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COMMUNISM TODAY

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RED FASCISM

BY

REV. RAYMOND T. FEELY, S.J.
University of San Francisco

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Communism Today or Red Facism

"Red Baiter" Number One

“The Fascists and Nazis were not the only menace

to our internal security. To their forces must be added

the American Communists with their godless, truth-

less, philosophy of life. They are against the America

our forefathers fought and died for; they are against

the established freedoms of America. They pose be-

hind a dozen fronts; they have endeavored to infiltrate

practically every strata of life.

“When they preach unity, let us not forget that
when we were struggling to prepare for defense, they
preached pacifism and fought our efforts to aid our

allies and to build our common defenses. For true
Americans there can be no unity with the enemy within

and no compromise with those who would destroy all
that we fight for. There is a distinction between re-
specting our ally Russia and respecting those within

our country who would destroy all that we believe in.
No one wishes to detract any from the glorious war
history being written by the Russian people in pro-

tecting their soil. They are a great fighting nation

and have done a masterful job at war.

“But when it comes to governmental systems, we
prefer our own American way, and we do not want the
Communists in this country attempting to undermine

our democracy or any of our institutions. I have said

it before, and I repeat it now—America cannot exist
half democratic and half Communist or Fascist. The
Fascist-minded tyrant is no different from the native-

born Communistic corruptionist. We are proud of
our American form of government. If we want to im-
prove on it, we will do it in our own way, in our time,
and with our own blueprint.

“Over the years, the American Communists have

developed a propaganda machine and a nefarious and

elaborate school system of their own. Their officials in

secret and public meetings urge that the propaganda

phase of their work must be accelerated. Brazenly,

they have urged the development of courses, lectures,

and assemblies as media to espouse the ideologies of

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Marxism and to establish Marxism as a school of

thought in the United States. And even in the chame-
leon cloak with which they have now enshrouded them-
selves, the American Communists still proclaim their

loyalty to Marxism, the antithesis of American democ-

racy. The Communist Trojan Horse has now become
the Trojan Snake in American life.”

Before any “liberal” starts screeching “Fascist,” “Red

Baiter,” etc., it would be well for the reader to know that the

above is not taken from any report of the original Dies Com-

mittee. It is not an extract from any magazine published by

“Big Business” or an editorial from any newspaper chain an-

tagonistic to the Soviet Union. It is not even a quotation

from 4hWgecent political campaign.

It is a public utterance by the man whose duty it is to in-

vestigate and evaluate those subversive elements in the United

States which seek to sabotage and destroy American institu-

tions.

It is a public utterance spoken not during the conven-

iently forgotten days when the Union of Soviet Socialist Re-

publics was attacking “the aggressor” little Finland in 1939,

nor delivered in “the unpatriotic to mention” days of the

Hitler-Stalin alliance when the U. S. S. R stabbed Poland in

These words were spoken w

when the U. S. S. R. was “liberating” Poland, Rumania, Yugo-

slavia, etc., by the man in whom all America has confidence

—

J. Edgar Hoover,
1
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investi-

gation.

Why Another Pamphlet on Communism?

“Communism is shifting to the Right.” “Communism is

no longer atheistic.” “Communists are our allies.” “Com-

munism now emphasizes nationalism and has abandoned world

revolution.” “Communists have never broken their word.”

“Communism is crushing Fascism, liberating peoples from the

tyranny of Nazism and establishing a new democratic Eu-

rope.” “The U. S. S. R. is an heroic member of the United

Nations of freedom-loving democracies,” etc., etc.

l Address at the Annual Commencement Exercises, Holy Cross College, Worcester,

Mass., June 29, 1944.

the back.

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These are commonplaces now being bantered around.

Americans used to talk like J. Edgar Hoover. Now the atti-

tude toward Communism has shifted, or better, been shifted

since that fateful day of June 22, 1941, when the Nazis in-

vaded the U. S. S. R. Pamphlets on Communism which were

written prior to that \date are considered, by a great many

sections of Yugoslavia, Rumania, Greece, Italy, Belgium, etc.,

are greeting liberation with the salute of “the clenched fist.”

Whether it be Barmine’s 3 or White’s 4 articles in the Readers'

Digest
,
or Bullitt’s

5
article in Life, or a statement from the

Vatican, a world-wide avalanche of invective is loosed from

Moscow at every suggestion that World Communism might

not be a dead issue or that Communism is not lily white.

Almost a century ago, youthful Karl Marx with prophetic

pen wrote, “A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of
Communism.” 6

American blood is crimsoning the soil of Europe. America

is beginning to wonder if the red of its son’s lifeblood is not a

tragic symbol of a “Red” Europe.

Many in the United States are bewildered. Many take

2 Henceforth, when the term “Fascism” is used in this pamphlet, it will signify

both Italian Fascism and Nazism. 3 October, 1944, p. 27 sqq.

4 December, 1944, p. 102 sqq.; January, 1945, p. 106 sqq.

5 September 4, 1944, p. 94 sqq. 6 The Communist Manifesto, p. 8.

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ChurchilPs statement literally. Many still believe that the

U. S. S. R. is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an

enigma.”

It is the writer’s contention that the nature of Communism

under Lenin, and under Stalin even as of this date, is as clear

and obvious as the blade of a bayonet. Tactics shift as fast

as winter weather, but even tactics are motivated and often

moulded by a few basic rules.

Communism in its essentials, is not difficult to understand.

Communism is, however, difficult to combat—as difficult as
the “V” weapons of the robots.

Unpatriotic!

Do not protest that an attack on Communism will be

detrimental to the war effort. This war is being fought to

destroy tyranny and to establish a just peace by creating a

world where liberty and freedom may be enjoyed by all peo-

ples.

If our Russian ally is waging war, first, to protect itself,

and simultaneously to substitute “Red Fascism” for “Brown

(or Hitlerian) Fascism,” then it becomes a patriotic duty to

challenge Communism.

We cannot commit intellectual suicide because the Russian
Army has shown great courage and happens to be on our side

in this war. Bravery is not a Soviet copyright. Ask the young

men who are returning from the front, what they think of the

bravery of the German soldiers; ask them what they think of

the bravery, or as they prefer to describe it, the “fanaticism”

of the Japanese soldiers. Valor is not a Communist monopoly.

Evidence of valor should not cause us to warp our judgment

and fail to face the facts concerning the danger of Commu-

nism confronting Europe and the United States.

• Conflicting Philosophies

the essential nature of Communism and

tracflg some of its latest tactics, both here and abroad, i&*wiil

b^^eessary :to recall some\Baslcndoetrines,~- -— ( < *
All philosophy of the State ultimately resolves itself into

two schools of thought. Let us briefly study the two sys-

tems; One goes by the rather high-sounding title, Totalitar-

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hatingianism, and is the identical doctrine underlying the two hating

rivals of Fascism and Communism; a doctrine which has

found its logical conclusion in the grim, gory war in which

we nro mmv engaged. The other is the theory of Natural

Rights, of which the highest example, at least in structure, is

our American Democracy.

Totalitarianism is easily defined. It means that the “total”

man (hence its name) belongs to the State. All rights orig-

inate with, can be modified or destroyed at the will of the

omnipotent State. In more detail, personal rights of the in-

dividual, such as life and liberty; political rights, such as

freedom of speech, press, and assembly, and formation of

political opposition to incumbents; economic rights, such as

rights to personal property, the selection and place of employ-

ment; family rights; religious liberty; all these basic rights

and liberties in the totalitarian concept have their origin in

the State. The State, therefore, may at will abrogate or cur-

tail any or all of these rights as expediency demands.

Ail,jputstanding trenchantly epito-

mized the ^octrine:
'

“Yop^ire familiar with the philosophy of the Abso-

lute State. Its modern name is Totalitarianism, but

its name is its only novelty. It Js a retrogression to

ancient Caesarism; the deification of the state, upon

specious grounds of public policy, to the annihilation

of human personality. The public policy of the state

is the alpha and omega of all things, the ultimate cri-

terion /of truth and the last norm of right. Human

life, its purpose, dignity and value, have significance

only by the yardstick of state utility. Will is substi-

tuted for reason; lavrbecomes organized force; might

is right. The fire of human liberty is extinguished,

because there is no Eternal Law. There is no God but

Caesar.”
7

Opposed to the totalitarian philosophy of the State which

is the very soul of Communism and of Fascism, is the Ameri-

can political philosophy of life which is known as the doctrine

of Natural Rights. It is that doctrine which is referred to in

7 William J. Kenealy, S.J., Dean, Boston College Law School: October 4, 1941,

the occasion of the First Red Mass in New England.

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the Declaration of Independence when it speaks of those things

which are granted by “the laws of nature and of nature’s

God.” It is that doctrine which is more specifically detailed

in the famous Bill of Rights which forms the first ten amend-

ments to the Constitution. Briefly, this doctrine is the fol-

lowingf

We Americans hold that the individual, both logically and
biologically, precedes the State. We hold that the individual

is dowered by nature and ultimately by the Author of nature f

with certain natural rights such as the right to life, liberty,

etc. Individuals joining together form another natural insti-

tution known as the family, which has likewise from “the law

of nature and of nature’s God,” certain definite rights and

sanctities.

Lastly, in both the logical and historical order, is another

natural institution known as Civil Society or the State, com-

posed of the two prior institutions, the individual and the

family. It is the primary function of the State to protect and

not to usurp the rights of the individual and of the family.

It is the secondary function of the State to promote the com-

mon welfare of its citizens by regulating the complexities of

civil life and to engage in such activities as are beyond the

scope or ability of either the individual or the family. This

is the very soul of the American system, and all of the dis-

tinctive features of our government are only means to protect

the above doctrine. The written Constitution, a system of

checks and balances, the Supreme Court, etc., are simply

means to an end.

The foregoing is a brief presentation of the essential an-

tagonism between the two systems.

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Has Communism Changed?

Much that follows will be challenged by Soviet admirers

as being an attack on the Communism that was, not the Com-

munism that is. No one can deny that many Americans have

changed their attitude toward the Soviets. Is this change a

result of ceaseless propaganda and war opportunism or is it

founded on fact? A fair question.

It is rite writer’s contention that Communism has not and

will never change its essentially vicious nature. Its tactics,.

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however, have been modified to meet the exigencies of internal

difficulties and of foreign policy.

What are the main changes which Soviet sympathizers

dwell upon? First, that the U. S. S. R. is no longer a Fascist

dictatorship but a democracy. Secondly, there is the alleged

amelioration of the persecution of religion. Thirdly, the al-

leged return to nationalism indicates an abandonment of world

revolution.

These questions will be discussed in detail in subsequent

pages .
8 Here we will dwell on only a few guiding principles.

Communism is essentially immoral, denying,

jpe, any moral restraints. Its norm of action then becomes

expediency, or to use a more technical term, pragmatism.

One cannot repeat too often Yaroslavsky’s famous phrase,

“Whatever helps the proletarian revolution is ethical.”
9

Stalin is even more explicit:

“Words must have no relation to actions—otherwise
what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing,
actions another. Good words are a mask for conceal-

ment of bad deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no more pos-

sible than dry water or wooden iron.” 10 v^L

Hitler, in his protestations of no further annexations after

Munich was but carrying out the immoral pronouncement of

the Red Fuehrer.

The entire history of Communism in the U. S. S. R. must

be studied in the light of this norm of expediency or pragma-

tism.

Let briefly study Communism from the political,

the religious, and finally, the international aspect.

Red Fascism

This title is not meant to be irritating, but to be truthful.

The writer’s use of the term has, in fact, irritated local Com-

munists for over ten years, but one must realize that nothing

irritates Communists more than the truth.

From the standpoint of the U. S. S. R., this World War II

is a war against Fascism. From the standpoint of the U. S. A.,

it is a war against any tyranny which would destroy human

8 Confer pp. 11-34. 9 Quoted in Red Virtue, p. 12.

10 Quoted in The Real Soviet Russia, p. 71.

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liberty. The U. S. S. R., as will be proven, is fighting, must

fight, to enslave peoples. The U. S. A. is fighting to liberate

peoples.

Let us go back a few years. Two great evils, two vicious

dictatorships, two ideologies which sought world domination

existed in 1939. Nazism struck first. Austria and Czecho-

slovakia were its first victims.

Nazism, pragmatically, allied itself to its rival but fellow

tyranny, Communism, and Poland fell, stabbed in the back

by “a freedom-loving democracy.” Latvia, Lithuania, and

Estonia were next “liberated” unto death.

Desperate freedom-loving peoples of France and England

declared war. The “clenched fist” of “democratic” U. S. S. R.

nestled in friendly grasp with the Hitlers, the Himmlers, the

Goerings, the Goebbels. As Norway, Denmark, Holland, Bel-

gium, France fell under the might of Hitler’s “Fascism,” the

Communist International derided the heroic but futile defense

of liberty by these nations as “An Imperialist War,” etc. The

Third International ranted against any who wofild support or

aid the unequal contest against its Nazi paramour. Peace

meetings, sabotage of arms and munitions to fight Nazism, the

“Yanks Are Not Coming,” were the Communist Party Line

of those days.

The most patent proof of the insincerity of the U. S. S. R.

is to be found in any Communist publication in the file copies

from September 1, 1939, to June 21, 1941.
11

Then, the fateful day came. It had to come. No two ty-

rants, each seeking world domination, each armed with tre-

mendous military strength could co-exist.

Came the dawn of June 22, 1941, when Germany invaded

Russia, and the “Imperialist War” became the war against

the “Fascist fiends.” The rest is current history.

Red Fascism, with the aid of the U. S.A. and the British

Empire, is now crushing Hitlerian Fascism. When V-E Day

comes, what of Europe’s future? This question will be dis-

cussed later.

Black-Brown-Red Fascism

Let us be fair. Fascism has come to mean, to many Ameri-

cans, any thing opposed to Communism. If one traces the

Confer Daily Worker, Peoples’ World, etc.

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history of this deceptive definition, one will find that its popu-

larity originated with the propaganda unloosed in June of

1941.

Prior to that date, Fascism meant not merely the Musso-

lini brand of dictatorship, but any brutal dictatorship destruc-

tive of the so-called “Four Freedoms,”
12

as well as any free-

dom for the individual, the family, and the citizen.

If we revert to the latter definition of the term “Fascist,”

then there is no vital difference between the blackshirts of

Mussolini, the brownshirts of Hitler, and the red star of Soviet

serfs.

This was the case before 1941. Despite Teheran, it is still

the fact, as will presently be proven.

Torpedoed Freedoms

When the warship, Prince of Wales, on which the Atlantic

Charter was planned, was torpedoed in the South China Sea,

the sinking seemed prophetic. Recent events in Europe ap-

pear to point to a torpedoing of the Four Freedoms.

Whence comes this pressure, if not from the U. S. S. R.

which, while not a party to the Atlantic Charter, agreed to its

“basic propositions”?

If and when new lands fall under the dominion of Joseph

Stalin, what sort of government can we expect from the

U. S. S. R. which boasts of fighting to establish “liberty and

democracy”? Even though we are engaged in a vicious war,

we must honestly face that question. This war, as has been

said, is being fought to destroy tyranny, not to substitute

one form of tyranny for another.

The Red Fuehrer and Political Freedom

Definitions of democracy vary widely, but certain essen-

tial elements are agreed upon by all.

There must be freedom of “political opposition,” which

implies freedom of speech, of the press, of popular assem-

blage.

12 Only two freedoms appear in the Atlantic Charter released to the Press.

Contrary to general belief, freedom of the press and freedom of religion are not

mentioned in the so-called “Charter.”

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Communists demand all of these freedoms in the U. S. A.,

but none are tolerated in the U. S. S. R.

Let Stalin, quoting Lenin, give the proof:

“The class which has seized political power has

done so conscious of the fact that it has seized power

alone. This is implicit in the concept of the dictator-

ship of the proletariat. This concept has meaning only

when one class knows that it alone takes political power

into its own hands, and does not deceive either itself

or others by talk about popular, elected government,

sanctified by the whole people.” 13

Is this democracy or tyranny? Is Red Fascism different

from Hitlerian Fascism?

American labor unions which have been taken over by

Communists (and there are not a few) know how well Brow-

der’s “quislings” follow the doctrines of the Russian Fuehrer.

They clamor for freedom, but once in power, this organized,

ruthless minority stifle every move to oust them . 14

Printing Press Freedoms

True, the Soviet Constitution grants, “Freedom of speech

. . . Freedom of the press . . . Freedom of assembly . . . Free-

dom of demonstrations . . . inviolability of person . . . in-

violability of the homes of citizens. ...” 15

Pamphlets are necessarily limited. Let the reader, there-

fore, study any of the classic works on the U. S. S. R. (confer

bibliography on last pages) and the travesty of these consti-

tutional guarantees becomes sickening.

It is risky enough in public print or on public platform in

the U. S. A. to assail the U. S. S. R., but even from cursory

study, let any fair-minded reader try to imagine what would

happen if a Soviet citizen in the U. S. S. R. tried to exercise

any of these freedoms.

Try to imagine any Russian Communist writing or utter-

ing the equivalent of some of the charges and counter-charges

of the last presidential campaign. Try to imagine how long

your favorite columnist or radio commentator would last in

the U. S. S. R. if he dared criticize Stalin.

13 Problems of Leninism, p. 22. 14 Confer Communism and Union Labor.

15 Soviet Constitution, 1936, p. 27 sq.

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Not only is this true in the U. S. S. R., but throughout the

world in every foreign section of the still vital Third Interna-

tional .
16

Let Ercoli in Italy or Thorez in France or Browder in the

United States utter one word of criticism of Stalin, of Russian

foreign policy, or deviate one iota from the Party Line, and

he would suffer the fate of any other traitor.

Not even Nazism at its worst
17

ever demanded such com-

plete mental and moral slavery as is exacted by Communism.

Confession of Guilt

In the days when the Kremlin had not become the focal

point of distinguished foreign visitors being wined and dined

by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Dictator made the mistake of

committing to writing his code of ethics.

In a book which makes Mein Kampj seem innocuous,

Joseph Stalin gives his official view on Lenin’s teaching on

the dictatorship of the proletariat. He quotes with approval

the following:

“The scientific concept, dictatorship (of the prole-

tariat), means nothing more nor less than power which

directly rests on violence, which is not limited by any

laws or restricted by any absolute rules. . . . Dictator-

ship means—note this once and for all, Messrs. Cadets
—unlimited power, resting on violence and not on
law.”

18

No comment is necessary on this brutal law of the jungle

which, with the aid of the N. K. V. D .,19 has dyed crimson the
soil of the U. S. S. R. for over twenty-seven years.

Gullible U. S. A.

Labor leaders, university professors, etc., in this country

which is based on “Justice under law,” with amazing incon-

sistency, coddle disciples of this doctrine that might is right,

that Communism is based “on violence and not on law.” Even

the Supreme Court of the United States naively states:

16 Confer pp. 27-34.

17 Confer the opposition of certain ranking officers in the German Army.

18 Problems of Leninism, p. 25.

19 Originally known as the Cheka, and later as the G. P. U.

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“For some time the question whether advocacy of

governmental overthrow by force and violence is a

principle of the Communist Party of the United States

has perplexed courts, administrators, legislators, and

students.”
20

The outstanding “students” of Communism would cer-

tainly be Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. When the issue arises

again, perhaps the Supreme Court might have read into the

record the following quotations:

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and

aims. They openly declare that their ends can be at-

tained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing

social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a

Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing

to lose but their chains. They have a world" to win.

“Workingmen of all countries, unite !” 21

“Can such a radical transformation of the old bour-

geois system of society be achieved without a violent

revolution, without the dictatorship of the proletariat?

“Obviously not. To think that such a revolution
can be carried out peacefully within the framework

of bourgeois democracy, which is adapted to the dom-

ination of the bourgeoisie, means one of two things. It

means either madness, and the loss of normal human

understanding, or else an open and gross repudiation

of the proletarian revolution. . . .

“That is why Lenin states that ‘ . . . the liberation
of the oppressed class is impossible not only without

a violent revolution, but also without the destruction

of the apparatus of state power, which was created by

the ruling class. . . .
9 ” 22

Out-Hitlering Hitler

We Americans, any civilized people, find it difficult to un-

derstand how a man like Hitler could dominate a great nation;

how Hitler’s hirelings could become so degraded as to commit

the inhuman atrocities now established as facts; how human

20 Case of “Schneiderman v. United States”; 320 US 118.
21 Manifesto, p. 44.

22 Problems of Leninism, pp. 19-20.

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life can be sacrificed so ruthlessly as graves mount into the

millions.

Totalitarian barbarism is hard to understand unless one

understands Totalitarianism. If the “ total man” belongs to

an omnipotent State, or in practice, to an omnipotent tyrant,

then human life is as expendable as bullets.

There can be no violation of the right “to life, liberty, and

the pursuit of happiness” if men and women have no such

rights; if men and women live and labor when, where, and

how the dictatorship commands.

How quickly we forget history, or better, how cleverly

propaganda has made us forget history.

Lenin became the Soviet dictator in 1917; Stalin became

the tyrant of the U. S. S. R. in 1924. Hitler and his Nazis did

not come into dictatorship until 1933.

True, the mind recoils and the soul is nauseated when we

read of the Nazi atrocities of these past few years. Have we

forgotten the gory Soviet record of murder and torture, of

concentration camps and slave labor
23 which forms the most

sordid page in human history, and covers a period of over a

quarter of a century?

Hitler had an apt teacher in Joseph Stalin, and as yet, the

pupil has not outstripped the master.

These are not mere indictments. The references given

below amply substantiate the charges.
24 To give but one

illustration. Civilized nations like America are still stunned

by the stories and photographs of the crematories at Maidenek,

near Lublin, where the Nazis burned to death close to a mil-

lion human victims.

Let us not forget in our righfful indignation, the mass

murder in the Ukraine in the winter of 1932 when upwards

of five millions of peasants were deliberately starved to death

by Joseph Stalin.

Red Fascism and Brown Fascism differ only in that Com-

munism is cruder—Nazism more scientific.

Red Fuehrer and Religious Freedom

Since this section of the pamphlet limits itself to the athe-

istic element of Communism and its alleged present religious

23 Consult the writings of Eugene Lyons.

24 Consult The Real Soviet Russia, Russia's Iron Age.

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freedom in the U. S. S. R., its purport must be clearly set

forth.

These paragraphs are not written for men and women who

have scrapped the old Credo, “I believe in God,” and replaced

it by the arrogant creed, “I believe in man”; they are not

written for men and women who sneer at prayer as but mum-

mery, who look upon marriage as mere mating, who learnedly

dispense themselves from the Ten Commandments by term-

ing them “inhibitions,” and who, in short, regard human con-

duct as mere bio-chemical reactions.

This pamphlet is written for the average American who

believes in God, in an immortal soul, in a code of morality,

and who still clings to the old, but not old-fashioned, virtues

of religion, of honesty, of decency, and of loyalty and respect

for authority.

Do you believe in God? If you do, then you cannot sub-

scribe to Communism. That statement is clear, blunt, and

provable.

The sole purpose of this section of the pamphlet is to prove

that Communism is essentially atheistic. If you believe in

God, then not only can you not look sympathetically on the

Soviet State, the Communist Party, and the Third Interna-

tional (these are three names for one and the same evil), but

we owe it to God, to our country and to ourselves to be mili-

tantly anti-communistic.

Guilty as Charged

If the essence of Communism is to be found in the doc-

trines of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin; if, secondly, these men

admittedly believe in, teach, and propagandize a materialistic

philosophy of life, then Communism is essentially atheistic.

Atheism, is not a transitory or personal phase of Communism,

it is a part of the essence of the entire movement. Now, let

the confession of the accused be “read into the record.”

Note that the following excerpts are not borrowed from

any propagandist either for or against the U. S. S. R.; they

are not the violent or vicious personal views of this or that

Communist. The Soviet State is Marxian theory in practice.

Lenin was and is the official interpreter of Marx, and his writ-

ings possess an infallibility unrivaled even by the Pope of

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Rome .25 Stalin has but industrialized and militarized Lenin-

ism. If God and the soul have been scrapped in Russia, the

mummy of Lenin has become both the soul and the god of

Communism.

“Atheism is an integral part of Marxism. Conse-

quently, a class-conscious Marxist party must carry on

propaganda in favor of atheism.” 26

“The winning over of the proletariat is accom-

plished, principally by dealing with their every-day

economic and political interests
;

consequently, the

propaganda in favour of atheism must grow out of, and

be carefully related to, the defense of these inter-

ests.”
27

“The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ifc guid-

ed by the conviction that only the conscious and delib-

erate planning of all the social and economic activities

of the masses will cause religious prejudices to die out.

The party strives for the complete dissolution of the

ties between the exploiting classes and the organiza-

tion of religious propaganda, facilitates the real eman-

cipation of the working class from religious prejudices

and organizes the widest possible scientific, educa-

tional, and anti-religious propaganda.” 28

“One of the most important tasks of the cultural

revolution affecting the wide masses is the task of sys-

tematically and unswervingly combating religion

—

the opium of the people. ... At the same time, the pro-

letarian state, while granting liberty of worship and

abolishing the privileged position of the formerly

dominant religion, carries on an anti-religious propa-

ganda with all the means at its command and recon-

structs the whole of its educational work on the basis

of scientific materialism.” 29

The Deified Mummy Speaks

“Religion is the opium of the people. Religion is

a kind of spiritual intoxicant, in which the slaves of

25 Confer Problems of Leninism.

27 Ibid.

29 Religion, p. 6.

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26 Religion, p. 5.

28 Ibid., p. 6.



capital drown their humanity and their desires for

some sort of decent human existence.” 30

“Our program is based entirely on scientific—to
be more precise—upon a materialist world conception.
In explaining our program, therefore, we must neces-
sarily explain the actual historical and economic roots

of the religious fog. Our program necessarily includes

the propaganda of atheism.” 31

“Marx said ‘Religion is the opium of the people’

—

and this postulate is the cornerstone of the whole phi-

losophy of Marxism with regard to religion. Marxism

always regarded all modern religions and churches,

and every kind of religious organization as instruments

of that bourgeois reaction whose aim is to defend ex-

ploitation by stupefying the working class.” 32

Religion—A Private Matter
The constant boast of Communist propagandists is that

religion is a private matter in the U. S. S. R. Most readers

accustomed to the separation of Church and State are per-

suaded that such a position is proper and just. Students of

the “theory of religious freedom” in the U. S. S. R. (and the

word “theory” is used advisedly) will find a summary of the

official decrees in Lenin’s and Yaroslavsky’s writings.

Bear in mind while reading the following quotations that

“the Party” means the Communist Party, the only recog-

nized party in Russia, and that “the Party” dominates every

activity in Russia with a tyranny unknown even under the

Tsars.

Lenin Speaks

“
‘Religion must be regarded as a private matter’

;

in these words the attitude of Socialists to religion is

usually expressed. But we must define the meaning
of these words precisely so as to avoid misunderstand-

ing. We demand that religion be regarded as a private
matter as far as the state is concerned, but under no

circumstances can we consider it a private matter with

regard to our own Party.”

30 Ibid., p. 7.

32 Ibid., p. 12.

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31 Ibid., p. 9 sq.

33 Ibid., p. 8.



“To the party of the Socialist proletariat, however,

religion is not a private matter. Our Party is a league

of class-conscious, progressive fighters for the libera-

tion of the working class. Such a league cannot and

must not be indifferent to lack of class-consciousness,

to ignorance or insanity in the shape of religious be-

liefs.”
34

“The party of the proletariat demands that the

state shall declare religion a private matter, but it does

not for a moment regard the question of the fight

against the opium of the people—the fight against re-
ligious superstition, etc.—as a private matter.” 35

We often wonder why religion is scarcely touched upon

by Communist propagandists in this country. The appeal is

always to class hatred, “the exploiting of the laboring man,”

etc. The emphasis of Russia’s success is always on its eco-

nomic achievements. Atheism is tactfully ignored or glossed

over.

Despite the blatant and militant atheism preached by

Lenin in the above statements, he shrewdly counsels his serfs

not to emphasize the anti-religious aspect if it would hinder

“the world revolution.”

“A Marxist must place the success of the strike
movement above all else, must definitely oppose the

division of the workers in this struggle into atheists

and Christians, must fight resolutely against such a

division.

“In such circumstances the preaching of atheism is

superfluous and harmful—not from the narrow-minded
consideration of not frightening the backward ele-

ments, or of losing votes at elections, etc., but from

the point of view of the actual progress of the class

struggle, which, in the conditions of modern capitalist

society, will convert Christian workers to Social-De-

mocracy and to atheism a hundred times more effec-

tively than any bald atheist sermons. To preach athe-
ism at such a time, and in such circumstances, would

only be playing into the hands of the church and the

34 Ibid., p. 9. 35 Religion, p. 18.

Shrewd Advice

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priests, who would desire nothing more than to have
the workers participating in the strike movement di-

vided in accordance with their religious beliefs.” 36

Atheistic Propaganda

Lest one would believe that atheistic propaganda is pri-

vate and not governmental, the following excerpt from Lenin

is most significant:

“Secondly, such a magazine must be an organ of

militant atheism. We have departments or at least
government institutions which carry on this work.” 37

The History of Religion in the U. S. S. R. (1917-1939)

In the beginning of this treatment on atheism and Com-

munism, we saw the established doctrine of Lenin and of

Stalin. Now, let us review a few of the high-spots in the

application of this doctrine to the peoples of the U. S. S. R.

The first great anti-religious persecution reached its climax

in the year 1923. The viciousness of this and subsequent per-

secutions is best told in William H. Chamberlin’s, Russia's

Iron Age.

In the first Constitution of the U. S. S. R., adopted in

1924, there was the guarantee of freedom “of religious and

anti-religious propaganda for all citizens.” This freedom guar-

anteed by the Constitution had as little practical application

as the freedom of the press or speech. It was during this time

that Stalin himself declared to an American labor delegation

in 1927:

“The party cannot be neutral in respect to religion,

it wages an anti-religious propaganda against all reli-

gious prejudices because it stands for science. . . .

There are cases of party members interfering with the

full development of anti-religious propaganda. It is

good that such members are expelled.” 38

Since the “party” controlled Russia, and the party operated

through the G. P. U., no further comment on this period is

necessary.

36 Ibid., p. 16. 37 Religion, p. 30. 38 The Real Soviet Russia, p. 57.

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Collectivization came in 1929. In the U. S. S. R., as in

nearly all countries, much of the rural life is built around the

religious life of the town or village. This period is noted not

only for its religious persecution of the Church which sup-

ported the peasants holding of their lands, but marks the high

point in human atrocities. Nothing which has ever happened

under Hitler’s Nazism is comparable with the above-men-

tioned
39 mass murder in the Ukraine which took place during

this period.

Once collectivization was accomplished, and the U. S. S. R.

began to assume respectability through the League of Nations,

religious persecution began to diminish, but not for long.

Religion and the Constitution

Soviet lovers in the U. S. A. are wont to prove that reli-

gious freedom is guaranteed in the Constitution, therefore it

exists in practice. One might as well quote Hitler’s famous

pronouncement that he desired no further expansion in Eu-

rope; therefore, there was no invasion of Holland, Belgium,

France, etc. Or, keeping within the confines of the U. S. S. R.,

one might as well quote the same Soviet Constitution which

guaranteed freedom of speech and press, and then assert that

Russian counterparts of our columnists and radio commen-

tators take Stalin to task as vigorously as the opposition cam-

paigned against the Administration in the last presidential

election. Not even Earl Browder would be that absurd.

Just what did that great democratic” document, the Con-

stitution of the U. S. S. R., guarantee? The section involved

reads:

“In order to assure the workers of true freedom of

conscience, the church is separated from the state and

the school from the church. Freedom of religious wor-

ship and freedom of anti-religious propaganda are rec-

ognized for all citizens.” 40

Translated into simpler language, a man might worship God

in the privacy of his own heart, but not publicly. In other

words, the “freedom-loving” Stalin would permit a man to

39 Confer p. 15.

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40 Soviet Constitution, p. 27.



raise his mind and heart to God, because not even the omnipo-

tent G. P. U. could invade a man’s soul.

Religious propaganda was forbidden, but “anti-religious

propaganda” was guaranteed by the Soviet Constitution. Any

external acts of ministry were forbidden by this “liberty-

loving democracy.”

Then began the all-out offensive against religion. By pre-

cluding the Church from any defense whether by written or

spoken word, the G. P. U. systematically sought to exter-

minate the Church itself.

Over ten thousand religious parishes were closed, priests

were exiled, sent off to concentration camps and often exe-

cuted. All the typical Red and Brown Fascist tactics against

religion, the twin weapons of terror and slanderous propa-

ganda, were ruthlessly set in motion. For all practical pur-

poses, the Church was now liquidated. Its buildings had been

taken over by the government; its priests driven into exile;

the children, the hope of the Church, had been brought up

in Militant Atheism. “Opium” would no longer drug the

proletariat!

World War II and the Church

This was the situation in the U. S. S. R. at the time that

World War II broke out. Again, Stalin the realist, or better

still, the pragmatist, whose only norm, as we have seen, is

“whatever helps the proletarian revolution is ethical,” decided

to make use of the Church in a bid for world sympathy.

Stalin’s motives are evident. For years, Hitler’s agents had

been encouraging the Orthodox priests in exile. Since Hitler

planned to strike at the Ukraine, he particularly developed a

sympathy among the Ukrainians based on his attitude toward

the Orthodox Church.

Hitler, the Brown Fascist, at the very time he was seeking

to crush the Church in Germany, was carrying on a tremen-

dous propaganda in Europe and in South America based on

the alleged fact that the only strong bulwark against the

spread of atheistic Communism was Germany .41 In the Latin

countries, this propaganda was particularly effective. Millions

failed to realize that religion and totalitarianism are essen-

tially antagonistic, and that Nazism is as bitter a foe of reli-

41 National Socialism and the Roman Catholic Church.

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gion as Communism.42 The Vatican was one of those few

who did not succumb to this propaganda.43

It was necessary for Stalin to offset this Nazi appeal to

those who feared Atheistic Communism.

Since an atheist is bound by no moral code or no precepts

of truthfulness or sincerity, it is not surprising to find certain

apparent changes toward religion developing in the U. S. S. R.

Immediately after the outbreak of the Nazi-Soviet War,

we find the Metropolitan Sergius declaring his support of the

war, and praying for the success of Russian arms. One might

note in passing that this is the same Sergius who in 1930,

announced in the Soviet press, “There never was persecu-

tion of religion in Russia.” Not even Stalin with all his dis-

regard of truth could have uttered a more fallacious state-

ment.

Next, the leaders of the Orthodox Church, with an hypoc-

risy which is difficult to explain, circulated abroad, although

not in the U. S. S. R., a book entitled, The Truth About Reli-

gion in Russia

,

in which an ^attempt was made to show that

not only there was not, but there had never been any persecu-

tion of religion in Russia on the part of the government. It

is ironic to note that this book was printed in the same print-

ing shop which had formerly printed the magazine, Godless.

Next, we find the same Sergius being personally received

by atheist, Joseph Stalin. The result of this meeting was a

pronouncement not in favor of God or the Church, but it was

a demand upon the United States and Great Britain to open

the “Second Front.” Communism has always used as its

most damning indictment the charge that the Church had been

involved in politics. Here is the very apogee of a political

churchman.

However, today we are witnessing the success of this

hypocritical move. A large part of the Balkans are chiefly

Slav, and these Balkan Slavs are definitely religious. In order

to induce the Balkans to unite in a Pan-Slavic grouping with

the U. S. S. R. Stalin is playing his usual shrewd and prag-

matic game.

By pretending to offer freedom of religion, he is lulling

possible Balkan opposition. Orthodox and Catholic are fight-

42 Confer Nazism Versus Religion. 43 Mit brennender Sorge.

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ing with and under Tito. This brave, but nevertheless, “red

quisling
’ 7

of Stalin must still follow “the party line .
77

“The

party
,

77

as we have seen, is essentially atheistic and when ex-

pediency again demands, the Balkan Slavs who cling to God,

will suffer the same fate from this Asiatic Nero as did the

Russian Slavs.

The relations between the Vatican and the Kremlin have

been such that they need no further elaboration in this pam-

phlet. Some of the quotations of His Holiness in his famous

encyclical will be later set forth. The denouncements of the

Vatican in the Stalin-controlled press are only too well known . 44

The attacks on the Vatican as being pro-Fascist will bring a

smile to anyone not a bigot. The one great force in the world

which has consistently fought Totalitarian, whether Nazi or

Communist, has been the Vatican. The attack upon Nazism

by Pius XI will be placed among the epoch-making documents

in the history of religion .
45 The attack on Communism by

the same Pius XI was and remains the clearest analysis, and

the most potent indictment yet uttered .
46

Opiates in Wartime

The maxim of Karl Marx that “religion is the opium of

the people
77

was accepted both in theory and practice by Lenin

and Stalin. Why then, during World War II, does Stalin ease

off on religious persecution? To anyone who has followed the

workings of this Asiatic’s mind, the answer is simple.

Irrespective of what one’s belief may be in the matter of

religion, it is an historical fact that in times of sorrow, men

and women instinctively turn towards a hidden power for

assuagement in their grief. Whatever belief in immortality

there may be in the human heart, has a resurgence when the

loss of loved ones raises the hope of a reunion in a World in

which there are no sorrows, no wars, no separations. Prescind-

ing altogether from the objectivity of this truth, this is the

historical fact.

The Slav is essentially a Christian. Years of indoctrina-

tion have not entirely wiped out his belief in a God above, in

the Prince of Peace, or in the possibility of joining his loved

44 Confer Life, February 2, 1944. 45 Mit brennender Sorge.

46 Divini Redemptoris.

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ones in some World beyond the grave. The U. S. S. R. has

suffered the heaviest war casualties of any country in the his-

tory of the world. Other nations have used their Chaplains

as morale builders. If a little religion would help the morale

of a people, then Stalin would allow them this war-time con-

solation. After all, opium is used to alleviate pain in the phys-

ical order. Why not allow the people a little of the “opiate of

religion” to alleviate their heartaches and sorrows during the

strain of war.

Never lose sight of the fact that the U. S. S. R. is starkly

totalitarian, and as we have seen, this means that the “total

man” belongs to the State. If all rights begin with, can be

modified or abrogated at the will of the State, then one can

easily understand the “zig-zag” process which has been em-

ployed by Stalin with reference to religion. Whenever a little

religion would help the proletarian revolution to become more

effective, then the pressure has eased off. Whenever there

was any threat to the totality of the State’s dominion, then

persecution has begun again.

During the war, we can expect to see more and more tol-

eration of religion in the U. S. S. R., and even more and more

propaganda of this toleration, especially among the Christian

nations of the world. When victory comes, one word from

the Kremlin can wipe out all the hard-won gains, and Mili-

tant Atheism will again shackle the minds of Russian youth.

The Square Circle

Stalin and his satellites are making a desperate bid to con-

ceal for the present the intrinsic opposition of Christianity

and Communism. To attempt to reconcile Christianity with

Atheism is to attempt to square the circle. It is pragmatically

necessary for Stalin, however, to attempt to lull religious-

minded people in the countries which have been liberated into

a belief that Communism and Christianity are compatible.

All one has to do is to read the day by day account of

what is happening in Italy, France, Greece, etc., to see how

desperately this veil of hypocrisy is being spread throughout

Europe.

This is not a new technique. We saw it in the “extended
hand” policy which was used at the time of the Popular Front

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in France. We saw it again when Earl Browder wrote his
pamphlet, “A Message to American Catholics.” Earl Brow-

der would allow a Catholic priest to deliver the invocation in

a Madison Square Garden Communist Rally if he thought it

would help to lull Catholics into a belief that one could square

the circle.

Impenitent Stalin

If one wants to test the present day sincerity of Joseph

Stalin towards religion, let the Russian Dictator admit that

over the past twenty-seven years he has been guily of crimes

which out-Nero Nero
,

47
which pale into insignificance the un-

speakable crimes of Hitler. So far, we have had not one word

of apology, one word of regret, one word of retraction for all

the foul deeds of this Asiatic Atheist.

Let us never forget that this is the same Stalin, whose hand

is “thicker than itself with brothers’ blood,” who has mas-

sacred and tortured the clergy, who has demolished and pro-

faned the churches, who has substituted the sword for the

Cross, who has for many years denied to a tenth of the people

of the world the consolations of religion. This is the same

Stalin who is seeking to Sovietize once Christian lands.

If Stalin is sincere in an alleged relaxing of the persecu-

tion of religion, let him allow the return of those who have

been training specifically for the task of evangelizing the

U. S. S. R., if and when religious freedom is restored there.

When missionaries again can travel freely within the confines

of the U. S. S. R., we wi,ll know that Joseph Stalin has come

to his Canossa.

It remains now to be seen whether the world will be as

gullible with regard to “religious freedom” in the U. S. S. R.

as it has been in accepting the U. S. S. R. as a “democracy”;

as it has been in accepting the constantly reiterated lie that

Communism has no intention of “violently overthrowing” the

government of other countries, and the equally vicious lie that

it maintains no international organization which directs the

activities of Communist members in the various countries of

the world, including the U. S. A.

47 Divini Redemptoris

.

*

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For the Gullible

The three principal propaganda lies of Communism are,

first, that the U. S. S. R. is not a Fascist dictatorship but

a democracy; secondly, that Communism is no longer atheis-

tic but guarantees religious liberty. Briefly, we have studied

these two points. The third propaganda lie and one of the

most successful is that the U. S. S. R. has become nationalist

minded and has abandoned “World Revolution,” and there-

fore World Communism.

World Communism

A few years ago it would have been needless to prove that

there were men and women in every nation who, under orders

from Moscow, were following “the party line,” who sought

to seize power and eventually by “force and violence” to over-

throw existing governments and to form a World Union of

Soviet Socialist Republics.

Even the Communists themselves in their earlier writings

admitted this charge of high treason. The program stems

back to young Karl Marx’s Manifesto :

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and

aims. They openly declare that their ends can be at-

tained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing

social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a

Communist revolution. The proletarians have noth-

ing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

“Workingmen of all countries, unite !” 48

Third International

Communism was still in the throes of the Red-White strug-

gle when a call went out to the revolutionaries of the world

to meet in Moscow. In 1919 was founded the Third Inter-

national or Comintern.
49

There was no secret about its ob-

jective. It was brazenly set forth in the Program of the Com-

munist International
,
which one, until a short time ago, could

buy in any Communist book store. A few quotations are here
in order:

48 Manifesto, p. 44. 49 Program of the Communist International, p. 8.

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“The Communist International—the International
Workers’ Association—is a union of Communist Par-
ties in various countries; it is the world Communist

Party. As the leader and organizer of the world revo-
lutionary movement of the proletariat and the protag-

onist of the principles and aims of Communism, the

Communist International strives to win over the ma-

jority of the working class and the broad strata of the

propertyless peasantry, fights for the establishment of

the world dictatorship of the proletariat, for the estab-

lishment of a World Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-

lics, for the complete abolition of classes and for the

achievement of socialism—the first stage of commu-
nist society.”

50

“Each of the various Parties affiliated to the Com-

munist International is called the Communist Party

of (name and country) (Section of the

Communist International). In any given country there

can be only one Communist Party affiliated to the Com-

munist International and constituting its section in

that country.”
51

“Membership in the Communist Party and in the

Communist International is open to all those who ac-
cept the program and rules of the respective Commu-
nist Party and of the Communist International, who

join one of the basic units of the Party, actively work

in it, abide by all the decisions of the Party and of the

Communist International. . . .
” 52

Red Robots

No better summary of the Kremlin-directed sabotage of

American institutions has been written than Eugene Lyons’,

The Red Decade . Unfortunately, the impact of this book

was diminished since it was published about the time we went

to war. Just as Lyons’ expose of the serfdom of the Slav

under Communism in the U. S. S. R. remains one of the class-

ics in this field
,

53
so too the above named book is the best,

and still unanswered indictment of the Kremlin-launched

50 Program of the Communist International, p. 87. 51 Ibid.

52 Ibid. 53 Assignment in Utopia.

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weapons of destruction aimed at our institutions. Nazi robots

did not destroy England, but they left a wake of destruction.

These Kremlin weapons have not extinguished our freedoms,

but ugly Red Fascism has devastated Americanism in hun-

dreds of labor unions, youth organizations, etc.

Orders From Moscow

Until 1940 when the American section of the Communist

International allegedly dissolved itself from the Comintern,

every move by “Browder’s boys” had to have the stamp of

approval from Joseph Stalin.

“Section 16. The programs of the various sections

(and therefore the American section) must be endorsed

by the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter-

national.”
54

In the earlier Communist membership books in the U. S. A.,

the following rules were printed:

“After a decision has been taken by the Congress of

the Communist International, by the Convention of

the Communist Party, these decisions must be unre-

servedly carried out even if a part of the party mem-
bership or of the local party organization are in dis-

agreement with it.” 55

“The strictest party discipline is the most solemn

duty of all party members and all party organizations.

The decisions of the Communist International and of

all the leading bodies of the party must be promptly

carried out.”
56

When it became embarrassing even to the Communists to

reconcile their American citizenship with taking orders from

a foreign tyrant, these rules were stricken from the member-

ship books, but the Kremlin shackles still bound the mem-

bers.

“Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism,” was

next served to a receptive United States. Moscow continued

54 Program of the Communist International, p. 90.
55 Confer early Party membership books. 56 Ibid.

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to direct the undermining of democracy in America. Class

hatreds, race hatreds, pacifism, were the orders of the Krem-

lin.

“The American Peace Mobilization,” the denouncing of

the brave R. A. F. battle against the Nazi as a British “Im-

perialist War,” the justification of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the

great mass demonstrations for “brave” Russia’s fight against

the “aggressor” Finland, the strikes, the sabotaging of Ameri-

can defense preparations, the “Yanks Are Not Coming,” slo-

gan, etc.

“Browder’s boys,” allegedly dissolved from the Comin-

tern, were still goose-stepping for the Red Fuehrer when

June, 1941, came. Up to that time, the best ally Hitler had

in the United States, was not the Bund, but the American

Communist Party.

The Corpse and the Comintern

The Third International or Comintern was allegedly dis-

solved in May of 1943. Someone caustically remarked, “The

Comintern has committed suicide but no one has found the

corpse”!

This issue is so important that it deserves a fairly lengthy

treatment. The question is whether or not the Communist

groups in the U. S. A., Italy, Greece, Belgium, Holland, the

Balkans, etc., are still being directed by Moscow? The unity

of the war effort, the entire possibility of a peaceful world

after victory, depends on the answer to this question.

If by the “Comintern” is meant an occasional meeting of

delegates in Moscow, then it may be admitted that the Comin-

tern is temporarily dissolved. If by the “Comintern” is meant

that Communists in all parts of the world are receiving their

instructions and direction from Moscow, to establish Soviets

in their various countries, with the ultimate objective, a World

Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, then the writer main-

tains that the Comintern is about as dead as Joseph Stalin.

Let us first take up the history of the American Commu-

nist Party.

The American Communist Party was the official “Ameri-

can Section of the Third International” or Comintern, head-

quarters Moscow, beginning with the first meeting of the Third

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International held in Moscow in 1919. This openly-admitted

link with the Moscow-controlled International continued, as

we have seen, until November 16, 1940, when the American

Section ostensibly withdrew from the Communist Interna-

tional.

The activities of the Comintern, particularly in the Labor

Movement, were a vital issue at the time of the recognition

of the U. S. S. R. by the U. S. A. In order to prevent too

violent a public reaction to the recognition of a country whose

gory, godless record was only too well known to Americans,

an exchange of letters took place between President Roosevelt

and Foreign Minister Litvinov, which letters formed an in-

tegral part of the recognition. In a letter written by Litvinov

to President Roosevelt on November 16, 1933, we read:

“
. . . (The Soviet Government undertakes) 4. Not

to permit the formation or residence on its territory

of any organization or group—and to prevent the ac-
tivity on its territory of any organization or group

—

which has as an aim the ? overthrow or the preparation

for the overthrow of, or the bringing about by force of

a change in the political or social order of the whole or

any part of the United States, its territories or posses-

sions.”
57

No one familiar with the background of this “recognition”

ever honestly thought that Stalin would remove the Comin-

tern from Moscow or from U. S. S. R. soil. De facto
,
he did

not.

The only question which would arise in one’s mind is

whether or not the Third International, residing on Russian

territory, sought “the bringing about by force of a change in

the political or social order of the whole or any part of the

United States, its territories or possessions.” This point has

been proved in an earlier part of the pamphlet.
58

If Litvinov’s pledge to President Roosevelt means any-

thing, it would seem definitely that the Third International

should have been removed from the soil of the U. S. S. R.

Apparently, no move was ever made either by the Russian

Government or by our own Government to have that com-

57 The World Almanac, 1934, p. 179.

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58 Confer p. 13.



mitment carried out. Have we any reason to expect that any

new pledges made by the U. S. S. R., are any more trust-

worthy than the one made in 1933?

The very document dissolving the Comintern contains at

least one major lie. In the official document, after a good

deal of vague talk concerning conditions in certain countries

having “outgrown” the need of the Third International, we

find the following:

“These same considerations guided the Communist

International in considering the resolution of the Com-

munist Party of the U. S. A. of November, 1940, on its

withdrawal from the ranks of the Communist Interna-

tional.”
59

Recall to mind two facts; first, at this particular date

(1940), Communism and Nazism were allies and not military

enemies; secondly, and the important point, an Act had just

been passed by the Congress of the United States which re-

quired the registration of all those working for foreign gov-

ernments.
60 At this time, we were not coddling Communists,

consequently, Red leaders in this country knowing that, un-

der the Act of Congress, they would be indicted as well as

Bundists or Japanese agents, met and went through the mo-

tions of dissolving their relationship with the Communist In-

ternational.

These are the facts, as many of you will recall. The so-

called “dissolution” was purely a pragmatic and a fraudulent

move to avoid incarceration. The “Party Line” was adhered

to as rigidly as before. Moscow still ran the Madison Square

Garden rallies, the Communist dailies, the labor schools, the

front organizations.

There should not be any question in the minds of those

who have studied the problem that there has been no de

facto dissolution of the relationship of the American Com-

munist Party and the Communist International. Historically,

is there anything that would warrant our believing that the

new decree dissolving the Comintern will be any more vera-

59 Peoples' World, May 24, 1943, p. 2.
60 Voorhis “Anti-propaganda Act,” October 17, 1940; U. S. Statutes at Large,

Chapter 897, Volume 54, p. 1201.

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cious than the decree dissolving the relationship of the Ameri-

can Section?

There is, therefore, one deliberate lie in the official decree

dissolving the Comintern. Now, let us take up the letter

written by Stalin himself to King,
61

a Reuters correspondent,

in which he states: “It (the dissolution of the Communist

International) exposes the lie of the Hitlerites to the effect

that Moscow allegedly intends to intervene in the life of

other States and ‘bolshevize’ them. An end is put to this lie

once and for all.”

Another lie does not put an end to a fact. Study the his-

tory of the Third International, including the American Sec-

tion, from 1919 to the present time. Space will not permit

one to go over the Communist-led strikes in various cities in

our nation. The activities of the Communists in France under

the Popular Front, and in the Balkans, etc., need only be re-

called and need not be detailed. In fact, the whole purpose

of the Third International is set forth in the Program of the

Third International
,

published by the Communists them-

selves. Why go to all the trouble of propagandizing the Dis-

solution of the Comintern if it had not been interfering in the

internal affairs of foreign countries, thereby causing constant

friction?

Stalin goes on to say to the Reuters correspondent: “It

exposes the calumny of the adversaries of Communism within

the labor movement to the effect that the Communist Parties

in the various countries are allegedly acting, not in the inter-

ests of their people, but on orders from high. An end is put

also to this calumny once and for all.”

Is Moscow-direction of the Party Line a calumny or a

fact? Again, one has only to read the Constitution of the

Communist International:

“All the resolutions of the Congresses of the Com-
munist International as well as the resolutions of the

Executive Committee, are binding for all Parties join-

ing the Communist International. . . . After a decision
has been taken by the Congress of the Communist In-

ternational, by the Congress of the respective Sections,

or by leading committees of the Comintern, and of the

6i The Communist, July, 1943.

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various Sections, the decisions must be unreservedly

carried out even if a part of the Party membership or

of the local Party organizations are in disagreement

with it.” 62

Can anyone who has followed the activities of the Ameri-

can Communist Party fail to perceive that they have followed

the Comintern Party Line, and still continue to follow the

Comintern Party Line? No better example is to be found

than the “Yanks Are Not Coming” attitude of the Commu-

nists in this country and all over the world when they were

denouncing the war, prior to June 22, 1941, as an “Imperi-

alist War.” For the first time, on that fateful day «when the

Nazis turned against the Soviets, the war became the “Peo-

ples’ War.” One of the most interesting sets of documents

which one can possess are copies of Communist literature

over that vacillating week of 1941.

Stalin goes on to say to the Reuters correspondent:

“It facilitates the work of all countries for uniting

all freedom-loving peoples into a single international

camp for the fight against world domination by Hitler-

ism, thus clearing the way to the future organization

of a companionship of nations based upon their equal-

ity.”

How many Americans are going to be gullible enough to

accept this statement? Was Hitler not making war on the

rest of the world prior to June, 1941?

What do you mean, Mr. Stalin, by speaking about “free-

dom-loving peoples”? Is any American going to accept such

brazen duplicity. The suppression of the “Four Freedoms”

which has taken place ever since the inception of the U. S. S. R.

is too well known for one to waste further space on it here.
68

Con We Trust Stalin?

The future peace of the world lies in the hope that the

victorious United Nations can work out a plan to which all

will conscientiously adhere. Can we trust Russia?

62 Theses and Statutes of the Third International, p. 31.

63 Confer The Real Soviet Russia.

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Every thinking American is silently asking that question.

Every peace-loving American is hoping that the answer is

affirmative. What does the record show?

Truth and honesty are moral virtues. All Marxists, in-

cluding Joseph Stalin, deny a free will, a moral law and a

Divine Law Giver, Who alone is above rulers and nations.

No atheist can logically be trusted to keep his word, for no

atheist recognizes any moral obligation. Joseph Stalin is an

atheist. Therefore—

!

Yaroslavsky, one of the great high-priests of Communism,

has crystallized the doctrine, “Whatever helps the proletarian

revolution is ethical.”
64

Marx and Lenin have also admitted the guilt of Commu-

nism to the above charge:

“We deny all morality taken from superhuman or
non-class conceptions. We say that this is a deception,
a swindle, a befogging of the minds of the workers and

peasants in the interests of the landlords and capital-

ists/’
65

“We say that our morality is wholly subordinated
to the interests of the class-struggle of the proletariat.

We deduce our morality from the facts and needs of
the class-struggle of the proletariat . . . we say that a
morality taken from outside of human society does not
exist for us; it is a fraud. For us morality is subordi-

nated to the interests of the proletarian class-strug-

gle. ...” 66

Can we trust Stalin to keep his word? Stalin drafted the

Soviet Constitution granting freedom of speech, press, etc.

Has he kept his word? Stalin promised the United States not

to allow on the soil of the U. S. S. R. “any organization or

group—which has as an aim the overthrow or the preparation
for the overthrow of, or the bringing about by force of a change

in the political or social order of the whole or any part of the

United States, its territories or possessions.” Has he kept his

word?

Stalin is the man who, according to Ambassador Davies

of Mission to Moscow infamy, has not broken his word in ten

years. What does the record show?

64 Op. cit. 65 Religion, p. ,47 sq.

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66 Ibid., p. 48.



Non-aggression Pact signed between the U. S. S. R. and

Poland on July 25, 1932, extended for ten years on May 5,
1935. Soviet troops crossed Polish border on September 17,

1939.

Non-aggression Pact signed between the U. S. S. R. and

Latvia on February 5, 1932, extended for ten years on April

4, 1934. Soviet troops crossed Latvian border on June 17,

1940.

Non-aggression Pact signed between the U. S. S. R. and

Estonia on May 4, 1932, extended for ten years on April 4,
1934. Soviet troops crossed Estonian border on June 17,

1940.

Non-aggression Pact signed between the U. S. S. R. and

Finland on January 21, 1932, extended for ten years on April

7, 1934. Soviet troops crossed Finnish border on November

29, 1939.

Non-aggression Pact signed between the U. S. S. R. and

Lithuania on September 28, 1926, twice extended, second ex-

tension for ten years on April 4, 1934. Soviet troops crossed

Lithuanian border on June 15, 1940.

The U. S. S. R. proposed a convention defining aggression

and signed document with Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Iran, and

Rumania on July 3, 1933, with Lithuania on July 5th, and

with Finland on July 23rd. The definition of aggression in-

cluded invasion by armed forces, even without declaration of

war, an attack by any type of armed forces, even without

declaration of war. Soviet troops crossed Rumanian border

on June 28, 1940.

When the peace treaty ending World War II is written,

have we any guarantee that Stalin will be more faithful to his

word than in the cases of Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland,

Lithuania, or Rumania?

We might as well be realists and face the question. Po-

land, the Balkans, Greece, etc., are forcing us to be realists.

Let us be intellectually honest.

New International Tactics

Communist tactics shift as rapidly and as radically as do

war strategies. Adequately to treat the apparently contradic-

tory intrigue of the “Party Line” will require a separate pam-

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phlet which, the writer trusts, will be published within a few

months. In this present survey treatment, only the briefest

outline can be given.

The Grand Strategy

Let the reader recall a few basic tenets of Communism, and

the apparently baffling international moves of the U. S. S. R.

clarify.

It has been shown that the ultimate objective of Commu-

nism is a World Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
,

67
head-

quarters Moscow. The achievement of this objective was

challenged not so much by the powers of capitalism as by the

rise of another international plot, viz., Nazism (Fascism).

War to the death became inevitable. A traitorous alliance

whilst democracy was being murdered in Europe, gave the

Red military machine the opportunity to build to maximum

strength.

The superb defense of the U. S. S. R., the tremendous sac-

rifice of men and of lend-lease equipment turned the tide. The

democracies of America and Great Britain were now joined in

an “Anti-Fascist War of Liberation.” No one dared question

any longer “the democracy” of any of the United Nations.

The war was being won. The peace must now be won.

“Governments in exile” were weakened or supplanted. The

Baltic States were incorporated into the U. S. S. R. “Free

Polish”
—

“Free German” groups sprang up at Moscow’s di-

rection.

Tito was the national hero of Yugoslavia; Ercoli was

rushed back to Italy and subsidized; 68 Thorez was forced on

France; Greece, Belgium, and Holland Communist groups

sought not to rebuild their countries, but to overthrow their

governments.

The old Lenin technique of seizure of political power

through violence and propaganda by a highly organized minor-

ity is under way.

Economic chaos, war-shattered peoples, the technique of

the Popular Front, the superb organization of “the under-

ground,” direction by Moscow-trained experts are tremendous

assets for a Communist-controlled Europe.

67 Confer pp. 27-34. 68 Confer Life, September 4, 1944, p. 94 sqq.

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“Peoples’ Governments,” slander-murders of any political

opposition (as every anti-Communist is stigmatized as a “Fas-

cist”), all the methods used by Hitler in Austria, and Stalin

in Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania (and in many labor unions

in the U. S.A.)—these are the tactics of the “defunct” Com-
munist International. “Friendly governments” must be Mos-

cow-dominated and dictated. Whatever pattern Europe may

assume, new governments must not be “anti-Communist.”

The diabolical shrewdness of this early “peace” movement

lies again in the very nature of Communism. Any sovereign

nation, if it would preserve its existence must be as strongly

opposed to Communism among its own subjects as it would be

against the existence of Nazi Bunds. A group owing its al-

legiance to Moscow, and not to its own rulers, a group which

upholds Red Fascism with its liquidation of personal, political,

and religious liberties, a group which aims “by violence” to

seize political power—such a group is a menace to any new
government set-up in Europe.

To co-exist as a sovereign State with the U. S. S. R.—to
protect oneself from the Communist enemy within and in so

doing not to be condemned and rejected by Moscow as “un-

friendly”—this is the greatest problem facing the peace table.
At this writing, it is likewise an unsolved problem, and Mos-

cow seems to hold the winning hand.

The International Opiate

The cleverest of all recent Communist tactics, and one

that is lulling many individuals and groups otherwise hostile

to Communism, is the widespread belief that after the war,

Russia will be “bled white,” will need a generation or more

to recuperate and will desire peace and friendly relations with

other countries for many years to come.

The U. S. S. R. will need all but the last of these, and yet

her European, and later on global strategy will proceed. “The

underground,” the organized, armed, and ruthless Communist

minorities in the liberated countries can and will receive finan-

cial aid, war materials, and above all, direction from Moscow,

without in any way “officially” involving the U. S. S. R. or re-

tarding its recuperation from the ravages of war.

Never since the demoralized conditions when Lenin, with

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less than 100,000, seized control of one hundred and seventy

millions, has Communism had the opportunity which peace

will bring. Chaotic economic conditions, dazed, leaderless

peoples, disorganized social conditions—such times are made
for the dream of a Lenin and the plans of a Stalin.

This pamphlet cannot treat this problem. You, however,

must ask yourselves as American citizens what we as a nation,

with our increasing casualty lists and tremendous debt, could

do, would do, to counter such a program.

New U. S. A. Tactics

This topic will form a large portion of the new pamphlet

referred to above. For the present, the essential facts to be

noted and watched are the following:

After the alleged severance of the American Section from

the Third International (November 22, 1940), Browder sug-

gested in January, 1944, that the American Communist Party

be dissolved. In May, the Red Fascists apparently committed

hara-kiri. Private property, free enterprise, the two-party

system, etc., were to be tolerated for the present.

However, the American Red “quislings” would assume

another title and another role. From now until a new “Party

Line” is ordered from Moscow, Browder’s henchman would

be the “American Communist Political Association.”

The “underground” in the guise of a new United Front

would concentrate on large groups of organized labor and edu-

cate them to their potential political power.69 The class strug-

gle (strikes, etc.) would be postponed, not only “for the dura-

tion,” but until Communist-controlled voting blocks would

elect sufficient “Party Line” officials who would be subservi-

ent to the underground’s program exerting “political action”

through group pressure.

Large “Labor Schools” would be and have been set up in

centers of population, such as New York, San Francisco, etc.

The employers’ group lulled by promises of industrial peace

(Moscow-guaranteed while the U. S. S. R. is at war) would

be beguiled into financing these schools and further deceiving

the laboring groups.

69 The alleged interrelation between the P. A. C. and the A. C. P. A. cannot be

treated of in this pamphlet.

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This is the present phase which with much success has

been undertaken by the “underground.” The proof of the

above, further developments, and ultimate objectives are re-

served for future writings.

Summary

Pamphlets of their very nature are limited. It is hoped

that the reader will continue his studies in the references

quoted. Communism is the most dynamic world-changing

and world-challenging force which confronts our generation.

We have a solemn duty, which we would be cowards to shirk,

to study the nature and tactics of Communism and then to

translate that study into action.

This pamphlet was designed to stimulate that study. It

has sought to prove that:

1. Communism was and is essentially evil.

2. Communism is not the foe of Fascism, but another

Fascism.

3. Communism or Red Fascism in practice crushes liberty

of speech, of the press, of political opposition.

4. Communism is essentially atheistic and the present les-

sening of religious persecution m a pragmatic war measure.
5. World Communism, despite the alleged dissolution of

the Third International, is still vital, and more insidious than

ever.

6. The tactics of World Communism have radically

changed during the war, and unless checked, will destroy our

grimly earned victory in Europe.

Two Experts Conclude

Lest the reader fear that the conclusions contained in this

pamphlet are distorted views stemming from a phobia on

Communism, let the words of two of the greatest experts in

the world conclude these pages.

The Vatican Speaks

Irrespective of one’s religious beliefs or disbeliefs, all

thoughtful men agree that the best informed and the most

implacable enemy of Communism is the Vatican.

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The ablest analysis and evaluation of the essential
immor-

ality of Communism is contained in a document issued
in

193 7,
70

the year after the new U. S. S. R. Constitution
was

adopted, and thirteen years after Joseph Stalin
had become

the Fascist Tsar of all the Russias. The entire
document

should be read. Here are reprinted a few paragraphs:

“This modern revolution, it may be said, has actually

broken out or threatens everywhere, and it exceeds in

amplitude and violence anything yet experienced

in the preceding persecutions launched against the

Church. Entire peoples find themselves in danger of

falling back into a barbarism worse than that which

oppressed the greater part of the world at the coming

of the Redeemer.”
71

“This all too imminent danger, Venerable Brethren,

as you have already surmised, is Bolshevistic and Athe-

istic Communism, which aims at upsetting the social

order and at undermining the very foundations of

Christian civilization.”
72

“What would be the condition of a human society

based on such materialistic tenets? It would be a col-

lectivity with no other hierarchy than that of the eco-

nomic system. It would have only one mission: the

production of material things by means of collective

labor, so that the goods of this world might be enjoyed

in a paradise where each would ‘give according to his

powers’ and would ‘receive according to his needs.’

Communism recognizes in the collectivity the right, or
rather, unlimited discretion, to draft individuals for

the labor of the collectivity with no regard for their

personal welfare; so that even violence could be legiti-

mately exercised to dragoon the recalcitrant against

their wills. In the Communistic commonwealth mor-

ality and law would be nothing but a derivation of the

existing economic order, purely earthly in origin and

unstable in character. In a word, the Communists

claim to inaugurate a new era and a new civilization
which is the result of blind evolutionary forces cul-

minating in a humanity without God.” 73

70 Divini Redemptoris. 71 Ibid., p. 3.

72 Ibid. 73 Ibid., p. 8.

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“There is another explanation for the rapid diffu-
sion of the Communistic ideas now seeping into every
nation, great and small, advanced and backward, so
that no corner of the earth is free from them. This
explanation is to be found in a propaganda so truly
diabolical that the world has perhaps never witnessed

its like before. It is directed from one common cen-
ter. It is shrewdly adapted to the varying conditions

of diverse peoples. It has at its disposal great finan-

cial resources, gigantic organizations, international

congresses and countless trained workers. It makes
use of pamphlets and reviews, of cinema, theater and
radio, of schools and even universities. Little by little
it penetrates into all classes of the people and even
reaches the better-minded groups of the community
with the result that few are aware of the poison which
increasingly pervades their minds and hearts.” 74

' “But the law of nature of its Author cannot be

flouted with impunity. Communism has not been able,
and will not be able, to achieve its objectives even in

the merely economic sphere. It is true that in Russia

it has been a contributing factor in rousing men and
materials from the inertia of centuries, and in obtain-

ing by all manner of means, often without scruple,

some measure of material success. Nevertheless, We
know from reliable and even very recent testimony
that not even there, in spite of slavery imposed on mil-

lions of men, has Communism reached its promised

goal. After all, even the sphere of economics needs

some morality, some moral sense of responsibility,

which can find no place in a system so thoroughly ma-

terialistic as Communism. Terrorism is the only pos-

sible substitute, and it is terrorism that reigns today

in Russia, where former comrades in revolution are

exterminating each other. Terrorism, having failed

despite all to stem the tide of moral corruption, cannot

even prevent the dissolution of society itself.”
75

“ ... In the beginning, Communism showed itself

for what it was in all its perversity; but very soon it

realized that it was thus alienating the people. It has

therefore changed its tactics, and strives to entice the

74 Ibid., p. 10. 75 Ibid., p. 12.

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multitudes by trickery of various forms, hiding its real

designs behind ideas that in themselves are good and

attractive. Thus, aware of the universal desire for

peace, the leaders of Communism pretend to be the

most zealous promoters and propagandists in the move-

ment for world amity. Yet at the same time they stir

up a class-warfare which causes rivers of blood to flow,

and, realizing that their system offers no internal guar-

antee of peace, they have recourse to unlimited arma-

ments. Under various names which do not suggest

Communism, they establish organizations and period-

icals with the sole purpose of carrying their ideas into

quarters otherwise inaccessible. They try perfidiously

to worm their way even into professedly Catholic and
religious organizations. Again, without receding an

inch frofn their subversive principles, they invite Cath-

olics to collaborate with them in the realm of the so-

called humanitarianism and charity; and at times even

make proposals that are in perfect harmony with the

Christian spirit and the doctrine of the Church. Else-

where they carry their hypocrisy so far as to encourage

the belief that Communism, in countries where faith

and culture are more strongly entrenched, will assume

another and much milder form. It will not interfere
with the practice of religion. It will respect liberty

of conscience. There are some even who refer to cer-
tain changes recently introduced in Soviet legislation

as a proof that Communism is about to abandon its pro-
gram of war against God.

“Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who
would save Christian civilization may collaborate with
it in any undertaking whatsoever. Those who permit
themselves to be deceived into lending their aid

towards the triumph of Communism in their own coun-
try, will be the first to fall victims of their error. And
the greater the antiquity and grandeur of the Christian

civilization in the regions where Communism success-
fully penetrates, so much more devastating will be the
hatred displayed by the godless.” 76

The F. B. I. Speaks

If religious differences might weaken one’s acceptance of

the Vatican’s appraisal, surely any American will accept the

76 Ibid., p. 26.

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judgment of the most expert and fact-finding organization in

the world—the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Prompted only by patriotic and certainly not by political

expediency, risking and receiving an avalanche of vicious in-

vective, the words of J. Edgar Hoover, spoken in June of

1944, are a challenge to every true American. This pamphlet

began with the* quotation; repeated, the words ring wife-added*

warning:

“The Fascists and Nazis were not the only menace

to our internal security. To their forces must be added
the American Communists with their godless, truth-

less, philosophy of life. They are against the America

our forefathers fought and died for; they are against

the established freedoms of America. They pose be-
hind a dozen fronts; they have endeavored to infiltrate

practically every strata of life.

“When they preach unity, let us not forget that
when we were struggling to prepare for defense, they
preached pacifism and fought our efforts to aid our

allies and to build our common defenses. For true
Americans there can be no unity with the enemy with-

in and no compromise with those who would destroy
all that we fight for. There is a distinction between
respecting our ally Russia, and respecting those with-

in our country who would destroy all that we believe
in. No one wishes to detract any from the glorious
war history being written by the Russian people in

protecting their soil. They are a great fighting nation

and have done a masterful job at war.

“But when it comes to governmental systems, we

prefer our own American way, and we do not want the

Communists in this country attempting to undermine

our democracy or any of our institutions. I have said

it before, and I repeat it now—America cannot exist
half democratic and half Communist or Fascist. The

Fascist-minded tyrant is no different from the native-

born Communistic corruptionist. We are proud of
our American form of government. If we want to im-
prove on it, we will do it in our own way, in our time,
and with our own blueprint.

“Over the years, the American Communists have

developed a propaganda machine and a nefarious and

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elaborate school system of their own. Their officials in

secret and public meetings urge that the propaganda

phase of their work must be accelerated. Brazenly,

they have urged the development of courses, lectures,

and assemblies as media to espouse the ideologies of

Marxism and to establish Marxism as a school of

thought in the United States. And even in the chame-
leon cloak with which they have now enshrouded
themselves, the American Communists still proclaim

their loyalty to Marxism, the antithesis of American

democracy. The Communist Trojan Horse has now
become the Trojan Snake in American life.” 77

77 Op. Cit.

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