OPINION: Brotherly Blow

Despite Red Baiter Joe McCarthy's chip-on-the-shoulder attitude toward the Administration, President Eisenhower has treated him impersonally and with restraint, even when indicating disapproval of McCarthy's methods. But the President's eldest brother, Kansas City Banker Arthur Eisenhower, 66, made no attempt to stifle his indignation when he was asked his opinion of McCarthy in Las Vegas last week. Joe, said Arthur Eisenhower firmly, is "the most dangerous menace to America."

He did not stop there. "When I think of McCarthy," he told a reporter from the New Dealish Las Vegas Sun, after arriving to attend a meeting of T.W.A. directors, "I automatically...

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