That's the opinion of M. Stanton Evans in his book Blacklisted by History: the untold story of Sen. Joe McCarthy and his fight against America's enemies ( Random House, 2007), which is otherwise very sympathetic to McCarthy.
As secretary of state, argues Evans, professional soldier Marshall was misled by pro-communists in the State Department, and so greatly mishandled the China situation, unwittingly helping to yield China to the communists. But was Marshall really all that diplomatically unskilled? Here is Winston Churchill:
"As soon as we were in the air I addressed myself to the Russian communique. As I found it very hard to make head or tail of the bundle of drafts, with all our emendations in the president's scrawl and mine, I sent it along to General Marshall, who two hours later presented me with a typed fair copy. I was immediately impressed with this document, which exactly expressed what the President and I wanted, and did so with a clarity and comprehension not only of the military but of the political issues involved. It excited my admiration. Hitherto I had thought of Marshall as a rugged soldier and magnificent organiser and builder of armies--the American Carnot. But now I saw he was a statesman with a penetrating and commanding view of the whole scene" (The Hinge of Fate, Houghton Mifflin 1950).
Was Marshall excessively solicitous of Stalin in the clinch?
In a letter of April 1, 1945, Churchill urged that Allied forces, under command of Dwight Eisenhower, race to Berlin and meet the Russians as far to the east as possible. After all, it was obvious they would take Vienna. Why should they get Berlin too?
"I therefore consider that from a political standpoint we should march as far east into Germany as possible, and that should Berlin be in our grasp we should certainly take it. This also appears sound on military grounds."
In the event, Eisenhower held back, yielding Berlin and much else to Stalin, though he said in a letter to Churchill that he would, if the Germans suddenly collapsed, "rush forward" to Berlin. A number of accounts have related that by this time the Germans were putting up only token resistance against the Allies in order to hold back the Soviets as long as possible.
After citing his letter to Roosevelt, Churchill writes, "Actually, though I did not realise it, the President's health was now so feeble that it was General Marshall who had to deal with these grave questions."
The quotations are from Triumph and Tragedy (Houghton Mifflin 1953), so named because "the overwhelming victory of the Grand Alliance has so far failed to bring general peace to our anxious world" or, that is, the democracies dropped the ball and permitted the Soviet to wax large.
It's no secret that Marshall was a liberal, as was Eisenhower who only made like a Republican in 1952, and clearly Stalin was a wartime ally. However, what McCarthy said was that Marshall treated Stalin as more than an ally of military necessity, but as someone whose major demands were paramount.
The FBI cited Zinn as a communist, though the leftist historian had denied it, according to AIM.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/
UAE, Saudis to crimp Blackberries
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
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EPIC reports on Google woes with attorneys general:
"Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced in a press
release that thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia are
seeking additional information about Google's collection of wi-fi data
from private, residential computer networks. In his press release,
Blumenthal states "Google's responses continue to generate more
questions than they answer."
"Mr. Blumenthal also sent a letter to Google, asking for information
about Google's packet-sniffing software, the testing and review
procedures, and the internal investigation of the code that
"accidentally" recorded unencrypted wi-fi traffic in 30 countries over
a three-year period.
"Bowes claims that he did it as part of his work on a security tool."
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Restraining order dropped
http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/
Tunisia confines poet, cracks down on press
http://info.ifex.org/View.
Attacks on Pakistan journos assailed
http://info.ifex.org/View.
Libyan graft exposers in hot water
http://info.ifex.org/View.
Libel tourism curbs voted
http://www.
Ron Bowes, a security consultant of Skull Security, created a web
crawler program that harvested data on users contained in Facebook's
open access directory. Bowes then made a 2.8GB torrent available which
lists all users whose privacy settings make their pages available to
search engines.
"The file contains 171 million entries, relating to more than 100
million individual users—more than one in five of Facebook's recently
trumpeted half billion user base. It contains user account names and a
URL for each user's profile page, from which details such as addresses,
dates of birth or phone numbers can be accessed. Accessing a user's
page from the list will also enable the user to click through to
friends' profiles—even if those friends have made themselves
non-searchable.
News article on Facebook user data disclosure
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Restraining order dropped
http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/
Tunisia confines poet, cracks down on press
http://info.ifex.org/View.
Attacks on Pakistan journos assailed
http://info.ifex.org/View.
Libyan graft exposers in hot water
http://info.ifex.org/View.
Libel tourism curbs voted
http://www.
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