Oversize Press Release I
Richard J. O'Melia Collection
- "Senator James O. Eastland, from."
Date: September 4, 1956
Speaker/Author: The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Contents: Contains a copy of the statement made by Angus Ward, former Ambassador
to Afghanistan, to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee concerning the
rise of Communism to power in China, his imprisonment in Mukden while serving
as General Consul, and the State Department's response to his imprisonment.
- "I am gravely disturbed by."
Date: (?)
Speaker/Author: Senator Carl Hayden
Contents: Defends the Chief Counsel and staff of the 1952 Senate Privileges
and Elections Subcommittee against claims made be McCarthy that they used illegal
means in their investigations. Hayden claims that McCarthy's accusations are
a last ditch effort to avoid being censured by the Senate.
- "America's dairy farmers should."
Date: March 22, 1954
Attachment: "Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D., Minn.)."
Speaker/Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
Contents: States that dairy farmers should consider April 1 to be "Black Thursday,"
because it is the day that Secretary Benson has chosen to lower milk prices,
thereby causing billions of dollars worth of damage to the industry. Encourages
dairy farmers to protest.
- "Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D., Minn.)."
Date: March 23, 1954
Attachment: "America's dairy farmers should."
Speaker/Author: Office of Hubert H. Humphrey
Contents: Announces that Humphrey is attempting to get Senate to pass a temporary
bill in a last minute effort to prevent Secretary Benson from lowering dairy
prices.
- "Several weeks ago on the Senate floor."
Date: August 25, 1955
Speaker/Author: Joseph McCarthy
Contents: Outlines how the Eisenhower Administration and its policies have steered
America away from its objective of defeating Communism. Blames the Democrats
for the loss of Free China, and states that the main objective of Communism,
the objective which the United States has failed to prevent Communists from
obtaining, is to conquer Asia first, and then Europe. Claims that the Eisenhower
Administration fell into the same groove of appeasement that the Truman Administration
did when dealing with Communists in the Far East.
- "Senator Joe McCarthy today called attention."
Date: February 23, 1957
Speaker/Author: Office of Joseph McCarthy
Contents: States that McCarthy will be introducing a bill to lower the interest
rates on middle class veterans homes in an attempt to rejuvenate the struggling
American construction industry.
- "As Christian citizens deeply disturbed."
Date: (?)
Speaker/Author: Nancy D. Applewhite, Chairman, Militant Christian Patriots
Contents: States that the Militant Christian Patriots will support only those
politicians who are working for America's best interest, and will oppose those
who do not. Refers to an attached questionnaire which is supposed to determine
whether an individual is acting in America's best interest.
- "The firs major legislation on."
Date: January 26, 1956
Speaker/Author: Joseph McCarthy
Audience: Citizens of Wisconsin
Content: Explains the Harris Bill, which will remove federal controls over natural
gas production, and why McCarthy supports it.
- "In recent months, the Supreme Court."
Date: 1956 or later
Speaker/Author: Joseph McCarthy
Audience: Citizens of Wisconsin
Contents: Discusses three recent cases tried by the Supreme Court - the Steve
Nelson Case, the Slochower Case, and the Communist Part, U.S.A. v. Subversive
Activities Control Fund - and explains why the decisions made concerning them
may actually destroy all previous American efforts to stop the spread of Communism.
- "In the Fall of 1953."
Date: 1955 or later
Speaker/Author: Joseph McCarthy
Audience: Citizens of Wisconsin
Content: Reports that although two years ago McCarthy's allegations that radar
information had been stolen from Fort Monmouth by a Soviet spy ring were labeled
as a hoax, the testimony of a former Soviet officer now living in the U.S. proves
that they were true. Contains a transcript of the officer's testimony, and warns
the American people against ever again listening to individuals who oppose efforts
to expose Communists.
- "The budget this year requests."
Date: 1956 or later
Speaker/Author: Joseph McCarthy
Audience: Citizens of Wisconsin
Content: Suggest reducing the budget by cutting foreign aide, halting government
interference with private business, and passing a series of fifty-four bills
which McCarthy has proposed to the Senate. Counters opposition from groups like
the Rural Electrification Administration who claim that some of McCarthy's bills
are aimed to destroy them.
- "I would like to now say a." (handwritten notes and underlining)
Date: July 18, 1956
Speaker/Author: Senator John L. McClellan
Audience: Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Content: Refutes the implication from the Minority Report that the United States
had no choice at the COCOM conference other than to agree to the removal of
certain strategic items from the International List. Criticizes the United States
compliance in amending the Battle Act so that U.S. Allies would be able to export
certain items to the Soviet Bloc.
- "The President has signed."
Date: February 16, 1956
Speaker/Author: James C. Hagerty, Press Secretary to the President
Content: Reports that the President has signed an Executive Order providing
for the establishment of a National Defense Executive Reserve, composed of persons
selected and trained for employment in executive positions in the Federal Government
during periods of emergency. (Attached is a copy of the Executive Order.)
- "Communist lawyers rank as part." (four copies)
Date: February 16, 1959
Speaker/Author: Committee on Un-American Activities
Content: Announces the Committee's finding that lawyers compose a significant
percent of the Communist presence on American soil, and states the grave danger
that these Communist lawyers pose to American society.
- "Dear Mr. President:"
Date: August 13, 1959
Speaker/Author: Francis E. Walter, Chairman of the Committee of Un-American
Activities
Audience: President
Content: Warns the President against his decision to meet with Soviet Premier
Khrushchev, since any calls for peace coming from a Communist regime are undoubtedly
part of a conspiracy to gain America's trust so it can be conquered.
- "The United States postal service."
Date: May 31, 1959
From: Senate Internal Security Committee
Content: Explains how Senator James O. Eastland found that under the Universal
Postal Union Agreement the Soviet Union is able to pass Communist propaganda
through the U.S. Postal Service to be distributed to Latin American countries
at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. Contains a statistical list of the estimated
number of Communists in various Latin American countries.
- "Chairman James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) said today."
Date: June 9, 1960
From: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Content: Announces the claim of James O. Eastland, chairman of the Senate Internal
Security subcommittee, that the recent public disclosure of a closed hearing
of the Subcommittee may have compromised U.S. national security. The hearing
included the testimony of Edward Whitehouse, a former Cuban aviation official,
who gave information concerning a Communist plot to heighten anti-American feelings
in Cuba by causing an "accidental" collision between an American military plane
and a Cuban airliner.
- "The Committee on Un-American Activities today."
Date: May 10, 1960
From: Committee on Un-American Activities
Content: Announces that the Committee on Un-American Activities has release
the testimony of Colonel Frantisek Tisler, for Military and Air Attache at the
Czechoslovakian Embassy at Washington. Tisler's testimony states that there
are widespread Communist espionage operations in the U.S. occurring via the
Embassies of Communist countries. Attached are brief biographical sketches of
Anton Krchmarek and Charles Musil, who Tisler identified as being part of the
these Communist espionage operations.
- "Growth of a grass roots anti-Communist."
Date: August 27, 1961
From: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Content: Announces that the Senate Internal Subcommittee voted to release the
testimony of Edward Hunter, a psychological warfare expert who states that the
Soviets are using propaganda to launch an anti-anti-Communist movement in the
United States.
- "Castro's Cuban government has joined."
Date: August 28, 1961
From: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Content: Announces the release of the report of Senator James O. Eastland of
the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee concerning the role Cuban Communists
have played in encouraging civil unrest in the U.S. by encouraging African-Americans
to turn against the American government. Identifies the Fair Play for Cuba Committee,
an organization predominantly composed of African-Americans, as the organization
that most widely campaigns to popularize Cuba among African-Americans.
- "From an American Businessman with."
Date: February 20, 1961
From: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Content: Reports that James D. Pawley, a businessman and former ambassador to
Peru and Brazil, advised the U.S. to earn the respect and confidence of South
American countries through a policy of noninterference. Pawley also testifies
that the United States' decision to recognize Communist China resulted from
the activities of Communists within the U.S. government, and that these same
Communists are affecting the U.S.'s relationship with Cuba.
- "Two unwelcome guest of the."
Date: September 28, 1960
From: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.
Content: Announces the findings of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
that Communism is indeed a presence in Cuba. Explains that the Communist influence
is just as much, if not more, Chinese than Soviet.
- "Mr. President:" (attached are two copies of McCarthy's biography, prepared
and distributed by The Wisconsin State Republican Committee)
Date: April 1, 1957
From: Office of Joseph McCarthy
Content: Questions whether General Zwicker is worthy of being promoted after
having perjured himself before a Congressional committee in 1955.
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