McCarthy Pushes Exhibits to Back Reds Charge in Government
Senator McCarthy argues editors should publish his evidence linking communists to the State Department. He sent letters and exhibits to daily papers after his August 1 senate address detailing an alleged 1938 letter involving Owen Lattimore and a prewar Soviet spy ring. The affidavits and reports touch on Lattimore’s past roles and disputed FBI and AP coverage of McCarthy’s claims.
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McCarthy
Washington
R-Wis
State Department
Veral
Senate
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Russia
Associated Press
New York
Sen. McCarthy
American Society of Newspaper Editors
ASNE
Switzerland
Willy Rudolf Foerster
Japan
Foerster
Max Clausen
United States
Clausen
Richard Sorge
Douglas MacArthur
Sorge
California
OWI
Office of War Information
New York Herald Tribune
Washington Times-Herald
Senate Foreign Relations
Lodge
R-Mass
Congressional
States Rights Dem Leader Calls Truman Incompetent at Baton Rouge
Lean der H. Perez accused President Truman of incompetence in a fiery address before the Louisiana Democratic state central committee. The meeting ousted States Righter W. H. Talbot of New Orleans and named Gov. Earl K. Long as replacement in the Democratic executive committee.
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Baton Rouge
Truman
Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee
Leander H. Perez
Washington
Alger Hiss
State Committee
Righter
W. H. Talbot
New Orleans
Earl K. Long
Dallas Home Raid Nets Jewels and Cash
Masked gunmen robbed the north Dallas residence of E. R. Brann around 10:20 p m after tying the occupants. A gun battle with officers followed. one assailant was wounded and surrendered while another escaped. a third may have fled with about 15000 dollars in jewels and cash missing.
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Dallas
Tex
Johnson Grass
Preston Hollow
E. R. Brann
American Planter Strikes Mine Near Heligoland
The 8250 ton freighter American Planter hit a mine in the North Sea and is being towed to Bremerhaven. No casualties reported. The ship was en route from Hamburg to Dunkirk, France, having left New York on July 26, with the accident near Heligoland.
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Hamburg
Germany
American Planter
North Sea
Bremerhaven
Dunkerque
France
New York
Heligoland
Post Article Follows Communist Line McCarthy Claims
Sen. Joseph McCarthy attacked a Saturday Evening Post piece by Joseph and Stewart Alsop as almost 10 percent Communist line. He read a letter to editors while Stewart Alsop dismissed the charges as false and indecent. He cited Wherry’s discrediting of perversion claims and said the article smeared his aides.
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Saturday Evening Post
Joseph
Stewart Alsop
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy
Communist Party
Senate
Post
Wherry
Wisconsin Republican
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