Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

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Swing 12 It is simply a case of wide-spread misunderstanding. That misunderstanding can be corrected because the people of this country, the rank and the file of them in the shops and on the farms, they love this country just as deeply and as fervently as you do and as I do. They will not deliberately destroy it. They simply don"t know the real America has had no voice in the last twenty years. On the contrary, practically all of the channels of publicity and advertising and Radio have been slanted towards the cow concept, towards the numbing of the American sensibility to freedom. Every time a new evil appeared in our society, there has been a call for more and more government to salve and suture it. This governmental medicine is a narcotic. Every dose you administer calls for two doses next time until the American people are drugged, benumbed and helpless. The pat answer to our plea for the Blueprint, is Russia. We are all properly concerned about Russia, and so the justification for this despotism says that we can defeat despotism in Moscow, only by establishing despotism in Washington. That is a selfevident falsehood. IN Moscow you have the climax of all-powerful despotic government. That's all Communism is — completely unrestrained government. When we establish an unrestrained government here, we will not have defeated Communism. We will have surrendered to it, and nobody knows that better than the Communists. How has Russia made her con-» ' quests? Within the last six years II Russia has captured six hundred mil j i lion people, and with those six hun'j '■ dred million people, fifteen separate 1 1 ' nationalities have disappeared behind 1 the Iron Curtain. This is the greatest 1 conquest of humanity in all history. ! 1 How did Russia do it — by dropping bombs and launching ships and march ' ing men? No, not a man, not a ship, ! not a bomb. Russia took Czechoslova i kia with Czechs. Russia took Hungary I with Hungarians. Russia took Ru I ' mania with Rumanians. Russia took' Bulgaria with Bulgarians. Russia took i China with Chinese. Russia intends C to take America with Americans, and Russia will succeed unless we gal' lie vanize ourselves into a firm protec j v tion of our Constitutional system. At Notre Dame a half dozen years \\ ago, a very wise, notorious and thor' 1 oughly repentant ex-Communist quite ' casually gave me the cue for resistance to Communistic advances. He said: "Never worry about conspira' torial Communistic conquest in Amer' j ica as long as you maintain your Constitutional system intact." Russia's pattern of conquest, he said, is no top secret. First of all they get the police. Then after the police, they terrorize the ballot boxes and thus win the revolution by a great unanimous election. Since then, ex* actly that has happened in all of the countries, the roll of which I called just a moment ago. It happened just j exactly as he predicted it would. When the Communists come to the United States, they are frustrated, he said. Why? Because they find the police separately controlled in forty