ABSTRACT
Many issues of specific concern to anticommunist intellectuals may also become clearer. The Hiss and Rosenberg cases were only two controversies of many in which anticommunist intellectuals were engaged, in a cultural struggle that paralleled the diplomatic and military aspects of the Cold War. The struggle over such issues as Alger Hiss's guilt or innocence, the guilt and punishment of the Rosenbergs, the rights of faculty members who took the Fifth Amendment, was not divorced from the larger issues of the Cold War. The American conflict over our war in Vietnam did not pit communists and communist sympathizers against anticommunists: Whatever the FBI might have thought, few communists were involved or played any role in that battle. In effect, we were defending the decency of the United States as a worthy protector of the values of liberty, freedom, truth, justice, against an enemy we defined as the very antithesis of these values.
