| Author | Message | | gadfly | | Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:33 am Post subject: THE RUBICON McCAERTHY WOULD NOT CROSS. |
| The Rubicon McCarthy Would Not Cross
Thursday, 18 June 2009 04:31 Voltaire
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“Jewish Organizations Response To Communism And To Senator McCarthy” by Aviva Weingarten is a very recent (2008) but very informative examination of the hidden topic behind Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist investigations – the Jewish involvement in same. As Miss Weingarten makes clear, McCarthy was extremely unpopular with Jews, because the communists McCarthy was exposing were disproportionately Jewish. The Jewish defense organizations (the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress and the Anti Defamation League) conceived the strategy of opposing communism while upholding civil rights against McCarthy’s “excesses”. They also made alliances, somewhat reluctantly, with non-Jewish anti-communist groups, such as the All American Conference To Combat Communism (the AACCC). This was basically an attempt to portray their “anti-communist but pro-civil rights” positions as something other than the Jewish defense mechanism it basically was. The defense organizations were less enthusiastic about such organizations as the American Jewish League Against Communism, headed by Rabbi Benjamin Schultz. McCarthy made intense efforts to make sure that his anti-communist crusade was not portrayed as an anti-Jewish crusade. Thus, he stated in a speech of April 1954 speaking of the communists: “First, they emphasize the religion of traitors and security risks in those instances where it so happens that they are of the Jewish faith. This type of propaganda, as the Communists well know, catalyzes latent prejudices and creates race hatreds.”
McCarthy, although despised by the vast majority of America’s liberal/leftist Jews, nevertheless had a significant number of anti-communist Jewish supporters. These included the so-called “China Hands”, George Sokolsky, the well-known newspaper columnist and Alfred Kohlberg. It is also highly probable that McCarthy appointed Roy Cohn, the Jewish lawyer, as chief counsel to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in an effort to prove that he was not anti-Semitic. Cohn and David Schine, his assistant, were never popular with the media. Their ill-fated trip to Europe to search overseas American libraries for communist books was a fiasco. Schine’s drafting into the Army lead to subsequent charges of attempted preferential treatment by McCarthy’s subcommittee. It became a highly contentious issue during the later Army-McCarthy hearings. McCarthy also made efforts to get Roy Cohn, his chief counsel, appointed to the Board of Directors of the ADL. The Senator further had a meeting with the ADL, arranged by his friend, George Sokolsky. The meeting has been variously described by the participants but did not result in any modus vivendi between McCarthy and the ADL, which continued to oppose his methods. There were several incidents in McCarthy’s career which bordered on anti-Semitism without ever crossing the line into it. The first was the uproar over the appointment of Hungarian born Jewess Anna Rosenberg to Assistant Secretary of State for Manpower in November 1940. Allegations arose that Mrs. Rosenberg had been a Communist Party member in the 1930’s. The allegations were made by a former communist, Ralph de Sola, who claimed to have attended John Reed Club meetings with Mrs. Rosenberg. The charges were dismissed as a case of mistaken identity, although it has since come to light that in December 8, 1942 an article by Anna Rosenberg, described as “Regional Director, War Manpower Commission” appeared in the Communist “New Masses” magazine, with a drawing of Mrs. Rosenberg’s face. Aviva Weingarten concludes that McCarthy went after Rosenberg, not because she was Jewish, but because she had been appointed by Secretary of State, George Catlett Marshall, who McCarthy held responsible for the fall of China to the communists.
Another issue which brought McCarthy dangerously close to the forbidden issue of Jews and communism was the investigation of the Army Signal Corps installation at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey in October 1953. The Army and the FBI had already been independently conducting their investigations and had identified 42 security risks, 39 of them Jewish. The ADL conducted its own investigation and asserted that the problem was “anti-Semitism”. One particularly acrimonious episode arising from the Fort Monmouth investigations was the issue of who promoted the security risk, the dentist Irving Peress, to major. It was in this incident that the issue of preferential treatment for David Schine came up. The Army claimed that the “persecution” of Peress was retaliation for the failure to obtain preferential treatment for Schine. McCarthy became extremely belligerent over the issue in the televised Army-McCarthy hearings and this became one of the major precipitating factors in his downfall.
Although Aviva Weingarten’s study is well documented, there are some interesting omissions in her account. She makes no mention of the role McCarthy played in uncovering the abuses of the Malmedy Trial in Germany after the war, where McCarthy vigorously condemned the black hoods and other torture methods used against the Germans by Jewish interrogators in American uniforms. Perhaps this involvement explains why the Jewish controlled American media were ready to pounce on McCarthy when he made his famous Wheeling, West Virginia speech about communists in the State Department. Nor does she mention his very close friendship with James Forrestal, the thoroughly anti-Zionist Secretary of Defense. Perhaps these omissions would undermine her thesis that McCarthy was only anti-communist, not anti-Zionist. She does admit that McCarthy’s investigation of Anna Rosenberg involved McCarthy with known anti-Semites, like Benjamin Freedman, Gerald L.K. Smith and others. Aviva Weingarten also has to admit that Jews were disproportionately involved in the American Communist Party, although she maintains the standard apologetic defense that the majority of America’s Jews were anti-communist. (A very dubious proposition, as anyone who has studied the subject knows.)
Joseph McCarthy, as “Jewish Organisations” shows, tried very hard to distance himself from any accusations of anti-Semitism. It did not work. No matter how many overtures he made to Jewish organizations, no matter how many anti-communist Jews he employed or praised, the body of organized Jewry remained against him, then and until the present day. Even the confirmation of so many of his charges has not changed this hostility. (Indeed, the confirmation of the charges against so many identifiably guilty culprits has probably increased the hostility.) There is a profoundly important message in all this. There can be no compromise with Jewry. Present day authors, like professors Walt and Mearsheimer, who imagine that they can insulate themselves from the wrath of Jewry by making nice distinctions between “good, loyal Jews” and bad Zionist Jews deceive themselves. It cannot be done. It did not work in the case of Joseph McCarthy; it will not work for them. Senator McCarthy had the opportunity to convert his anti-communist crusade into an anti-Jewish crusade. That was precisely what the Jewish organizations feared. But McCarthy decided to play safe. By deluding himself that compromise with the real enemy was possible, he lost the opportunity to rebel against the real target. America has been paying the price ever since.
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