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"The Tablet: A Catholic Weekly" (entire
edition, two copies)
Date: May 11, 1957
Article #1: "Patriotic Career of Sen. McCarthy Lauded in Eulogy"
Author: Patrick F. Scanlan
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 1)
Content: Describes the funeral of Senator McCarthy, and tells of the honor
and praise he received from representatives of the Catholic Church.
Article #2: "Senator Buried at Appleton"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 1)
Content: Describes the funeral of Senator McCarthy.
Article #3: "Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral for Senator"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 1)
Content: Announces that the New York State Board, Ancient Order of Hibernians,
has arranged for a Solemn Requiem Mass for the late Senator Joseph McCarthy
to be held on May 11, 1957, in St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Article #4: "Mass in Syracuse"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 1)
Content: Announces that a Memorial Solemn High Mass will be held for the
late Senator Joseph McCarthy on May 11, 1957, at the Most Holy Rosary
Church in Syracuse New York.
Article #5: "Senator McCarthy, A Loss to the Nation"
Author: Managing Editor of The Tablet
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 9)
Content: Praises the late Senator McCarthy and recounts his career.
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"The Tablet: A Catholic Weekly" (entire
edition)
Date: February 18, 1956
Article #1: "Ex-U.S. Official Admits Red Ties and Involves 27"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 1)
Content: Reports that James E. Gorham, the former division chief of the
Civil Aeronautics Board, has given to the House Committee of Un-American
Activities the names of 27 members of Communist cells in the government
during the late 1930's and early 1940's. Individual's named included,
from the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in New York: Louis Lehrman,
Barbara Best, Lawrence Elkind, and an individual remembered only as "Bob";
from the National Recovery Administration: Albert Blumberg, Eleanor Nelson,
Henry Rhine, Mrs. Jessica Buck Rhine, John Donovan, and Arthur Stein;
from the Works Progress Administration: Edna Richter, Irving Richter,
Sidney Katz, Rebecca Pfferman, Marcel Kistin, and Bernard Greenberg; from
the Senate Commerce Committee: Herbert Fuchs, Samuel Koenigsberg, Ellis
Olim, Sylvia Soloff, and Alfred Bernstein; from the Securities and Exchange
Commission: Meyer Naigles, Mrs. Polly Vibber, Doxey Wilkerson, Thomas
Cox, and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ball; and from the Library of Congress: Ogden
Kelly.
Article #2: "Levittown Scene of Fight on Song"
Author: Don Zirkel
Published for/in: The Table (page 1)
Content: Reports on the controversy over whether the song "The Lonesome
Train," a cantana about the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, should be
used in Levittown schools as a part of festivities celebrating Lincoln's
birthday, since the song was written by Millard Lampall, who was identified
as a Communist by the Senate Subcommittee Investigating Subversive Infiltration
of Radio, Television, and the Entertainment Industry, and Earl Robinson,
also a publicly identified Communist.
Article #3: "Soviet Friendship Unit Ruled Communist Front"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 4)
Content: Reports that the Subversive Activities Control Board has ruled
that the National council of American-Soviet Friendship is a Communist
organization and must register as such with the Attorney General.
Article #4: "Reds Use Schism as a Booby Trap: Bishop Girths Says
Strategy of Atheism was a Failure"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 5)
Content: Reports on a lecture given by Bishop James H. Griffiths of New
York at a luncheon of the First Friday Club in which Griffiths explained
how Communism was created to rob people of their religious faith and how
Catholics must oppose Communism in all forms.
Article #5: "Dibelius Blasted for Visiting Pope: Communists Attack
Protestant Bishop as a 'Warmonger'"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 5)
Content: Reports that East German Communists slandered Bishop Otto Dibelius,
the head of the Evangelical Church in Germany, for visiting Pope Pius
XII in Vatican City.
Article #6: "Says Reds had 2 Top Spy Rings: One Operated in Soviet
Embassy and Other in U.N. Delegation"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 9)
Content: Reports on the testimony of Yuri Rastvorov, a former lieutenant
colonel with the Soviet Secret Police who defected in January of 1954,
who claims that two spy rings are operating in the United States, one
in the Soviet Embassy and the other in the Soviet delegation to the United
Nations. Individuals specifically named as part of the spy rings include
Major General O.V. Akimyan, Major Vassili Zarubin, Gregori Dolbin, One
Sokolov, Slexander Panushkin, and One Wladkin.
Article #7: "The Reds - What Now?: Building Up Red China" (editorial)
Author: Louis Francis
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 10)
Content: Warns against the dangers of allowing Communist China to engage
in rubber trade with Malaya.
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"The Tablet: A Catholic Weekly" (entire
edition)
Date: August 10, 1957
Article #1: "Prelate Charges Reds with Strike in Jersey in 1949"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 1)
Content: Reports the testimony of Msgr. William C. Heimbuch, a priest
from St. Michael's Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which was given before
the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Heimbuch testified that the
strikes which took place at the local Singer Sewing Machine Co. plant
in 1949 were actually part of a Communist conspiracy.
Article #2: "Reds Inaugurate Hungarian Purge of Clerical Foes"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 1)
Content: Reports that several priests were arrested by the Communist influenced
Hungarian government on phony charges of looting.
Article #3: "Sees Anti-Church Move Beginning in Hungary"
Author: Laszlo Magyar
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 1)
Content: Reports that Hungary's Communist government is conduction a campaign
against the Catholic Church, and that, as a part of this campaign, the
government is requiring all appointed bishops in Hungary to pledge themselves
to a Communist led peace movement.
Article #4: "Senate Acts in Favor of 'Captive Nations'"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 1)
Content: Announces that the United States Senate approved a compromise
resolution calling for the United States to seek freedom and independence
for "captive nations" dominated by Communism.
Article #5: "Declares Court Decisions Imperil People's Morale: Internal
Security Counsel Robert Morris Calls on Legionnaires to Rouse 'A Lethargic
Nation'"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 1)
Content: Recounts the speech of Robert Morris, chief counsel of the Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee, to the New York State convention of the
American Legion concerning the threat of Communism.
Article #6: "Hits Propaganda for Zhukov Visit: Senator Butler Warns
He is and International Communist Leader"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 3)
Content: Recounts a letter written by Senator John Marshall of Maryland
to his constituents in which he claims that any meeting of Soviet marshal
Zhukov with United States officials would by used by Communist propaganda
machines to make Zhukov, a butcher, appear as a "dove of peace."
Article #7: "Slain Guatemala Chief Eulogized: Bishop Griffiths Says
Murder of Armas Must Be Warning to World"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 5)
Content: Recounts the text of a sermon given by Auxillary Bishop James
H.Griffiths of New York in which he declares that the assassination of
President Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatemala stands as evidence that the
free world cannot be lulled away from vigilance just because world tensions
seem to be decreasing.
Article #8: "Among the Missing" (editorial)
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 8)
Content: Claims that the Soviet Union holds hundreds of thousands of Westerners
as prisoners behind the Iron Curtain and calls for others to speak out
against the U.S.S.R. on their account.
Article #9: "The Consistent ACLU" (editorial)
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 8)
Content: Criticizes the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU) on several
grounds, such as for attempting to keep God out of American society and
for holding that the Communist Party should have the same rights within
the United States as any other political party.
Article #10: "Are We Going to Be Convinced?" (political cartoon)
Author: J. Maloney
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 8)
Content: Features a drawing of a large man with the hammer-sickle emblem
on his jacket strangling a small man labeled Hungary.
Article #11: "The Reds - What Now?: Suppressing the Truth" (editorial)
Author: Louis F. Budenz
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 8)
Content: Claims that the Communist Party has a policy of propagating their
goal of slavery and aggression under the disguise of working for peace
and democracy and gives examples from "The Daily Worker" to
support this claim.
Article #12: "Senator has not been Forgotten: Tributes to McCarthy
Pass Continually into Congress"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 17)
Content: Announces that a remarkable outpouring of official appreciation
for the services of deceased Senator Joseph McCarthy and his campaign
against Communism is being inscribed in the Congressional Record.
Article #13: "'Patriotic' Group Formed in China: But Catholic Leaders
at Meeting Protest Organization"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 18)
Content: Reports that the Communist government of China has forced a meeting
of Catholic in Peking to form a "Patriotic Association of Chinese
Catholics" and demanded that they cut all ties with Rome.
Article #14: "Union Secretary Mum on Red Ties: West Coast Dock Worker
Official Pleads the Fifth Amendment"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: The Tablet (page 19)
Content: Reports that Louis Goldblatt, an officer in the International
Longshoremen's and Warehouseman's Union, invoked the Fifth Amendment when
questioned by the Senate Internal Security Committee concerning the union's
finances and his own Communist affiliations.
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"Daily Worker" (entire issue, photocopy)
Date: October 4, 1945
Article #1: "Wallace Attacks Atom Secrecy: Says Failure to Share
Data Invites Disaster"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Worker (page 1)
Content: Reports on the Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace's declaration
that the United States policy of secrecy concerning atomic energy would
eventually lead to disaster.
Article #2: "Assails U.S. 'Gunboat Policy' in China: Rep. Mansfield
asks Hands Off"
Author: Art Shields
Published for/in: Daily Worker (page 1)
Content: Reports that Representative Michael Mansfield of Montana denounced
America's interference with the civil war taking place in China between
Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek and Communist forces.
Article #3: "'West Bloc' Plan Is War - Izvestia"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Worker (page 2)
Content: Reports the claim of the Soviet newspaper Izvestia that the projected
"western bloc" of European nations is directed towards causing
war.
Article #4: "Let Northern China Alone!" (editorial)
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Worker (page 3)
Content: Argues against US involvement in the civil war in China.
Article #5: "Stay Out of China"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Worker (page 4)
Content: Argues against US involvement in the civil war in China.
Article #6: "Moscow Assails War Trials Delay"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Worker (page 5)
Content: Reports accusations from a Moscow radio broadcast that the Allies
have been too soft on and slow acting against Nazi war criminals.
Article #7: "Laborites Stress British-Soviet Relations"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Worker (page 5)
Content: Announces the decision of the United Kingdom's Labor Party to
base their foreign affairs campaign on the plea that a Socialist government
offers the best hope of bettering Allied relations with the Soviet Union.
Article #8: "Sees China Split Costly to US"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Worker (page 5)
Content: Reports the claim of Representative Make Mansfield to the House
of Representatives that Chinese political disunity may force American
military leaders to switch plans and launch a direct assault on the Japanese
home islands.
Article #9: "Chiang's Proposal a Fake, Say Chinese Communists"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Worker (page 6)
Content: Reports the claim of the Chinese Communist Party that General
Issimo Chiang Kai-shek's reasons for rejecting Communist proposals for
a coalition government were ungrounded and their demand that Chiang end
his dictatorship.
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"Predicts America's Doom Unless People Wake Up: Msgr.
McGrath Sees Fulfillment of Lenin's Prophecy that US Will Be Sovietized
without War" (leaflet)
Date: July 30, 1955
Author: Rt. Rev. William C. McGrath, S.F.M., P.A..
Published for/in: The Tablet: A Catholic Weekly
Content: Predicts the downfall of the United States to Communism within
the next ten to fifteen years, not due to war but due to Communist infiltration
of high government positions and the apathy of America in general.
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"Let's Look at the Record" (photocopy)
Date: June 14, 1954
Article #1: "Has McCarthy Uncovered Communists?"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Times (page 8)
Content: Lists the names of seventy-one people who McCarthy targeted as
possible Communists who have pleaded the fifth amendment when questioned
about their Communist actions and affiliations.
Article #2: "The Claim is Made that Senator McCarthy is Dividing
Americans!"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Times (page 8)
Content: Challenges what the author considers a Communist smear campaign
that the actions of Senator McCarthy divide America.
Article #3: "The Record of the Honorable Joseph R. McCarthy ... Compared
to the Organized Smear Campaign Against Him!"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Times (page 9)
Content: Confronts the three most prominent criticisms against McCarthy,
1.) that he deprives people of counsel, 2.) that he smears innocents,
and 3.) that he abuses witnesses, and refutes them.
Article #4: "What Happened When McCarthy Sued for Libel"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Daily Times (page 9)
Content: Reports that McCarthy sued the Syracuse Post Standard for libel
and won.
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"Sen. McCarthy Dies in Washington Hospital - Seven
Foreign Ships Dock in Chicago River"
Date: May 3, 1957
Author: (?)
Published for/in: Chicago Daily Tribune
Content: Contains a series of pictures of McCarthy.
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"Hold for Release" (attached is a handwritten
note to O'Melia by an illegible author stating that the writer sends these
to O'Melia so that he will know were the writer stands)
Date: 1956 or later
Article #1: "An Appraisal for the Future"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: (?)
Content: Expresses surprise at the unanimous vote of Democrats in the
Senate to censure McCarthy and claims that the Democratic Party is guilty
of playing politics.
Article #2: "The McCarthy Situation: 'Whatho for the Future?'"
Author: (?)
Published for/in: (?)
Content: Expresses dismay over the censure of McCarthy and discusses its
implications for America and its political parties.
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"2 Lawyers Balk at Query on Red Cell Affiliations:
Accused by Fuchs, Ex-NLRB Employees Use 5th Amendment at House Probe"
Date: February 21, 1956
Author: L. Edgar Prina
Published for/in: The Evening Star
Content: Reports that Joseph Robinson and Martin Kurasch, two former National
Labor Relations Board attorneys, pleaded the fifth amendment when questioned
by the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning their former
Communist activities or affiliations.
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"Ruth Weyand Tells Quiz She was Never a Red"
Date: (?)
Author: (?)
Published for/in: (?)
Content: Reports that Ruth Weyland, a former employee of the National
Labor Relations Board, testified before the House Un-American Activities
Committee that she is not now nor has ever been a member of the Communist
Party.
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"Ex-U.S. Worker Quizzed on Passing Data to Reds"
Date: February 15, 1956
Author: L. Edgar Prina
Published for/in: The Evening Star
Content: Reports that Morris M. Levine, a former government statistician-economist
who worked for the Army Department, pleaded the fifth before the House
Un-American Activities Committee when questioned concerning his Communist
past.
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"Gorham Testifies to Communist Ties"
Date: February 15, 1956
Author: Jean White
Published for/in: (?)
Content: Reports the testimony of James Edgar Gorham, a former Civil Aeronautics
Board official, that he was a member of five Communist cells in the federal
government from 1934 to 1942. Gorham also provided the names of twenty-seven
individuals who he claimed were also involved.
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"Why Should We Expose FBI's Undercover Men?"
(editorial)
Date: (?)
Author: (?)
Published for/in: (?)
Content: Responds to public criticism over the fact that individuals accused
of Communist affiliations often do not have all the facts concerning how
the charges against them were brought about through the involvement of
the FBI. Argues that to reveal the workings of the FBI would be to make
it ineffectual in the fight against Communism.
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"MRA: Will It Master Communism?"
Date: October 23, 1951
Author: John McCook Roots
Published for/in: Look
Content: Explains the origin, purpose, and other details concerning Moral
Rearmament (MRA), a cause started by Frank N.D. Buchman that stands opposed
to and counteracts Communism.
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"These Days" (contains handwritten corrections,
attached is a Western Union telegram asking the managing editor to kill
the Solosky column and replace it with an alternative one called "The
Dirty Thought")
Date: June 7, 1954
Author: George E. Sokolsky
Published for/in: (?)
Content: Denies that there is anything immoral in the relations between
Senator Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and David Schine.
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"How Big Can a Lie Get: Another Typical Example of
Milwaukee Journal Dishonesty" (two copies)
Date: (?)
Author: (?)
Published for/in: (?)
Content: Features a copy of a Milwaukee editorial which claims that McCarthy
made up statistics concerning the amount of ammunition the Army dumped
in the ocean in 1945 sandwiched between two letters which verify the original
statistics McCarthy gave.
