McCarthy loathed Acheson the most, perhaps because the latter, in McCarthy's eyes, looked the part of an aristocratic traitor. Acheson's elegant clothing, groomed moustache, and manner, which emulated the style of the British upper class, reflected in part the influence of his English mother and in part the Anglophiliac grooming he received at Groton, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School. McCarthy regarded Acheson's demeanor as an act and hated every bit of it; Acheson, he charged, was nothing but a "pompous diplomat in striped pants, with a phony British accent."
excerpt from American Crucible by Gary Gerstle
