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Ghost of McCarthy —

walks in Washington

By PEGGY DENNIS
WASHINGTON

The ghost of Joe McCarthy
must bi.chyckling up its shroud
sleeve. For the man who got an
“ism” named after him is being
aped by those who once were
among his targets and on a big-
ger scale than he could ever
have dared dream.

The Senator from Wisconsin

for years hounded into prison, —

blacklisted out of jobs and pro-
fessions and deported from
their country many thousands
of Americans,

He ruled-and-ruined from his
Senate seat (1946-1957) on be-
half of the country’s right wing
forces. His stock-in-trade was
the thundering charge of
“Communists - in - government”
and “Communists-under-every-

American-bed. The White
House, the State Department
and the Pentagon ran _ scared
and defensive. ’

Today the White House, the
State Department and the Pen-
tagon embrace the McCarthyite
political policy and method and
have elevated them to the
world scene.

President Johnson, of bolder
heart, gun-strafes and napalm-
burns peoples in other lands for
their rejection of The American
Blueprint.

From 1946 to 1955 McCarthy
had to hide the fact that FBI
czar J. Edgar Hoover made his
gargantuan dossiers — not on
Communists alone — available
to the Senator’s political black-
mail activities.

But today Hoover sits at
President Johnson’s right hand,-
advising him “not only on police
and security matters but on
broader questions,” the Times
Post Service reveals.

McCarthyism was beaten back

‘in the mid-1950’s. It doesn’t

have to happen again. But it
can. The straws are in the wind.
There are those who are trying.
And there are those who are
fighting like all hell to keep it
from happening again.

For, as Edward R. Murrow,
dean of newsmen and commen-
tators, said in 1954, “according
to McCarthy anyone who op-
poses him . .. must be a Com-
munist. ...If that be true,
there are an awful lot of Com-
munists in this country.”

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This is a picture of a 14-year-old
German boy in battle dress, with helmet
and gun. Remembrance of things past?
No, West German present, 1965.

Twenty West German youngsters age
14-16 had been invited.to spend their
vacation as guests of the army. The pro-

* ject was called, “A Place in the Sun.”
The picture was taken by a_ reporter
from the West German illustrated, Stern.
Wanting to know what was going on in
the heads of children induced to play

‘A place in the sun’

war, the reporter asked them to write a
composition. Theme: My most beautiful
vacation experience.-

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children.

Here is an excerpt from what Hans
Joachim Sch., 16, wrote: “Could | have
a machine gun? An instructor explained
the weapon to us. Then, he handed it
over to me. Suddenly | felt like being a
changed person. The weapon radiated
such power. I felt strong enough to con-
quer all of Russia with it, if necessary-...

- Later | shot af'an imaginary enemy...
I was boundlessly inspired and only un-
willingly returned the weapon.”

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American troop!

By BOB LEESON
The Americans, we all know,
for haven’t they told us often
enough, are in South Vietnam
to save freedom and democracy
from. the hordes of Commun-
ism. |

Thanks to the Liberation
Front forces, however, Washing-

ton-made freedom and democ-~

racy does not have many square
miles to operate in.

So, what is it like in those
parts of Vietnam occupied not
just. by American-backed and
armed Saigon puppet troops,
but physically . packed with
thousands of American troops
with the latest weapons. their
technique can provide?

What is it like, say, in the
coastal town of Da Nang, the
town which the Americans have
made their own? A _ dispatch
from a Reuters man gives the

authentic flavor.

“No one wants to. disappoint
the soldier with money in his
pocket. Whatever he wants —
whether — semi-précious stones,
souvenirs, dirty books or girls

. — he can get.

“Thousands of American ma-
rine, army and air force men
fill the bars, restaurants and
shops, almost as soon as they
can be built — and new bars
are springing up at an alarming
rate, despite attempts earlier
this year to close some of them
down. :

“Prostitutes are coming in
from as far afield as Saigon,
some 350 miles-away, where re-
cent government moves have
been somewhat curtailing. their
activities.

“More and more children ap-
pear on the streets every day
selling anything from crudely-
carved souvenir ashtrays to
hastily-printed pornographic lit-
erature.

-“The people are even learn-

ing English — from’ a two-letter

O.K. to a four-letter unprint-

able.”

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