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While over the previous few years, Senator McCarthy had withstood countless biased and unsubstantiated attacks by [[Liberals]], [[Communists]], etc., who sought to prevent him from damaging their causes any further; the organized and co-ordinated effort between the two groups to remove McCarthy from his Chairmanship and officially condemn him began in March 1954.
While over the previous few years, Senator McCarthy had withstood countless biased and unsubstantiated attacks by [[Liberals]], [[Communists]], etc., who sought to prevent him from damaging their causes any further; the organized and co-ordinated effort between the two groups to remove McCarthy from his Chairmanship and officially condemn him began in March 1954.
===Senate opposition===
===Senate opposition===
On March 9, 1954 a fellow conservative and anti-communist [[Republican]] Senator, [[Ralph Flanders]] of [[Vermont]], gave a speech criticizing what he felt was Senator McCarthy's "misdirection of our efforts at fighting communism” and his role in “the loss of respect for us in the world at large.” Flanders felt the nation should pay more attention looking outwards at the “alarming world-wide advance of Communist power” that would leave the United States and Canada as “the last remnants of the free world.” <ref>Multiple refereeces:
On March 9, 1954 a fellow conservative and anti-communist [[Republican]] Senator, [[Ralph Flanders]] of [[Vermont]], gave a speech criticizing what he felt was Senator McCarthy's "misdirection of our efforts at fighting communism” and his role in “the loss of respect for us in the world at large.” Flanders felt the nation should pay more attention looking outwards at the “alarming world-wide advance of Communist power” that would leave the United States and Canada as “the last remnants of the free world.” <ref>Multiple references:
* Flanders, Ralph E. (March 9, 1954). "Activities of Senator McCarthy—The world crisis". ''Proceedings and Debates of the 83rd Congress, Second Session—Congressional Record'' (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office).
* Flanders, Ralph E. (March 9, 1954). "Activities of Senator McCarthy—The world crisis". ''Proceedings and Debates of the 83rd Congress, Second Session—Congressional Record'' (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office).
* Flanders, Ralph E. (1961). ''Senator from Vermont'' (Boston: Little, Brown), pp. 255-257.
* Flanders, Ralph E. (1961). ''Senator from Vermont'' (Boston: Little, Brown), pp. 255-257.