But during his first four years in the Senate, this guy's reputation plummeted due to his misconduct and soybean futures speculation, gambling and alcoholism.

It is often said that "a bottle of whiskey is often contained in Senator McCarthy's briefcase," and his "a bunch of facts of different natures and numbers that cannot stand the verification have confused the Senate and the United States as a whole."

Especially in the fall of 1949, McCarthy actually defended the NC party members who massacred American soldiers, which caused an uproar in public opinion. Therefore, in this year's poll, McCarthy was named the "worst Senator" of the year.

At this time, he needed a life-saving straw to help him keep his seat in Congress.

So he simply "blame" the State Council.

February 9, 1950 was the birthday of Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. McCarthy decided to "shoot shells at the State Department" on this day.

Under the arrangement of the Republican National Committee, he flew from Washington to Wheeling, West Virginia, and delivered a speech entitled “A Party in the State Department” at the Republican Women’s Club.

This guy claimed that in his hands, there was a "list of 205 people" and "all of these people were members of a certain party and spy network."

"The Secretary of State knows that these people on the list are all Soviet party members, but these people are still drafting and formulating the State Council's policies."

McCarthy's speech was like a bolt from the blue, causing an uproar across the United States.

In the magical country of America, radio broadcasts say that when the Martians come, they can run away several cities.

The more terrible they are, the more they believe it.

So McCarthy, who had previously been walking on thin ice, became a political star who shocked the whole country overnight.

After Wheeling's speech, McCarthy flew to Salt Lake City, Utah and Renault, Nevada, to repeat his speech at Wheeling.

A little difference is that McCarthy later waved a small piece of paper in his hand, which is the so-called "spy list".

On February 11, 1950, McCarthy, who was so proud, even called President Truman and Secretary of State Acheson to ask them to make a public statement on his speech.

After receiving the telegram, Truman thought that this was a bad pen. He directly instructed Secretary of State to call McCarthy, hoping that he would "released the list."

Don't talk, take it out.

As a result, McCarthy...nothing left.

Then he was shameless and set off waves of so-called "waves of exposing and investigating certain party activities in the US government" in the Senate.

After the outbreak of the Korean War, McCarthy made an excuse for someone in the Truman government to secretly "involve the Soviet Union" and called the 20 years of the Democratic Party's rule "20 years of treason", and pointed the front of the Truman government.

On June 14, 1951, McCarthy gave his longest speech in his life on the excuse of Truman replacing US commander-in-chief MacArthur in the Korean War.

This time he actually pointed the finger at General George Marshall.

In this speech of more than 60,000 words, he placed the charges of "traitors" or even "murderers" on Marshall, saying that he strongly opposed the opening of a second battlefield in the Balkans during World War II, allowing the Soviet Union to arrive in Eastern Europe before Western allies; deceived Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference, and made the Soviet Union profit in territory and other aspects, etc.

If a dog bites you, you have to kill it.

You have to defend yourself if the dog wearing a senator's coat bites you.

Marshall was so angry that he was crazy, and this guy was so proud that you had no choice but to do anything to me, right? Hit me, if you hit me, I will lie down!

Later, McCarthy also asked his assistant to compile the book "America's Back From Victory: The Story of George Marshall" and published it widely.

At the same time, McCarthy was also criticized by Irving Latemore, Fairbank, Fairbank, Xie Weisi, Kerrub, and Atcheson, who participated in the US affairs of China during and after the war.

In the winter of 1951, amid McCarthy's unreasonable accusations and abuses, Marshall had to voluntarily resign and return to his farm in Risburg, Virginia for retirement.

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A famous general of a generation was defeated by a mad dog! Can you believe it?

Marshall's mood at that time must be that the world is not worth it!

McCarthy's confidence increased.

So from 1953, McCarthy gradually extended his clutches to the field of diplomacy.

In April of that year, with the assistance of two young assistants, McCarthy began to investigate the catalogue of books of the US embassy located overseas. During this inventory, all books by 75 writers including William Foster, left-wing writers Blaude, Smedley, etc. were listed as **.

Even the works of the famous historian Arthur Srisesenger Jr. and humorous writer Mark Twain are included in the "Dangerous Books".

It is estimated that the total number of books removed is nearly 2 million.

Under this influence, libraries in some cities and schools in the United States have also banned or even burned "any suspicious books and magazines."

Damn this, do you believe that China has "burned books and bursed scholars" that has appeared in the United States in the 1950s for thousands of years?

This is true.

When Qin Shihuang burned books and buryed scholars, he actually killed the alchemists and burned bad books from other people's sects.

McCarthy did more than that.

During this period of rampant popularity, the US State Department, Department of Defense, important defense factories, the US government's Printing Bureau and other key departments failed to escape the investigation of McCarthy's non-US activities.

At the same time, the left-wing forces in the United States also suffered an unprecedented blow. In 1953 alone, McCarthy's committee held more than 600 "investigation" activities in all sizes and held 17 public hearings broadcast on live television.

But as the saying goes, too much is too little!

Just like the elbow that used to be, swelling to the end will only cause public outrage.

Because the whole world is not the only one who has a mouth and a brain.

In addition, McCarthy was so expansive that he even touched many power restrictions.

Ministry of National Defense, military factory, are you also trying to reach out? Your mind is not bad?

The huge interest groups began to acquiesce him to jump out because of the strike wave and take the opportunity to crack down on the workers.

But now it’s different, that guy is actually playing to this level!

So everyone began to be disgusted, alert, and beware.

Over time, McCarthy's activities have aroused more and more public opposition.

Public opinion first fermented in Europe.

People directly compared McCarthy to Joseph and Adolf.

This was actually initiated by Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle in collaboration.

But others don't know.

However, Secretary of State Dulles also expressed this concern to Eisenhower: "Many European leaders seem to think that we (the United States) are moving towards American-style Farsism under McCarthy."

British Labor Leader Attley even asked this question: In terms of US foreign policy, is Eisenhower's power or McCarthy's power?

Finally, in the United States, some people expressed this feeling: the Republican Party has "half belongs to McCarthy and half belongs to Eisenhower."
Chapter completed!