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ee Most people came to think of Dr. Wirt not as the britiastend patriotic educator he was, but dscHrésrar- rulous busybody that the perjured testimony before the Bulwinkle committee made him out to be. And his charges, which time has proved true, were forgotten, and the plotters had another 15 years in which to com- mit treason against America, * * * The Wirt case was important because it was the first, application against a private citizen of the smear tech- nic which Charley Michelson, with a hundred eager Democratic mouthpieces in Congress, Importance had develoned against Herbert Hoov- : erto make the New Deal possible. The Of Wirt Case New Dealers and Communists never Fewagat tha lascan Tha aricaean aien Miike lesson Th € Amer wal public Was, and is, slow to learn that anv ‘decent citizen, no matter how carefully he speaks the truth against radicalism and subversion in the Administration, does so at the risk of his repu- tation. a time was ‘the “public? s_only protector against Red in- filtration of. Washington, got the smear treatment from, its” its inception, and is. still ge ll getting it. Every variety of dead cat was thrown at Rep. Dies, its first chairman, and all his successors and their colleagues. - The commitiee on un-. -American activities, which for It is fashionable in ‘‘liberal”—i.e., fellow traveling cipcles to speak_of the ‘un-American committee.” Th Administration _has_constantly_denied_it official _rec- ords, While making the same records, openly or surren. titiousiy , available to those whom the committee is in- vestigating. The “wonder, in view of. this, i is is thatthe the committee has been D able t to_perform. its. = priceless. sery- ice tc to ‘the 1 nation in_protecting. it from_spies, saboteurs and traitors, The New Deal smear bund has attempted to impose on the country a double system of morals. It has de- manded that its accusers proceed through a sea of per- | jury with the certainty of the FBI and the dignity of the Supreme_court, while the New Dealers themselves conduct their inquiries in the liberal tradition of one of Stalin's people’s courts. There was no essential dif- ference between the tactics used against Dr. Wirt in 1934 and those of the Communists and their lawyers before Judge Medina in 19-19. The same tactics are now being used against every~ everyone who 5 questions the holiness _o! of Alger “Hiss” ahs everyone who asi asks what Hiss’ ‘comrades | are sti still ng_in the Administration, - The new smear word | is d McCarthyism, "The ‘tactics a are being used successfully, and will continue to be successful, until Americans ré rec- ognize e the smear for w what it is.