Earlier the Senator asked: “Upon what meat does this our Caesar feed?” Had he looked three lines earlier in Shakespeare’s Caesar he would have found this line, which is not altogether inappropriate: “The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.” No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that Congressional Committees are useful; it is necessary to investigate before legislating. But the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly.

His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind as between the internal and external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.