"A state department spokesman recently denied this and claimed that there is not a single communist in the department."
"Your board did a pains-taking job. And named hundreds which it listed as "dangerous to the security of the nation", because of communistic connections."
"...You signed an order forbidding the state departments giving to the congress any information in regard to the disloyalty or the communistic connections of anyone in that department..."
B. Why do you think this document was written?
I think it was a threat to President Truman that Sen. McCarthy had evidence of communists in the State Department.
C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document.
"I believe the following is the minimum which can be expected of you in this case... Failure on your part will label the democratic party of being the bed-fellow of inter-national communism."
D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written:
There seems to be distrust and secrets between the U.S. citizens and the government.
At the time, there were "hundreds of thousands of loyal American democrats throughout the nation"
E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document:
How did you originally get the information that there were people in the State Department that were members of the Communist Party?
F. Date of document: February 11, 1950
G. Author: Senator Joseph McCarthy
H. Purpose of document
I think that the purpose of the document was to threaten President Truman and to say that Sen. McCarthy was in possession of evidence which proved that more than 200 employees in the State Department were members of the Communist Party.
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