Arthur Bliss Lane, Joe McCarthy, and the rest of the
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- Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War pp. 266-269 · open book
Arthur Bliss Lane, Joe McCarthy, and the rest of the liberationist stalwarts balked at the Bohlen nomination. Even Secretary of State Dulles was concerned about how Bohlen’s earlier leading role in containment and in the 1945 Yalta accords with the USSR might look to voters who had just elected the Republicans on a liberation ticket. Dulles gingerly testified on Bohlen’s behalf anyway, and it seemed for a while as though the nomination might go smoothly.