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is Dr. Fitch's own word for positivists
and relativists-naturally required pun–
ishment. And Senator McCarthy corue–
quently appeared as "the spokesman
for the suspicions of inarticulate people
that somehow and somewhere in their
country a great betrayal was going on."
If
this argument is not a justification
of McCarthy, then what is it?
Judging by his letter to PR, one
must conclude that Dr. Fitch may now
have repented his post-election
zeal
for
the junior Senator from Wisconsin. But
does he really expect others to
read
an anti-McCarthy position into an
ar–
ticle which is devoted to explaining
how McCarthy has arisen to administer
necessary and merited chastisement to
the American intelligentsia? I com–
mend Dr. Fitch's
Christian Centur1
tractate to all those interested in the
current wave of anti-intellectualism;
and I commend too the quiet and
devastating reply to Dr. Fitch by Dr.
John
C.
Bennett of the Union The–
ological Seminary, published in the
Christian Century
on December
17.
May I close with a quotation from Dr.
Bennett's reply to Fitch?
McCarthyism is not [as Fitch sug–
gests] a threat merely to the kind of
intellectual freedom in which "intellec–
tuals" have a vested interest.
It
is
a
threat to justice, decency and toler–
ance in innumerable American com–
munities. It is a threat to effective gov–
ernment because McCarthy's type of
intimidation destroys the initiative and
the resiliency of those who must make
policy.
Or would Dr. Fitch charge that Dr.
Bennett too is spreading Senator
Mc–
Carthy's mantle over himself?
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Cambridge, Mass.
MANNERS AND VALUES
SIRS:
"Good manners ...," Mr. Schwartz
tells us in his article "The Duchess'
Red Shoes" (PR, January-February
1953),
"are often necessary to the
re–
alization of kindness, goodness, and
sympathy, and to the avoidance of in-
