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THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
-To Plead for a Return of Constitutional Government-
Vol. 5 Fori Worth , Texas, July-August, 1954 No. 7-8
The Facts Behind The McCarthy Hearings
The United Nations Plans to
Democracy Safe From Snake
Make
Bites
Those who are grievously disappointed
with the performance
of the United Nations and disheartened
at the diplomatic and military
defeats suffered by this country
since its affiliation With that body,
may now -take heart.
The World Health Organization.
an auxiliary of United Nations
and which is called WHO for
short. is currently engaged in an
undertaking which should more
than comoensate for the failure of
the parerit organization to live up
to its promise to bring peace. understanding
and security to all nations
of the earth.
WHO is conducting a snake
bite survey on· a global basis with
the ultimate objective of developing
a uniform remedy which will
be available to all world citizens
withou t discrimination as to race.
color or creed and regardless of
the type of serpent which nips
their carcass with its venomous
f angs.
As one \Vho grew up in ct sec·
tion of West Texas where one
snake bite per capita during an
average lifetime was par for the
course. we didn't know there was
but one remedy for it and. in our
wide-eyed innOcence. we thought
it had universal sanction.
During our chi 1 d h o o d and
throughout our adult li fe we have
suffered more than our share of
all t he accidents in the vast category
of human mishaps but. somehow.
we always managed to outsmart
the snakes.
There is no assurance, however,
that we will escape this menace
in the future. With our luck at
having bizarre and preposterous
things happen to us, there is a
fifty-fifty chance that we may be
bitten by a boa that leaps out of
the alley at us as we walk down
the street or that our ankle may
get punctured by a python as we
step from a taxicab.
So we are as pleased as punch
that these great scientists are furrowing
their brows in an effort
to concoct a universal and democratic
antidote for one of mankind's
oldest casualty risks and to
come uo with a cure which will
hold Old Crow uo to scorn as an
ou t-moded produCt of a decadent
caoitalistic state.
For once, we are [!oing to line
un with the Internationalist boys
since our aver sion to the currently
accepted remedy is only a little
less pronounced than our fear of
bein '{ snake bit.
So we just can't wait for these
bril liant world scientists to announce
the success of their vast
and extensive research into this
vital subject and for them to proclaim
to the universe that "Operation
Snake Bite" is under control.
When they give the word, we
intend to go back to the wild and
wooly West where we spent many
agonizing hours side - stepping
those villainous sidewinders, flush
a big diamond-back rattler righ t
out of his den , wave a United Nations
flag in h is face and doubledog
dare him to bite us. ------
SAFETY SLOGAN ADOPTED BY MALE
VOTERS IN CALIFORNIA CAMPAIGN
Many who have appraised the
amazing situation in California
where Jimmy Roosevelt parlayed
his wife's charges of marital misconduct
into a primary congressional
victory, claim that it was
women YOters who put him over.
If true. this is mass feminine
psy-:-!wlogical reaction wh ich must
prove something or other bu t don't
ask us what it is. We wouldn't
know.
Most women object violently
to a faithless husband when he
happens to be their own but apparently
the ladies of California's
second congressional district feel
no such resentment when one of
their sisters gets a plugged nickel
in the matrimonial game.
There is another school of
thought on the subject whose followers
disagree with the claim t hat
women were responsible for Roosevelt's
success in the primary.
They insist that his victory was
due to the vote of the masculine
population of the district who organized
themselves behind the successful
candidate with this slogan:
"Send Jimmy to Washington. The
wife you save may be your own."
When Americans watched the televised proceedings of
the McCarthy-Pentagon farce sometime ago, they were
merely viewing a kaleidoscopic play-back of events in
history which have happened before and which will
happen again when any fearless and determined investigator
of Communist spies gets hot on the trail of
the slimy Volga vermin. We like to make much of the
fiction that our national policy is rl)lentlessly anti-Communist
but the record is clear that every t ime a twofisted,
red-blooded and uncompromising American patriot
strikes pay dirt in d igging for Soviet agents in gov·
ernment, he g e ts a keen, sharp knife r ight between his
shoulder blades.
The subcommittee of the Senate whose members went through the ·
motions of an "unbiased" investigation of the McCarthy-Stevens frameup
have not turned in a report of their findings and civ ilization will
suffer no great set-back if they never do.
Composed of three Republicans, three Socialists and one t urncoat,
their r eport, when and if r eleased. will probably say everything and
mean nothing and will not be worth the paper it is written on .
That report. for instance_l_ will not give the background information
to which the American people are entitled. It will not reveal the forces
back of the conspiracy which resulted in the hearings nor the objectives
it was intended to achieve which was, of course, the complete immobilization
of the McCarthy probe of Communist activities.
Neither will it pinpoint the collusion between F air Dea l Democrats,
and off-brand Republicans in various offi cial positions from the White
House down who banded together to "get McCar thy." It wi ll not highlight
the activities of the Department of J ustice toward this end nor
point up the wi1ling cooperation of Red educators, Socialist preachers.
left-wing lawmakers and journalistic vultu res whose carrion is spread
through the columns of pink newspaper chains, all of whom are united
in the common cause of protecting Communist agents from exposure by
McCarthy's stern 11methods" of operation.
The only reoort in connection with the whole matter in which good
Americans should concern themselves is the report of a similar conspiracv
to stop an investigation into Communist'«Kctivities in Washington
in 1940 and which reveals that there was nothing new in the frame-up
agaiP<::t McCarthy and that history was merely repeating itself.
This reoort will disclose that tl;le conspiracy al(ainst McCarthy was
spearheaded by the same Moscow brain trusters who cut down another
American congressional probe of Soviet spies in this country through
idcnti,...al methods some years ago.
The type of organized pressure exerted against Martin Dies in 1940
and Joseoh R. McCarthy in 1954 and the coordinated overall drive to
stifle a Communist probe in Washington in both cases are of such startling
similarity that they cannot be charged up to chance or passed off
as coincidence.
Togeth er, thev constitute a firm and definite warninf! served to the
American people that there is an oraanized and powerful '{rouo in the
United States reaching into high echelons of government. the churches,
universities, the press. radio and television which can, and will. go into
action when any serious and authentic probe of Communist activities in
the tountry ~ets under way. and that they will stop it dead in its tracks.
When the conspiracy to sabotage the Dies Committee was launched
in 1940. the Reds had it easy. They had the run of the government agencies
and were on such terms of intimacy with the first family that they
were bedding down in the White House. Accordingly, it was not difficult
for them to vet Roosevelt to do the job when they were ready to
put the screws on Dies.
Dies was called to the White House where Roosevelt begged him
to RO easv on the Communists and when Dies showed no inclination to
comoly. the president got tough and demanded that all future hearings
on the subiect first be cleared with the Department of Justice, which
was headed at that time bv Roher! H. J ockson.
(Contin ued on P age 2)
Millions of Americans Think It--The Southern Conservative Says It
Page 2 THE SOUTH ERN CONS ERVATIVE July-August, 1954
A Little Marxian Philosophy Is
Propounded By One Who Knows Better
In our opinion, John J. Williams of
Delaware is one of the soundest men
jn the United States Senate.
However, he went off the deep end
recently when, on the floor of the
Scnnte, he complained bitterly because
the current federal "drouth relief
progr:.un" in which the government
offers cottonseed pellets at cut-
FACTS ..
rate prices lor drouth suffering farmers,
had been utilized by the "fabulously
rich King Ranch in South Texas"
which bought the pellets at government
prices.
The senator explained that this program
was intended for "destitute
farmers" and not for those who have
''substantial resources."
(Continued from Page 1)
Immediately following this incident, one of Roosevelt's pink economists
duped a New Deal congressman into introducing photostatic copies
of letters in the House intended to smear and discredit Dies. These letters
were later proved to be forgeries and the congressman who introduced
them so admitted but the damage was done and Dies was compelled
to fight from there out with his back to the wall until his
retirement was finally forced.
It will be remembered that similar threats were made during the
McCarthy hearings to introduce documents smearing ~cCarthy's aide,
Roy M. Cohn. This is a Soviet weapon which rarely fmls to get results.
By 1954 the Reds were not so flagrant and open in Washington and
were operating more or less underground. So they could not directly
use White House contacts in intimidating McCarthy as in the case of
Dies and had to employ other methods.
So. on December 22, 1953, a Communist publication called "Political
Affairs" carried an "Official Statement from the Communist Party
National Committee" over the signatures of William z. Foster, Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn and Pettis Perry instructing Communist Party members
in the United States to step up the smear campaign against the
Wisconsin senator and advising American Communists that their slogan
for 1954 would be: "Get McCarthy." Moreover, this program called for
"An end to the dictatorship of fear, a turning back of the evil tide of
McCarthvism-an end of witch-hunting-the abolition of all Congr essional
witch-hunt committees, and a halt to the Gestapo-like political
activities of the FBI."
This proved to be the signal that set off a barrage of abuse ag~inst
the Wisconsin senator in which Communist policy-makers were JOmed
bv Truman .Fair Dealers, Eisenhower Fair Dealers. left-wing columnists,
~~uC~~~~~~~~v~~~tf~i~e~s0~~~~t J~~~c~:;Jo:;'!nk~r~~u~a~~~~~r;~f:~
Reds in a coorrlinated effort to comply with Moscow's demands to
"Get McCarthy."
Followin~ this dictum from "Political Affairs'', the campaign against
the Wisconsin senator got into full swing . .
It was kicked off at a White House meeting participated in bv topranking
Dewey Republicans who were later joined by Fair Deal Democrats
inrluding a political climber from Missouri. He, in turn, rang in
one of Truman's legal bea.gles who had advised the Pendergast messen,
fter boy on the sam@! subiect when he, as president, was making
similar-but unsuccessful-attempts also to "get McCarthy."
Dies was hounded out of Congress and though he was later re-elected
to a seat at large, his will to fight Communists appears to have been
blunted. McCarthv is made of sterner stuff and his voice can't be silenced,
his operations halted or his hunt for Communists checked unless the
lame-brain Republicans who are fighting him succeed in electing a
Democratic Senate.
Other similarities in the case of the Texas congressman and that
o! the Wisconsin senator are worth noting.
Two of the most able investigators on the McCarthy staff were
snatched up by the Armed Services even though we are not at war.
David Schine who had rendered outstanding service in that capacity
without pay or hope of reward, was suddenly found to be indispensable
to the Army and especially in doing Kitchen Police. Roy Cohn, McCarthy's
valuable right-hand man was ordered to report for duty in the
Reserves right in the middle of the hearings. As this is written there
are indications that he will either be forced to resign or get fired by
the left-wing Iiiiiputians on the committee.
Robert Stripling who uncovered valuable leads on Communist
activity while serving as chief investigator for the Dies Committee, and
especially in the matter of the Communist-packed Political Action
Committee of the CIO, received a peremptory order to report to his
draft board.
Mr. Stripling was thirty years old at the time and was a pre-Pearl
Harbor father but when deferment was requested on the ground that
his services were indispensable in tracking down Communists, the
draft board said "nothing doing." Later the draft board chairman told
Stripling: '·There's a lot of pressure on us to put you in the Army. You're
being ordered in right from the top on direct orders from the staff
director."
That line of bunk sounds like New
and Fair Deal propaganda in which
Karl Marx' theory "from each according
to his means and to each according
to his need" was strongly emphasized.
In the first place no such legislation
should be on the statute books in
which one segment of our population
is extended favors and guaranteed
against loss while others have to take
their chances and gamble on the hazards,
misfortunes and risks which
confront all human endeavor. The
senator should have directed his criticism
against the legislation and not
the application of it.
The senator's speech, however, was
not a total loss for during the course
of his remarks he called public attention
to the fact that a Department
of Agriculture official, K. L. Scott, is
a ''holdover New Deal bureaucrat"
who got $10,000 per year under the
previous two administrations and
who, instead of being fired when Eisenhower
came to power, had his salary
upped to $14,000.
It is in the exposure of official
misbehavior like this that the Delaware
senator excels and we hope that
he devotes his time to that phase of
public service in future.
In the meantime, we would gently
remind him that Congress can't pass
laws to aid agricultural interests and
specify that it shall benefit only
"destitute farmers" and exclude those
who are more prosperous. That would
be class legislation, or to be more
specific, outright Socialism.
For another striking illustration of parallel incidents in the Dies
and McCarthy cases, let's take the promotion of the Communist Peress
and his honorable discharge from the Army.
Peress, as McCarthy disclosed to the embarrassment of Army officials,
was a New York dentist who had been accepted into the Army
even after he refused to take the Oath of Loyalty and who, when asked
by McCarthy if he were a member of the Communist Party hid behind
the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer.
While McCarthy was taking steps to have hirn bounced out of the
services, some one in the Penta.aon-whose name will never be disclosed
to the taxpayers who employed him-gave Peress a promotion
and an honorable discharge.
Martin Kamen was the Peress of the Diec; era. Kamen was a scienti"
t enP,'a,geci in metalurgic work at a lare:e Mid-Western univer.c.itv at
that time. He was removed from his position there when FBI and other
securitv officers claimed th~t he was a subversive agent. He then went
into the Army as a second lieutenant, was later transferred to the
South Pacific where he was promoted and came out of the Army as a
Captain.
The Justice Department's interference into the affairs of a con~es~
innal committee is not new either and the collusion of that agency with
White House advisers in trying to stop McCarthy had a precedent in
the action taken by that department in the Dies case.
As stated above. Dies h~d been forced to oromise Roosevelt that he
'would clear his hearings with the Department of J ustice. Meantime, the
Dies Committee had f'Ollected evidence on J apanese spying along the
P~ci fif' Coast and in Hawaii. When hie; case against the Jaos w::.c; complete.
Dies was rP.ady to spring it, and he informed the J ustice Deuartment
of nrooosed hearine:::; in the matter, that ag-ency clamoed down
"" him. He wa.< informerl that thP Pre,ident. the SPcretarv of State and
the Attorney General deemed it inadvisable to hold the hearings at
that time.
There are those who, to this day, maintain that if Dies had been
permitted to disclose information in pos::.ession of the Comq1ittee to the
Amerie~n oeople, the Japs would have been prevented from attacking
Pearl Harbor.
Durin<: the McCarthy hearings, counsel for the Army, prodded by
ADA hatchet men on the committee. worked themselves into a lather
trving to create a national scandal out of the simole and natural e!Iorts
of Private Schine's friends to get him a commission in the Armv. even
though he would seem to be vastly more aualified than many achieving
this ambition. From all the hullaballoo, television viewers probably got
the impression that he was unworthy to emoty the garbage cans at boot
camp or serve as a second lieutenant's valet.
Quite a furor was generated too over Schine's request for passes
on week-ends and of this personable vou n~ single man's perfectly understandable
wish to occasionally visit his girl friends.
Well, if we cared to go farther_:__ which we do-and present a companion
case to the Schine affair , we would refer to a lad who attained
national notoriety along about 1940 whose name was Joe Lash.
When the Dies Committee made inquiries as to why Lash had not
been inducted into the Army, they were informed by his New York
draft board that he had been deferred on request of persons in the
White House.
In spite of this intervention. however. he was later inducted whereupon
Eleanor Roosevelt started moving heaven and earth to get him
a commission in Naval Intelligence, without success.
In the little matter of his week-end passes, Army officers at the
camp where Lash was stationed have told how Eleanor would come
breezing uo in an official White House automobile and toot the horn.
~:i~he ';;'~u~~db~~~~~.':t:k~a~~t~~ru~:~s~uch as a by-your-leave, climb in,
We don't remember any great ruckus being kicked up in that case
or any organized protest offered against it. Also, we seem to recall
that testimony in the Schine case indicated that, at least during some
~~~i~~~a~~s~:e~ ~~sf~;~~.ding to business-legitimate business, that is,
Any:vay, with_ two notorious examples before us, we are forced
to the tr~giC conclusion that suppression of Communist probes in this
country 1~ no~ a ~a~bs~n matter. Bo~h major parties are guilty.
Routme mqu1nes mto Commumst activities within educational
religious and social groups may proceed with a minimum of interferenc~
~ut whe':' any hard-~itting, free-_swinging .investigator delves too deeply
~~!~.Soviet penetratiOn of our VItal agencies, he is going to get stopped
July-August, 1954 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIV~ Page l
A Few Of The Many Things Which Romulo Says United Nations
Are Wrong With This Country Is Dying; We Hope He's Right
A St. Louis business executive
has expressed the same perplexity
which seems to assail so
many people these days if communicatipns
coming to our desk
a re any indication of the confused
state of the public mind. He says
in part:
Several of my friends here read
your paper and believe in it implicitly
and naturally some of their
enthusiasm rubs off on me. I have
read many of your editorials and I
think you have an understanding
of politics and politicians that is
amazing and esPecially for a worn·
an. Since this is true, perhaps you
can explain something which constantly
puzzles me - what on
earth is wrong with this country?
It does not seem like the s,ame one
in which I grew up." .•
There is so much that is wrong
that the entire story cannot be
told in one installment but must
be related serially. That is why
we have papers like the Southern
Conservative and similar publications.
We can and will, however, give
some factual information about the
behavior of individuals and groups
in this country but whether this
behavior is the cause, or the result,
of this nation's indisputable progress
toward national and world
Communism, we wouldn't know.
We do not attempt herein to interpret
human motives or appraise
human vagaries. We merely present
facts as we observe them and
it is up to the St. Louis citizen and
all other alarmed Americans to
e ither accept, or reject, our evaluat
ion of the sorry state of the union:
and our conclusions as to what is
wrong with the country:
Every American with the in·
telligence of an anemic grubworm
knows that spies from the Kremlin
have swarmed into Washing·
ton for years and that they have
been placed in important positions
and given preferred treatment and
that Communists are still protected
and promoted by the Pentagon.
That is one thing that is wrong
with this country.
Practically every large institution
of learning in the United
States has one or more Communist
or Communist sympathizers on its
teaching staff. Communism is permitted
to be taught students in a
subtle and appealing manner so as
to intrigue their immature minds
and convey the idea that this ideology
is superior to the American
conception of government. That is
another thing that is wrong with
this country.
There are very few large Protestant
churches in leading American
cities where the pulpit has not
been pervaded by Communist influence
and where the Gospel of
Jesus Christ has not been supplanted
by that of Karl Marx. And
putty-spined members of these
congregations do not have the character.
courage or spiritual integrity
to denounce this sacrilege, to withdraw
their membership from that
infiltrated church or to sit on their
hands when the collection plate is
passed. That is another thing that
is wrong with this country.
The perpetuation of our form
of government and of the Repub-lie
is dependent on the selection
of persons of unquestioned honesty,
unassailable character and
unchallenged ability to fill high
appointive office. And yet, members
of the United States Senate
would vote for the confirmation of
a yellow dog rather than dissent
when the name of a shabby, unfit
and discredited politician is submitted
for their approval. This is
another thing that is wrong with
this country.
Multimillionaire philanthropists
with millions to toss away will
contribute to anything or anybody
provided it can be conclusively
proved that the recipient of their
gifts has never been guilty of
speaking out in behalf of pure. unadulterated
Americanism and on
further condition that their funds
are disbursed solely in the interests
of Red educators, scientists,
preachers and social reformers
with a violent aversion to the
American Free Enterprise System.
That is another thing that is wrong
with this country.
Rabbit-hearted industrial executives
will privately praise and
cheer from the sidelines any unafraid
American patriot who sticks
his neck out and publicly denounces
political pinks and punks in
Washington but will retreat behind
the fifth amendment and plead
that his corporation might be incriminated
if he backed up his
compliments with a check when
patriotic groups or individuals
need material he]o. That is another
thing that is wrm1g with this coun-try.
'
Members of American business,
civic and cultural groups and worn ~
ens clubs would throw u p their
hands in holy horror if directly accused
of promoting the spread of
Communist doctrines in the United
States but, seven times out of ten,
they will pay high-priced speakers
from subversive lecture bureaus
to address their organizations who
couldn't pass a loyalty test as janitor
in a top-secret defense industry.
That is another thing that is wrong
with this country.
Bestowers of medals, awards,
certificates of merit, "peace prizes"
and honorary degrees exact only
one qualification from the recipient
of these honors and that is that
he have to his credit membership
in a string of Communist fronts or
at least, that he be on record
in favor of the United Nations, the
surrender of American sovereignty
to a World Government, teaching
of UNESCO in the public
schools, appeasement of the Chinese
Communists, and compulsory
mixing of white and black students
in educational institutions.
That is another thing that is wrong
with this country.
Members of the Congress who
support anti-trust laws and who
blow off steam against practices
which operate in restraint of trade
will tuck their tails and run when
proposals are made to include
Communist-ridden labor unions in
this legislation and to deny them
the right to tie up commerce and
industry in paralyzing strikes.
That is another thing that is v.Tong
with this country.
And finally, several succeeding
We Could learn A Useful
lesson From Guatemala
Guatemala citizens overthrew a
Communist government in doublequick
time and gave a heartening
demonstration of how a country
should perlorm in regard to Communism.
Instead of running to the United
States or the United Nations for help,
the patriots down there got together
and heaved the dirty Communist bums
out of the government and that was
that.
It was an example of inde(::endent
action on the part of self-respecting
people which could be followed elsewhere
including this country but what
happens here when we try to dislodge
even a comparatively small number
of Communists from government,
from the Army, from defense plants
and other strategic places?
A large part of our population has
become so indoctrinated with Kremlin
ideologies that they will swoop down
in droves on any American patriot
who exposes this menace and visit all
their wrath on him, leaving the Communists
free to continue their dirty
work.
This applies not only to the Party
members in this country but to great
numbers of churchmen. teachers, politicians
in Congress, in government
agencies and even on the White House
staff.
Yes, we could learn a lesson from
Guatemala but the chances are that
we won't. We are too far gone, what
with several national administrations
who have tak en the amazing and unbelievable
attitude that Communists
have the right to work with in the
institutions they are trying to destroy.
No wonder Russia and all other
countries behind the Iron Curtain regard
us as :lools and treat us accordingly.
Oi those despicable Americans
who sneer at misguided persons
who were formerly merrtbers of
the Communist Party but are now
trying to make atonement by
working with the committees of
Congress to expose the Communist
conspiracy, we would like to inquire
what would they have these
reformed Communists do? Would
they prefer that these people remain
silent and thereby aid Communists
in their plans to overthrow
the American government?·
Are they angry because these persons
didn't continue their membership
in the Party or just what is
in their distorted minds any way?
Socialist administrations in Washington
which have destroyed human
initiative, killed ambition and
denied the right to achi~ve. have
produced a generation of weaklings
who stand still while politicians
bleed them white in taxes, condemn
their sons to slaughter on
foreign battlefields, strip them of
their national sovereignty and subject
them to every other insult
which subversive brains can conceive.
They are not only too
cowardly to protest but are too
stupid to even understand what is
being done to them. That is principally
what is wrong with this
country.
Carlos P. Romulo o£ Manila and
delvgate from the Philippines to the
United Nations had an article in a
weekly magazine recently titled "The
United Nations Is Dying."
Mr. Romulo attributes the gradual
demise of that world organization to
the lack of support by its member
nations.
He sees this lack o( interest in the
VN as a great tragedy for the world
and urges that steps be taken to
breathe life into this expiring global
conspiracy.
We hope that he is right in his
contention that the outCit is dying
but we don't agree with him concern- ~
ing the forces which are snuffing out
its life.
Mr. Romulo is one of those naive
souls who actually thinks that the
United Nations is concerned with
world peace when, as a matter of
fact, that is about the only thing in
which it has not interested itselL
It peace were really the objective
of the United Nations and i.f they ever
devoted one moment in a sincere effort
by all member nations in it to
bring about peace and understanding,
everybody would be for it, for every
normal person in the world wants
peace.
The truth is that it is the medium
through which it is hoped to accomplish
Socialist-Communist world government
with the people of the Unitej
States reduced to slave status.
In its official Catalogue there are
seven hundred and twenty three different
projects listed and two-thirds
o( its staff and two-thirds of its
budget are allocated to economic and
social projects covering everything
from birth control in India to swimming
pools in Liberia. Peace is not
mentioned.
If, as claimed by Mr. Romulo, th2
Un ited Nations is dy ing, it is beca use
the people o.f t he United States arc
awakening to the fact that it is a
snare, a delusion and a (raud and
that peace in the world is the last
thing to which it gives consideration.
Who Gave PeressA Promotion
And An Honorable Discharge?
One of the things which the
hearings in Washington did not
bring out-and which some persons
were determined should not
be brought out - was who gave
Communist Peress an honorable
discharge from the Army?
Someone is responsible for giving
the order which sneaked Peress
out of the Army with the same
type of discharge papers in his
breast nocket as those delivered to
Joyal American fighting men who
do not join up with the enemy.
Peress didn't steal these papers;
they were given to him by some
one high in authority after receiving
notification from the McCarthy
investigating committee
that Peress had refused to say
under oath whether or not he wa·s
a member of the Communist Patry.
Who was that person• Some
one is guilty and the American taxpayers
who provide the money to
pay his salary are entitled to know
his name.
'I'he House has passed a biB that
adds about 4,000,000 more to the
unemployment insurance system,
which strengthens the Socialistic unemployment
legislation we already
h::J.ve but considerably weakens th"e
taxpayers who, under its provi<;JOns:,
are compelled to pay people fur not
working.
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Every American with an ounce ol
red blood in his veins will cheer to
the echo the sentiments expressed by
Mrs. Lucille Vogeler whose husband
spent fourteen months in a Communist
prison on trumped-up charges that he
was an American spy.
According te Paul Harvey, radio
commentator, Mrs. Vogeler has declared
that her sons will not be drafted
into the Army unless and until,
they are guaranteed the protection
of the American Flag and the Conslitution
of the United States.
She further emphasized that rather
than respond to the call of the draft
board, her sons will go to jail and
spend whatever time their sentence
imposes, as they at least would be in
~\n American jail and not in a foul
foreign prison.
Mrs. Vogeler was referring to the
infamous Status of Forces Treaty
whose approval by the Senate of the
United States was a shocking and
tr·easonable abrogation of the rights
oC the American armed forces which
is without precedent.
Under this treaty. the protection
of the United Slates !lag, the Constitution
and our courts of justice are
taken away from American fighting
men stationed in NATO countries and
they become subject to the jurisdiction
oC the foreign court in the country
where they arc serving. in the event
they become involved in infractions
or the law.
No similar betrayal of its own
soldiers by the- legislative body or a
nation has ever bcCore been recorded
ht hi~tory .
··r intl."nd to hold you accountable
should any of my three sons
be eventually forced to fight a peripheral
'police action'. on foreign
soil." Dr. Hugh S. Ramsey, of
Bloomington. Indiana. a fearless
patriot. has written members of
Congress. He reminded them that
the power to declare war was in
their hands and not in the hands
of the President or the United Nations.
THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE July-Augu•t, 1954
A Half Dozen Reasons Potter's
Why We Carry on Saddens
Concession to Communists
and Disheartens Americans
Since the publication of a paper
like the Southern Conservative is
accompanied by many headaches and
since we are not Socialistic in our
views and arc. therefore barred as the
redpicnt of big money with which to
operate, we often wonder why we
don't just quit and call it a day.
Aller all, we have no material
possessions <lt slake, no wealth to be
conliscatcd by a Communist World
Government and would stand to lose
no more than other American citizens
deprived of Constitutional protection,
ftcedom or. speech and the right to
think.
The wholehearted respect and
sympathy of the American people
has always been with Senator
Charles Potter of Michigan because
of the terrible sacrifice he was
called on to make for his country
in World War II.
Their spirit of compassion, however,
may not wholly survive the
strain imposed upon it by his
servile efforts to curry favor in
high places through a deliberate
attempt to sabotage further in-
But invariably, when this mood as-
~~il:h~t'itti~:~J'~~p~p~~~~b~:~~~n~~ Envy Always Snarls
to give up so long as we are per-vestigation
of Communist agents
in the United States.
His breach of faith , somehow,
saddens and disheartens thoughtful
Americans more than the defection
of another in like situation
might have done.
A large measure of public sympathy
has been transferred to the
people of Michigan who believed
so confidently when they elected
this man in 1952 that the hold of
the subversive ADA had been
broken in that State.
Denunciation of High Court
~~~~~c~l;~eb~~e~l~1 a0 !~~i!~l ~~~~e t:r~~~~ At the Heels Justice Is Without Precedent
in the wilderness to indifferent Amer- The scathing criticism of Su-
~~~~·u~~tti:V7i~c~oih~~u~.ill not see and Of Distinction b~er,;,.H;~~r~u~¥~i~~~ ;;br:;o~~f~
We are forced to this realization tee recently is the Iirst instance of
by events that occur in the course of Senator Ralph Flanders of Ver- record, so far as we can learn,
~11d~h~ s~~~ a~eth~~~t:l~i1~:~ ~'dffoer~=~ mont who has been leading a one- :f7~~:l~:od~:i~;~cee~f ;o;;:~~!rh~~
~~rsil~~~~~~e~ur~~~ce~1=~d a:~1ict~p~f:~ ~:7n~t at;: ~:~!r~h~n C~~m~;~:::: that body.
us the heart to keep on keeping on: probe of Communism in govern- Clark was asked to testify be-
A letter is received froin a blessed ment, acquired three recruits to fore that committee concerning atstranger
in Charleston, Massachusetts, his banner one day recently. They ]e~ed scandals in the Department
who has been handed a copy of the were Hubert Humphrey of Min- of Justice durin~ the time he was
Southern Conservative by some . nesota, ''Rhodes" Fullbright of attorney general but refused on
friend. He encloses two ten-dollar Arkansas and Margaret Chase the Jtround that "the judiciary
~!~: h~n~ou~~P~~:~~s i/~~~~-t wishes Smith of Maine. ~;~:~~ ~~d~~~~!doevne{~ment should
An East Texas farmer writes to It is notable that those making Much of Clark's official career
encourage and commend us and says a fight on Senator McCarthy have has been plagued by investigations.
~~la!nu~~e t~;' f~~~~~~~ll~e a~lec~~lo~~~~ ~~:~~~~~fr~!~:t~~.o;~~Ye~~:e~:~~~ !~a~:e~ t ~f o~ffiiJ~~'l~sti~~~~;ha:i:~
~~·i!~~~e ~~~~~sdshea~ast~~t r:;~;~ :~: political nonentities whose tenure which were neither lJrovcd nor dis-ed
~o ;~~lt~~:a~t~ ~l~l:~'~!:;· in a small ~~s tfeeft n:~i~~a~ri~tw:;a~~~g P~~~~ ~~~vt~dief\~:m a~t~~~e~~~~e';r~~:r~
1\lichigan town writes us to praise consciousness whatever and they face a probe of his official acts,
something in a recent edition of the can's take it. Their ineptitude has or to testify under oath in efforts
~=!.7.~st~~letoiJ;~':~kat~~n~~r ~~~t~~~l~~~ ~~!~ti~~sminj~~l~i~s~t~~t~e~etf~~w:~~ to exonerate himself.
conspiracy represented by the United men of recognized stature. Up until the past twenty-one
Na1io~::~et-faced Nun comes into the They attempt to condone their ~~:::~ ~g~~t~::n~~nf~~e~ht~ j~~=
office with a subscription for the venomous attacks on the Wisconsin ists of impeccable standing and
paper and says that her people are senator on the ground of principle while there might be disa!!l'eement
~v~~%i~r~ ~~k~~ga~:e ~~~~;i~f=~~i~~~ :~1 ~1i~n~J~e{1~~~s'~h~~t a~~~t 0~iso~~~ ~~~~1;st~s a1~~l~~;~~n;~ein~~;;~~te~f
g~: 8~i~~~ssS~l~~~s trying to destroy jective. its members was unchaJlenged.
A patriotic Jewish lady in Cali- Tbe truth is that thev are as The tendency of presidents to
!ornia writes to say "God bless you" env10us as an old ma1d a-t a wed- pay off a ooHtical debt by appointand
to express regrets that her budget dm.g and ninety per cent of their ment to this body and their desire
~~~1~1~0~i:~~~~ i~~~~e!~ soct~11;'1;~~;~~~ mahce stems from realization of ... to achieve the passage of social
check enclosed. their own abysmal flop as repre- legislation which CongTess had
An old-age pensioner ~ in Georgia se~tatives of the people and their turned down. by court decisions. is
sends a dollar bill and informs us failure to merit recognition on any considered the exolanation for the
that every night she prays for us. front. verv odd type of individual now
With that sort of cooperation and holding places on our Court of Last
~~~~o~~d w~~~e w;;id become discour- Our attention has been called to Resort.
the fact that the United States govIt
Makes Us Wonder
If "We Wuz Robbed"
Sir Winston Churchill who has
never been known to come to the
United States just for the ride has
paid us another call.
or course we will never know
what he asked for, aside from appeasement
of the Chinese Communists,
and we will never know
either what answer he received O'f
what secret assurance of cooperation
he was given.
It is a cinch that he ran true to
form and carried away something
and if we were the custodian of the
White House. we would have made
him walk out on his hands when
he left for fear it was the silver.
ernment decorated the Negro Ralph
Bunche ~or his successful handling of
the rac•al problem in the IsraelJor~!-•
1 area. His success in that case
was due to the !act that he segregated
the Arabs and the Jews. And
yet, he came to Dallas recently and
strpngly criticised the practice of segregation
in the South where the system
has worked successCull r s;nce the
Civil War. In fact the segregation
policies of the South furnished the
pattern by which he ope•·ated in
solving the racial problem in the
Israel-Jordan dispute and still he
would see this pattern destroyed just
because his own race is involved.
China's Communist Premier
Chou Enlai, gave a big blowout i1~
Geneva recently at which Charlie
Chaplin and his wife were the
guests of honor. Apparently the
Red leader is not very meticulous
in his choice or associates.
Secretary of the Army Stevens
is back from Europe and is reported
in the press to be working
diligently with Attorney General
Brownell in an effort to find out
the name of the Army officer who
is alleged to have given Senator
McCarthy information about infiltration
of Reds in defense plants.
There was nothing to indicate that
Stevens and Brownell are concerned
over the Reds in defense plants
which the Army officer reported.
They just want· to know the name
of the Army officer. In their book,
he is the criminal.
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Georgia Governor Comes Out On Top Scientists' Revolt May Compel Us To Abandon
In Tussle With Pink Press Panel Atomic Weapons And Bring A~~~ shi!~:, n~,~~pa~~!~.~n~l-
One of the unexplained mysteries
ol contemporary television programs
is why such panels as "Meet The
Press" should be composed solely of
persons with "liberal" views to put
it mildly.
It would seem that in deference to
the law of averages, there should be
two of each kind-two Conservatives
and two Pinks-or that at least one
Conservative would be able to catch
the sponsor on the blind side and
sneak in when he wasn't looking.
They invite a prominent American
to sit in as guest and then pounce
on him like a snapping turtle lunging
at a green bottle-fly.
It is because of their tendency to
pick their victim to pieces and try to
confuse him with rigged questions
that we are filled with unholy glee
at the manner m which Governor
Herman Talmadge of Georgia who appeared
on that program recently, put
them aU back in short pants.
Segregation was the subject and
Governor Talmadge discussed that
i!lsue in a dignified and statesmanlike
manner and refused to let any of
their trick questions divert him from
the point he wisHed to make.
It would be impossible to reproduce
the questions shot at Governor Talmadge
with lightning-like rapidity
and his masterly replies, but we give
some of the high points of his arguments
which inspired perhaps more
commendation and approval from the
Jistening audience than any similar
program in television history:
"I admit that the Supreme Court
has ruled and, w1der the Constitution
of the United States, having made that
decision, it becomes the Supreme law
of the land. But there are many precedents
in history where ty ranny has
been resisted by the people, and when
you, by simple judicial decree, try
to wash away the customs of centuries,
the people will not accept it~~=.'
pcoplc will not accept it in Geor-
"All people in our state want to
retain their civilization and their culture.
The white people want to retain
their civilization, so do the colored
people. They want to retain their resp.
ective churches; they want to retam
their respective schools. And for
~enturies our people have not assocIated
with each other socially, nor do
we expect to."
"In my state laws and customs and
habits and thinking-the citizens will
prohibit any sort of forced mixing of
the races in the schools. We aren't
going to have it.
''When it comes to Chr istianity as
I read my Bible, the good Lord made
all of us. He made some of us white,
he mafic some of us black. He made
some of us yellow. He made some of
us red ... if He had wanted one race
and one color He would have created
one race and one color ... The colored
people in the South get along
better than colored people anywhere
on the face of the e '1 and I am not
interested in pleasing Communists at
home or abroad.''
"They (the Supreme Court) are
calling for us to come and visit them
and help pick out the knife they're
going to use to cut off our heads.
We're not coming ... The people of
Georgia are going to maintain separate
schools in our state, come what
may.''
The millions of dollars stolen (rom
the taxpayers in crooked Federal
Housing projects would be well lost
i! we learned a lesson and abandoned
this Socialistic device which was set
up because o! Karl l\'Iarx' injunctidn
to his followers to induce the government
to engage in competition with
private business. But we know now
that Socialistic projects are not to be
abandoned in the Federal government
area but strengthened.
Bridges Is Saved From
Deportation by A Comma
The Supreme Court which not
only trampled down State laws,
but overrode the Tenth Amendment
to the Constitution in ruling
against Segregation in the South
is more meticulous in observing
statutory regulations when it
comes to decisions concerning
Communists.
Attempts have been made for
ten or fifteen years to deport Harry
Bridges, an Australian born Com~
unist who has been thumbing
lus nose at legal authorities in this
country who sought to send him
back to Australia.
Recently the Supreme Court
found a misplaced comma or sofl:tething
in the brief of those trying
to oust him and hastily seized on
it to find in favor of Bridges. The
Communist spy. Judy Coplon was
shown the same consideration by
the Court after she was found guiltv
of stealing secret documents in
the Deoartment of Justice where
she worked and delivering them to
Russian agents.
In her case, the Court discovered
a semi-colon where a question
mark should have been, or something
equally silly, and immediately
set Miss Coplon free.
Any American having business
with the Supreme Court should
keep h1 mind that it will tip the
scales in their favor if they can
prove they are either a Commun1st
or a member of a minority group.
All others are just out of luck.
Adding Insult
To Injury
Sometime next Jail the farce called
"United Nations Day" wHl be observed
by such Americans as are still
determined to recognize and honor
the In ternational Conspiracy against
the United States.
These shindigs are called by the
various governors of the States al though
there is one chief executive ot
an American coromonwealth, Governor
Bracken Lee of Utah, who had
the backbone to refuse to issue a
proclamation in the past and we are
sure he will maintain the same position
this year.
We did not know until we found
H in the report of the hearings on
Appropriations for the State Department
that the cost of calling these
affairs, printing the programs, publicity
and other promotional schemes
in connection with "United Nations
Day" is paid by the taxpayers, regardless
of whether they favor such
observances or not.
This item amounts to $3600.00
which is mere chicken feed according
to Washington standards, but the
principle of it is highly obnoxious to
those millions of Americans who do
not want to honor the United Nations
and who only want to get it out of
the United States.
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Utah's Lee Panics Governors
With A Sound Tax Proposal
The Honorable J. Bracken Lee of
Utah, one of the towering personalities
among Chief Executives l)f the
various States, tossed a bombshell into
the forty-sixth annual Conference
of Governors at its session ir. Bolton
Landing, New York, recently.
In direct and forthright action
which has characterized his official behavior
since taking office, Governor
Lee put his finger on the main source
of Congressional and Executive corruption
in Washington by asking his
fellow governors to pass a resoluticl'l
demanding repeal of the Income Tax
.~.mendment.
As was to be expected, Governor
Lee didn't get very far as the delegates
immediately stampeded for the
exits amid a clamor of inane babblings
about this tax being e~c;ential
to "take care of domestic and international
commitments."
In other words he was about as
successful in driving home his sound
proposal to the assembled governors
as he would have been if he had
requested delegates to a highjackers'
convention to abandon robbery and
return the loot they had stolen from
their victims.
No tyrant in all history ever voluntarily
surrendered either power or
the purse once he got his mitts on it
and that is why, in our opinion, no
national administration will f!ver consent,
or members of Cong1 ess agree,
to submit an amendment repealing
this vicious tax.
The other a ltern ative is to attempt
its repeal through action by the State
legislatures but from the howl which
went up from various Chief Executives
at the Governor's Confer ence,
the proposal would have ha rd sledding
in that area, too.
Perhaps Americans had as well
!ace the cold fact that they have no
recourse against the political scoundrels
who have cheated, robbed and
squandered them out of their substance
and that relief, if ever, will
only come when a succeeding generation
has bred a new crop of leaders
with some faint trace of statesmanship
in their make-up and conception
of.the principles and the limitations
underlying the American governing
system.
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Church Convention Changed
From Houston to Honolulu
The Protestant Episcopal Church
has decided not to hold its triennial
general convention In Houston in 1955
and has selected Honolulu !or the
event.
Its decision was based on Houston's
refusal to ignore racial safeguards and
permit the .housing of white and black
delegates all in one hotel.
The announcement of the transfer
from Houston to Honolulu was made
in New York by the Rev. Henry Knox
Sherrill, presiding bishop, prominent
left-wing clergyman and advocate of
indiscriminate racial mixing.
The Rt. Rev. Clinton S. Quin, bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese ol Texas was
described in the press as being "saddened"
at the action of Bishop Sherrill
in refusing to allow the convention
to be held in Houston.
Personally, we find we are unable
to shed any tears over the matter.
We think that Honolulu is a more suitable
site with its polyglot races. Besides,
it is cooler in Honolulu than
it is in Houston, which should be an
added inducement, what with all the
crowding into one building and everything.
ist reports that scientists are stampeding
to Oppenheimer's defense in such
numbers. both here and abroad, that
the White House, the Pentagon and
atomic experts are greatly alarmed.
·we imagine that this is true for
these agencies are easily a larmed but,
unfortunately, they usually become
alarmed at the wrong things and at
the wrong time.
There are too many serious situations
in this country at the present
time to be alarmed ove1·, to worry
too much about a bunch o( disgruntled
scientific egg heads. Any
way, the majority of them arc ideological
disciples of that subversive old
goat. Albert Einstein, who has joined
so man~' Communist fronts that he
has probabJ:--• lost count himself and
who has insolently advised his scientific
comrades to reCuse to answer
all questions regarding their Communist
aWJiations.
As to the attitude o( the scientists
abroad, phooey on them!
If we have actually come to the
point where we haven't enough Joyal
AI.Jencan scientists to conduct our
atomic experiments, perhaps we
should, in self-defense revel't to the
use of (he musket. the bayonet and
the trusty old rifle to protect and
maintain our national security,
At any rate. we can't see where
we are assured any measure of p•·otection
if we must depend on subversive
scientists who are loyal to
Russia :Cor the construction of our
weapons of war. They are liable to
rig up the blasted things so they
will explode at the wrong end or go
ofi at the wrong ti.me and cxtcnninate
us instead o( their Soviet buddies.
Gooil Work-If
You Can Get ll
It looks like Owen Lattimore is
going to beat the rap on charges
brought by the Dej:artmcnt ol Justice
which accused him of lying in connection
with testimony before a Senate
investigating committee.
Lattimore was described by the
chairman of the committee which investigated
the Institute of Pacific Relations
as a '·conscious, a•·ticulate instrument
of the Soviet conspiracy"
and by the chairman of the Senate
subcommittee of the judiciary as ·'the
top espionage agent in this count•·y."
Lattimore was aided in escaping
the net by United States District
Judge Luther Youngdahl who received
his appointment as a result of a
horse trade with Truman in which
Youngdahl promised not to nm
against left-wing Hubert Humphrey
as senator from Minnesota, in return
for the appointment.
Youngdahl dismissed sevnal of the
charges and the U. S. Court of Appeals
came across with a decision
upholding his ruling.
Lattimore immediately announced
that the decision was "clearly a major
victory" for him and we agree. lt
was also a vindication o! those who
engineered the China sell-out.
The venomous attacks which
Senator Ralph Flanders continues
to make on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
is beginning to make us
wonder if the old goat from Vermont
is afraid of some future disclosure
the Wisconsin senator may
make. It must either be that or just
a case of midsummer madness
brought on by the extreme heat.
What will it profit us to fight Communism
in Korea. Indochina or ot!H.·r
far-off placr~ so long as we supprC'!'S
attempts to fight it in Washington?
Pogo 6 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE July-August, 1954
W~1en All the Shouting Is Over the President Confronted
Efforts to
With Ingratitude
Chine~e Comn~unists Will Be 'in U. N. Appease Minorites
Senator William F. Knowland of
Califotnia made a sound and fearless
gesture when he threatened to work
1or the removal of the United States
from the United Nations in the event
Communist China is given a seat in
that body.
However, he had barely finished
his speeCh on the subject when he
was enveloped in a big wet blanket
tossed at him from the White House.
The president countered with a
statement on the subject in which he
said that he, too, was opposed to Communist
China being seated in the
United Nations "at this time" and
urged caution in making any plans
to withdraw from that world organi~
zation in any event.
We have no way o! knowing, of
course, what the president means by
the expression "at this time" or if
he has some definite date in mind
when it will be agreeable to him to
have Communist China seated in the
UN but we venture the prediction
that the Chinese murderers who tortured
and slaughtered American boys
in Korea will replace our good friend
and ally, Nationalist China, which
will be tossed out.
There will probably be a lot of
stalling and diplomatic double-talk
about the matter but, instead of getting
out of the United Nations and
kicking the dirty conspirators out of
the country, we will whip into line
as usual when the moon faces of the
Chinese baboons appear at the world
council table.
We simply do not have the rugged
brand o! statesmanship required to
deal properly with the conspirators
in the United Nations when they put
out the welcome mat for the heathen
Chinese.
Pollsters Probably
Question Each Other
According to the Gallup Poll, a
majority or Americans consider that
"both sides used improper means"
in trying to get preferred treatment
for Private G. David Schine, and in
trying to stop the Mccarthy investigation.
In our opinion, the poll is not worth
~·le paper it is written on. In the Urst
place, Private Schine was not the
issue and, like Roy Cohn, was just
dragged into the case to muddy the
water and confuse the people who
listened to the proceedings.
The real issue was whether or not
Communists should be investigated or
whether they should be allowed to
infiltrate thv government, the Army
and de[ense plants without opposition.
If the Gallup Poll had put the question
in the right manner, there would
have been a different answer.
We do not think that the poll is
representative and is merc]y useful
in that it is a means o! a living for
its personnel.
\Ve have never been polled and
have never known any Ofle who has
been polled. Neither have we ever
known any one who knows any one
who has been polled.
Karl Marx said in 1848 that the
abolition of all private property and
the levying of a heavy progressive
income tax were among the surest
means of killing o!f Free Enterprise
and setting up a Socialist State. How
right he was and how meticulously
we ha\'C followed his instructions!
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Doctors Forced to Fight
Way Out Cf A Trap
"Doctors today are among the best
informed groups in the country in
economics and government" writes
Dick West in the Dallas Morning
News.
Mr. West is right and it is well that
physicians have informed themselves
about the operation of government
and especially as it is currently administered
for the medical profession
is in constant danger of being taken
over by the Federal government in its
never-ending fight for Socialized
Medicine.
The doctors, like all other good
Americans, thought that when the
Fair Deal was voted out of power,
Socialized Medicine schemes would
disappear with it. But they soon found
that any previous gesture along this
line was merely a warming-up skirmish
in preparation for the main bout.
True that it was re-christened and
blossomed out under another name.
True, also, that the former chief bellwether
in Washington has been removed
from the picture. But he was
succeeded by an "Oscar Ewing in
petticoats" a charming, ambitious and
determined little lady with a dedicated
and burning conviction that !ihe
knows better what the doctors want
than they do, themselves.
The doctors won the first round
recently when the House snowed under
something called a "medical reinsurance
plan" by an overwhelming
vote. The public knew little concerning
this measure but their ignorance
was unanimous as those promoting
it didn"t know what H was all about
either.
Nothing daunted, the little lady is
now going to bat to get the doctors
into the Social Security Act although
they have protested until they are
blue in the face that they don't want
in it. The House voted to exclude
physicians from the provisions of this
Socialist measure but the little lady
remains unconvinced and is exercising
all her resources to get them back
in when the bill passes the senate
possibly on the theory that ''mama
knows best."
When a government agency insists
on being paternal, or in this case
"maternal" it requires some doing
to escape their clutches.
We are betting on the doctors. They
have been so successful in combatting
the ailments o! the human body
that they should be able to cope with
the malady of Socialism which has
attacked the Federal government.
A woman subscriber in Phoenix
~rizona, poses a rather difficult ques~
lion for us: "Please tell me, if you
can, why Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is so
bitterly opposed to the admission of
Spain to the United Nations." Like
many Americans, we are utterly unable
to figure out the mental processes
of the lady in question. If we may be
permitted a guess, however, we would
say that her opposition to Spain stems
from the fact that in that country no
Communist is permitted to even enter,
much less remain within its borders.
To her this probably constitutes dis-
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ciples.
One o! the main objectives of the
United Nations is to convert the world
into a vast Socialist State where the
wealth of the United States can be
confiscated for the benefit of the
people of alien lands. No sane American
can possibly endorse this subversive
organization once he understands
its ultimate aim for world
domination and the subjugation o£
the American Republic.
His
Treason Is Rewarded and
Patriotic Duty Penalized
One of the issues springing up as a
result or the McCarthy-Pentagon hearings
was the matter of a member
of the armed forces who reveals information
concerning suspo:Ct.t:'d disloyalty
on the part o! fellow employes,
to the chairman of a congressional
committee ch3rged with
the responsibility of probing in t o
such matters.
The controversy developed over the
action of an Army offlcer repC't ted
to have furnished information to Senator
Joseph R. McCarthy concerning
espionage at Fort Monmouth and although
his name is undisclosed, he
has been praised and condemned in
about equal proportion.
There were almost as many opinions
expressed as there were persons
who oilered them but all of them
that we have heard or read, with one
notable exception, completely missed
the point.
Practically all the arguments con~
cerning this unknown Army officer
hinged around the question as to
whether his loyalty was to his employer,
to the Commander-in-Chief,
or to the Army.
Rev. James M. Gillis, C.S.P. has
lifted the discussion to a high spiritual
and moral level and has pointed
out that a man in such case is bound
by a superior loyalty to which he
owes allegiance and which supersedes
the Army, the administration or · any
other man-made agency.
That loyalty, according to Rev. Gillis,
is to his own conscience and, in
the last analyses, a man not only may,
but must, obey the dictates of the
"ttill small voice within him.
"Unless I have misunderstood all
that was taught me years ago concerning
moral obligations, such an employe
has done exactly what he was
bound in conscience to do" says Rev.
Gillis.
"He should be rewarded, not punished,
promoted. not discharged. For
there is a law above all rules, regulations,
oaths of secrecy. The ancient
Romans knew it. They had a motto,
Salus Populi Suprema Lex-'The welfare
of the people is the highest law'.
"It is reported that the Army is
hunting him out and that officials
have threatened to expel him if they
find him.
"The Army accepted a known trait·
or, a Communist, gave him a commission,
promoted him, and, when it
appeared that the lawfully appointed
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arable discharge.
'"Yet the same Army threatens dish?
norable discharge to an officer who
d1d, or may have done, his patriotic
duty. Treason is rewarded; devotion
to duty and to conscience penalized."'
We suppose the president of the
United States is learning a new lesson.
about political ingratitude from the
behavior of the leaders of the NAACP,
an organization of ambitious Negroes
and a smattering of white trash as~
sociated with them in undertaking
to put Moscow-inspired policies into
effect in this country.
The president, since the day of his
inauguration, has bent over backwards
in making concessions to them and
to other minority groups. He has
violated the ethics o! his office in
making proposals concerning segregation
and FEPC policies which are
matters delegated to the States by the
~onstitution and in which he, as pres·
1dent, has no constitutional or moral
right to interfere.
He has completely repudiated his
campaign promise to respect the
rights of States by appointing a member
of the Supreme Court with no
qualifications other than his willingness
to render a decision demanding
the abolishment of segregation in
Southern schools.
And for all this abject surrender
to n:inor~ty group pressure, he has
recetved m return condemnation and
abuse by those to whom he has ex·
tended preferential treatment.
At a meeting of the NAACP in
Dallas the president was denounced
for his "incredibly shabby record on
civil rights action" by its spokesmen
who lambasted the Republican Party
generally even though this party has
kowtowed and catered to Negroes
and other minority groups even as two
administrations preceding it have
done.
Southerners could have advised the
president if he had cared to listen
to those most concerned, and could
have warned him that it was a "give
an inch, take a mile" situatiOn but
he preferred to learn the hard ,;..ay.
Not only did NAACP condemn the
pr~si~ent but they threatened by imphcatton
to take matters into their
own hands in the South and force the
abolishment of segregation in other
fields than education.
. There was a day in the not too far
distant past when this country was
a more orderly and decent place in
which to live when the Dallas spectacle
would not have been tolerated.
Impudent, insolent and smart alec
Negroes from the North barging into
the South making threats against its
customs and institutions would have
b~en routed out of the State by a
different method of transportation
than that by which they ar.riv ed.
The Congress Puts Ban On
July Fourth Celebrations
It is announced from Washington
The campaign against "Nation· ~=~~~hoe ~~i~~ ~~~;~~~i~f ie~~;~~~~
alism" and -the attempt to force hons o! that event as Congress has
Americans to repudiate their own passed ~ law preventing fireworks
country and swear allegiance to a from bemg transported in interstate
World Government is, of course, commerce.
spearheaded by the Communists. Of course the law w<.ts passed as a
And yet there is not a more "Na- safety _measure and there is no doubt
tionalistic" country on earth than that fueworks me dangerous when
Russia. They preach international- carelessly handled but we cannot beism
and practice nationalism of the heve that safety would be found to
most pronounced type. They put be the pnmary reason for the b~nning
out the propaganda also against oi. tfuly 4th demonstrations, If the
American "isolationism" and they .. rna er were traced to its source.
are the most isolated nation in the Alter all, patriotic demonstrations
universe, with all outside commun- smack o! .Nationalism which has beication
practically blocked off. "Do come a dirty word now among the
as I say and not as I do" is Mos· ~~o~~:!~o~~l ~ia~f1~~~a'~~~ ~~0~~~ ~;~
cow's motto in preparing its propa~ country and give our loyalty to a
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Mother Challenges Authority of Teachers To Convert
Proud American Children Into International Puppets
Because the experience and obser- are but the tax collectors of society;
vations of this mother have been dup- ultimately school revenue comes from
licated by hundreds of thousands of all who labor by hand or brain. This
parents in this country during recent the teacher should never forget. They
ye·ars, we are reproducing this com- owe nothing to the present economic
munication. The only difference is system except to improve it. They
that too many parents accept the situ- owe nothing to any privileged caste
ation as hopeless and do not under- except to strip it of its privilege.
take to get at the root of the evil as They must insist on public recognithis
mother did, and expose it to tion of their professional competence
public view. The letter is from Mrs. in the field of education; they must
Jules Dubois of Oklahoma City and oppose every effort of publishing
is addressed to a former teacher of houses, business interests, privileged
the Dubois children who later became classes and all patriotic societies to
president of the Oklahoma Educa- prescribe the content of curriculum."
tiona! Association: I could write on and on of things
As you know, I was always inter- I read from Kilpatrick, Goslin, Laski
ested in my children's progress in and of course John Dewey. I can't
school, and while they were in grade express my feelings when I finished
school there was nothi,ng taught to a great deal of this, but I remember
my knowledge that caused me any thinking I must be dreaming. This
concern. But when they reached Jun- can't be happening here in our magior
High I became perturbed from time nificent nation. But here it was-the
to time as to some phases of their birth of so-called "Academic Freesocial
studies which seemed to em- dom" and it has flourished because
brace a great many subjects. On of the apathy of the American people
numerous occasions I went up to -the cause, of course, of the downHarding
to try to discuss some of the fall of every free nation in our hismaterial
being taught and particular- tory.
]y the sheets that came from Wash- Here I want to say I do not in any
ington, but being a sort of lone wolf way blame the teachers who are
I had very little success. However, largely as patriotic as I am but I am
my children having a pretty funda- convinced that many of our top edumental
idea of our beliefs, were able cators are either consciously or unto
detect these alien ideas which consciously working toward the downmainly
debunked our early tra~itions. fall of this republic.
Then in 1941 while a patient in More recently I have been hearing
the hospital, I was brought a maga- and reading of the teaching ot- the
~~~e ~~hi~~~~nt:;n:0d ~h:fti~l:s s~~f~~ ~~!~;~i~;il~'· ::a~te;e~a~eat r:~nft
taught in many schools under social seems to ask permission to take our
studies. It quoted from Harold Rugg young children and indoctrinate them
in his "Social Study Text Books" as with ideas in conflict wilh the ideas
deciding that the Junior High age and beliefs of their parents. Accordlevel
had been selected as the best ing to Theodore Brameld, who has
age to reach the mind of the child been named in several organizations
in O.fder to change many of the beliefs listed as subversive by the Attorney
-they had been brought up to believe General, the teacher must be indoc-
-the most important one, I re.call. trinated to have these convictions
was that capitalism is dead. I inquir- which he says they "do not foist upon
ed at Harding and was told that the student but which at appropriate
Rugg's books were not the textbooks age levels they share with the stubeing
used at that school and \lnfor- dents."
tunately my mind was eased. Recur- In Book 5 o£ the series "Toward
rent illness for a number of years World Understanding" they instruct
kept me from keeping alert as to the teacher as to the methods to be
what was being taught. used in training the child to disre-
You will remember that on several ,..gard and later defy what their ~aroccasions
I mentioned to you, when ents believe. I am sure that H1tler
we met, our concern regarding our and later Stalin must have started in
son and the so-called liberal ideas he much the same way. They were cerwas
acquiring and his disagreement tainly successful in training th~ chilwith
much of what we considered dren to inform on their parents and
basic American beliefs and traditions. in many cases even causing them to
We became very distressed and var- be shot or sent to concentration camps.
ious discussions and arguments creat- Now all of this will give you, as
ed a desire on my part to find out head o£ the Oklahoma Educational
where this new face on education was Association, a few of the reasons that
originating, so during the past years have finally awakened the Ameri-
1 have done quite a bit of reading and can parents who demand to know just
discussing and I think I can assuredly what is going on and who gave these
be called one of those whose thinking educators the right and authority to
can be classed with those who are the change our children from Americans,
so-called threat to "Academic Free- proud of their great heritage and tradom."
ditions, into citizens of some inter-
! set about to find the background national world.
for this whole new concept of educa- The educators who challenge the
tion and naturally I turned first_to right of society to question what they
see what Harold Rugg·s ideas were choose to teach our children are joinat
this later time and one of the first ed by a group of scientists who bethings
I read concerned a convention lieve that they should be allowed to
held in 1947 of the American Educa- share the very secrets that produce
tiona! Fellowship in which he stated the weapons of annihilation with our
"The world disturbance today reflects enemy. It could very well be, it seems
a conflict between two great philoso- to me, that we might be faced with
phies; one represented by the Amer- an organization of babysitters who
ican System of Free Enterprise and might say-'·We do not believe in
the other Soviet Collectivism"-and disciplining children for fear of inthat
he stood with the Soviet Philoso- hibiting them so if they want to dephy.
stray your personal property while
I read of various seminars where under our care you must not prosome
of our leading educators went test." The latter seems to me as logto
Moscow, and so Goodwin Watson ical as the first.
wrote-"A half dozen who came pre- I haven't touched on the many
Pared to find a bad situation have complaints I hear and read concerning
been transformed into warm admir- the fact that children are not being
ers of the Russian scene." This was in taught to spell correctly or read well
1937. and that not too much stress is placed
I also read where George Counts on arithmetic. A. H. Lauchner writes
(who of course later changed his in the bulletin "National Association
ideas after indoctrinating hundreds of of Secondary School Principals" -
teachers and they in turn thousands "'The three R's for all children and
of students) states in "The Call to the all children for the three R's.' That
'I'eacher"-"Even the taxpayers have was it! We've made some progress in
no special claim on the schools, they getting rid of that slogan but now and
NEA Using the School Systems to
Create A Socialist World State
At their recent annual convention
in New York, officials of the National
Education expressed fear of "creeping
paralysis of fre.alom of thought and
speech" and complained that teachers
are limited in "the free exploitation
of knowledge and truth," through interference
of "self-appointed criticS.''
The truth is that the Pinkos in control
of NEA have a definite misconception
about the !unctions of a
teacher in the American public school
systems.
For years the Socialists controlling
NEA have drilled into the minds of
local school teachers that it is their
responsibility to make world citizens
of American school children when, as
a m .. tter of fact, a teacher who tries
to do that should be fired.
The teacher is employed to teach
from and make a student understand
the subject matter in sound American
textbooks and their responsibility
ends right there.
It is not their prerogative to try to
shape a child's ideologi ~ ~t thinking
and when they do, they should be
kicked oUt of the job. This (unction
belongs to the parents.
If, by the term "self-appointed
critics" the NEA group is referring
to parents, they had just as \'~ell get
used to such criticism for more and
more the parents of this country are
taking it on themselves to find out
what the slap-happy internationalists
then some mother with a Phi Beta
Kappa award or some employer who
has hired a girl who can't spell stirs
up a fuss about the schools and ground
is lost."
All of this is very alarming to the
parents who are aware of the situation,
but to me the WHY ior all of
-this is much more frightening; which
is that when our children have become
thoroughly indoctrinated citizens
of this totalitarian world it won't
be necessary for them to think at all
and better if they can't.
I am sure the justification !or this
new philosophy of education is our
membership in the United Nations.
What the awakened American people
are realizing is that the people never
voted on joining the UN and the
bulk of our Senators admit they never
read the charter before ratifying it. It
was foisted on the American people
as an instrument of peace, but let us
look at the men behind this whole
idea. Molotov, Alger Hiss, and a Russian
born member of our Communistridden
State Departm.ent by the name
of Leo Pavolsky.
At first it apparently was prepared
to deal only with international problems
but now we see our domestic
laws and customs threatened from all
sides. Our state laws are to have no
force and we will all be governed by
a world government and policed by an
army made up of people from some
foreign power. This will all happen
under the Human Rights Covenant.
These same educators who are complaining
of interference in their choice
of curriculum will find when this
Covenant becomes a treaty there will
be absolute thought control and they
won't be consulted.
The people are reading more and
listening to those who have become
alerted to the threat to this Republic.
They are realizing that this United
Nations is an instrument of Communist
Russia and unless we get out
before it is too Jate we'll find that
any resemblance to the America we
have known. believe me, will be
purely accidental.
Just one thing more. Before the
United Nations it is now being argued
as to whether, when the charter is revised
in 1955, we shall be allowed
as individuals to own private property.
At present the only nations voting
in the affirmative are the U. S.,
Canada and Turkey. Among the people
who are studying the consequences
of remaining in this great plan of
All Loyal Americans Will
Observe Constitution Day
The little town of Louisville, Ohio,
is engaged in an activity which should
be duplicated in every city, village
and hamlet in the United States.
The people there are making plans
!or the most extensive celebration in
history in the observation of Constitution
Day on September 17.
Although this immortal document
has been dishonored, repudiated and
spat upon for more than twenty-one
years, it remains the greatest instrument
of justice, freedom and opportunity
ever penned by human hand.
And ironically enough, it serves as
a shield of protection not only to
loyal citizens of the Republic but also
operates in the defense of the traitors
who diligently strive to destroy it.
in NEA are foisting on their chil-dren
under the guise o! education. _..
There is much that is wrong with
our public school systems in the
United States but the trouble is not
with parents who insist on keeping
an eye on the situation but with the
educated fools in NEA who are trying
to use our educational systems to
create a Socialist World State.
Communist enslavement, the crying
plea is to get out of the UN and get
the UN out of the US of America instead
of teaching our children to be~
come slaves of this Godless conspiracy.
It occurred to me that you might
b~ glad to bear !rom someone o.u
know has always been interested in
the schools so you could get the background
of the awakening fear of the
American people who are fighting
to keep this nation one of "We the
People."
(Editor's note: We suggest that
other parents take up with the
teachers in the local schools any
matters having to do with subversive
instruction of their children.
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for the permeation of the American
public school systems with Socialist-
Communist vhilosophies and indoctrinated
local teachers are merely
carrying out instructions. A
heart-to-heart talk with these local
teachers may correct the situation.
If not, the local school board should
be consulted),
"Blazoned across the sky over the
ynite.d States of .America, and glow~
ng b1gger and bnghter with each day,
lS one great word. That word is
McCARTHYISM. It symbolizes the
undaunted, two-fisted effort of one
man-senator Joe McCarthy-rising
s~perior to all parties and fighting to
nd our government of foreign spies
and American traitors. Coined by the
Daily Worker to smear the Senator
and to forever silence his voice against
the red enemies within our government,
tiJ<! term has reacted violently
in his favor. It is fast becoming the
marching slogan of an aroused people
bent on restoring and protecting our
American Heritage." -II am i 1 t o n
County Herald, Chatanooga, Tenn.
At the All-American Confeience to
Combat Communism, Senator Karl
Mundt said in part: "No Congressional
investigating committee in history has
ever made a mistake so serious or so
bad in trying to get Communists out
of government to compare even remotely
with the mistakes made by
executive branches of government in
bringing Communists into the government."
THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
July-August, I V~4
Page 8
Now We Are Sure That We Original Investigator of Communism
Have Heard Everything In United States Discovers Himself
United Nations May Write
Covenant on Animal Rights
For days on end a Senate Committee
has been uncovering scandals in
the Federal Housing Authority and
turning up cases whc1·c racketeer
builders have made millions on this
il"H~ philanthropic government proj~
-..t, at the expense of the taxpayers.
Now comes one o( the cult , a Bertntm
Bonner of Richmond. Virginia,
to defend the fleecing of the public
by the smart boys who got in on the
gravy train.
]l is his · considered opinion. as
delivered to the Senate Committee,
that the American people should be
"grateful"' for the ingenuity which en~
abled a guy, for instance. to make a
nice lillie qua;.-tcr-o!-a-million-dollar
nest egg on one FHA deal.
"I find it a somce of disappointment
that our acts are criticized instead
of praised" Bonner told the committee
with a perfectly straight !ace.
Even here in our owfl diggins a
few bright boys with some right
shrewd business acumen were flushed
out by the committee.
A feature writer for a chain of
newspapers which, as a concession
to politeness, may be termed "liberal"
recently penn~ a series of
five articles which were highly revealing
and informative.
Through them, for instance,
Americans learned that the writer,
himself, is the first and only authentic
investigator of Communist
infiltration in this country and that
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy is
merely an amateur in the field.
Just to bear out his claims. before
the ink was dry on the last
paragraph in the series, this great
impartial journalist was proclaimed
a man of distinction by being
elected to membership in the
"American Committee for Cultural
Freedom."
Just in case we peons are not
sufficiently impressed with the
great honor thus conferred on this
fearless chronicler of Communisthunting
activities in the United
States. it should perhaps be pointed
out that the ACCF is. by its
own admission. composed of the
country's "leading scholars, writers
and scientists' ' who advocate
taking the job of investigating
Communism out of vulgar hands
and assuming the responsibility
themselves.
To emphasize their qua1ifications
for this particular task. they
remind us that they are affiliated
"with similar grou,ps of intellectuals
in Europe. Asia and Latin
America" and we are further informed
that its members even include
"advisers to both Eisenhower
and Adlai Stevenson."
And if tha~is not enough. let
us consider this and drop dead: His
articles denouncing McCarthy and
eulogizing himself received the
supreme accolade of the world's
leading literary authority-they
were "hailed by Time Magazine."
Ye gods and little Red Herrings!
(Editorial from Chicago Tribune)
Well, it was bound to come. ,
The United Nations has spent some
years trying to devise covenants
on human rights, the rights of
women and the rights of children.
The movement has now been carried
to its logical outcome by a
Belgian lawyer who has prepared
a world charter on animal rights.
He hopes the U.N. will eventually
adopt it.
The author contends that there
should be animal hospitals and
policemen to enforce the rights nf
the animals; he says that animals
are entitled to be properlv sheltered
and fed and comfortably transported
by land, sea and air. and
he asks that hunting be prohibited.
A former dentist complained that he
lost $45 on a million dollar housing
project in Dallas although he was
partly compensated for his great loss
when he reaped a neat little profit
of 5250.000 on a similar one in Fort
Worth.
Please Mr. Stassen All We Want
Is One little Pink Cadillac
We can see an extensive area
of opportunity for U.N. in collecting
funds to build deluxe burrows
for rabbits, nests for wrens, dens
for wolves and lairs for tigers. This
enterprise would put point 4 in
the shade. Congress might explore
the possibilities of getting rid of
subsidized agricultural overproduction
by feeding it to the creatures
of the wild, and Mr. Eisenhower.
getting into the spirit of
the thing, might urge that all Kodiak
bears be given the right to
vote at the age of 18.
George Orwell wrote a barnAs
one little taxpayer right down yard fable called "Animal Farm"
at the bottom of the lowest bracket,
we want to disclol.im any ingratitude
for the great service rendered the
American people by the Federal Housing
Authority and the remarkable
latent financial talent its program has
develooed.
We are right proud th at sizeable
profits can still be turned through
diligent application and ability to take
the initial i v e when opportunity
knocks. We were beginning to think
that folding money had been taken
out o! circulation
So we say to the Virginia gentleman
and his fellow-smoothies : ''Thank
you, kind sirs. Please hurry and start
another one of those nice projects.''
We Disagree With
A Great Newspaper
Because the Dallas Morning News
is widely respected throughout the
country for its forthright editorial expressions.
we were at a loss to understand
this excerpt from a recent discussion
by that paper's editorial stafi
o[ NLRB's decision to leave jurisdiction
to the Stales in some o( its cases:
''One of the finest aspects of the
Eisenhower administration is its ef~
forts to restore powers to the States."
Perhaps the reason we were unable
to assimilate this startling piec~ of
information is because of the Supreme
Court's decision on Segregation in
Southern schools.
This is hard to believe but it's
true and can be checked through
press reports and by the records
of the Foreign Operations Administration
in Washington.
The FOA, of which that great
financial genius. governmental expert
and world statesman extraordinary,
Harold Stassen, is the
directing head, has just granted
Britain $13,500,000 in order that
they may purchase lard from the
United States, great mountains of
which we have on hand as surplus.
We wanted to get rid of this
lard and we wanted Britain to
have it so we gave her the money
to buy it from us.
Now, what is worrying us is
why they don't extend this method
of purchase to other fields than
government operation.
Why, for instance, couldn't an
automobile dealer give us a check
for five or six thousand dollars so
we could purchase a pink Cadillac
from him?
Of course we don't have any
surplus of pink Cadillacs in this
country yet, but if we could popularize
this type of purchase plan
and get the auto dealers subsidized
by the government, we could soon
build up a situation where all
available garages and floor space
would be oozing pink Cadillacs.
It is something to think about
and we hope our experts, headed
by Mr. Stassen, put their heads
together and give the idea a whirl.
Senator Capehart's committee some •years ago, which depicted a
probing into various million dollar totalitarian Communist ore;anizasteals
in the FedPral Housing Author- tion of the animals. Implicit in
ity learned from witnesses that those this tale was the idea that the fourin
charge of that agency's "Home Re- footed creatures are capable of depair
Program" operated a sort of veloping a political consciousness.
"college ior thi eves." Repair sales- If the animals are as bright as
men were instructed, schooled and their human patrons believe. they
trained in the most effective methods will organize and demand what it
~~P~li~~ci~~r s~~~rohvo~~~n~:n~~s t~~i~ is proposed that they be given. not
property under this program. The as a privilege. but as a right. If
racket netted millions for the crooks somebody tries to put them off,
in charge of the program, at least th~y should bawl~ threat that they
one of whom had a former police Will go Commumst if thev aren't
.record. The program is still in opera- ... dealt with handsomely. That alti~
m as nothing h~s been done to ways seems to work wi.th the Presdismantle
the Socialistic FHA project. ident and the State Department.
We Make An Editorial Statement
And Are Prepared To Back It Up
In the May edition of the Southern had declared the Communists were
Conservative, we stated editorially 'trying to obscure the real issue of
that American policies are dictated Communist imperialism in Central
in Moscow and we now give an in~ America' by charging that the United
stance to prove our point. States is only interested in protecting
The Department of Justice, for the American business and offic ials obFedcral
Government, has just filed an viously fell that this suit would show
anti-trust suit against the United that this Coll)munist claim is unFruit
Company in what was described founded."
in the Associated Press release announcing
this action, as an effort "to
spike Communist propaganda guns in
Guatemala and the rest of Latin
America."
This article further said that the
Justice Department announced the
filing of the suit '·a scant forty eight
hours after Secretary of State Dulles
Now isn't that something, really?
Why should the American government
cal'e what the Communists say
or what charges they make against
us? After all, isn't it the proper function
o! the American government to
be concerned in "protecting American
business"?
Of course it can be argued that this
was an action of the judiciary and
that the executive had nothing to do
with it but any citizen with minimum
intelligence know that the president
appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme
Court !or only one reason and that
was because he was convinced that
Warren would organize the personnel
of the Court against segregation which
is exactly what he did.
Any way, it is not within the president's
authority to "restore" power
to the States. It is already thereplaced
there by the Constitution. All
he needs to do is respect it which he
did not do in the matter of segregation
.
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So why should the Justice Department
file a suit against a company
because of some charge in Moscow
when these Justice Department officials
obviously feel that the charge
against the company is "unfounded."
I! the charges against the United
Fl·uit Company have no basis in fact,
no suit should have been filed against
them.
If there is a good reason why the
suit should have been filed, why
wasn't it filed long ago and why did
the Department of Justice act only
when prodded into i-t by Communist
charges'?
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