When Joe McCarthy called a press conference at the end of the week, reporters fully expected to get a new McCarthy blast on an old subject, possibly the Bohlen fight. But they soon discovered that Joe had raised his sights, and was now busy running his own little Department of State.
All chuckles and flourishes, McCarthy announced that his Senate investigating subcommitee had just negotiated an agreement with the Greek owners of 242 merchant ships. The shipowners, said Joe, promised that their ships would no longer carry any cargoes to China and other Communist ports in the Far East. He thought the...