nted to socialize America in some Marxian way. These people were different from the Reds who wanted to take over America and the world and make Russia the world leader. Richard Nixon outwardly accused the Democratic Party of being socialists who used the guise of liberalism. New dealers and progressives stated to look traitorous to the American public.The manifestation of these paranoid ravings came about with the trial of democratic congressman Alger Hiss. Richard Nixon was sure that Hiss, a brilliant and highly revered politician, had given away government secrets to the enemy. Whitfeild feels that there was substantial evidence against him to merit such a trial and that he was probably guilty, but Hiss only got convicted of perjury. According to Whitfeild the magnanimity of this trial is so great because if a highly ranked politician could be accused then so could anyone. The next bombshell came with the Rosenburg trial. Julius and his wife Ethel Rosenburg were both executed for giving secrets away to the communists. This now showed that the government was not fooling around at all and that you could have your life ruined or even taken away for your past follies. What the judge who presided over this case said at the reading of the verdict truly mimicked the feeling of the American public at this time, according to Whitfield. Was that traitorous or even sympathetic actions to benefit communists in any way was a crime worse then murder. The fears of being caught if you failed to act right were savagely executed the best by republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. Joe McCarthy was a virtually unknown senator looking for a niche to make his mark. By the summer of 1951, communism is going strong all over the world and it looks to be spreading. How could we the most powerful country in the world be letting this happen. The answer must be that dissension among the American people is running amuck. No one, even the president or the military, is ...
