T ODAY, our priceless heritage of freedom is under relentless attacks both at home and abroad. In the jungles and rice fields of Southeast Asia, Americans in uniform maintain a constant vigil against the Com munist hordes of a modern-day Genghis Khan to whom no commodity is cheaper than human life. In Europe and the Near East, our country’s patience and determination are constantly strained by the taunts and provocations of Iron Curtain slave masters who talk of peace while clandestinely plotting to spread their godless creed of Utopia-in-chains. Throughout Central and South America, we have had to erect guard posts of freedom against the sinister efforts of Communist henchmen to spread the malignant cancer of Marxism across the Western Hemisphere. Not only have we seen the results of their treachery in Cuba, but the Dominican Republic could be a Marxist satellite today were it not for the fast action taken by a cour ageous President and alert Americans to thwart a Com munist take-over there earlier this year. The Communists speak of peace, but peace at an exorbitant and heart-rending price—submission to Com munist domination. Y ET, in country after country, there still remain the legions of uninformed, misinformed and politically naive who are the non-Communist dupes and fellow travelers whom the Communist rely upon to carry forward their programs for world domination. We find these dupes in shocking abundance here in our own United States where Gus Hall, the Moscow- trained General Secretary of the Communist Party, USA, boasted to newsmen last fall that there are ap proximately 100,000 Americans within the Party’s in fluence. About 10 per cent of them, he said, are dues- paying members. The remainder he described as close sympathizers. These sympathizers include growing numbers of young people—because the major target of Communist propaganda and exploitation in the United States today is the Nation’s youth. Today, as never before, the Communists are confident of their ability to win recruits among this country’s youth. That is why the Party has placed such intense emphasis upon its campus speech program—a program that has seen skilled hucksters of atheism and treason appear at scores of colleges and universities from New York to California, without objection by the authorities of those institutions of higher learning and often with positive encouragement by members of the faculties of such universities. T HE COMMUNIST movement, Communist regimes, and those who knowingly support them are really ultrareactionary. They are the worst enemies of free dom and social justice. Our university professors and students would serve their country and professions with fruitful distinction if they were to study this historic development and be come not only academic but dynamic fighters against the Communist drive to dominate the world and impose on mankind the Soviet system of tyranny. It is one of the glaring contradictions of our day that the same Communist spokesmen who are so glib- tongued in their appearances before groups of college students immediately lose their voices when placed un-
FAITH AND FREEDOM
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by J. Edgar Hoover
THE KING'S BUSINESS
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