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At the Army-McCa hy hearings in 1954, the Army's wyer, J ph Welch, knew how to make McCarthy l k as bad as ible. Welch dis­ tracted attention from the actual facts of Communist infiltration in t Army to McCarthy's own per nality and the not always p dent way he handled inv ti tion Added to this were the h tile television commen­ tators and newspa r stori McCarthy never had a chance.
After the he ing Mc rthy's sup rt went dow His own col­ leagues in the nate turned against hi voting to censure (condemn) him. M y was crushe He had tried to do his st r his country but ev­ eryone tu ed a st him. He went into a deep depr ion and t k to d g t much. He died on May 2, 19 , the victim of an irrational ha­ tred which had not entirely di ppeared even twenty ye later.
The Hungaria Fight for Fr om
The destruction of McCarthy was a si al that anti-Communism was not strong in the US as it should have en Neverthel many people hoped that Dwi t Ei nhower, elected President in 1952 and re lected in 1956, might sup rt a licy of li ration (helping to free countri from Co unism) rather than mere containment (not letting them take over new countries} is ho was tested in a cial si tion in 19
The situation ar in Hungary, which had en brut ly oppr d by the mmunists since the end of World W But the Communists could not crush e Hungarian spirit Eighty-five per cent Catholic, the Hungari­ ans held fast to dreams of freedom, eager to fight their oppre rs if given a c n
The chance came on Octo r 23, 19 In the capi l city of Budapes Hungari had en acefully demonstrating in front of the radio sta­ tion, prto esting the s tion's refu l to broadcast their 1 int memoran­ dum dem ding gove mental reform. The lice o ned f e with ma­ chine gun The ople expl ed with all of the anger and frustration of the past ten year Hun rian n to ed Freedom g e , toppled the gantic statue of Stalin, captured the radio s tion, d cut the viet sym l out of Hungarian fla
Emo Gero, First cre ry of the Hungarian Communist Party, was shocked when the army and the lice th openly sided with the Free­ dom Fi ter He lled in viet tr ps and at 5 AM on to r 24, Hun ans in Buda st awakened to the rumble of tanks in the street To try to f l the Freedom Fighters into capitulatin Gero re blished the pular re Nagy as premier. But Nagy had no wer, ing surrounded