Oversize Press Release I
Richard J. O'Melia Collection
- "Senator James O. Eastland, from."
- "I am gravely disturbed by."
- "America's dairy farmers should."
- "Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D., Minn.)."
- "Several weeks ago on the Senate floor."
- "Senator Joe McCarthy today called attention."
- "As Christian citizens deeply disturbed."
- "The firs major legislation on."
- "In recent months, the Supreme Court."
- "In the Fall of 1953."
- "The budget this year requests."
- "I would like to now say a." (handwritten notes and underlining)
- "The President has signed."
- "Communist lawyers rank as part." (four copies)
- "Dear Mr. President:"
- "The United States postal service."
- "Chairman James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) said today."
- "The Committee on Un-American Activities today."
- "Growth of a grass roots anti-Communist."
- "Castro's Cuban government has joined."
- "From an American Businessman with."
- "Two unwelcome guest of the."
- "Mr. President:" (attached are two copies of McCarthy's biography, prepared and distributed by The Wisconsin State Republican Committee)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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