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| | Foreign Affairs - Anticommunism's Two Faces: The Irresponsible Won Out - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Anticommunist sentiment drew from the left as well as the right, from trade union halls as well as corporate boardrooms, from the soapbox as well as the pulpit; its adherents included the labor leader Walter Reuther as well as Francis Cardinal Spellman, the socialist Norman Thomas as well as Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
 | | One consisted of those whom he calls, rather awkwardly, "countersubversive anticommunists," persons "obsessed with uncovering plots that were, for the most part, figments of their own imagination." The other consisted of "responsible Americans with an anticommunism rooted in a realistic and principled view of the world." |
 | | For responsible anticommunists, how-ever, communism was a threat to America, not a threat in America. |
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