National Affairs: Fight for Security

Like any husband home from work, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. chatted with the wife, drank a bourbon and water and downed a leisurely dinner (chicken, peas and ginger cake). Then he drove to a Washington TV studio to report to the nation, at President Eisenhower's request, on "The Fight Against Communism." Confidently, Brownell spelled out the problem of Communist infiltration and what is being done to combat it.

Real Threat. "The threat of Communism is a very real one," he said. The party has 25,000 members ("25,000 potential foreign agents"), but is so...

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