The Redhunter by William F. Buckley

Author:William F. Buckley [BUCKLEY, WILLIAM F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316092913
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2009-12-19T05:00:00+00:00

At eleven the following night the telephone rang in Harry’s apartment. “Joe here, Harry. I want you to come over to my place right away.”

“You okay, Joe?”

“I’m okay. But I got something I want you to read. Something vital. You’re young, it’s early, not even midnight.”

Harry, at twenty-three, was indeed young, he reflected as he pulled on his pants, though he needed more sleep than McCarthy, whose legendary indifference to sleep his staff could admire, even if they did not have the same stamina.

He found Joe excited. “This tells it all. Marshall kept Roosevelt ignorant of critical intelligence reports at Yalta. Kept the generals’ military advice away from FDR. He opened the critical pass to the Chinese Communists so they could make contact with the Russians.” Joe was now consulting his notes. “He couldn’t ‘remember’ where he was on Pearl Harbor. Couldn’t remember—chief of staff, on the day of the worst military disaster in history! Went to China and in effect starved Chiang Kai-shek to death, making the Communist victory possible.”

“Are you saying, Joe, Forrest thinks Marshall’s a Communist?”

“He never says that. But he says he is responsible for our collapse in the Pacific theater, with who knows what’s ahead for us in Korea.”

“You want me to read it now?” Harry looked down at the bulky speech folder. “Gee. This thing must be fifty, sixty thousand words.”

“I know. I spent all afternoon with it. I thought I’d use it as a speech, schedule it for day after tomorrow. But I wanted you to look at it.”

“Sure. But, Joe, what’s the—hurry?”

“I think you’ll know what’s the hurry after you’ve read it.”

“Okay. I’ll do half of it tonight, half tomorrow morning. Check with you by noon.”

“Good man, Harry. How about a nightcap?”

“What I’ll need is strong coffee, Joe.”

“You won’t be sleepy after you start reading this.”

“Good night, Joe.”

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