No, Joe

Last week the U.S. Senate and one of its committees examined two special targets of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy. Results:

P: As the Senate considered President Eisenhower's nomination of William Joseph Brennan Jr. as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, McCarthy charged that the 50-year-old jurist had used the "privileged sanctuary" of the New Jersey Supreme Court "to conduct guerrilla warfare against anyone who would dare attempt to expose individual Communists." Patiently, his colleagues heard McCarthy out, then, with McCarthy voicing the single "no," confirmed the nomination by voice vote.

P: The Armed Services Committee considered the promotion of Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker to major general. On McCarthy's insistence, the committee summoned General Zwicker back from Japan to defend himself on charges made by his old antagonist at the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. Gist of the charges: Zwicker had "clearly lied" to the McCarthy investigations subcommittee about the circumstances leading to the promotion of Major Irving Peress, a dental officer accused as a Communist. The committee's decision, reached after a two-day, closed-door session: a unanimous (12-to-0) vote to approve the Zwicker promotion. Editorialized the New York Times: "The action is only the most recent indication of the contempt in which one Joseph R. McCarthy is rightly held by his colleagues."

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