“It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.”

—  Whittaker Chambers

Source: Odyssey of a Friend (1969), p. 52

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