Sir,-I must voice protest against your correspondent, E. S. Downey, who condemns your support of Ship’s satire on McCarthyism. If a people were to give continued support to investigators such as McCarthy, they would soon find that the liberty and peace of mind they were trying to protect was being swallowed whole by the very instrument set up to give this protection. I do believe that it was on this realisation that feeling on the part of the American people brought about McCarthy’s downfall. Surely the argument is not against anti-Communism, but against elements in which budding dictators are given free rein to terrorise society. I put to Mr. Downey that a rule of McCarthyism would be as bad a medicine to have forced down one’s throat as a rule of those types who invariably dominate Communism. In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that, just like The Colonel’s lady and Judy O’GradyKrushchev and McCarthy, Are sisters under the skin.
R. S.
RADFORD
(Palmerston North).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 913, 8 February 1957, Page 5
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