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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: American communists and the Soviet Union
- In-Reply-To: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:19:59 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
- References: <1992Nov18.205021.25244@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:42:13
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- In article <1992Nov18.221959.5205@starbase.trincoll.edu> nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
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- In article <1992Nov18.205021.25244@mont.cs.missouri.edu> jmc@sail.stanford.edu (
- John McCarthy) writes:
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- > The people who said it was *all* a
- >witchhunt are refuted. Some of Senator Joseph McCarthy's more
- >ambitious charges are not supported. There is no evidence as yet that
- >any major American politicians were under communist control.
- >
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >
-
- I'd appreciate hearing from Mr. McCarthy a _single_ specific charge
- --one naming a person or persons--that has since been borne out.
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- Norman Miller
-
- I already mentioned the verification that Harry Bridges, who successfully
- denied being a communist in order to avoid deportation, was in fact
- a member of the CPUSA Central Committee under the name of Rossi. The
- Comintern documents list him as such.
-
- Would you like something else?
- --
- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- *
- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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