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Copyright 954TUE ALLIANCE, INC.

NEW YORKFIRST PRINTING JUNE 1914

SECOND PRINTING JULY, 1914THIRD PRINTING OCTOBER, 1954


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ForewordThere is a story about a king, in ancient times, who

of his subjects. As was the custom in those days, thechance to fight an adversary chosen by the king,King's Champion. Should the subject win, then hefreed.So the knight dressed himself in full armor, - sworand hauberk and was placed in a room to awaitThen the king filled the chamber with fumes of poisonsuccumbed to an invisible enemy. Poison was the KinToday the people of the United States are being streatment. They have been armed with Atom Bombships and planes all the paraphernalia of modern win their own home they are being exposed to the pfumes by the communists, and spread bvinnocent, and many far from innocent.

For this r e a ~ o n ALLIANCE, INC. is having the folMr. Kornfeder printed for two classes of people; first thave had the suspicion for a rong time that some very sto take over and remake the United States in the formThe other Americans that we are making this brochuAmericans, who believe they are loyal, but who have the constarit reiteration of falsehoods. For these twoMr. Kornfeder's brochure is a UST in reading. Step byshows that it is certain and sure that we are engaged in the United States at the present time. It is not justbetween liberal and conservative. To explain this, let's


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the State Department staffed the Korean War. Ththe fighting out in the front lines in their communiare not the hard core of communists themselves, thour soldiers in Korea, have been propagandized inwhich does not exist. In this case the army consistsgentsia, business men trustees of the foundations, the great newspapers, particularly the daily newcoast and even, I am sorry to say, many of the cschools educating our clergy.

Instead of calling this propaganda, we now knowand that s a very good name, indeed, for it. f yoarticle carefully you will see how this brainwashinby dupes who do not even know that they are enThese dupes, however, have been brainwashed very cessfully, by the hard core of communists who have ikey positions and actually are employed by and paid

An excellent example of this s the Carnegie Founwere the trustees, they were men of wonderful businelawyers, splendid philanthropists high-minded pduped into hiring Mr. Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss directthese people. Even today most of them are totally uwere brainwashed.

Mr. Kornfeder has produced a new simile differeas apt. He compares the vast communist infiltrascheme to an orchestra. The hard core of the Commductor of this orchestra.Anyone who has ever witnessed the playing of athe only thing that you can see of the conductor shis face after he has started the symphony. You only

he looks like, when the symphony has been successfulto face the audience. Pray God that the Communist


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who belong to the labor unions, in order to form one phony of political warfare.

' 'he Kremlin conductor is very clever in letting ehe is the whole show instead of only a part of the wtoo, each participant is much like an instrument plThe man playing the violin does not watch the notes ocymbal or the double bass. He often hardly hears tso absorbed in his own works that he could onlyand watch his own sheet of music while he is playingleader knows what each player is doing, and fits pscheme.

I can think of no better way for anyone in this cpolitical warfare is, and how t is being carried on, thafeder's pamphlet. I have read many books on communon absolutism of various sorts, whether Hitler s or Mbut I have never seen it so clearly and so concisely explby Mr. Kornfeder. It is my hope that this article will b

and prayerfully, and that those many will see tread it and understand it, and take such action to savstill can.

ARCHIBAPresiden


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About the AuthJoe Kornfeder is the modern Johnny Appleseed

nature of Communist Political Warfare. He has breadth of our Nation, sounding the alert and unvof the war raging in our midst.

Descending from Slovakian peasant stock, Joseph way, reflects the merging of European thought withForced by cruel circumstance to wander homelesthroughout Europe, from the age of twelve, Kornfedphilosophies which would appeal to a youngster shunger and despair. Socialists, Syndicalists, Anarchof other depressive political philosophies had their ef

Arriving in the United States at the age of eialready a full-fledged member of the InternationaAfter the Russian revolution he became a charter meican Communist Party in 1919.In rapid succession he rose to positions of high ldescribed by ex-communist Ben Gitlow as the Amknew Stalin better than any of the others. s a

American Secretariat of the Communist Internatiofeder was able to observe and participate from a hightions of the monstrous Kremlin-directed political wcriminal intent and at top levels reflecting cold, evof all ideological Marxist language and camouflage.Kornfeder once related that at a small meeting

explained that we will make the cold practical decfancy covering and then we send them on to the AcadThese word mechanics will give these decisions, nothe proper Marxist language. Such cold and soullesdisillusioned a man who followed the Marxist line o


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(A Study of Communist Psycho-WStates)

y JOSEPH Z KORNFEDERormer member o the Anglo-American) munist Interoational, ana graauate o theof Political SU Yersin Warfare, Moscow, U

TH TERM BRAINWASHING is aCommunism and was brought over by Ed. Hunter,the subject. The term is so illustrative of the ideologticed by Communists all over the world that it stuck toBrainwashing is a process by which all the ideas,traditions, which one may have in one's head are takethe ones the Communists want to put into it.The most completely brainwashed person is acommunist and the Chinese (Mao) copy thereof. Astill are deemed to have capitalistic illusions andof thought. Even in Russia and China, the remnants


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method, but only with certain phases of it, particupractices in the United States and the effect on theto current issues.If for example, you happen to have a favorable Senator McCarthy is doing, how could you have of your head and substituted by a hostile one? Orwell of our social system, how could that belief be uuntil you become neutralized and eventually eveof the system? To nibble on your mind or soften ithe big operation is an essential part of brainwashin

To carry through such an operation, one must hacommunists or fellow travelers, in a position to do sosaid and written about this subject as to how it is dlevel. This is an effort to trace how it is done in thMc arthy and Mc arthyismIt is not intended here to go at length into the Mretary of the Army controversy, because that controoutgrowth of a more fundamental fight going on be

The reason Senator McCarthy has become a prefor the smearers is that he bearded the enemy in iof operation the government and because he hahis charges which has mass appeal.

McCarthy, therefore, has become a thorn in the fernment minded crowd left of center, including thelow travelers, Marxian-Socialists, New Dealers (Fabcan and Democrat - plus center liberals in the EisThis is the most formidable combination ever sparkagainst one individual.

Could there not be something wrong with McCaother committees investigating communism? Of cand in my opinion there is. What is often wrong


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wise, past and present, on the big newspapers, who fbehind the brainwasher's smear orchestration, and thashall deal with now.

Influence by IndirectionWith all the big news services and newspapers owcorporations, how could the communists and their felloin there and use these opinion-forming enterprises for

It does not seem _Hollywood too, was a private capitalist enterprise,did get in there and by organizational pressure exerted inand scenario writers, studio unions, artists and directoactivity, during which some of the big studios becameof the communists. Yet during all that time not a singlefilm was produced. There were, however, hundreds of our history, our political, economic and social institusowing distrust, cynicism, decrepitude and general demour youth and the populace in generaL This was dobrainwashing methods into the dialogue or scenes of tthe films, slanting it as it were, to suit communist pu

The story of communist infiltration amongst the clergthere, too, their methods are to conquer by indirectattacking religion outright, but by interpreting relievent and twisting the Bible to suit their purposes.religious reformers instead of performing as communistsAny active union man could tell you that communistnever sail under their own colors, but always pose asor as a progressive or a liberaL In short, they mergethe environment in which they operate and proceed frfind their pattern of operation on the newspapers, rasimilar communication media, it is in keeping with the

Capturing the ommanding Height


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cede, if not predetermine, military ones. Without tshalls, there would not have been a Valu Sanctuabattle is being fought over what appears to be dimvant; so is the fact that innocents get drawn into political warfare that this be soSubversive political warfare has no boundarieswear uniforms. It is Satanic in its deceptiveness aular issues for unpopular purposes. It must be dein the innocents since without them it is like bone

In short, the communists have been busy for yeapublic opinion forming media - a secret operatiomaking skillful use of same.The Infiltrators Footprints

t may be said that my assertions sound plausibalready know about communist methods, but that the newspapers, radio and TV are concerned, nothiTo which I say: The proof is there but no ontrouble to dig for it. Infiltration in government, tobefore the proof thereof was forthcoming. As to is considerable of it right now in a book known as

That the infiltration exists is, of course, obviofootprints are all over the map. The Congressionaling Communism from the very beginning (1938) brainwashers and it made no difference who hewhether it was Martin Dies or Pat McCarran (Thomas, Harold Velde, William Jenner or Joseph M

The same group did a brainwashing on our Chinquickie demobilization and bring the boys backWorld War II. In its varied, devious ways it is stiforeign policy here and abroad, be it by exaggeraand emphasizing our alleged weakness, or playin


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which, i things were in their normal course, could andone without any hullabaloo whatsoever involving no qism. The Armv "brass." notoriously ignorant of comm

Assuming, however, that the Senator had exerted personal "favors" for Private Schine as such, that, twhat it is, is not an uncommon practice and certainly to block the Senator's activity against infiltration ancountry into a tailspin over it.

The cause for the big uproar must therefore be sreaches of "politics" and not in mere "favors" to Prthat General George C. Marshall's reign in thethe "honeymoon" of communist infiltration in the

the "Marshall Boys" are still thick in the Pentagon. Cthey are out to get McCarthy before he them? It isnot like his poking around in their honor-encrusted sawould be more natural than to climb on the already wagon against McCarthy and having nothing substantia big case out of nothing?It is not the first time in history that big forces anhiding behind small "incidents" and small arguments,to usher in consequences. Bel1iIld McCarthy with is awakening to the CommuniSt menase,fused by biggest, best organized, and most skillful chine the world has ever known.Against McCarthy is the old combination of appe"containment" artificers, et al With communists and sodrivers, somewhere in the "center" leaning towards side is a portion of the Eisenhower Administration, brtesting the political weather with Stevens as a trial b


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How Leftism on the Newspapers s Communists are nothing if not organizers; in forganize. So let us have a look at how this particula

tion is organized:As early as the mid-twenties, the Communists go

out in the midwest (Chicago) known as the Fedeassociation was originally organized by independe

Federated was servicing a lot of small papers, When the communists got hold of the Federatedits outward independent character; but on the contto their purposes. One of the adjustments consisteding the service to the labor, Negro and language pricing the radical press of all shades.Moscow, of course, was immediately interested aFederated with Tass, the Soviet News servicebecame available to enlarge it and keep it going. It

center for the communists in the newspaper world,school for the communist news crowd learning- how to slant the news, bolster up the Party li

ported fronts and individuals and organize a casmear of those who block the Party's objectives.

Years later (1937) came the organization of thethrough it the communists moved into the news fieldmunist effort through the Federated reflected thmovement and was limited more or less to minoThrough the Newspaper Guild the communists mopress itself. Those were the days of the red honeyDeal. Infiltration was conducted on a large scale alldevice was a big operation even for those days.

It was an idea which combined the need for a pfor reporters, a political ten-strike for the communrelations needs of the New Deal all at the same tim


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To complete the picture it is necessary to show Min this type of operation, which centers in Tass, the in Moscow. Tass is far from being a mere news agthe Kremlin's world-wide agitation department in thespionage on the side.Propaganda is primarily the function of the Commmore direct affiliates, and deals largely with indoctrinwashing. It is designed to reach the thousands. Agitatifunction of popularizing the propaganda slogans and dthe millions; Tass specializes in the art of agitation,emotion (hatred), to sow suspicion and discord (demdistract or divert the enemy. t softens up the mind.Originally all this art in propaganda and agitation to take over the left element amongst the populatwenties, Tass began to concentrate on the big dbought into or bought out, through third parties, poEurope and Asia, and operated them under the cover liberal or progressive labels. The object was to confand influence the middle classes. The Welt m bentype of paper, very much akin (in later years) to PMand Ce Soir in Paris.

Anti-Fascism (the popular front) and the War Albroadened the opportunities of penetrating the bigdiscreetly, but invariably, as the coordinating and direthe penetration of the big press is the main and mostKremlin's psychological warfare machine. t is theNationalism (of anti-Americanism and neutralismlation of dissension within. Unfortunately the West idangers of this type of infiltration.Wheels Meshing Into Other WheelNow that we have seen the outer pattern, let us havworkings. All of this type of operations have a commo


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In the form of concentric circles, one meshing inlook as follows:

The same pattern operates amongst the writers ohard core there may be only a few hundred Party mthousands of writers, but they, plus several thoare the reliables to set the tone of a campaign, witpicks up speed and scope.

On a narrow issue, like the defense of a lone Comay never go beyond the fellow travelers and the sOn a broad issue, like McCarthy, it will not ocircles, but spill over into the general public.

The mechanics to set this into motion are simp


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Lt c us take the Rosenberg case (Ethel and Julius Rthe country in a tailspin for a number of weeks. Tomuch happened. The Communist press was silent on thbut desultory mention of it in the big press as a whole.spies the Rosenbergs were, could not make up its mt was not an easy case. The two were obviously guilty

and another propaganda disadvantage was that they months passed without the "orchestration" being swunThen Moscow moved, and with a case of spies whman's book, the Rosenbergs acquired the aura of "viperialism" allegedly framed and murdered by Wall Swere held all over the world, mass petitions were orgawords were printed. In the United States, several thouspetitions for the Rosenbergs.The various pieces of the "orchestra" played diffeThere was the communist press, which, in spite of t

due process," claimed throughout that the RosenbeThat, of course, was good enough for communists andin the face of overwhelming evidence, such an approaeffect on the sympathizers and liberals. For them, the pwas too severe and should e commuted to life imprwith as treason in peace time, was the thing that took hthe non-believers n the death penalty, whatever the cthe humanistic appeal of the two being parents, wasthe "orchestration" served everyone with his own pras as they all joined the parade for the Rosenberg

In the McCarthy case, the staging and sequences werThe situation was not one of "defense" but of attack.McCarthy, with the "audacity of the unawares" (1the Commanding Heights," the State Department. Nhad said was new - there was no more "news" in wha


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a sharp right and left division in a country, then inleft side of the camp, in preparation for the takcircumstance gave it the opportunity to do some Deal, but that was an unclear situation loaded wittry was, as it were, bewitched into it by a charm

man named Roosevelt.f around the McCarthy issue a clearer divisionall the New Dealers, Republican and Democrat, led

Acheson, Dewey, Ives, and others, on one side; and Bran, and McCarthy, on the other, with the communiselers being allowed to hide and hibernate inside ththen be a situation comparable to England, with theLabor Party.

f in the process of helping to bring about such a swould have to take a back seat or even be battered aall be part of the play. After all, in all wars there muMoving from high strategy down to the practicathe orchestration would line up as follows: New ancrat and Republican) are against McCarthy becaexposed their treacherous collusion with the commuagainst McCarthy because they were part of the Neare against him for the same reason, and that, of coulican liberals associated with the New Deal andwho resent McCarthy continuing to rattle the red sment closets.

The communists, who are, of course, the most interand also the best organized, are willing (thr

on the newspapers) to serve each of the anti-McCaown cup of tea sugared to their own taste.Did not Lenin himself say nearly 30 years ago, ttake advantage of every crack and crevice in the enmove in. Also, that In the stmggle for power, on


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ism to Fascism. McCarthy, of course, has no social dozation (Fascist Party) to seize power, both of which aacteristics of Fascism, as they are also of Communismtion, like so many others, is, of course, a fraud. But withs what serves the cause and fraud s that which hinnot let a thing like truth stand in their way.

Two decades of agitation against Fascism has creaton the subject. The word Fascism stands as a symbos reprehensible. f the labd can successfully be tackedor organization, the smear job s more than half done.Fascism has certain derivatives, like thought control, political police, or muzzling the opposition, all of whicthey ascribe to McCarthy, Jenner and Velde a psyctheme of attack which has bandwagon possibilities.

This type of attack presumes, of course, that withDealers they have sold us on the alleged difference bCommunism, a theme according to which Capitalism ewhile Communism evolves into a more perfect Demopictured to represent two opposite poles of developmeof course, no such qualitative difference between FascisBoth represent a reactionary despotism based on aJust the same, this propaganda hoax still has many mthe communists still draw on this background deposit.

Talk Fascism to a Jew, for instance, and he willSemitism, and even though McCarthy has Jews on hisCohn, the chief counsel, the Fascist label hung on Mhad a considerable effect amongst the Jews.

For those who may not go along with the direct attaing Committee, an oblique attack (flank movement)

The oblique attack s concentrated on the methods the alleged brow-beating of witnesses or the smeand of which McCarthy, in particular, s alleged to be


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That does not mean, however, that they do notadvocate. On the contrary, it is a keystone in their wfor power.To bring about a withdrawal of support fromto be able to hurl the masses against the system, tPlebs and crowd the ruling (elite) classes; henfor more and more power to the masses in the nawas the meaning of the N.R.A. and the Wagner LaRoosevelt, and the discriminatory legislation againsists. Such, in fact, are the characteristics of all totatarian movements.After the conquest of power, the Plebs are demis concentrated back into the new elite (the Partyliquidated. Russia is a classic example of both of thof course, was not a full Fascist or a Communist;of their methods.In destroying a system, the more freedom one Only then can one tune up the full brainwashingadvantage of all suspicions, hates, illusions and enemies, widen the rift amongst them and make allin mind that the allies one makes today may have

Don t Do As I Do; Do As I SThere is in political warfare that which Stalin and that applies to psychological warfare or brainwsary is merely an opponent, not an enemy, onby the Marquis of Queensbury rules. f one's oppoever, who discards the Queensbury rules, we, atdo the same.In Stalin's style of work, there is no such thinor even dissenters ; there are only enemies andor deviation even within the Communist Party. ICommunists want unlimited freedom of action,


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that the Senator not only live up to all the customaryin Senate investigations, but that he be denied even tmore latitude to be given communist witnesses at thefully in consonance with the Kremlin's "style of work."

What makes the Senator "bad medicine" is that by their own book, he has stumped them and their stoogesThat the New Dealers" also borrowed heavily from tcommunist allies has been obvious for a long time. Hoactually are by unfair methods, provided they are inseen from the following by Felix Frankfurter, cited in aLawrence in the Washington Evening Star of March

The well-organized effort to destroy the man whforefront of the battle against Communists in Govemunistic influence in the making of American forebe explained away as simply a justified reaction or pmethods of a United States Senator growing out ofner of handling witnesses or his flair for getting his nlines.

"All such objections put together cannot explainof them are in direct conflict with what was being sasame groups and their spokesmen when similar min Congressional hearings in the past and when vainvestigating committees of Congress, equally brusqueduring the last 20 years.

It was Felix Frankfurter, now a Supreme Courta professor of law and sometimes referred to as thliberalism, who derided the objections of conservatiregarded as violations of privacy by congressional cotions. In an article contributed to the ew Republiczine, on May 21, 1934, he wrote:

'The question is not whether people's feeling


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he Battle for the SymboPsycho-warfare s the servant of political warfaof conquest. All wars are dirty and brutal; so s t

are governed by certain key concepts. The differenthe others s that it seeks first of all to possesMan's conduct is governed or influenced by cwhich are expressed in symbolic words. The wordwhole complex of concepts; so does the word

fabric of thought and behaviorism s conditioned bolic patterns.n the mid-thirties, Moscow's psycho-warfare possibility of unhinging this Free World psychthemselves, as it were, on to it a Trojan Horsof psychology.t would lead far afield to go into this subjectwould be in place.

Ever since 1935, the communists have been talSocialism or Communism and more and moreand their orchestration alleged that theirs s a supthe masses (workers and peasants) owned all meanhoax of equating state ownership with ownership b

Out of this semantic corruption of the symbol so-called People's Democracies of today. Thus theformerly associated with certain basic rights of thcharacteristic of western government, now represecepts. The brainwashers have not yet completely ca term, but it s not any more an ideological solid, syn the last nine months, starting as if on a sign

made to the Soviets, t s not anymore Communinot Communism we are fighting, but Russia ; nosians. This switch around in targets from commof course, of utmost advantage to the Kremlin, tend


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Diuersionism onjuring p of EnemLet me cite another item of importance in Moscostrategy.This has to do with "diversionism" to divert onfrom oneself onto someone or something else and menergies and resources fruitlessly. Stalin has contributedrefinements of this particular black art, to the point oto build up our enemies and destroying our friends.One of the oldest and most fallacious theories assiduoumunist "brainwashers," is the "full belly versus Communmisery, they say, do away with want, raise the standardwill be no Communism. It is a song in the name of wh

and is still spending billions, and yet Communism growis this?The answer is very simple. The condition of one's anything, to do with what ideas you or the other fello

How else could one account for the fact that thousanintelligentsia, from writers, actors, to scientists and prcommunists and fellow-travelers, while millions of workerresist the lure?The "hungry belly" theorists, in this case New Deale

Democrat), and many others, accept the premise not of munist propaganda, namely, that Communism, afterCapitalism, in spite of all the facts to the contrary. Othe.the reality that C a p i t a l i ~ m with all of its faults, is superwhy should a hungry belly wish to be more hungry by goThe answer is entirely in the field of Communism's sthe field of psycho-warfare (a play of mirrors on youby the process of distortion, falsification and smear, the v

are discredited and in reverse, by equally false methoCommunism are magnified. Thus the discontented of t"voluntarily" to walk the plank with assistance from


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Thus, by making a Tower of Babel out of wfusing and appropriating its social symbols and by to Quixotic pursuits, a condition s created in wColumn, well regimented and well oiled, canadvantage.

Identifying Policy SubversioThat the infiltration into the public opinion fo

would deny. It s obvious, however, that no lists those so involved will be made available by the Comcan the facts be established?

No matter how conspirative an activity, there mperformance leaves traces. That holds true in psycany other activity. That, plus organizational affiliaindirect, with agencies, or fronts, of the communisthe purpose.f a columnist, writer, commentator, or newscathe Kremlin Line through one or more zig-zags -- it should be a good indication as to where he orperson also ran for office in the newspaper, or sa communist-inspired slate, that would be anotherwas a contributor also to communist-controlled prosame field or outside of it, or was a member of frhis function for Communism. This s the positive o whether technical membership in the Communisnot.

To facilitate identification, the particular Comtrade in this field should be studied. This could

Tass news releases with Federated Press' bulletincommentator or newscaster's methods in question.Where a Few an o amage t

A few hundred communists in Washington are n


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New York imes which has been smelling of infiltratiof them own their own radio and TV stations which services. The same applies to the head offices of the few hundred communists, together with a few thouscould be a potent force. I can predicmunications Commission or Congress, or both, there wilamongst the owners and managers of these enterprises.

I may also say at this point that the whole trend andsubversive warfare is away from the creation of theitowards the "capture" of posts in organizations, agenccreated by others. To use these vast institutions andincluding Government, for free Society's own destructimore and more the objective and path of infiltration. Ibut the "captive" organization or party, which will beproblem.

f we consider the daily mental fare served by neand TV, and how susceptible to publicity, good oofficials and politicians are, then it must be admitted thanewspaper "orchestration" is and has been a psychologimportance in the internal s well as external affairs ofin importance only to the infiltration in Government.supporting "orchestration" on the newspapers and radiinfiltration in Government could have survived thatfar. It was a case of one supporting and advancing theCommunist psycho-warfare does not merely call forgoals such as the abolition of capitalism, imperialism,the world-wide empire of Communism. These aremands and goals. In its day-to-day practice, the strumaximum, but the minimum goals. t is the day-to-dayup and disintegrates free Society and makes it ready f

Communist day-to-day work calls for advocating


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mentators), you can be sure where the score commany dupes are in the line-up. No one need besmear "orchestration" against Joe McCarthy cam"bandwagon rush" on the part of the whole Newnewspaper crowd.

Hitherto it was more difficult to identify the "brsince 1935, through World War II, the policies oorchestration and those of the Administration, nolarge, but in part were fashioned by it. But sincewar and its development (Asia) into a shootinhostile aims become more and more distinct. In"isolating" the infection and identifying it, is now m

That the "orchestration" exists is beginning to bcircles of active ex-communists, who knew about, itLet us keep in mind that in this, the second hmilitary preparedness alone is not and can neverequivalent in psychological preparedness. Thereenemy inside our lines when the day comes, leasnipe at the country's fighting morale through the

when infiltrated could well be the "Achilles Heeensconced in the press there is not a thing the enbe recovered. The opportunity to create social daas to make the difference between victory and de

Fellow Americans may the Lord give us the sout these enemies while there is still time.

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