelson)
e er a nu, , s on
We do not know, of course, how many knowing. Any f
allure is a major veuir
other Communist agents and their local sub- Ing searching Investigation and conclusive
ordinates have mana
d t
ge
o carry on with- findings. The experts take over and deter-
Back
In 1953 Rebecca West did a pair of out interference because government official. mine whether it was the fuse, the round, the
articles for the London Sunday Times In dom has been hesitant to act lest the cry piece itself or human error at the scene that
which she sought to inform the British pub- 'of "McCarthyism I" be raised. did the damage.
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