Joseph McCarthy

Lalaith_Elf · 02-17-2004, 06:27 PM

Does anyone have any good information about Joseph McCarthy and the period in time in which he led his campaign against the alleged communist 'subversion', around 1950.

Any help will be much appreciated.

(Sorry if there is already a thread like this one - I haven't had time to look)

Janny · 03-26-2004, 04:36 PM

I don't know much, but he managed to 'find' 27 communist sympathisers in the US State Department alone. Either damn good work, or a bit over zealous.

jerseydevil · 03-26-2004, 07:55 PM

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Originally posted by Janny
I don't know much, but he managed to 'find' 27 communist sympathisers in the US State Department alone. Either damn good work, or a bit over zealous.

He was both.

Ruinel · 03-26-2004, 08:02 PM

I'm pretty sure I would have been branded a communist back then.

Even though I am definitely not one.

Lalaith_Elf · 03-27-2004, 09:16 AM

It's just I need this information for Literature. I'm studying Arthur Miller's 'Death Of A Salesman' and I needed some background info on the Author, and I know that McCarthy pulled him in for being a communist.

Janny · 03-27-2004, 05:41 PM

Yeah, you didn't have to be a communist to be pulled in.

Radagast · 03-28-2004, 06:33 AM

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Originally posted by Lalaith_Elf
It's just I need this information for Literature. I'm studying Arthur Miller's 'Death Of A Salesman' and I needed some background info on the Author, and I know that McCarthy pulled him in for being a communist.

Miller also wrote 'The Crucible' which was a somewhat overhyped 'parallel' of the McCarthy trials. It is about the Salem Witch Trials and the mass hysteria he compares to that of McCarthyist America. However, while there were no witches in Salem, there certainly were communists in America.

Lalaith_Elf · 03-28-2004, 08:54 AM

Yeah, we were discussing that last lesson. He actually wasn't alowed to go and see the European premier of The Cruicible because McCarthy wouldn't let him out of the country.

Agalayth · 03-28-2004, 05:22 PM

Margaret Chase Smith was the first person to speak out against him. I know a lot about her because I live in Maine, where she was a Senator from. I know that he claimed that hundreds of people were Communists, and claimed that he had files upon files about people who were Communists.

02-17-2004, 06:27 PM	#1
Lalaith_Elf Her Infernal Majesty Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,188	Joseph McCarthy Does anyone have any good information about Joseph McCarthy and the period in time in which he led his campaign against the alleged communist 'subversion', around 1950. Any help will be much appreciated. (Sorry if there is already a thread like this one - I haven't had time to look) __________________ "It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

03-26-2004, 04:36 PM	#2
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	I don't know much, but he managed to 'find' 27 communist sympathisers in the US State Department alone. Either damn good work, or a bit over zealous. __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

03-27-2004, 09:16 AM	#5
Lalaith_Elf Her Infernal Majesty Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,188	It's just I need this information for Literature. I'm studying Arthur Miller's 'Death Of A Salesman' and I needed some background info on the Author, and I know that McCarthy pulled him in for being a communist. __________________ "It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

03-27-2004, 05:41 PM	#6
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Yeah, you didn't have to be a communist to be pulled in. __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

03-28-2004, 08:54 AM	#8
Lalaith_Elf Her Infernal Majesty Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,188	Yeah, we were discussing that last lesson. He actually wasn't alowed to go and see the European premier of The Cruicible because McCarthy wouldn't let him out of the country. __________________ "It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

03-26-2004, 08:02 PM	#4
Ruinel Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: I have no idea. Posts: 5,441	I'm pretty sure I would have been branded a communist back then. Even though I am definitely not one.

03-28-2004, 05:22 PM	#9
Agalayth Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 215	Margaret Chase Smith was the first person to speak out against him. I know a lot about her because I live in Maine, where she was a Senator from. I know that he claimed that hundreds of people were Communists, and claimed that he had files upon files about people who were Communists. __________________ Chickens at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.

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