Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Kohlberg Defends McCarthy Against Criticism by Niebuhr In his article, "Beria and McCarthy," in The New Leader of January 4, Reinhold Niebuhr accomplishes something that millions of...
...Fitch attributes to Herbert Agar a statement that Grant was re-elected merely because the Democratic party of the time was contradictory and politically dishonest, and then he asks: "Are we to fear that, in a crisis, American political liberalism may be about to repeat such a failure...
...Re-electing a corrupt Republican administration...
...Kohlberg desires, for I do not keep a file on McCarthy...
...Kohlberg might compare this record with that of the Senate Committee on Internal Security, which is, in my opinion, a model of what a Congressional committee should be...
...Copies of this letter are being sent to the Research Program on the U.S.S.R...
...This misrepresents Clark's cited article in particular and Clark's views in general...
...The most reliable evidence indicates that most Ukrainians are for more concerned with material and cultural grievances against the Soviet regime than with the slogans of "independence" which the UPA and the allied OUN (Banderovites) tried in vain to sell them during the World War II German occupation...
...Or electing a general to a second term...
...Professor Manning is a distinguished scholar on the U.S.S.R., as well as a patriotic American, and his book has received recognition throughout the country...
...Four years ago, McCarthy burst into public view with the charge that umpity number of "card-carrying Communists" were employed in the State Department...
...The ODFFU maintains that the UPA (with which it is closely linked) is not fascist but liberal...
...New York City J. Anthony Marcus Eagle-eyed Ukrainians Uncover 'Communist Agent' in Our Midst The November 30 issue of The New Leader contains a review of Clarence A. Manning's Ukraine Under the Soviets by Alexander Dallin...
...It is a wonder to us that a man like Mr...
...In his recent television performance, McCarthy insinuated that all the victories gained by the Communists in recent years were due to treason in the "Acheson-Hiss" State Department...
...To Professor Fitch and to you, my sincere thanks for offering this wonderful brain-treat on which to feast for a long time...
...New York City Mykola Komarnyckyj, President Michael Furda, Secretary Organization for the Defense of the Four Freedoms for the Ukraine, Branch 2, New York To reduce Soviet policy in the Ukraine to a mere expression of "Russian imperialism" is as primitive a political distortion as it is historically inaccurate...
...The decision on the future of the Ukraine should be left to its population when??some time soon, one hopes??it has a chance freely to express its views...
...Moreover, when Mr...
...Kohlberg's request for documentation on McCarthy's methods can only be explained if he shares some of the convictions which prompted McCarthy's charges...
...2. Accusations in the form of questions rather than statements: This gives the author the appearance of open-mindedness and supposedly relieves him of responsibility for the idea...
...Fitch...
...Dallin, as Associate Director of the Research Program on the U.S.S.R., should have found in this book a great deal of material for a better acquaintance with Eastern European affairs and with Communism as a new form of Russian imperialism...
...New York City Reinhold Niebuhr Fitch's Critique of Liberalism Is Cheered and Jeered I thought that Robert E. Fitch's article, "Are the Liberals Killing Liberalism...
...Equally flagrant was his recent reference to the "Truman Communists...
...On one, the evidence was merely that he had criticized Whittaker Chambers's position implying that religion was the only possible basis for anti-Communism...
...However, to our great surprise, he did not stop to get acquainted with the essence, Russian Communist imperialism, but began his review with a remark about the extremists of Ukrainian separatism...
...Niebuhr space to list 12 examples of "indiscriminate accusation," 12 examples of unproven "identification of a hated foe with a feared treason," and 12 examples of "lack of meticulous standards of justice" by the Senator...
...New York City Varian Fry I find it difficult to believe that your article, "Are the Liberals Killing Liberalism...
...The fact is that the Banderovites were once proud of their fascist label...
...was written by a professor of Christian ethics...
...If Dr...
...On McCarthy's lack of scrupulous standards of fairness in the Fort Monmouth investigations, I will refer Mr...
...Indeed, the assertion that only Communists have called it fascist smacks of well-known smear techniques, coupled as it is with the dispatch of a message to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which surely has weightier problems to occupy it...
...Such a failure" as what, Mr...
...Shall we say that the intelligentsia, too, had it coming to them...
...I might add that my review represented my own views, and the Research Program on the U.S.S.R...
...This is palpably an untruth...
...The number was changed from time to time, but the charge always remained outrageous and unsubstantiated...
...Their program of integral nationalism, their ethnic and political intolerance, their utter absence of democratic aspirations or concepts, their deals with Nazi Germany as late as the winter of 1944-45, and their record of terrorism (the attempts to assassinate Polish Premier Pieracki in 1934, the murder of rival Ukrainian nationalist leaders like Scyborsky and Sennyk in 1941, and the attacks on non-separatist DPs in West Germany since the end of the war) ??all these speak more loudly than their recent professions of devotion to the Four Freedoms...
...Were liberals responsible for re-electing Grant...
...Waban, Mass...
...The New Leader, January 11], was one of the best things you have published in many months, and I would like to see that all my colleagues on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union have a chance to read it...
...He also seems amazed at Professor Manning's statement that the history of the Ukraine is the problem of Ukrainian statehood, and that the Ukraine's present status is one of enslavement by Russia...
...For example, "Must it be one of the ironies of our history . . . that liberty should be assassinated by the liberals...
...During the election campaign, McCarthy gave a televised address in which he suggested that three very well-known, vigorous anti-Communists, assistants of Adlai Stevenson, were really fellow-travelers...
...3. Free association of unrelated and unsupported ideas: Mr...
...is in no way responsible for them...
...Though I would be the last to contend that Senator McCarthy has never made a mistake, I would contend, on the basis of close observation and the reading of all his important speeches in the Congressional Record, that these three charges do not represent McCarthy's methods...
...Niebuhr desires to go on and complete his definition of McCarthyism with 12 examples of each characterization, so much the more conclusive...
...Niebuhr calls it "the indiscriminate accusation, the identification of any hated foe with any feared treason, the lack of meticulous standards of justice...
...DEAR EDITOR Kohlberg Defends McCarthy Against Criticism by Niebuhr In his article, "Beria and McCarthy," in The New Leader of January 4, Reinhold Niebuhr accomplishes something that millions of words against "McCarthyism" have muffed in the past ??a definition, or at least a partial definition, of that horrendous term...
...To my mind, it displayed several instances of the most unethical practices: 1. Misleading quotation: A statement from an article by Mayor Joseph Clark was lifted completely out of context to show Clark's delight in an Orwellian notion that our young people be "conditioned to respond" mechanically "to a program of policing...
...I hope that some courageous democrat in Congress will insert it in the Congressional Record so that both Democrats and Republicans will get to read it...
...If he cannot, do you not think he will find himself guilty of "smear without proof" and "indiscriminate accusation...
...Alexander Dallin...
...Kohlberg to the report on these fantastic and, from the standpoint of justice, catastrophic proceedings by Walter Millis of the New York Herald Tribune...
...Mildred Ann Myerson Not in many a year have I read in any magazine such a thought-provoking essay as "Are the Liberals Killing Liberalism...
...His lack not of "meticulous" but of any standards of justice was shown in his examination of Reed Harris and Jnme9 Wechsler...
...by Robert E. Fitch...
...Such statements have previously been made only by agents of the world Communist conspiracy...
...Dallin states that the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) is fascist, and not an all-national Ukrainian liberation movement of liberals, he is employing Soviet Communist terminology...
...Washington, D.C...
...My documentation may not be all that Mr...
...New York City Alfred Kohlberg Mr...
...and the House Committee on Un-American Activities...
...Dallin is able to hold a responsible position with an American research institution...
...Is he personally responsible for his assertions or is he inspired by ideas derived for sources hostile to the free world and American democracy...
...James Wechsler was repeatedly accused of being still a secret member of the Communist party because he had not met the criterion of anti-Communism valid in McCarthy's eyes, to wit, praise of, and agreement with, McCarthy...
...He constantly made the former confess the authorship of a foolish radical book written in his youth, and prevented him from developing testimony of the high respect in which he was held as an anti-Communist fighter in Europe...
...But I will rehearse some obvious and well-known facts...
...And as for the so-called liberals who, as Professor Fitch says, are "suffering from intellectual debility??a hardening of the categories," it would be well for the exponents of that brand of liberalism in the publishing business to reprint it, so that they, too, could benefit from it...
...Let us try to untangle the logic of this juxtaposition...
...May I suggest, therefore, that you give Dr...
Vol. 37 • January 1954 • No. 4
