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Article: Owen Lattimore and the 'cold war.' (column)
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- National Review
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- August 18, 1989
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MR. TOM WICKER, a columnist for the New York Times, has published a piece in which he defends the late Owen Lattimore against charges made against him in the carly Fifties, charges reiterated in this space [see NR, July 14]. Mr. Wicker writes, "Mr. Buckley's column was in every [significant] respect a performance worthy of its author's mentor, Joe McCarthy, and a revived smear of a dead man more than thirty years after his name was, or should have been, cleared."
Now, Joe McCarthy has been dead for 32 years, during which I have been very active. I cannot remember, during those 32 years, imputing pro-Communism to more than, oh, four? five? people, in each ...