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Line 1: − == Flanders role in Senate censure of [[Joseph McCarthy]]== − I propose substituting the following text for the first two paragraphs in [[Joseph McCarthy#Condemnation and the Watkins Committee]]. The current text suggests that Flanders was acting at the bidding of “a coalition of Communists, Liberals, and Eisenhower Administration officials.” The literature shows him to be a conservative with an approach to fighting communism that was different from that of Senator McCarthy. Please leave your comments at [[User:Norwich#Flanders role in Senate censure#Your comments below, please | below the Proposed text]]. [[User:Norwich|Norwich]] 16:07, 11 December 2007 (EST) − − ==Proposed text== − While, over the past few years, Senator McCarthy withstood countless biased and unsubstantiated attacks by [[Liberals]], [[Communists]], etc., the organized effort to remove McCarthy from his Chairmanship and officially condemn him began in March of 1954. − ===Senate opposition=== − On March 9, 1954 a fellow conservative and anti-communist [[Republican]] Senator, [[Ralph E. 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> − {{cite book − | last = Flanders − | first = Ralph E. − | date = March 9, 1954 − | title = Activities of Senator McCarthy—The World Crisis − | publication-place = Washington, D.C. − | publisher = Proceedings and debates of the 83rd Congress, second session—Congressional Record − }} − </ref><ref> − {{cite book − | last = Flanders − | first = Ralph E. − | year =1961 − | title = Senator from Vermont − | publication-place = Boston − | publisher = Little, Brown − | pages = 255-257 − }} − </ref> [[Eisenhower Administration]] cabinet officials told Flanders to “lay off,” while President Eisenhower sent Flanders a brief note of appreciation for his speech, but did not otherwise confer with him or explicitly support him.<ref> − {{cite book − | last = Flanders − | first = Ralph E. − | year =1961 − | title = Senator from Vermont − | publication-place = Boston − | publisher = Little, Brown − | pages = 258 − }} − </ref> In a June 1, 1954 speech, Flanders emphasized how the Soviet Union was winning military successes in Asia without risking its own resources or men, and said this nation was witnessing "another example of economy of effort...in the conquest of this country for communism." He added, "One of the characteristic elements of communist and fascist tyranny is at hand as citizens are set to spy upon each other."<ref> − {{cite book − | last = Crozier − | first = Barney − | title = Vermont Senator's Speech Heralded McCarthy's End − | publisher = Times-Argus Newspaper − | publication-place = Randolph, Vermont − | pages = − | year =1979 − | date =September 29, 1979 − | url = − }}</ref> Flanders told the Senate that McCarthy's "anti-Communism so completely parallels that of [[Adolf Hitler]] as to strike fear into the hearts of any defenseless minority"; he accused McCarthy of spreading "division and confusion" and saying, "Were the Junior Senator from Wisconsin in the pay of the Communists he could not have done a better job for them."<ref> − {{cite book − | last = Woods − | first = Randall Bennett − | title = Fulbright: A Biography − | publisher = Cambridge University Press − | date = 1995 − | pages = 187 − | id = ISBN 0-521-48262-3}}</ref> − − On June 11, 1954 Flanders introduced a resolution charging McCarthy “with unbecoming conduct" and calling for his removal from his committee membership. Upon the advice of Senators John Sherman Cooper and J. William Fulbright and legal assistance from the [[National Committee for an Effective Congress]], a liberal organization, he modified his resolution to “bring it in line with previous actions of censure.”<ref> − {{cite book − | last = Flanders − | first = Ralph E. − | year =1961 − | title = Senator from Vermont − | publication-place = Boston − | publisher = Little, Brown − | pages = 260-261, 267 − }} − </ref> After introducing his censure motion, Flanders had no active role in the ensuing hearings. Flanders bore McCarthy no personal animosity and reported that McCarthy accepted his invitation to join him at lunch after the hearings had taken place.<ref> − {{cite book − | last = Flanders − | first = Ralph E. − | year =1961 − | title = Senator from Vermont − | publication-place = Boston − | publisher = Little, Brown − | pages = 267-268 − }} − </ref> − − ===Watkins Committee=== − (rest of existing text follows here) − − ===References for the above passage=== − {{reflist}} − − ===Your comments below, please=== − − + − +
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==Proposed edit of the [[Joseph McCarthy]] page==
==Proposed edit of the [[Joseph McCarthy]] page==
Dear X,
Dear X,
I notice that you’ve been an editor of [[Joseph McCarthy]], so I thought I’d solicit your opinion and help on the portion of the page, pertaining to Ralph Flanders’s role in [[Joseph McCarthy#Condemnation and the Watkins Committee | Condemnation and the Watkins Committee]]. As I noted on the [[Talk:Joseph McCarthy#Flanders role in Senate censure]], there were some unreferenced passages of questionable provenance. I have since done some research and have provided some proposed text to substitute for the first two paragraphs of the section in question.
I notice that you’ve been a primary editor of [[Joseph McCarthy]], so I thought I’d solicit your opinion and help on the portion of the page, pertaining to Ralph Flanders’s role in [[Joseph McCarthy#Condemnation and the Watkins Committee | Condemnation and the Watkins Committee]]. As I noted on the [[Talk:Joseph McCarthy#Flanders role in Senate censure]], there were some unreferenced passages of questionable provenance. I have since done some research and have provided some proposed text to substitute for the first two paragraphs of the section in question.
I invite you to review the proposed text at [[User:Norwich#Flanders role in Senate censure]] and leave feedback on what I’ve written before substitute language is installed in the McCarthy article.
I invite you to review the proposed text at [[User:Norwich#Flanders role in Senate censure]] and leave feedback on what I’ve written before any substitute language is installed in that portion of the McCarthy article.
Sincerely, [[User:Norwich|Norwich]] 16:07, 11 December 2007 (EST)
Sincerely, [[User:Norwich|Norwich]] 16:07, 11 December 2007 (EST)