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Article: Guilty by Suspicion.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 15, 1991
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THE EXERTIONS of the House Un-American Activities Committee-HUAC-constitute of the more deplorable chapters in American history. One does not have to endorse Communism in order to recognize how irrational, undemocratic, and destructive were the policies that pitted Americans against fellow Americans, and equated paranoid persecution with righteousness, and the most benightedly sentimental or casually curious looking to Soviet Russia (our ally in the war) for social justice with dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy.
There were, of course, hard-core Communists in America, though probably not all that many when the investigators began in 1947, and fewer still at the time ...