The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2020

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2020 23 The Foreign Service Journal published a number of articles and editorials on the events of the McCarthy era. To retrieve them, go to http://www.afsa.org/ fsj-special-collections#ibmch. • “Stout Hearts Required,” editorial, April 1950 • “Tydings Committee Report,”AFSA News, August 1950 • “Career vs. Conscience,” editorial, July 1951 • “…Pertinent Excerpts … ,” John S. Service, October 1951 • “The Service Case,” editorial, January 1952 • “Truth Pursues,” editorial, February 1952 • “Report on the Service Case,”AFSA News, May 1952 • “The Meaning of the Ruling in the Vincent Case for the National Interest and the Foreign Service,” editorial board of The Foreign Service Journal and board of directors of AFSA, January 1953 • “John Carter Vincent,” editorial, April 1953 • “Bohlen Debate,” Lois Perry Jones, May 1953 • “Why Policy Makers Don’t Listen,” Barbara Tuchman, March 1973 • “China and the Foreign Service, January 1973,”William Harrop, March 1973 • “Foreign Service Reporting,” John Service, March 1973 • “Only in Rejection Could There Be Vindication,” John S. Service, March 1974 • “On All the Evidence,” O. Edmund Clubb, December 1974 • “The Case of John Paton Davies, Jr.,” James Fetzer, November 1977 • “The McCarthy Years Inside the Department of State,” JohnW. Ford, November 1980 • “Stand By Your Man: Caroline Service Talks about the Trials and Tribulations of a Foreign ServiceWife,” Jewell Fenzi, July 1994 • “John S. Service: A ColdWar Lightning Rod,” Hannah Gurman, November 2010 • “The McCarthy Witch Hunt: Who ‘Lost’ China?,” John S. Service (excerpts), March 2014 –Compiled by FSJ Publications Coordinator Dmitry Filipoff From the FSJ Archive from the McCarthy era is not the bravery of the officials who speak out—for those per- secuted by McCarthy and his supporters were also brave—but the support they are receiving from their colleagues, frommany members of Congress and from the public. That support gives hope to and for the For- eign Service and American government. The targets of slander and persecution in the McCarthy era were isolated, with nowhere to turn. Gay men and women had no friends in politics and no sup- port in society. Their colleagues at work were encouraged to denounce them, often anonymously, to the security office. Whether the accusations were true or false, when pressed to resign, nearly all did so, and quietly. No newspaper took up their cause. Only the very well-connected could stifle and survive such attacks.