The Communist Party's Line in the State Department

McCarthy's ostensible opponents, congressional Democrats, appeared to take seriously the idea that the State Department had been infiltrated by communists. In December 1948, the United Press carried this report: The South Korean Foreign Minister declared that his government would not hesitate to go into action against traitors in the North. As late as March 2, 1950, President Singman re-delivers an Independence Day speech saying, "...the call of our brothers in distress up North would not be ignored"