(THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD MARCH TO JUNE 1954)
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson
(Copyright 1954 by TIME Inc.)
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS McCarthy v. the U.S. Army
1. The spark which finally touched off the Army-McCarthy explosion was the Subcommittee's: 1. Investigation of Secretary Stevens' personal staff.
2. Investigation of Defense Secretary Wilson.
3. Discovery of 16 Reds in G2.
4. Treatment of Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker.
5. Refusal to grant Secretary Stevens access to its files. 2. Stevens countered by publicly: 1. Casting aspersions on McCarthy's war record.
2. Ordering Marine Reserve Officer McCarthy into uniform.
3. Ordering Zwicker not to testify further.
4. Denying the Subcommittee access to Fort Monmouth.
5. Refusing to testify personally. 3. The Army shortly released a 34-page report charging that Chief Counsel Roy Cohn threatened to wreck the Army unless : 1. He was admitted to West Point.
2. Special treatment were accorded an Army Private and former colleague.
3. All security files were opened to him.
4. He were given access to secret installations at Fort Monmouth.
5. President Eisenhower agreed to "cooperate better."
4. Replying to the charge, Senator McCarthy declared that the Army had:
1. sabotaged" his investagations in defense plants.
2. Tried to raid staff.
3. Knowingly employed
Communists in sensitive positions as late as February.
4. Tried to blackmail him.
5. Tapped his telephones.
5. As an afterthought, Senator McCarthy also brought charges against Assistant Defense Secretary:
1. Struve Hensel.
4. Gordon Gray.
2. Nathan Twining. 5. John Kane.
3. Robert B. Anderson.
6. Meanwhile, this TV commentator produced a devastating indictment of the Senator in a show largely made up of newsreel clips of McCarthy in action:
1. Fulton Lewis Jr. 4. John Daly.
2. Fulton J. Sheen 5. Edward R.
3. Walter Winchell. Murrow
Dramatis Personae
In the hearings staged to investigate both sets of charges, these persons figured prominently. Select from the statements below the one which best identifies each of these pictures.
1. He was accused by the Army of "docotoring a photo."
2. Overnight fame came to this Tennessee lawyer.
3. He