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THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
-To Plead for a Return of Constitutional Government-
Yol. 5 Fort Worth, Texas, May, 1954 No.5
IT· IS TIME FOR AMERICANS TO
RECAP.TURE THE UNITED STATES
We Need More Governors
Like the Georgia Executive
The last l~gislature of the State of
Georgia passed a strong · anU-subver&
ion bill and that State was the first
to reverse its former action approving
world government.
Governor Herman Talmadge has
also announced that, in the event of
an adverse decision by the Supreme
Court on segregation, the schools of
that state will be abolished and a
syStem o£ private schools set up.
As long as Georgians have Talmadge
as governor, the upper-bracket
pink fringe in Atlanta will be unable
to do permanent harm to that great
State.
We need more governors like him.
Death Blow to
States Rights
The ruling to abolish segre·
gation in Southern public
schools was first decreed by
the small but powerful mi ..
nority which dictates the political
action of governing
bodies around the world. It
was re·echoed by nine polit·
ical puppets on the Social
Agency which now passes for
the Supreme Court of the
Unit&'d States, iust as we went
to press - too late for com·
ment in this edition.
New Style States Rights to Be Known
As the Hart, Schaffner and Marx Brand
With the exception of the case
of General Douglas MacArthur,
we have never known such na.tion4
wide resentment as was engender4
ed by the firing of Honorable
Clarence Manion from a Presidential
Committee set up presumably
to determine the Rights of
States and the conflict of Federal
authority with such rights.
As in the case of General Mac4
Arthur, Manion was let out for
reasons having nothing whatever
to do with logic, judgment or com4
mon sense.
It was announced that Mr.
Manion was fired because he urged
the passage of the Bricker amendment,
a position taken by all informed
Americans whose primary
concern is in the safety and security
of the United States.
Unless the Bricker amendment,
or some similar measure, is passed,
not only States Rights, but Federal
Rights, are abrogated and only
Global Rights are recognized as
valid and authentic.
So long as international treaties
continue to supersede the Ameri4
can Constitution, it is silly and fu-tile
to set UJJ Committees to study
any kind of Rights as they relate
to American units of government.
They simply haven't any.
Mr. Manion of course knew this
and was performing the primary
responsibility of his job by urgipg
that a loophole in the Constitution
be plugged through which international
treaties could wipe out
both State and Federal Rights. He
was attacking the root of the evil.
And so, he was fired and we are
now advised that the president has
appointed, in his stead, a Chicago
man whose name we do not remember
except that he is head of
Hart, Schaffner and Marx, retail
clothing merchants.
We seem to recall vaguely another
haberdasher in Washington
who not only took a dim view of
States Rights but who also looked
with a jaundiced eye on even the
Rights of the Congress of the United
States.
At any rate, it should be highly
interesting and enlightening to see
what the Hart, Schaffner and
Marx brand of States Rights will
turn out to be.
For years thi,s country has functioned politically and ideologically
as a joint Colonial Possession of Communist Russia and Socialist Eng·
land. Our domestic and foreign policies have been dictated in Moscow
and our Declarations of War have been made in. London. Appeasement
of the Soviets and concessions to the British have served as the basis
of our official actions, motivated our diplomatic maneuvers and influenced
our national decisions. Soon we may surrender our last vestige
of sovereignty to the United Nations as a final step in the transformation
of a once powerful and independent Constitutional Republic into
a vassal state in a World Government. Only the Congress can now save
the nation from total disintegration.
In the elections of 1954, thirty-six members of the United States
Senate and four huqdred and thirty-five members of the House ol
Representatives must be chosen and the ballots of the American people
will decide the momentous question as to what manner of man shall
fill each of these important seats.
In November, patriotic Americans will go to the polls along with
a powerful and organized minority of both native-born and naturalized
citizens who are shamelessly ranged against their own country and
openly aligned with its enemies in subtle efforts to propel us further
into internationalism and to accomplish the downfall of the government
under which they have lived, prospered and enjoyed the blessings ol
liberty.
With the fate of the nation in the balance and with our executive
leadership hopelessly involved in foreign intanglements, only the Con4
gress can rescue us from inevitable disaster by restoring our lost
prestige, renewing the faith of the worid in our national honor and
returning the nation to its original status as a Constitutional Republic.
In direct contrast to the Socialist platforms on which many demagogues,
radicals and outright subversives have climbed into the Halls
of Congress in recent years, we present for consideration of candidates
a suggested outline of an American platform to which American aspir~
ants for office .may subscribe in seeking el~ction to either House of the
American Congress:
As a prerequisite to my candidacy for this high office, I wish
to publicly re-dedicate myself to Am.erican principles of government
as enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and set
forth in the Constitution of the United States and to re-affirm my
undivided allegiance to the American Flag and to the Republic for
which it stauds.
In seeking support of my candidacy for this important position.
I unreservedly subscribe to the basic tenet that the government of
the United States was set up to provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty
to the American people and their posterity and to them alone.
While advocating good will toward other nations and friendly
relations with all who merit respect, I will not assume that my
oath of office as an American lawmaker commits me to legislate in
the interest of foreign countries and to the detriment of my own.
In striking contrast to the attitude of many of our elected national
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Millions of Americans Think It--The Southern Conservative Says It
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Failure
Truman
of President to
Order Baffles
Revoke
Americans
The failure of the president to
rescind the order by Harry Truman
denying to investigating committees
the files on known Communist
traitors constitutes perhaps
the most incredible of his many
baffling performances.
This implied protection of subversives
by the White House is,
according to the best advice, due
to decisions by presidential advisers
whose determination to continue
Truman policies in effect has
long been recognized.
The refusal of the president to
rescind this order of course greatly
handicaps the search for Communists
in high position and we
believe the time is coming when
the president will have to take
action in regard to it, much as he
seems to shrink from offending
his associates.
Concerning the matter Honorable
Ralph W. Gwinn, Congressman
from New York said on the
floor of the House of Representatives:
"There is a mass of evidence and
information on the hidden conspiracy
in Government which is
still inaccessible to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and to this
sub-committee because persons
who know the facts are not cooperating.
"To date, only the highlights of
these twenty years of treasonable
betrayal in Washington have been
sketched in the public record.
Some day, when all the records
may be examined, the whole
frightful story of New Deal
treachery, sabotage and espionage
will be unfolded for public appraisal".
The trouble is that it may then
be too late.
Meantime the president's contribution
to the subject is his assertion
that Communism will not be
an issue in this Fall's Congres:>ional
elections.
We respectfully suggest that he
will find out he ts mistaken when
candidates for re-election get back
to their respective districts.
Russia Finally Acknowledges
Its Own Illegitimate Baby
Although the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Or4
ganization, known by its pet name
of UNESCO, is based almost solely
on Communist doctrine and was formulated
in its entirety by Communists
and fellow travellers, Russian representatives
in U.N. have acted coy
about formally signing it.
In fact, it was thought best that its
parent let it operate as an illegitimate
child until proponents could first get
it established in this country, since a
Russian signature would serve as a
handicap in some quarters.
Recently, in London, Jacob Malik,
evidently feeling that the time had
now come to brag about its Communist
origin, signed it for Soviet Russia
and the Ukraine.
We Can't Eliminate Commies
By Denying That They Exist
Much as we hate to disagree with
a great and outstanding American
like Martin Dies, we are forced to
take issue with him.
In a recent interview in the press,
Congressman Dies is quoted as claiming
that Communists inside the
United States are no longer a threat
and that Communism in this country
is a mere shadow of what it was ten
years ago.
Mr. Dies' error is probably due to
the fact that Communism was highly
concentrated at the time he rendered
such notable service as chairman of
the House Un-American Activities
Committee back in the 1930's.
At that time, most of the Communists
and fellow travelers were
holed up largely in labor unions and
operated with the sanction and approval
of the White House. It was
easier to spot them when the pack
ran together and were easily distinguishable
from ordinary, loyal citizens
of the United States.
Since that time, however, they have
spread out all over the country and
have invaded the schoolroom, the
pulpit, civic groups, the government,
the Army and other branches of the
military services while still main!ain4
ing their beachhead in labor UJ?!Ons,
minority organizations and pra~hcall.Y
every other organized group m thiS
country.
Mr. Dies may be right in regard
to the decreased number of actual
card-carrying members of the Communist
Party but the Soviet leadership
in Moscow long ago decided that
their most valuable allies in this <'Ountry
were not party members but the
molders of public opinion here who
vigorously d en o u n c e Communism
while, at the same time, subscribing
to its principles, and spreading its
doctrines within their sphere of influence.
Within the past year alone, three
hundred and seventeen influential
Americans, including scores of teachers
and educational leaders have ap·
peared before an investigating committee
of Congress and have refused
to answer when asked if they were,
or had been, members of the Communist
Party, and took refuge behind
the Fifth amendment.
We are convinced that 1\'Ir. Dies is
sincere in the position he takes on
this serious and tragic matter but
he is definitely in error. Communism
and Communistic influence is at an
all-time high in the United States.
Bruce Bates of Sherman, Texas,
a radio gunner who serv~d under
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy when
he was Marine Captain in Hawaii,
l\1idway, New Hebrides and
Guadalcanal says that nobody can
spot a phony officer quicker than
an enlisted man. As one who
served under McCarthy, he referred
to the Wisconsin senator as
"our favorite officer", who always
was considerate of his men, was
gentle-voiced and never got mad
except at the enemy. Well, the
senator is fighting a worse enemy
now than when he was in the
South Pacific and if he gets mad
now and then, he is entitled to his
bursts of anger.
Time for Americans-
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offici-als, and those aspiring to such rank, I want to go on record as an
American of undivided loyalty, with no apology for waving the Flag
so long as that Flag is the emblem of my own country and as one whose
primary concern is for the welfare, safety and security of the United
States.
If elected, I shall urge complete severance of diplomatic relations
with Russia as a barbaric country morally unfit to associate
with decent and respectable nations and for the forcible removal
of her army of agents and spies operating in the American Republic.
I shall also favor legislation outlawing the Communist Party
in the United States, the placing of known Communists advocating
the overthrow of the American government behind bars and strong
punitive measures for those who join or knowingly lend their
names to Communist front organizations.
I favor the withdrawal of the United States from the United
Nations on the ground that this world organization constitutes an
international conspiracy against the peace and security of the United
States and was so intended when it was set up by enemies of this
country, in collaboration with domestic traitors, at San Francisco
in 1945.
I favor the passage of the Bricker amendment, or similar
legislation, which will settle for all time ·to come the question as to
whether the American people shall be governed by international
treaty law or by the Constitution of the United States.
I favor the repudiation of the Yalta and Teheran agreements
and urge a re-appraisal of executive authority in committing this
country in secret proposals without approval by the United States
Senate as provided in the Constitution.
The framers of this document also designated three separate
and distinct branches of government which specified ana defined
powers for the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial departments.
I strongly disapprove of any of these subdivisions of the
Federal government encroaching on the authority of the other and
especially do I oppose attempts of the Executive to dictate to the
Legislative or to withhold from it, or any of its duly authorized
committees, information vital to the security of the American
people. This practice is wholly at variance with the intents of the
Founders of the Republic who visioned three strong, coordinating
arms of the government working together for the defense and
perpetuation of a nation indivisible, under God.
I shall advocate a strict observance of the Constitutional
of the States of the American Union as provided in the .:""·~-..;...;
Amendment to the Bill of Rights and, in the framing of
legislation, shall strenuously oppose the brazen attempts of Wash-ington
to override local authority in matters having to do with
social and racial practices in the various states.
With malice toward none and charity for all, I submit that it is
immoral, un-American and in direct conflict with established Ameri ...
can principles for officials of the Federal government, to single out
certain segments of the American society for special benefits, class
favors or preferred treatment. In this connection, I shall protest with
every resource at my command, any further discrimination against
white Christian American citizens, either in legislative enactment,
judicial ruling or executive pronouncement.
I also favor the sale of all Socialist government projects which
have been set up in the past twenty years or are in the course of being
set up now, to compete with private American industry and oppose
any future appropriations for similar projects.
If elected, I promise to give serious and profound study and consideration
to the problems of the American taxpayer who has become
the "forgotten man" in the nation's social and economic planning
during the past twenty-one years and who is accorded recodnition
only when he is summoned forth from obscurity to sign the
checks which pay the bills for global spending sprees.
Recognizing the passage of the Sixteenth or Income Tax
Amendment to the Constitution as the most abject surrender of
private property rights in human history, and realizing that it is
the source of most of the evils from which we suffer, I shall work
untiringly for its repeal and the substitution of one which limits
the taxing power of Congress to a maximum of twenty-five per
cent. I concede that robbery is a crime we will always have with us
but I shall strenuously oppose a policy of government which makes
legal thieves of members of Congress, gives them a permit to steal
and grants them immunity from punishment when they hold up a
citizen, frisk his pockets and relieve him of all his valuables.
I shall cast my vote at all times toward the strengthening of
our immigration laws and, instead of letting the bars down
further to the undesirables of Europe who have flooded this country
to contaminate our political morals, debase our religious and
educational leaders and corrupt the ideals of our youth, I will
favor the deportation of approximately two million aliens who are
already residing illegally in the United States.
Believing that the disbursal of American taxpayers' money
is a sacred trust imposed upon members of the Congress, I shall oppose
the appropriation of one more dollar to any foreign country for any
social, ideological or extraneous purpose whatsoever. I shall urge
that the billions of dollars intended for foreign aid in future be applied
to the reduction of the national debt, to the relief of over-burdened
taxpayers and to building up the Air Force and other branches of the
Armed Services for the defense of the United States.
On this platform, I shall hold my head high, look my fellow Americans
in the eye and offer for public service without apology to any
man or set of men.
May, 1954 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Pago 3
Mothers Should
Fight Only for
Demand Their Sons
Their Own Country
We wonder if the mothers o£ the Security Council. Suppose, this
American boys who are being drafted
into the Armed Services have any
idea about which country their sons
are being sent away to defend.
The Charter of the United Nations,
which has been recognized as having
precedence over the American Constitution,
has arrogated to itself the
right to declare war and to disperse
troops to points where, in its judgment,
they are needed.
In Chapter VII of the Charter, Article
39, it says: "The Security Council
(of the United Nations) shall determine
the existence or any threat to
the peace, breach of the peace, or act
of aggression and shall make recommendations,
or decide what measures
shall be taken . . . to maintain or
restore international peace and security."'
From the above, we find that wars
shall be declared, n~t by any individual
nation belonging to it, such as
the United States, but by the United
Nations through its Security Council.
Even if the United States should
be attacked, it could only defend itself
and fight back until such time as
the United Nations took over. In confirmation,
read Article 51, Chapter
VH
"Nothing in the present Charter
shall impair the inherent right of
individu31 or collective self-defense
if an armed attack occurs against a
Member of the United Nations, until
the Security Council has taken the
measures necessary to maintain international
peace and security. Measures
taken by Members in the exercise of
this right of self-defense shall be
immediately reported to the Security
Council and shall not in any way
affect the authority and responsibility
of the Security Council under the
present Charter to take at any time
such action as it deems necessary in
order to maintain or restore international
peace and security."
So we have even thrown away the
right to protect ourselves even if
attacked, without getting approval of
What Do They Mean
Let's Get Together?
The Communist Party in the
United States has just issued a
pamphlet called "The . Ame7ican
Way" which is 110w bemg wxdely
circulated by mail.
In this pamphlet, Communists
propose that their party and the
Democrats get together in an ef·
fort to defeat the Republicans.
The Red rats know that
the Communist Party of the United
States and the Party of the New
Deal and Fair Deal have been one
and the same for more than twenty
years, and that practically all
planks in the Communist Party
platform were put into effect in
this country by RooseYelt and
Truman.
In the pamphlet put out by tbe
Communists, defeat of "McCarthyism"
is strongly urged, which
is understandable, since McCarthy
is a deadly foe of this gang of
hooded cobras.
country should be attacked by some
Iron Curtain country and we went
running to the United Nations for
protection and help. What if they
decided we were in the wrong and
held that the United States had committed
an act of aggression and the
Iron Curtain country was merely defending
its rights?
In Article 39 of Chapter VII we
find this provision: "The Security
Council shall determine the existence
of any threat to the peace, breach of
the peace, or act of aggression and
shall make recommendations, or decide
what measures shall be taken
... to maintain or restore international
peace and security." In Article 46
of that same chapter: "Plans for the
application of armed force shall be
made by the Security Council with
the assistance of the Military Staff
Committee."
There are thousands upon thousands
of words in addition to these outlining
the au!ttority of the United Nations
to make war and send troops anywhere,
but surely these few illustrations
should open eyes and wake up
sleeping Americans.
Most mothers would bravely speed
their sons to war in defense of their
own country when legally declared
by the Congress of the United States
but we believe they are going to
rebel at the prospect of offering them
up as a sacrifice to the defense of farflung
outposts of civilization whose
names they can't even pronounce.
Our congratulations to the Texas
Technological College at Lubbock
, Texas, for the discriminating
care with which they select speakers
to address students there. A
recent series of talks to the student
body included such outstanding
personalities as General Bonner
Fellers, H o n o r a b I e Clarence
Manion of Indiana and Frazier
Hunt. author of the forthcoming
biography of General Douglas
MacArthur. Selection of speakers
is understood to have been made
by J. Evetts Haley of Lubbock,
prominent in business. education
and civic affairs throughout Texas
and the Southwest.
The University Christian Church
of Fort Worth, located near the
campus of Texas Christian University
and attended by students
of that institution, invited Luther
Youngdahl of Minnesota to address
their group at its annual convention
recently. Youngdahl is the
person Harry Truman appointed
to a Federal judf1eship in a horse
trade in which Youngdahl promised
not 1o run a~ainst New Deal
Senator Hubert Humphrey of that
state in return for the appointment.
Youn~tdahl is also the character
who threw out some of the
counts in the indictment against
Owen Lattimore charged with lying
in connection with his testimony
to a Senate Investigating
Committee.
Earl Browder who was alleged to
have been kicked out of the Communist
Party in 1945 because of his refusal
to go along with its Moscow policies
is reported to now be designating
himself as a Democrat with a small
D. Very appropriate, since the type of
''Democrat" he associates with is a
Communist with a small C.
Writer Tells of Roosevelt Family
Racket Operated From White House
How members of the Roosevelt
family banded themselves together
and operated an upper-crust Confidence
game in selling executive influence
during FDR's !our terms, is
revealed by a Washington newspaper
man, Chesly Manly, whose best-seller
'The Twenty Yea r Revolution-from
Roosevelt to Eisenhower·• is providing
an interesting cut-back to New Deal
standards of morals.
In addition to $1,500,000 paid by
American taxpayers to Roosevelt himself
in salary and "allowances," his
wife, two of his sons and his daughter
took suckers for more than five million
dollars during the twelve years
they romped in and out of the White
House.
The greatest individual "take'' by
the operators o( this family racket
was Eleanor who had an income of
$7,500 (rom an estate when she entered
the White House but who was
well on the way to putting three
million dollars in her jeans by the
time she left it.
Per-forming as a sort of socialite
Ma Barker, Eleanor pointed the way
for two of her sons and a daughter
to cash in on the old man's job
while the cashing in was good and
to knock off the boobs seeking government
favors of those marked !or
indictment by the Department of
Justice.
To the credit of Eleanor and the
two sons, it must be admitted that
they waited a reasonable time before
cracking down on their victims but
the daughter, Anna Dahl, got ants in
her jodhpurs and jumped the gun.
Shortly after the polls closed in
1932 and the fi rst editions were on the
street announcing her old man's election,
Anna hired her an agent who
went forth to offer her wares to the
highest bidder.
It developed later, however, that
she had nothing on the baH, had inherited
little of the Roosevelt talent
for turning a fast buck and that her
only legacy from the family was a set
of Roose,·elt teeth, Practically all her
ventures landed in the bankruptcy
courts.
Eldest son, James, began his racketeering
career by selling his name to
a Boston insurance company where
he was soon "earning" !ilty thousand
dollars per year writing insurance
policies for firms doing business with
the New Deal.
Becoming restless, he subsequently
started out looking for more worlds
to conquer and eventually landed on
Dr. Donald Soper, head of Britain's
Methodist Church, is quoted
by the Associated Press as saying
that Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov
is '1really more of a liberal
than a Communist". Ye gods and
little fishes!
When asked whether or not he
had ever been, or was still, a member
of the Communist Party, a
Colonel Leo. Sheiner, a Mi.ami,
Florida, attorney told the Jenner
Committee that he refused to
answer and invoked his privilege
under the Fifth Amendment. Disbarment
proceedings were immediately
instituted against him
by the Florida Bar Association and
other bar associations would do
well to copy in similar cases.
the West Coast where he was one day
to make large-scale conquests o! a
romantic nature that were to earn
him the title of "Romeo Roosevelt."
His part of the "take' ' in the Roosevelt
family racket is claimed to have
been a million dollars.
Elliott was a late starter, probably
due to the fact that he was always
busy gettigg married, but after he
squared off and got under way, he
did all right. His operations were
largely confined to '·hot oil" men who
had run afoul of production restrictions
and others who were on the
hot seat including plans manufacturers
with outmoded ships they wanted
to sell to the government.
During his career as a quick-monry
boy, Elliott is claimed to have established
two all-time records. He was
able to get more big loans on unsecured
or bad notes than any man
in history and his fast jump from a
buck private in the Army to Brigadier
General is a military feat without
precedent in modern or medieval
times.
In his first inaugural address,
Franklin D. Roosevelt said piously:
"The money changers have fled from
their high seats in the temple o.f
civilization.''
Herbert Hoover was the "monry
changer" who preceded Roosevelt.
After his (our-year term as president
ended, Mr. Hoover returned to the
Federal Treasury all the money which
had been paid him for his services
as presiden t of the Un ited S ta tes.
Roosevelt who was unable to earn a
living be fore he got in politics came
to the White Ho u s~ witJ1 a personal
fortune of $600,000 and at h is death
possessed a fam ily forlune of millions.
AU this corruption is past history
now and the statute of limitation
has expired with respect to the misconduct
of the Roosevelt family who
chiseled out fortunes by peddling
presidential power.
The only purpose in referring to
it at this late day is to point up
the fact that the political immorality,
crookedness and unethical behavior
of an American president's family was
re!lected in the depraved and sub~
versive type ol administration suffered
durjng his r~gime-a type of administration
which, tragically, has
never been abandoned in its essential
points.
Rhodes Scholar Fulbright of the
Senate, who openly opposes investigations
into Communist activities in
the United States, and was the only
member o.f the Senate to vote against
allocation Of (unds Cor this purpose,
said down in Georgia in a public address
that he (elt "almost ashamed to
be in the Senate with McCarthy." We
wonder just how "proud" the citizens
of Arkansas are of having a protector
of subversives speak for them.
David Dubinsky is rcp<Jrtcd to have
organized 125,000 Puerta Ricans into
a new garment workers union in New
York. This addition to that eity's
population should give Fair Deal candidates
in the next election a solid
bloc vote of 125.000 even i( it doesn't
do anything toward raising the standarc:
J. of citizenship.
To us there is just "One World''
all right, but that one world is the
United States. Try as we may, we
just can't work up a lather over the
plight of some foreign count1·y as long
as our Own is in its present d<'plorab1e
state.
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Let's Save United States
First Then Tackle Asia
Even though it came from Eed
China's Foreign Minister, Chou
En-Lai, a statement issued at the
Geneva Conference made sense to
us.
This yellow Communist demanded
that all foreign military
bases in Asia be abolished and all
foreign troops withdrawn, and a
program of "Asia for Asians" be
followed.
The argument against this is
that the Communists might take
over but when it comes to a matter
of either saving Asia from the
Communists or the United States
from Communists, we think security,
like charity, should begin
at home, and that our first concern
should be to rid the United States
o£ Communists and worry about
Asia later.
The number of card-carrying
Communists in the United States
may be relatively small in comparison
with the total population,
but the number of Communist
sympathizers are legion as we are
reminded every day, and no town,
section or city is free of this menace.
Any one who is burning with
the missionary spirit and wants to
journey over to Asia to save them
from Communism has a job all
cut out for him, right here at
home. Communists and Fellow
Travellers are swarming all over
the place.
Here is a real head-sweller from
an El Paso, Texas, citizen and
since its receipt, we are hard to
get along with: ul think you and
and McCarthy are the best Americans
in the United States and if
I had a million dollars, I would
insist th:\t the Southern Conservative
go on a daily basis. I also think
that your brand of ridicule is the
best I have ever read".
THE SOUTH ERN CONSERVATIVE May, 1954
Church (iroups Who Render a We Do Not Consider American Lives
Disservice to Christianity Less Valuable Than Those of Asians
A hate meeting designed to foment
strife and hatred between different
church denominations is always regrettable
and especially in these times
of nationn.l peril when the whole
Christian civilization is under attack
by Godless forces, and when the need
for all churches to stand together
against a common enemy, was never
greater.
Such a gathering was held in Fort
Worth recently in one of its leading
Protestant· churches, under the auspices
of something called "Protestants
and Other Americans for Separation
ol Church and State."
This group, we find, was set up to
fight the Catholic church and the
majority ol ils officials have long and
impressive Communist front records,
according to investigating committees
o! Congress. They include Edwin M.
Poteet with seven Communist front
citations; John A. Mackay, with seven;
Charles Ctayton Morrison with
four; J. M. Dawson with four; L. D.
Newton who was on the Committee
to welcome the Red Dean to this
country, as well as G. Bromley Oxnam
whose affinity for Red groups is
well known, and others.
Publicity for this POAU gang is
handled by Paul Blanchard whose
claim to fame is his published statement:
4'We will abolish the American
Constitution if we Socialists gain control
of America. We propose to accomplish
th is revolution peacefully if
the American power class will permit.
I think there should be some bloodshed.
The church's survival depends
on whether the military has the courage
to rise to the moral level of
Socialism."
We are not familiar with the beliels
of the Catholic church and do
not know what it has done to engender
hatred on the part of the
POAU outfit but, at least, we do not
believe that any group which favors
abolishment of the American form
of government is in position to cast
stones at others.
The host and all who attended the
meeting, in our opinion, have no
cause to be proud of their actions in
connection with the lamentable af.
iair.
What Goes On
Any Way?
Being of an enquiring nature,
we are eternally pondering questions
to which there seems no
answer.
One of the puzzlers constantly
stabbing at our consciousness concerns
the matter of the draft.
The United States is not at war
and the Congress has refused to
pass a Universal Military Training
law.
And yet, in peace time, young
men are steadily being drafted into
the Armed Services and reserves
are being ordered to report
for duty.
What duty? Where? Whose war
are they going to fight and where
does it concern us? Also, by what
authority does Selective Service
continue to draft young men when
Congress has not authorized them
to do so?
It is hard for us to believe our
own eyes when we read in the
press, as we did recently, that
the president will not "allow"
South Koreans and Nationalist
Chinese to fight Chinese Communists
in Indochina in the event of
intervention by this country.
Syngman Rhee is president of
South Korea and Chiang Kai-Shek
is the Generalissimo of the Nationalist
Chinese on the Island of Formosa
and, as such, would seem to
be the final authority as to the
disposition of their troops to points
affecting their respective safety
and national security.
As we understand it, it has never
Looks Like One of Moscow's
Promises Is to Be Fulfilled
Well, it looks like Russia is going
to keep one of its promises, at least.
It will be remembered by those
who have watched the progress of
Communist infiltration in this country
from way back in the Roosevelt
administration that Moscow put out
tracts along about that time promising
Southern Negroes a lot of things.
One of them was that the situation
would be reversed in the South after
the "Revolution" and that Negroes
would be the "masters." and white
people the servants.
Now we learn from an Associated
Press dispatch with a dateline from
Boston, center of American culture,
that the Pullman Company, the
nation-wide sleeping car service, is
planning to hire Negro train conductors
and white porters in future.
The article said that this agreement
stemmed Irom a complaint of a Negro
worker who had claimed he was
discriminated against by the Pullman
Company. The Massachusetts Commission
Against Discrimination came
into the picture with the result that
the 90-year rule of the Pullman
Company may be changed.
Apparently, the Massachusetts
Commission Against Discrimination
is concerned only in the colored race
and sees no discrimination against
white people under such an arrangement.
We don't know who owns Pullman,
but it would be interesting and instructive
to study the background of
characters who would make any such
concession.
been the policy for an American
president to dictate to any foreign
power as to whether they could,
or could not, prosecute a war in
which their own destiny was in ..
volved. We do not think that our
Constitution confers on an American
president any such right or
responsibility.
If we are undertaking to exer ..
cise authority over these two countries
because we have given them
money, how about England and
France who have gypped us out of
billions and who double-cross us
at the drop of a hat but, still, are
not told by us whether or not they
may fight when, where and whom
they please.
Maybe we are way off the beam
but, to us, the idea of Asians fighting
their own kind is far more to
be desired from the American
viewpoint than the prospect of
slaughtering or torturing young
American lads.
We are funny that way.
Why Talk About War
When We Have the U. N.
To Protect Us?
We are constantly being warned
by Washington officials of the
danger of World War Ill. This is
especia lly true when it is desired
to hand over big lumps of money
to some foreign country on the
ground that we are doing so in
self-defense.
What we would like to know is
why is there danger of a third
World War since we have the
United Nations to "prevent aggression
and maintain peace"?
If our leaders really believe in
the United Nations, they should
stop threatening us with another
war but, on the other hand, should
assure us that we have protection
in the United Nations into which
we are pouring millions of dol1ars
to insure that protection.
If they don't have faith in the
United Nations to save us from
World War III, then they should
say so and get us out of it fast.
We defy any human being to
prove that this is not a logical as"
The foreign policy of the Trusumption.
man administration was singled
out b;t the Republicans for special A press report from Washington
cnbc1sm durmg the ~ampa.rgn of predicts that Secretary Stevens
1952. After the Rep~bhcan v1ctory, ~f the Army will resign after the
our foretgn pohcy :va~ not McCarthy hearings. It pointed out
changed. We . ~re contmumg. to that Mr. Eisenhower was "seriousmake
. vast m1htary and foreign ly annoyed" because it was
co~mrtments largely through e~e- brought out that Stevens had "cocutrve
agreem:nts that have pm- operated" with Senator McCarthy.
ned us down mall parts of the Well the White House can take
world. O_ur fore ign p~licy IS as consolation in the fact that there
much an. ISsue t~day a~ m October, has been no cooperation from that
1952-~Id Hardm, Edmburg, Tex- source with the senator in his
as, radio commentator. fight on Communists in important
posts. Just the opposite. Washington press correspondents report
that the president will press for
a "liberalized" foreign trade policy
and a continuation of the Fair Deal
tariff policy of free trade, as opposed
to the traditional Republic protective
tariff. Generally speaking the free
trade policy is designed to help other
countries and a protective tariff
benefits American industries. It is
as simple as that.
The Illinois Congress of ParentTeachers,
the Chicago Association
of Commerce and the Chicago
Civic Federation have asked that
the fluoridation of water be held
up for further study. These groups
are concerned over the danger to
older people by fluoridat-ion of
water and pointed to various medical
authorities who oppose it.
May, 1954 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Page 5
FBI Information on Spies Was
Ignored hy Washington Agencies
There are a lot of people who seem
to resent the fact that an American
senator has the temerity to inquire
into subversion in government agencies
and into the Army and other
branches of our fighting forces as well.
Before they pop off and talk out
of turn, tl"\ese persons had better secure
a copy of Part 16 of the Jenner
Report on Interlocking Subversion in
Government Departments and acquaint
themselves with the facts.
They will find that the heads of
all government agencies, as well as
Army, Navy and Air Force heads
were warned by the FBI in some
cases as far back as 1945 about
suspected Communist spies in various
agencies and that they sat on the
information like it was top-secret,
instead of doing anything about it.
Beginning at the top, Harry Truman
was advised by the FBI not
only about Harry Dexter White and
Alger Hiss but scores of other suspected
Communists in strategic positions
but the information seems to
have disappeared into a pigeon hole.
Also, soon alter he became president,
MacKenzie King, Prime Minister of
Canada, made a trip to Washington to
inform him, Truman, of the confession
of Igor Gouzenko, Soviet code clerk in
Ottawa who told of a vast Communist
spy ring which was operating in
Canada and the United States and
which had a direct contact in the
office ol the American Secretary of
State.
All such information was brushed
aside by Pendergast's protege as a
"red herring."
Not only Mr. Truman but practically
all heads of the various agencies
of government and the armed services
were informed by the FBI, at one
time or another, of the names of
the many suspected subversives operating
in Washington but instead of
revealing or acting on this informa tion,
they developed a bad case of
lock-jaw.
Most of the heads of those agencies
are out now but responsible Washington
commentators tell us that the
policy-making personnel remains the
same and especially in the State
Department.
Here, according to the report of the
Jenner Committee, are a few instances
of warnings by the FBI of Underground
Soviet Espionage and some
of the agencies who received them:
The White House, letter to Harry
Truman delivered to George E. Allen,
December 16, 1946; White House, letter
to Harry Truman delivered to
liarry H. Vaughn, December 17, 1948.
Department of Justice, letter to
Attorney General delivered November
27, 1946; letter to Attorney General
December 2, 1946 and another
December 6, 1946.
Department of State. Letter to Secretary
of State delivered November
25, 1946; letter December 12, 1946,
J>ersonal1y delivered; letter to George
C. Marshall, December 21, 1948, delivered
to C. II. Humelsine for General
Marshall.
Department o! Defense. December
21, 1948, letter personally delivered
to Colonel Wood.
Department of Air Force. Letter to
W. Stuart Symington, Secretary, December
21, 1948 and one dated December
22, 1948, both delivered to
him personally. .
National Security Council. Letter
to Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers,
Executive Secretary, December 21,
1948, delivered to J. P. Coyne.
Atomic Energy Commission. Letter
to David Lilienthal, Chairman, personally
delivered to him December
22, 1948; letter to Administrator Lewis
L. Strauss, Atomic Energy Commission
and personally delivered to
him December 22, 1948. -
Department ol the Army December
21 , 1948. Letter to Major General
Stafford L. Irvin, Director of Intelligence
delivered to General Bolling,
Intelligence Division of the Army.
Department of the Navy. Letter to
Rear Admiral Thomas B. Inglis and
personally delivered to him December
21, 1948.
Department of the Air Force. Letter
to Major General Charles P. Cabell,
Director of Intelligence, and
personally delivered to him December
22, 1948.
Central Intelligence Agency. Letter
to Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter,
Director CIA and personally
delivered to him December 22. 1948.
With information by the FBI delivered
to all these department heads
years ago, why are not these agencies
clean as a hound's tooth so far as
Communists are concerned today?
And since they are not, why
shouldn't they be investigated and
why, in heaven's name, would they
object to being investigated if they
are sure of their ground and feel that
no Communists are being harbored
within their departments?
The truth is that the system is the
same and hasn't changed at all. New
personalities head the offices from the
White House down, but the policies
remain largely the same.
The Communist conspiracy is so
deeply involved with the Federal
government that it would take a
lifetime for all the angles to be
brought to light. Here's one small
and insignificant incident when
considered in relation to the more
far-reaching and important aspects
of Soviet penetration of the
American governmental set-up.
Harold Glasser, holding an important
job in the Treasury Department
was identified by former
Communist agents in sworn testimony
as a member of the Soviet
under~tround. And yet John Snyder,
Truman's Secretary of the
Treasury praised Glasser extravagantly
and expressed deep regret
when he resigned. Such cas~s
are multiplied by the hundreds m
information now being brought to
nublic attention.
Socialist politicians are undertaking
to set up a miniature T. V.
at Niagara Falls and Thomas E.
Dewey who back in 1949 was denouncing
competition by government
with private enterprise, is
spearheading. t?e. mov~ment for
this new Soc1ahshc proJect.
A New York friend suggests that•
the proposal to p a s s a . Constitutional
amendment perm1ttmg
eighteen-year-olds to vote will
probably be included in the fine
print of some fpre1gn treaty, such
as one with Thailand on the exchange
of rice, for instance. Could
be. Stranger things have happened.
Uflited Nations Experts Skip Ahead to
1984 and Ignore Present World Crisis
While the whole world seethes ---------with
hatred and unrest and as
diplomats flit from here to there
holding conferences, guess what
the United Nations has been doing?
That is the great world organization
that was going to prevent
aggression and insure world peace,
remember?
An Associated Press dispatch reveals
that its experts have been
busily engaged in the preparation
and publication of a 416-page book
called impressively ~<The Detriments
and Consequents of Population
Trends", just released to the
public.
In this book, the experts wasted
none of their valuable time considering
present world crises and
made no reference to efforts of
Communists to gobble up the
globe.
Instead, they concerned themselves
with the problem which will
confront us in 1984 when, they
predict, the world's population will
reach 4,000,000,000 with the possibility
that because of "ignorance,
greed, strife, superstition and
blind tradition" production may
not keep up with demand and
people won't have enough to eat.
That's an unhappy prospect, of
course, but since we don't expect
to be around to suffer from t he
1984 food shortage, we are irreverent
enough to ask why our
representatives_ in United Nations
don't yank the experts back from
their exploration of the dim and
distant future and demand that
they do somE: thing now?
Such, for instance, as informing
Russia that if she does not call
off her Chinese Communist dogs
in Indo-China, the full force of
United Nations' wrath will be
turned against her?
This was the idea advanced at
San Francisco in 1945 when United
Nations was set up by Alger
Hiss and his comrades.
This great world organization
was going to stop aggression ~nd
insure world peace and nothmg
was said about writing books on
who would eat what in 1984.
The "Schine case" illustrates forcefully
how agencies of government,
and the Army, can be, and are, rsed
as weapons for punishment. Since
we are not at war and there is no
general conscription of men, no person
in his right mind believes, for
a moment, that Private Schine would
have been drafted if he had not been
engaged in the work of the McCarthy
committee and was ixposing Communists
in critical positi9ns in the
Armed Services.
It will be interesting to see how
McCarthy-haters in the administra~
tion wiggle out now that it has been
disclosed that the White House advisers
started the whole proceedings
and that the "Nigger in the woodpile"
was Sherman Adams. McCarthy:
was going about his business of exposing
Communism until he got stopped.
Now we know who stopped him but
it will be a long time before the
whole story Is told.
Just to Keep the
Record Straight
According to the Associated Press,
the president stated on May 12 that
it was "reprehensible !or any Army
intelligence officer to have supplied
confidential information to Senator
McCarthy without authorization."
This was in reference to testimony
in the McCarthy~Pentagon hearings
to the effect that an Army intelligence
officer had supplied the senator with
classified FBI material.
As the average American understands
the duty of the FBI, it is to
compile information on subversives
and provide it to all responsible officials
of government, and if Senator
McCarthy is not a responsible official
of the American government and a
responsible representative of the
American people, then we haven't
any.
The only difference, according to
authenticated records, is that when
information from the FBI concerning
dangerous subversives goes to Me~
earthy, he does something about it.
When it goes to other agencies, the
recipients often hide it and pray that
it is never made public.
Any one who doubts this is asked
to read Part 16, Interlocking Subversion
in Government Departments,
Hearings before the S ubcommittee to
Investigate the Administration of tile
Internal Security Act and Other Internal
Security Laws, ol the Committee
on the Judiciary, United States
Senate. November 12, 17, 18, 23 and
December 2, 3 and 16, 1953.
They will find out what happens
to FBI reports when sent to some
places in Washington, and "reprehensible'"
doesn't half express it.
Three hundred CIO Unioneers
journeyed to Washington several
days ago and demanded of Congress
lower taxes for "lower
brackets", a raise in minimum
wages from seventy five cents to
a dollar and two bits higher
wages in general, more unemployment
compensation, a housing
program of two million units per
year, larger social security benefits
and a big scale public works
program. What, no gold-plated
bathtubs and diamond-studded
faucets?
Facts Forum, a radio and television
panel which gives listeners
both sides of important public issues,
applied to tke National Broadcasting
Company for permission to carry its
program over NBC stations. David
Sarnoff, board chairman of NBC said
"No." Certainly not. That would be
a violation of NBC's policy ot editing,
slanting and distorting all news,
views and discussions presented to
the American people through that
communications system.
There are two vast structures
in the United States which should
either be razed in the interest of
the national security or re-converted
to useful and peaceful purposes.
One· of these is the United
Nations building in New York and
the other is the Pentagon in Washington.
Pogo 6 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Moy, 1954
United States Must Withdraw From United Nations
By HOMER TOMLINSON
(Homer Tomlin110n i~ a Fort Worth publi11htr
aud ia one of the inerca.sin~~: numi)cr of _the
spiritual hour, I grasped their "Star
of Hope." On each and every trip to
New York following the actual signjog
at San Francisco I never failed
to set aside at least one day to sit in
on the United Nations sessions. I
went to Flushing. I went to Lake
Success-several times-! watched almost
!rom the day of ground-breaking
the construction of the present
magnificent United Nations building
in the heart of down town New York
--on the very site of the old New
York slaughter houses. I was there
when they first began to explain to
visitors from a little miniature model
erected in the main lobby. I have
bought copiously of their books in
their book store. I have listened to
their lectures. And I have thru the
years, painstakingly and with an open
mind and eager heart, studied its
who enter here must leave your nationality
outside."
li~~~~f~£]
"Whoever for any cause,
Sccketh to take or give
Power above and beyond our laws
Suffer it not to live.
"Holy State or Holy King
Or Holy people's will,
Have no truck with the senseless
thing
Call out the guns and kill."
These immortal lines of Kipling
depict more forcefully than any prose
ot mine the real issue lacing the
people of the United States.
There is a "thing"-a senseless
thing, to again borrow the words of
Kipling-that has now been let loose
which "seeks to take and to give
power above and beyond our laws,"
our municipal laws, our State laws,
our Federal laws and even our Constitution
- that instrument that
William Gladstone, British statesman
and prime minister, once called the
"most remarkable political document
ever produced by the human intcl-lcct."
"1 shall exert every faculty I possess
in aiding to prevent the Constitution
from being nullified, destroyed or
Jmpaired and if I should see it fall, I
would still, with a voice feeble perhaps,
but earnest as ever issued from
human lips, call on the people to
come to its rescue."
Those are the words ol Daniel
Webster. They are also my sentiments
and, I hope, of every true,
loyal citizen of the United States. For
make no mistake, that is the issue
in the question as to whether or not
we should remain in, or withdraw
from, the United Nations. The issue
is not do we want war or do we not
want war. Korea proved that! The
issue is do we want to live under the
United Nations Charter or do we want
to live under the Constitution of the
United States. We cannot live under
both.
I have watched the progress of
the United Nations :from its prenatal
beginnings at Dumbarton Oaks. I
think that in those early days there
was not a person in America who
looked with more longing eyes and a
tnore eager heart to the ''Star or
Hope" we were assured was rising
over the troubled horizon. I served
in World War I. I had two sons in
World War II, one in the Battle of the
Bulge in the Air Corps, another in the
Navy at Subic Bay in the South Pacific.
My daughter's fiance-now her
husband-was in the Battle of France.
I had two nephews in that conflict,
one of whom was killed in a bombing
mission over the Skagerrak ncar Denmark,
not to mention \'arious other
ncar and dear relatives and close
Irit.•nds
various raml!ications.
I cannot now recall the exact moment
when I first began to have misgivings.
I think it was when I stood
in line at the Cafeteria at Lake Success.
I watched while the paid Secretariat
ate lunch and took their noon
hour. Never in all my life have I seen
so many eyes with so many "gleams'' :
Were those eyes and tl\e souls behind
them drawn there to carry on the
creation of a new world of peace?
Somewhere in the back of my mind
a bell of danger began to ring, and
an uneasy feeling crept in. Why I
cannot exactly explain. All I can say
.for sure is that it did. It was not until
much later that I learned that this
staff-these people who actually DID
THE WORK of the United Nationswas
communist co:Q.trolled.
On another occasion when I visited
the United Nations, literally carloads
of books and pamphlets were stacked
out in the halls addressed and waiting
shipment to all the four corners of
the earth. I'm in the newspaper and
advertising business. I have been all
my lile. I know something about printed
matter, if I know anything about
anything. Well, I examined these pamphlets,
or at least the titles, etc., as
much as I could in the time at tny
disposal. I'm not too smart-I know
that-but as I say this is my field,
and I give my word that if there was
a single thing in any of these truckloads
of pamphlets that could be remotely
calculated to "prevent war and
keep the peace" I was too dumb to
catch it. Certainly the incident tended
to add to the misgivings that had
now begun to arise.
That was quite a jolt! I love the
United States-my Country-! wasn't
then-and ) am not now, about to
give it up for anybody's.
Well, along came Korea-with its
more than 150,000 American casualtics-
the third most costly war in
1ives and treasure ever endured by
the American people. And the only
one, incidentally, that we ever failed
to win. That I confess decidedly shook
my faith in the United Nations as an
instrument o! peace.
But I still clung to my faith-my
hope. Surely we needed something.
Maybe the UN wouldn't prevent war
as they told us it would. But at least
it showed to the good God in heaven
that we were trying-trying to make
the old world a world of peace. Maybe
even if it wasn't doing any good, maybe
it wasn't doing any harm. Oh, it
was costing us a pretty penny in
various ways, but what did that matter,
sorely taxed as we now are, if
there was even a glimmer of hope in
it-a hope for peace!
And so on that basis I stood firm.
I still feU that w~ had besl. string
along with the UN, and strl.ve to improve
it.
Then came this "New Concept of
Law'', as Frank E. Holman, past President
of the American Bar Association,
so a bly and a ptly describes it.
A concept which takes advantage of
what Senator Bricker describes as a
"loop-hole in our Constitution." There
is a provision in our Constitution,
Article VI-a provision which says
that "TREATIES ARE THE SU·
PREME LAW OF THE LAND." Un,der
that heretofore little used clause,
treaties by the hundreds, yes thousands,
are being ground out-treaties
and so-called executive agreements.
These treaties and executive agreements
are NOT subject to our Constitutional
Legislative processes. They
are not subject to review by the
Courts. They do not have to be passed
by the Senate AND the House and
then signed by the President: Oh no!
In the case of treaties the Courts and
t.he House are by-passed entirely. And
in the Senate only a two-thirds vote
of the Senators PRESENT and VOTING-
get that-present AND votingand
the signatvre of the P resident are
necessary. The record shows that several
treaties have been passed with
only one or two Senators on the floor.
The very important treaties with Turkey
and Greece were passed with only
three Senators present and voting.
In the case or Executive Agreements
we don't even have that little
protection. The President writes a
letter--or as a matter of practice, one
of his various aides writes a letterthe
President signs it-and Bingo,
you have another law!-A law that
supersedes all of our Fort Worth laws,
all of our Austin laws, a ll of our Texas
laws, all of our other State laws, and
Surely, I thought, there must be
some answer other than wnr ns a
solution to mankind's problems.
•·The United Nations is the Solution''
said those who were our leadt'rs
then. And eagerly in this darkest
These misgivings were heightened
later when I first stood befot:e the
beautiful model of the United Nations
set up in the uncompleted headquarters
building. There a very intelligent
young lady undertook to explain the
things to be found in the buildings.
She told us much. but two things
stick in my mind to this day. First, almost
every other room-ar so it seemed
from what she said-was to be a
cocktail room! Now don't misunderstand
me-some form of stimulat~t
may be necessary to relieve the tension
of prolonged sessions-but I confess
that I did begin to wonder if the
cause of peace was going to be furthered
to any appreciable degree, or
the threat of war abated by minds
addled and twisted by round alter
round of cocktails~ And second, she
left m)· wift' and me both with the
\'Cry df.'rinite impression that "all ye
our Federal laws-the Constitution
and the Bill o! Rights! Oh, they can
talk all they want, and they can "hem
and haw"' about what I've just said
(and the lawyers o! the State Department
and ti1e UN do talk and
hem and haw)-but as Senator Bricker
has said: "If they-these State
Department and United Nations lawyers
are right, then 90% of the rest
of the lawyers of the United States
are wrong.'"
I must confess that at this point I
began to shy clear away from the
United Nations. But hope springs
eternal! I say to myself that it's just
an oversight. That nobody, not even
the most devout lovers of the UN,
would want our own laws set aside
in favor of anybody's laws. They don't
want over-riding laws that can be
passed by the whim of any one manDictator-
like-regardless of who that
man might be. And certainly the
American people do not want to
eliminate the House of Representatives-
the body that is after all closest
to the people and most amenable to
their wishes. But did they? Did they
pass the Bricker Amendment? Did
they listen to Senator George? Did
they do anything-anything at allto
allay the nightmarish fears that
have come to dwell in the minds and
hearts of all of us who love America?
You know the answer as well as I .
They did not! At that moment I
realized what had happened-and I
NOW CONFESS IT! I HAD BEEN
DUPED: They had SOLD ME A BILL
OF GOODS: From that instant I have
known that there was but one thing
left, one course of action open to
those of us who love our Country and
who appreciate the priceless heritage
bequeathed to us by the sacrifices at
Concord, and Lexington, and Valley
Forge. The only thing left for us was
to withdraw from the United Nations.
To withdraw definitely, finally and
unequivocally .
I , therefore, want to present a Bill
of Particulars on which I base my
stand:
It is my firm conviction that we
should get out of the United Nations
NOW-before it is too late, first because:-
All available evidence indicates
that the Charter was, for all practical
purposes "conceived in Moscow," and
that its Chiei Architect was the convicted
perjurer and oft accused Com4
munist, Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss was at
Dumbarton Oaks where the Charter
was incubated. He was the man who
consulted about it in Moscow before
it was written. He was Secretary4
General of the meeting at San Francisco
at which the Charter was adopt·
ed.
Alger Hiss has publicly claimed it
as h is handiwork, and it was he,
Alger Hiss as its Custodian-Father
who flew it from San Francisco to
its home in Washington. 0! course
the Charter was the "work of many
minds," but the "words"' themselves
are l argely the words of Alger Hiss.
Any document with a parentage like
that is UNSAFE for the American
people to use as the supreme arbiter
of their destinies. For, as many believe
the ''hidden meaning'' oi many
words, surreptitiously inserted by
Alger Hiss, have not even yet come
fully io light.
We should get out of the United
Nations now because: Except in its
brief World Court Chapter, the late
Senator Arthur Vandenburg tells us
that "The Dllmbarton Oaks formula
from which the United Nations sprang
DOES NOT ONCE MENTION JUS·
TICE AS A GUIDING OBJECTIVE
OR AS A RULE OF CONDUCT."
Any instrument that thus ignores
"justice" is NOT a safe instrument
under which the American people
should be forced to live.
We should get out of the United
Nations because: The United Nations
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Senators Urge Break He Should Move to Mos(ow Rockefellow Foundation
With Soviet Russia Where His Sympathies Lie Form in Half Million
Runs
Dollar
True to
Grant
Senator William Jenner of Indiana
and Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada
have jointly demanded that the Congress
take action to effect a breakoff
in diplomatic relations with Russia
whose leaders they denounce as "vile
oppressors.''
They charged further that the
Kremlin has 20,000,000 spies spread
out in a deadly fifth column around
the globe.
The position of these two statesmen
is as sound as the American dollar
used to be but, unfortunately, for that
very reason, their remarks will be
ignored and their advice unheeded.
There are not enough red corpuscles
in Congress to inspire such a
fearless stand. Appeasement and acceptance
of insults is easier.
U. S. Must Withdraw
From United Nations
In a recent article in a weekly
magazine by a noted minister,
reference was made to a statement
by Dr. John A. Mackay
which appeared in the New York
Times May 30, 1953.
Dr. Mackay is the Moderator
of the Presbyterian Church and
author of the infamous "Letter to
Presbyterians" defending Communism,
broadcast to members of
that congregation and which was
violently protested by thousands
of that faith.
In his New York Times statement
Dr. Mackay said: "AntiCommunism
is just as dangerous
as Communism and sometimes
even more so".
That's laying it on the line, all
right, and leaves no doubt,. if
there ever was any, concernmg
his devotion as a citizen, his allegiance
to his own form of government
and his qualifications to occupy
an American pulpit.
(Continued From Page Six) tiona! Law at Columbia, tell it as he
is essentially a "War Baby." It was does in his book "A Modern Law of
~tncaei:~~ i:;::· ;;:.s b::~: ,~::; Nai~o~~~~ book he discusses what he
NOT normal. At a time when they calls an unavoidable collision between
were not capable of thinking and a Universal Bill of Rights and Article
reasoning sanely and dispassionately. 10 of the Draft Covenant of the UN,
I have all of the speeches of the which permits denial of right of trial
various delegates and dignitaries be- :~s~~ryU~n~r:a~~~lew~~c:f ;::v~:~:
fore, at, and after the Sessions at and I quote: "Trials shall be WITHSan
Francisco. A careful reading of OUT jury." That's what's potentially
these speeches proves this conclu- ahead of us on the right of trial by
sively. A document born under the jury, a right won in 1215 by ~~r
psychosis of war is NOT a safe in- ~onhg~o-;:x~~a:o~~~ca~~i~~mpl~li~ ~~s~
.strument under which we can afford outside London called Runnymede.
to trust our lives. On Freedom of the Press-another
We should get Out of the United fundamental basic right, always hereNations
because: It is NOT clear. tofore enjoyed in America since the
The American Bar Association, offi- days of Peter Zenger-listen to
cials of the UN, U, S. Senators, Article 14, paragraph 3 of one of
members of the House, Presidents and the Human Rights Covenant drafts.
Eleanor Roosevelt have been engag- It says:
ing in constant argument as to its "If necessary for the protection
meaning since the earli~st days of of national security, public order,
Dumbarton Oaks and these argu- safety, health or mor?ls, or o~ the
ments have continued ever since the rights of others, they (1.e., the n~hts
Charter itself was signed in San to freedom of press) may be with-
Francisco. After all this time they drawn."
are certainly no nearer to agreement As a publisher I assure you that
as to actually what the words in the no would~be dictator could ask for
United Nations Charter say, much a more effective club over the newsless
what they mean. I'm in the ad- papers of his country.
vertising and newspaper business, I But here's the real joker: Article 2
~~~1 i~:C~~ds;,N:V~rha~~i:e sas~in~h!~ say~:Maann~ I oiu~~~: rights ostensibly
what you write can be understood- guaranteed in the Covenant includ-
. always write so that it cannot be mis- ing freedom of the press, MAY BE
understood." I sat for one whole WITHDRAWN DURING AN EMER-afternoon
at Lake Success and heard GENCY, 0 F F I C I ALLY PRO-the
delegates of the various countries CLAIMED BY THE AUTHOR-argue
as to the meaning of "should, JTIES."
would, and will." To me those are In heaven's name how much pro-simple
enough English words. But tection is that? Surely it is in time
the delegates never could agree as of "emergency officially proclaimed"
to what the words meant. I sub- that the people most urgently need
mit that there is something radically the protection that Freedom of the
and fundamentally wrong with an Press gives them.
organization functioning under an as- On Freedom of Religion-and to
sortment of words that even the ex- us in the United States at least, th~t
perts cannot understand. Where does is the most vital right of all-for m
it leave "common folks like you and GOD WE STILL TRUST. On this
me?" We'd better get out now while point our Constitution says: "Conthere
is yet time, and if need be gress shall make NO LAWS .r~spectstart
all over again, and this time ing the establishment of rellg1on or
let the words be written by patriotic prohibiting the free exercise there-
~~e~fsa:~s:~?at~~-t by an Alger Hiss of.~hat does the UN Covenant say:
We should get out of the United Well it does NOT say "SHALL NOT."
~~~~o~s a~~ca~~=~ ;;es~~~~esth~~a/~~ It ~~~:~edom to manifest one's re-cur
basic rights guaranteed to us un- ligion SHALL BE SUBJECT ONLY
der the so~called Bill of Rights. In TO SUCH LIMITATIONS as are
our own Constitution the right of necessary to protect public safety,
trial by jury is unequivocally guar- order, health, morals, or the funda-anteed.
Under the proposed Cove- mental rights and freedoms of
nant Of Human Rights-well, let Dr. others."
Phillip Jessup, former representative And who pray is to judge as to
to the UN and professor of Interna- whether or not MY religion ~d the
way I want to worship is going to
endanger somebody's ''health or
morals"?
We should get out of the United
Nations because: The ILO-International
Labor Organization-thru its
conventions which threaten to act
as UNIVERSAL LAW-ties the laboring
man in the United States and his
high standard of living to that of
the peon laborers of the world whose
low production and correspondingly
low standard of living would be
devastating to the lives of all who
work in these l:ni.ited States.
We should get out of the United
Nations because: It destroys our
U. S. sovereignty, and sets up in
its stead a socialistic welfare world
State. The major cost of this part
of the program-some 70 per cent
ot it to be exact-is scheduled to
fall upon the already sorely pressed
Am< ..lX P; But to even
this we would not ~oo seriously object
if in fact a socialistic welfare
State ever had, in the entire course
of history shown any signs of permanently
or appreciably raising the
level of man's well being, Such a
Socialistic program would indeed ultimately
bankrupt the United States,
and a bankrupt United States would
be the greatest possible tragedy, not
only for ourselves, but for the entire
world.
To sum up: The United States
should get out of the United Nations
NOW-now before it is too late, now
before the United Nations Charter is
revised by One-Worlders, now before
man in this Socialized World~ Welfare
State is made, in truth and in fact,
a CREATURE OF STATE instead of
a CREATURE OF GOD.
This then is my bill of Particulars:
WE THEREFORE, as representative
citizens of the United
States of America here assembled
and appealing to the Supreme
Judge of the Universe for the
rectitude of our intentions, do
hereby solemnly publish and declare
that these United States are,
and of right ought to be, AGAIN
FREE AND INDEPENDENT:
that we are henceforth absolved
from all allegiance to the UNITED
NATIONS as now constituted,
and that all political connection
between us and the so-called
United Nations is, and of right
ought to be, totally dissolved, and
that once again, as a free and
independent sovereign nation, we
should again have full power
to levy war, conclude peace, contract
alliances, establish commerce,
control our own internal
domestic affairs, acknowledge
the existence and divinity of a
Creator~God, and to do all other
acts and things which we, as an
Independent Nation may, of right
do, under the terms of OUR OWN
CONSTITUTION.
AND for the support of this
Declaration, with a firm reliance
on the protection of Divine Providence,
a protection ignored in
the United Nations Charter-we
do mutually pledge to each other
our lives, our fortunes and our
sacred honor.
"For of what avail the plow or
sail
uor land or li!e if freedom fail."
The Rockefeller Foundation
which has billions of dollars to
give away and which enjoys a
Federal tax-exemption status, has
just made another grant.
In this latest donation the Foundation
runs true to form and maintains
a policy prevailing among all
the large Foundations, with the
exception of the Mellon Foundation
and a few smaller such groups,
who do not subsidize subversives.
The Rockefeller grant was for
half a million dollars to be used
in setting up1 not an American,
but a 11world1
' organization to be
called the "General Staff School
for the World's Army of Christians".
Its objective is declared to
be to pick a group of global leaders
to formulate strategy for
spreading modern religious doctrines,
and 11COmbatting current
ideological foes''.
Spelled out in plain English, it
means that the money will be used
in defense of the increasing num·
ber of ministers who have abandoned
the principles of the Bible
and who preach Socialism from
the pulpit.
The movement originated at
Union Theological Seminary, naturally,
and the head of it will be
Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, an old
and experienced traveller along
the Communist Front circuit.
We often wonder what would
happen if one of these large Foundations
should, through some error
of calculation, happen to finance a
movement intended to promote the
cause of pure, unadulterated
Americanism.
They would probably call a director's
meeting and cancel the
grant.
Speaking of "influence" on behalf
of privates in the Army, Walter Trohan
of the Chicago Tribune tells of
the son of Lewis Douglas, Truman's
minister to Great Britain during
World War II. Douglas didn't want
his son to go to Korea naturally, so
he began at the bottom and worked
~;:Y i i~~~~n ~~fl;n~~ ~~aeflb~~ ~~~ •
not go to Korea.
H. Struve Hensel, assistant Defense
Secretary who figures in the McCarthy~
Stevens, Cohn-Adams hearings,
was first appointed to high defense
posts under Roosevelt and continued
to serve in confidential positions
under Truman. On July 22nd
of last year, Eisenhower appointed
him as assistant Defense Department
General Counsel and he has recently
been promoted to Assistant Secretary
in charge of "international'' security.
Only a few top officials have been
removed from the State Department
and those who made policy under
Roosevelt and Truman are still there
acting in the same capacity, according
to Fulton Lewis, Jr., universally
respected news commentator.
When a newspaper editor attempt-ed
to probe into suspected Communist ...._
activities in Antioch College at Zenia,
Ohio, he was forced to suspend op~
erations. Editor Ralph Shupe says
officials at the college high~pressured
all his advertisers into withdrawing
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th':e C~~~uan~~~
Pagt 8 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE
We Me~sed Up Korea and Sidelines on the Fight That McCarthy
May- Repeat in Indochina Did not Start but Is Going to Finish
In view of the way we messed up
Korea, we would be rendering a service
to Indochina if we stayed out and
let them manage their own war.
We like the way this matter was
expressed by H. W. Totten, Sherman,
Texas, business executive who said
in a communication recently received:
''When we became involved in Korea,
the administration then in office
gave us the following reasons: First,
to contain Communism. Second, we
were under moral obligation to save
Korea. We accomplished neither pur-pose.
The Communists gained a decisive
diplomatic, as well as military, victory.
After losing more than 140,000
of our boys, being responsible for
killing and maiming thousands of
natives, then blowing their country
to bits, we left the Koreans to their
fate.
I! we should become further in~
valved in Indochina, what flimsy ex~
cuse can the present administration
offer?
"For years the French have exploited
the Indochinese. The majority
prefer Communism to the colonial
rule of the French. Are we goi,ng to
save the French from the Communists?
Are we going to save the loyal Indo~
chinese from the French and the
Communists? Or are we just going?
"Our leadership could simplify a
very complicated situation by insisting
that the French go home, giving
the Indochinese their independence.
Then Mr. Dulles, who loves to travel ,
could be parachuted into the trouble
area to negotiate a peace with the
two factions left in Indochina.
"If in reality further involvement
in Indochina is to relieve the tension
of a business recession, we Americans
prefer to weather a depression as best
we can rather than purchase another
business boom with the lives of our
sons."
Realizing that respect for the
Velde Committee has appreciably
diminished since its chairman al~
legedly consulted with certain groups
who are responsible for much of the
subversion which his committee is
investigating, we hope that he makes
a satisfactory explanation of his ac~
tion or that he is replaced. There
may have been justification for his
conduct which the public does not
understand but it is his responsibility
to clear it up or step aside. In view
of widespread suspicion of his motives,
the former excellent work of
his committee will be greatly impaired.
Repeated exposures by the FBI of
subversive activities on the part of
top treasury department officials
failed to result in the firing of a
single one of them, Senator William E.
Jenner, chairman of the Senate Internal
Security S u b com m i t tee,
charges. Seven different reports were
furnished by the FBI on Harry Dexter
White and then he was not fired
but promoted.
For the life of us, we cannot understand
why an American Secretary
of State should be consta{ltly traipsing
all over Europe begging, pleading
and imploring nations over there to
take steps to save themselves. To us
it is about as futile as the attempts
of an evangelist to rescue a "fallen
woman" who has no desire whatever
to be rescued.
McCarthy, with the dogged determination which has made him
the Nemesis of Communists outside, and sympathizers inside, the ad~
ministration:-refusing to yield an inch until he had clearly made his
point ..... McClelland of Arkansas and Jackson of Washington
making grandstand plays to the folks back home . . ... Stuart Symington's
inability to forget for a moment his desire for nomination to the
presidency on the Fair Deal ticket .•••• Jenkins' jutting jaw in com~
parison with Stevens' receding chin ...•. Cohn'S obvious devotion and
loyalty to his Chief ...•. The unfailing courtesy and unshakable poise
of "Private Schine" ..•.. Dirksen's flawless English and perfect diction
employed far too seldom in protesting obvious campaign speeches
of his colleagues ... .. Counsel Welch of Massachusetts who constantly
attempted to be witty and only succeeded in appearing ridiculous ....•
The Pentagon brass flanking Stevens' rear, with the military bearing
and haughty mien of pompous jackasses ....• Mundt's obvious attempts
to make rulings which would commit him to nothing ..... The
pitiful spectacle of a Senate Committee under attack by Communist
forces and too weak to stand united and fight the charges like men and
statesmen . ....
It has been difficult in the extreme for the American people of
average intelligence to accept the fact that the important work of the
McCarthy sub-committee of the Senate looking into Communist in~
filtration of the government, the Army and defense plants is being held
up while a whole battery of legal talent, delves into the monumental
mystery of who shined Schine's shoes and who cut whose face from
what picture.
So far as we can discern, the hearings to date have had two results,
one good and one bad.
Americans who have watched the proceedings on television have
learned with amazement that they can put no dependence whatever
in their local newspaper in the matter of accurate information when
that paper depends on the Washington news services for coverage.
Any acute observer watching the proceedings and listening to
them over television and reading a report later in their newspaper got
the impression, in many instances, that two different hearings on the
same subject were being conducted, so totally at variance was the news~
paper report with the actual truth.
This has been going on for years and slanted, biased and often
outright false information has been disseminated by controlled press
services, radio broadcasts and other communication mediums to fur~
ther the overall propaganda program to such an extent that it has become
accepted procedure. We are glad the general public has now been
let in on the deal.
Storms of protest were sent in to local editors who were not always
to blame except for having subscribed to these press associations who
provided them with misleading information. In some cases, local
editors had to refuse to accept any more telephone calls from irate
citizens who had viewed the proceedings and wanted to know what
the deal was.
To that extent, the hearing has been beneficial.
The disservice suffered by the nation through the proceedings
lay in the fact that top-bracket Communists, and their allies in Washington,
achieved ~heir purpose which was to stall off McCarthy's probe
of Communist activity by tying him up in this hearing.
It was especially desired to hold him back from exposing the details
of a big scandal in Alaska on which his agents have been working,
the discloS\Jres of which would topple some big reputations in Washington,
including those of some professional advisers to presidents and
counselors on World Government.
It is known that McCarthy was gathering information on the extremely
ugly situation there but that the statute of limitation would
run oUt soon so far as punishment for those involved was concerned.
So a hearing which would not only check McCarthy's probe into
Communist infiltration of the government, the army and defense plants
but would also throttle his Alaska investigation for the time being,
seemed like a good idea and it worked. In this way, the Reds accomplished
their major objective thanks to assistance by high-ranking personalities
in Washington.
This cunning little conspiracy was directed not only against McCarthy
but, indirectly, against the membership of the whole investigating
committee but instead of presenting a solid front in protest
against the conspirators, many of its members fell right in with it and
saw in the hearing nothing more than the opportunity of a lifetime to
poke their puss at the camera.
Left to his own devices, McCarthy could, single-handed and alone,
handle the situation as it relates to treason and Communist conspiracy
against the United States and he was doing a swell job of it.
Whether he can continue to perform effectively if he is to be
constantly ganged by Soviet sympathizers in Congress, in the State
Department, in Americans for Democratic Action, in the Army, on the
White House advisory staff and elsewhere, is a question which only un~
folding events of the future can answer.
Texas Church Women Are
Guilty of Common Error
The good ladies of the Texas Council
of Church Women, at a meeting
sometime ago, vigorously opposed a
proposal by Governor Allan Shivers
to outlaw the Communist Party in
Texas, a suggestion which was later
written into law at a special session
of the Legislature.
"We refuse the assumption of guilt
by association and of intention by
implication" the ladies' resolution
stated in the highflown terms whlch
we seem to remember as having been
used by some other certain groups
lately in eXpressing disapproval ol
attempts to dislodge Communists from
important posts.
A good lady in Yoakum, Texas, who
is not involved with any subversive
church groups, immediately put the
question to them through the press u
to whether or not they would con ..
sider the driver of a get-away car in
a bank robbery, guilty of complicity
in the robbery, or would they ab~
solve him from all blame and regard
him as a victim ot "guilt by associa·
tion"?
The tragedy of all this is that these
women who inferentially defend Communists
aod oppose efforts to expose
the Communist menace in this coun·
try, probably have no intention what·
ever of doing that.
They sim!Wy do not know what they
are dojng and were talking when
they should have been listening.
We are living in perilous times
which call for deliberate and profound
thought and it is dangerou:t:
for any group to speak first and
think afterward.
Communists First Entered
Country Through Open
Door of White House
Information brought out by the
Jenner Sub-Committee of the
Judiciary on Internal security reveals
that the first Communist
cell in the United States was set
up in 1933, soon after Franklin D.
Roosevelt was inaugurated as
President of the United States.
This cell was located right in the
nation's capital and had as mem·
bers, or working in conjunction
with it, many high officials in
government agencies especially in
the State and T€easury Departments
and had contacts employed
in the White House.
It will be recalled that along
about this time, Eleanor Roosevelt
was consorting with Communist
Youth Groups and inviting so
many card-carrying party mem·
bers and sympathizers to the
White House that they practically
fell all over each other in the rush
to get in.
Franklin and Eleanor sowed the
wind and we are now reaping the
whirlwind and we can no longer
refuse to face the fact that a
President of the United States and
his wife first opened the door to
the enemy which is now terrorizing
the world.
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