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1950 DP

Page history last edited by Mr. Hengsterman 5 years, 11 months ago

 

 

 

 

 
Seeing Red- A. Mitchell Palmer and Senator Joseph McCarthy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

McCarthyism (another Second Red Scare) 

 

The most famous anti-Communist activist was Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy.  In 1950, he claimed to have a list with the names of Communists in the State Department and charged the Democratic Party with treason for allowing Communist infiltration of the U.S. government. 

 

 

McCarthy never produced the list, but managed to conduct hearings that investigated government officials, colleges, and the media resulting in the ruining of many careers.  Many disliked his tactics, but supported his cause.  

 

 

 

The McCarran Internal Security Act (1950)  A McCarthy era federal law passed over President Harry Truman's veto. The anti-communist fervor was bi-partisan and only seven Democratic senators voted to uphold the veto.

 

It required Communist organizations to register with the United States Attorney General and established the Subversive Activities Control Board to investigate persons suspected of engaging in subversive activities or otherwise promoting the establishment of a "totalitarian dictatorship," either fascist or communist. Members of these groups could not become citizens and in some cases were prevented from entering or leaving the country. Citizens found in violation could lose their citizenship in five years. The act also contained an Emergency Detention statute, giving the President the authority to apprehend and detain “each person as to whom there is a reasonable ground to believe that such person probably will engage in, or probably will conspire with others to engage in, acts of espionage or sabotage.”

 

A key institution in the era of the Cold War, it tightened alien exclusion and deportation laws and allowed for the detention of dangerous, disloyal, or subversive persons in times of war or "internal security emergency". The Democratic-controlled Congress overrode President Harry S. Truman's veto to pass it.  

 

President Truman called it "the greatest danger to freedom of speech, press, and assembly since the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798," a "mockery of the Bill of Rights"and a "long step toward totalitarianism

 

 

 

 

 

 

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