The Southern Conservative —To Plead for a Return of Constitutional Government—

Vol. 5 FORT WORTH, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER, 1954 No. 9 A Stupid Foreign Policy Blows Up In American Diplomats' Red Faces

Texas Voters Register Their Strong For years American taxpayers have stood still while Washington politicians picked their pockets of bil­ Disapproval of Government by Goons lions of dollars. The loot from this legalized highjacking In spite of the handicap of a has been sent to the Socialist Countries of Europe with third-term bid, a custom not gener­ the announced objective of "holding the line against ally favored by Texans, the State’s We Can't Win Communism" although there is not a particle of differ­ popular and nationally-prominent ence in the two ideologies. The line didn't hold and, Chief Executive, Allan Shivers, For Losing after bleeding us white, England and France have won his race for re-election in the Strenuous efforts are being thrown in with Russia. The blow-up of EDC with a re­ August run-off primary by a ma­ made in Europe to bring about a verberation heard around the world is the logical result jority of almost one hundred thous­ Nine Power Conference in which to be expected when a Constitutional Republic ignores and votes. the United States, of course, will the fundamental teachings of its founders prescribing Pitted against him in the cam­ be expected to take part. "friendly relations with all nations, entangling alliances paign for control of the State’s We wish there were some way with none", and renders its destiny dependent on the governing machinery were the lor the American people to compel whims of a foreign power. political Action Committee of the their leaders in Washington to CIO, Americans for Democratic stay at home in the event such con­ There is small consolation in having been proved an accurate Action, the National Association ference is held, for there is no prophet when predictions of tragedy approach fulfilment. for the Advancement of Colored greater threat to American secur­ People, gorillas of the late Sidney ity than that which lurks under For those of us who have protested with all the vigor of our being Hillman’s Garment Workers from the International Conference table, and all the resources at our command against a suicidal national policy New York’s Lower East Side, the as we know by sad experience. which took into consideration the safety, strength and security of every fading South Texas political boss, Remembering Yalta, Teheran, nation on earth except our own, vindication is almost complete. George Parr and a ragged remnant Potsdam and Geneva we are will­ But there is no place for elation in the hearts of thoughtful of disgruntled Fair Dealers headed ing to bet that if such conference Americans who pled for a course that would have saved the Republic by Sam Rayburn of Bonham. is held and the United States repre­ from humiliating defeat and from the ignoble destiny charted for it The candidate whose name ap­ sentatives participate, Russia will many years ago by its enemies abroad, in collaboration with traitors at peared on the ballot as the stand­ make a grand slam and our diplo­ home. ard bearer of these motley groups mats will lose their striped pants When disaster threatens and a nation’s institutions and freedoms was Ralph Yarborough, an Austin and have to come home in a barrel. face extinction, all segments of the citizenship must suffer alike. The attorney, whose campaign was wise and the foresighted who tried to prevent it must pay the same pitched on the smear tactics out­ penalty as the fools who brought it about. lined by his sponsors. A Story With It was the victory of these left­ There is no time for exultation or mutinous impulses to say “I told wing forces in the first primary in A Moral you so”. There is only occasion for deep and silent grief and a prayer W'hich Wingate Lucas of Fort that, somehow, those who shape the nation’s course may be rescued Concerning those deluded Ameri­ from the tragic results of their own mad folly. Worth and Ken Regan of Midland cans whose hearts bleed for Mc­ went down to defeat in their races Carthy’s “victims”, Willis Sheehan, For twenty-two years the unbroken policy of the United States for re-election to Congress, that Sr., of Houston tells this story in the has been mapped with the sole objective of bolstering weak and totter­ alerted the people of Texas to Borger, Texas, News Herald: ing foreign countries at the expense of the safety, security and sub­ “About twenty years ago a fond stance of the people of our own land. danger and brought out the largest mother took her small daughter to see contingent of voters in the history a painting showing the early Christian There is no system of accounting ever devised by human brain of the State, in the August pri­ martyrs being fed to the lions in the which could provide the taxpayers of the United States with any reason­ mary. Arena at Rome. The little girl gazed ably accurate estimate of the billions of dollars which have been sunk The overwhelming victory of at the painting for a while and then in senseless projects scattered over the four corners of the earth. Governor Shivers not only reas­ started to cry. The mother, thinking the child was sorry for the marytrs, Neither can there be restoration of the hundreds of thousands of sured the troubled citizens of Tex­ lives sacrificed by American boys on far-off battle fields in causes hav­ as that Segregation would remain said ‘Why are you crying deaf’? The little girl replied: ‘Look, mama, one ing nothing whatever to do with the protection, honor and defense of intact in the public schools of the poor little lion In the corner hasn’t the country of their birth. State, but his continued firm hold got any Christian’ of the reins of Party leadership in And there can be no Resurrection Morning for a crucified Constitu­ Texas and the South was hailed by of the party from the machine tion nailed to the Cross by atheistic conspirators against a nation which national conservative Democrats bosses and subversive minority was conceived in liberty, baptised in blood and dedicated to the cause as a strong potential weapon in the groups who have dominated it of Christian ideals. forthcoming fight to wrest control since 1932. (Continued On Page 2) Millions of Americans Think lt--The Southern Conservative Says It September, 1954 Page 2 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Senator Charges That England and France Have No Good American Will Support Their Own Little Private Pacts With Russia A move to kill off the foreign aid into their heads time and again on A CIO or ADA-Endorsed Candidate bill and to utilize the money which previous occasions, and added that has accumulated in that fund for in the plot of our allies to bed down The National Democratic Chairman building up the American Air Force with Communist Russia and Red has made a plea for the election of his As the World Council of was made on the floor of the Senate by Senator George Malone of Ne­ China, Uncle Sam was paying for the Fair Deal colleagues this Fall and the Churches came to the end of its braska on July 30th when that mea­ bigamous honeymoon with more Republican National Committee and sessions in Evanston, Illinois, it sure was up for consideration. Under billions in foreign aid. “It is like a the President are asking that Republi­ magnanimously decided we could his plan, two thousand heavy jet ballplayer signed up with the Yan­ cans be elected. keep our Free Enterprise system in bombers and three thousand jet inter­ kees and the Giants and whoever We have never endorsed any candi­ ceptors would have been added to this country. “Capitalism of today wins the pennant, they are in the date for office and do not intend to American Air Force equipment. but we would like to make some is very different from what it used Senator Malone made this sound money,” he concluded. general suggestions to voters for the proposal after a lengthy speech to his When Senator Malone’s motion to to be”, they said in a publicity re­ selection of candidates for Congress. lease. Which means, we assume, colleagues in which he offered docu­ cut off aid to the pals of the Commu­ We do not urge them to vote for a that we have drifted farther to­ mented evidence that American tax­ nists and divert this money to the Republican or a Democrat as such payers are being imposed upon and ward Communist ideologies in expansion of the American Air Force but to cast their ballot only for those American friendship abused by the who have demonstrated that they are government policies than prevail­ recipients of this foreign aid money for our own protection, there were Americans first. ed in 1948 when they denounced which totals $59,000,000,000 since only six members of the Senate, aside We know that there are good patri­ our system at Amsterdam. World War II. from himself, who voted for it. ots in both political parties and we This especially applied to Great These senators who put the inter­ also know now that there are those THE COMMIES MAY STAY Britain who, even as Senator Malone ests of their own country and the wel­ in both parties who are capable of was speaking on the floor of the betraying us. So we suggest that BUT JOE MUST GO Senate, was sending a mission to fare of the American taxpayers first Americanism, and not party label, be Moscow and Red China, the expenses were: Senator John Bricker of Ohio; the yardstick by which an aspirant munist dominated group. A vote for of which could well have been paid Senator William E. Jenner of Indiana; for office is judged. any candidate carrying such endorse­ out of American funds, and to France Senator William Langer of North Aii unfailing rule for voters to fol­ ment is a step toward the continuation who has proved even more adept at Dakota; Senator Milton R. Young low at the ballot box is to scratch of the policies now in effect which double-crossing her American “allies” have so discredited our prestige in of North Daktoa; Senator Joseph R. the name of any candidate known to than her sister nation across the have the endorsement of the CIO, the the world and imperiled our national channel. McCarthy of Wisconsin and Senator security. Herman Welker of Idaho. All other ADA or any other left-wing or Com- Senator Malone pointed out that members of the Senate who were while both England and France are present voted no. stringing American diplomats along Many of these senators are back Stupid Foreign Policy— and bleeding American taxpayers for in their home states now and we hope more and more money for defense those who voted against this motion (Continued From Page 1) against Soviet aggression, both of are put on the spot so many times For seven years, we pursued the wild and visionary dream of those countries have separate and by their constitutents that they will independent mutual security pacts wind up hopping like a Mexican “strength through weakness” by building our security on European with Russia. There is a paragraph in jumping bean. defense at the urging of “liberals” in the government, in Congress, in each of the pacts, Senator Malone They will do a lot of fast talking charged, which is practically a dupli­ the press, in minority groups and in the White House and channelled and hand out a hot line about “prev­ untold billions into Europe with the objective of “protecfin^’burs'STVFs- cate of the North Atlantic Treaty ious commitments” a “matter of na­ Pact. tional honor, keeping our word” and through saving the Democracies from Communism” and now we are “They are signed up with both a lot of other hooey but we hope they left holding the empty bag. Russia and the United States” Senator don’t get away with it. Malone told his colleagues although The “Democracies” turned out to be just what that word implies It has come to the point where and, in a showdown, demonstrated their preference for the slavery of he had tried to pound this information these alleged representatives of the American people are either for this a Socialist State when weighed against the freedoms of a Constitutional THE COMMIES MAY STAY country or they are not and it is Republic. BUT JOE MUST GO high time those who elect them find If, as we have been led to believe by the bird-brains and sub­ out where they stand. versives in Washington, our national existence and security depended on alliances with Eropean powers, then we are sunk for the EDC Congress Eulogizesthe Pact has been blown to bits and the Kremlin will call the shots in that If We Only Had More of This unhappy continent from now on. Late Paul W. Shafer Of course this line of reasoning was wrong, weak and immoral and Horse Sense in Washington! our national safety did not depend on our coddling of, and cooperation The Congress of the United States Referring to all the furor of fel­ with, Socialist Europe and if the billions of dollars which have been which can so ill afford to lose a good wantonly dissipated in trying to prop up decadent and falling empires man from its ranks will suffer from low travellers about Senator Mc­ the death of Paul W. Shafer of Mich­ Carthy’s “methods”, Frank Har­ had been converted to the building up of our own military defenses, igan who died recently. ris, a citizen of the small town of we would still be the proud and invincible nation we once were and in­ During nine terms in the House he Boaz, Wisconsin, says something vulnerable to attack from any source on earth. was constantly alert to the danger of that makes more sense than all the If a comic note can be plucked from tragedy or a smile dredged up Communist infiltration of government drivel of all pink politicians put from tears, we can be amused in retrospect at the discomfiture of those and quietly worked to apprise the together on this subject: American people of this menace to well-meaning but brainless Americans who so blithely followed the their safety and security. “Possibly I’m just a backwoods Communist Party line and scornfully branded American patriots as The book “The Turning of the country boy who ain’t supposed “isolationists”, a term they, will now probably shy away from as long as Tides” of which Mr. Shafer and John to think” says Mr. Boaz in a letter they live. Holland Snow of New York were to the Chicago Tribune, “But I For we are really “isolationists” now and make no mistake about joint authors, painted a graphic pic­ can’t help wondering if these sup­ it. We are not isolationists by choice or because we didn’t try to buddy ture of the infiltration of American posedly intelligent men ever schools and colleges by Communist up and bed down with every alien people under the sun, but because thought of starting a debate over they have deserted us of their own free will and left us to our own ideology. The book had a nationwide ‘Communist methods’. The na­ circulation and is being urged as text­ devices in a state of isolationism from which we should have never de­ book and reference material in the tional magazines are full of pic­ parted. tures showing beat up, lash-scar­ public schools systems of America. We hope it is not too late for us to marshal our forces, evaluate Shortly after his passing, his col­ red, starved and emaciated prison­ leagues in Congress devoted a part ers in various states of collapse our resources and formulate’ a new national policy in keeping with of the session of that body to paying due to the brutal ‘methods’ of that of the great leaders who steered a safe and sane course in the tribute to Mr. Shafer for his long and their Communist captors. These early days of the Republic but there is grave doubt as to whether we honorable record as a public servant atrocities receive only passing have the rugged and robust type of statesmanship necessary to make and for the service he rendered not comment, but just Let McCarthy the adjustment. only to the people of Michigan but to the entire nation. step lightly on a few toes and, It is our fear that only a merciful Providence which tempers the wham, the whole vicious jackal wind to the shorn lamb and safeguards imbeciles against danger and pack of political cutthroats, hatchet harm, can retrieve us from the folly, stupidity and fumbling errors THE COMMIES MAY STAY men and smear artists goes into of those who, either unwittingly or through design, have betrayed the BUT JOE MUST GO action”. Republic they swore to uphold and defend. September, 1954 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Page 3 Washington Correspondent Implies That Blackmail Through Leaders of American Communist Party The Federal Taxing Power Continues as a National Policy Openly Defy Law Passed by Congress The right of the Federal govern­ “The Texas oil money became ment to levy taxes against the the popular theme shortly after the Down in little Guatemala where citizens of these United States was epidemic of national publicity on Counter Intelligence Agent's Communists were recently ousted granted by the Constitution for the H. Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint from government control, the pres­ purpose of raising revenue only, Murchison, Sid Richardson, their Work Is Sabotaged ent administration has passed a law to insure that the Reds do not in order to carry on specified and bank accounts and eccentricities. If apathetic Americans could legitimate functions of that gov­ “The talk however is significant only read even a small part of the regain power. ernment. from the political standpoint—and shocking testimony available in Persons engaged in Communist Washington, there would be a re­ Under no condition was this au­ it may very well pave the way for activities in that country in future vival of patriotism in this country will be subject to penalties ranging thority ever to be used as a wea­ a reduction in the 27 Vz per cent equal to that which existed in the from a year in prison to death. It pon to reward the friends and depletion allowance . . .” days when Lexington, Concord and is as simple as that. punish the enemies of any political The 27Vz per cent depletion al­ Valley Forge were making the administration. We recently passed a similar lowance in the current and former headlines. law here too, but it has no teeth This was constantly done by the Federal tax measures was granted There are thousands of cases Roosevelt and Truman administra­ in it and Communist Party leaders to encourage new ventures in oil which make our blood run cold in New York issued a statement in tions as we have so often pointed production in the interest of the but the testimony of John Lans­ out editorially, but those who vot­ the press that they would openly national security, but here is an ac­ dale, Jr., in the Atomic Energy defy the new legislation. They ed for a change in Washington in credited Washington correspond­ hearings last Spring, will give an 1952 fervently hoped and believed boldly asserted that they would ent expressing the opinion that it idea of what we are trying to con­ continue to publish the Daily that this policy would be discon­ may be withdrawn from those who vey. tinued. Worker, official Communist news­ oppose Communism and approve Lansdale was in the Counter In­ paper, that Communist candidates Accordingly, it was somewhat of Senator McCarthy’s efforts to ex­ telligence Branch of the Office of for office will continue to cam­ a shock to read in the Congression­ pose its infiltration in the Ameri­ Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2. War al Record of Thursday, May 19, paign and that Communist leaders can governing agencies. Department General Staff during will fulfill public speaking en­ 1954, the reproduction of an arti­ What the gin guzzlers on the World War II. On Page 270 of cle appearing in the Arkansas Ga­ gagements, and they made it plain Washington “cocktail circuit” say United States Atomic Energy Com­ that we can take it or leave it. zette by one Elizabeth Carpenter, or think is not of the slightest con­ mission Hearings on Dr. J. Robert And how do they get away with Washington newspaper corres­ cern to any one except their own Oppenheimer in April and May, open defiance like that? pondent, which indicates that this breed but when, as in the case of 1954, Mr. Lansdale testified under Well, the truth is that our gov­ method of reward and punishment this woman, an implied threat is oath: is still in effect. The article was in­ ernment has as good as officially made against prominent citizens of “In the War Department, I was serted in the Record by Rhodes Texas and attributed to responsi­ notified them that it is much more scholar Fulbright who represents being subjected to pressure from concerned in stopping McCarthy’s ble leaders in Washington, some­ military superiors, from the White a certain segment of the people of thing should be done about it. investigation of Communism than that great State. House and from every other place it is in getting rid of Communists. because I dared to stop the com- In this article, carrying a Wash­ Indirectly, it infers that mem­ bers of the Republican-dominated missioning of a group of 15^ or 20 And any one who thinks that ington dateline, was an implied Ways and Means Committee of undoubted Communists. I was be­ the Soviet conspirators in this threat against reputable citizens of ing villified, being reviewed and country are not going to take ad­ Texas who support Senator Joseph Congress, with administration ap­ proval, are employing blackmail re-reviewed by Boards because of vantage of an opening like that is R. McCarthy in his fight on Com­ my efforts to get Communists out too stupid to merit consideration. munism, and if this Pink Lady of tactics to whip Texas oil men into line who oppose the infiltration of of the Army and being frustrated The net effect of the attacks on the Press writes with the authority by the blind, naive attitude of Mrs. the Wisconsin senator has been the which Fulbright ascribes to her. Communists in Washington gov­ ernment agencies. Roosevelt and those around her in creation of the widespread belief the old Spanish custom of reward the White House, which resulted that the official policy of govern­ and punishment through taxation This Carpenter person should be ment is “Joe must go but the Com­ placed under oath and forced to in serious and extreme damage to is still in effect. this country”. munists can stay”. “Texas oil men who back Sena­ give the names of the members of tor Joseph R. McCarthy are being the Ways and Means Committee told quietly but emphatically that who are threatening members of Another Investigation Halted their support may cost them the in­ Congress from Texas. Also she Why the Soviets The Committee of Congress op­ come tax privilege they now en­ should be compelled to reveal the joy” smugly asserts the lady in the names of the Texas Congressmen Regard Us as Fools erating under the chairmanship of opening line of her article. so threatened. The people of Texas Hon. Carol Reece of Tennessee and which was charged with the re­ “Members of the Ways and are entitled to this information in Old Fathead Flanders’ attack on sponsibility of probing into the Means Committee who write the possession of a Washington cor­ Senator McCarthy reminded us of activities of the large foundations tax bills and so far have warded respondent concerning a matter of nothing so much as a little feist dog suspected of extending grants to off repeated attempts to lower or such vital interest to them and snapping at the flanks of a Great Communist individuals and move­ erase the 27Vz per cent depletion which has been withheld from Dane. allowance permitted on oil income, them. ments, has" suddenly been discon­ When he realized that he was tinued. are telling Texas Congressmen that It is a serious and challenging too little to reach any vital spot, it has got to a point where a vote indictment against the Ways and he gave up the chase and ran away. There was no explanation and for the depletion allowance is a Means Committee and if it is al­ Meantime a whole pack was deep mystery surrounds the ter­ vote for McCarthy. lowed to pass without denial or re­ sicked on the Wisconsin senator mination of the investigation into “This turn of events is the result futation, we are perfectly justified through the passage of a Senate a group which has been under al­ of a buildup of resentment against in believing that her charges are resolution providing for another most universal suspicion of financ­ ‘Texas Oil Money’, a term which true and that punishment through investigation to find out if he ing subversive undertakings in this recurs frequently on the cocktail the taxing power of government is should be “censured” for depart­ country for many years. circuit here . . . still our accepted national policy. ing from the long-established We do not believe that the blame Washington policy of coddling attaches to Congressman Reese In the plans to form a South­ If there ever was a bird that will Communists, and cracking down who has given every indication of east Asia Treaty organization, it bear watching, it is the character on the dirty skunks. desiring to probe into the subject is proposed to leave out the best Mendez-France, premier of the This indefensible action by the thoroughly but who had the organ­ friends we have in that area— country whose name he bears or Senate afforded a sickening spec­ ized opposition of powerful pres­ sure groups and individuals. South Korea, Nationalist China vice versa. If he is not a plain, tacle to concerned and fearful Americans who can see in the nau­ Next month we will go into some and Japan. More and more, it is straight-out agent of the Soviet, becoming plain that the only seating performance the discom­ of the activities of the Foundations countries who are able to win con­ we don’t know what one is. He is forting suggestion that the “Twen­ and it may be that the truth about sideration from us are those who delivering the goods to his Krem­ ty Years of Treason” era may not who stopped the investigation can kick us in the teeth. lin masters in a big way. yet have passed. be developed by that time. Page 4 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE September, 1954 The HOW MANY KNOW THEY HELPED TO Bleeding Hearts Weep BUY 100 LOCOMOTIVES FOR INDIA And Wail Over Negress Conservative The suspension of Annie Lee Moss a friendly ally and since Nehru is A MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF There may have been, at some from her position with the Signal EDITORIAL OPINION WITH time in history, a more inexcusable a double-crossing old reprobate Corps pending further investigation who is playing on Malenkov’s NATIONAL CIRCULATION performance than the action of our into charges against her, is another team, this theft of taxpayers money confirmation of Senator McCarthy’s IDA M. DARDEN, Editor government in purchasing one by Washington officials to buy accuracy in pinpointing Communists Editorial Offices Flatiron Building hundred locomotives for India, locomotives for his Socialistic in government jobs. Fort Worth, Texas Phone FA-2089 but, if so, we can’t think when it railroad is a violation of moral Annie Lee is the Negress who was was. ethics and indefensible from any identified by Mary Markward, under­ Price $5.00 Per Year Idiotic stunts like this for the point of view. cover agent for the FBI, who testi­ (Every paid subscriber is entitled to one past two decades have not only Those who are responsible for fied under oath that the Moss woman free subscription to be sent to any person was a dues-paying member of the of his choosing.) made this country the laughing it are guilty of a criminal act and stock of the world but have helped should be dealt with accordingly. Communist Party. Miss Markward’s Sent without cost to members of Congress, to impoverish our taxpayers in ac­ And the heart-breaking aspect testimony was corroborated by the members of State Legislatures, Governors, of the performance is that the sworn statements of other responsible and other public officials. cordance with the instructions of Marx and Lenin who wished us to American people, by a heavy ma­ witnesses. spend ourselves out of existence. jority, voted in November of 1952 When Senator McCarthy heard this A helpless sparrow can drift with testimony before his committee and the wind but it takes an eagle to fly There is not a legitimate reason to put an end to such insane be­ advised that the Negress be relieved against the storm. havior on the part of our national on earth why we should purchase of her duties in the important job leaders. even the whistle on a locomotive she held, bedlam broke loose and THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO for India even if that country were there was double wailing on the part THE CONSTITUTION OF THE of the “liberals’’ and bleeding hearts. UNITED STATES: 'Backward, Turn Backward, Not only did they deplore the expose The powers not delegated to the United of a Communist in a sensitive job but States by the Constitution, nor prohibited the exposed person was colored by it to the States are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. which added to their anguish. Oh Time, in Your Flight../ Senator Stuart Symington of Mis­ In connection with the recent their vacations in Europe or live souri, a member of the Committee, South Will Continue to meeting of Red churchmen in in luxurious air-conditioned homes. was especially incensed and after she They were grateful for the mod­ was suspended from her job as a Practice Segregation Evanston, Illinois, we fell to think­ transmitter of government messages, ing of some of our modern minis­ est contributions given them by he invited her to come up and see When the Supreme Court first ters in comparison with those of members of their flock when the him sometime and assured her that issued its ruling to break down another day. crops were all gathered in the Fall he would give her a job if she was racial safeguards in the South, We had in mind especially the and the economic highlights of not taken back into the Army. their existence were the “pound­ Soon after, she was taken back most thoughtful citizens were bold, breezy and blustering type but was put in a non-sensitive posi­ numbed to such an extent that it who whiz around in a Cadillac, ings” given them by friends and tion, whereupon the Reds jumped up was difficult to take in the enor- zip across the ocean in a plane to neighbors who showered them and down with glee, and pointed this m i t y of this legalized offense attend world conferences and who with freshly-baked bread, home­ out as one of McCarthy’s “mistakes” in which he had accused an “inno­ smugly propose solutions of every made cakes, smokehouse sausage, against the rights and dignity of a cent person.” sovereign people. economic, political and social prob­ butter, eggs, bacon and side-meat. N w the Army has been compelled Since that time resentment has lem that baffles the human race. They rendered Christian service to suspend her from even the non­ gradually built up in the South He is poised, self-assured and as they were given to understand sensitive job in view of the evidence confident and radiates every hu­ it, expected no worldly emolu­ piling up against her concerning until the boiling point has been Communist affiliations. reached. This feeling has been man quality except that of spiritu­ ments and were compensated by Another substantiation of the heightened by flagrant behavior al grace. Somewhere along the the consciousness of a good job Washington attitude that “Commies on the part of moral and social line he has lost the attributes of well done. They baptised babies, may stay but Joe must go!” meekness, humility and pious de­ officiated at weddings and buried perverts who applauded the votion associated by tradition with Court’s action including figures in the dead and they were committed THE COMMIES MAY STAY his sacred calling—perhaps sur­ BUT JOE MUST GO the entertainment world who have rendered them at his “liberal” to the age-old precept that their arranged bi-racial television prog­ theological seminary which sub­ solely prescribed mission on earth rams that nauseate the stoutest stituted the “Social Gospel” for was to bring erring sinners back Criminal Sadist Is Vindicated stomach. the Word of God in training him to the fold and save the souls of for the ministry. men by pointing the way to Sal­ In Three-Man Court Martial As of now. majority opinion is In direct contrast to these new­ that there will be no change in fangled exponents of a “changing vation and Light. Sgt. First Class Richard J. Whit- educational policies in most of the social order” were the gentle, They are not around any more back of Wellington, Ohio, who shock­ Southern States and that segre­ kindly and compassionate men of —bless them—but the record of ed civilized persons recently by mak­ gation will continue in effect. the Cloth in the days when we their humble Christian labors is ing trainees in his charge stand at The State Board of Education were young. written large in the hearts of those attention for more than an hour in Perhaps they lacked much in who learned the simple story of 92-degree weather, was acquitted by of Texas has issued instructions education, culture and polish and the Man of Galilee within the hal­ to local authorities to conduct the a three-man court martial. Immediate­ certainly they were totally with­ lowed walls of a little unpainted ly following his acquittal, he posed schools on the same segregated out that certain something which country church. for photographers and the pictures basis as heretofore. has come to be known as social And we wouldn’t swap the mem­ show him grinning like a Cheshire Officials of Georgia have an­ consciousness, but they were ory of their devotion and dedicat­ cat. steeped in religious tradition, held nounced that they will ignore the ed Christian service for the privi­ This criminal sadist was following the literal teachings of the Holy lege of listening to all the social ruling altogether and Alabama, the line of “progressive” educators Bible in reverential awe and in­ sermons of all the poditical pul­ Mississippi, South Carolina and who hold that on any infraction of other states have indicated a simi­ spired in their fellow men a simple piteers in all the million-dollar faith in a Christian God. structures throughout the land. rules by one person the whole group lar determination to invoke their should be punished. It was reported Constitutional privileges of run­ They didn’t haul down ten- ning internal affairs in accordance thousand-dollar salaries, spend No great nation from the days that because of laxaties of some of with the wishes of their own peo­ of Babylon has been able to re­ the new men, he nut them all through repulsive and degrading measures sist invasion or to hold an empire this inhuman ordeal but was vindi­ ple. cated by his superiors. It has been the history of civili­ on their unwilling subjects and it together by any other means than He should have been severely pun­ zation that there always comes a could well be that the Court’s un­ through the strong ties of national­ ished and we hope that those so breaking point when tyrants in fortunate and ill-advised ruling ism and patriotism on the part of brutally mistreated, do not forget it government go too far in imposing has precipitated this revolt. its people. when they get out of the Army. 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World Communist Propaganda Organization We'll Worry About 'Juvenile Delinquency' Holds Its Convention in Evanston, Illinois The World Council of Churches competition” of Communism and When 'Adult Delinquency' Is Eliminated which, was permitted io meet in an Christianity and some of its leaders American City, Evanston, Illinois, re­ so stated at its recent meeting. The case of the four New York teen-agers from good homes who sud­ cently, is the “Ware Cell” of Protes- It also advocates abolishment of Civil Aeronautics Board all racial safeguards in this country denly went on a criminal rampage tanism which is working through re­ and killed two persons and savagely and the promiscuous social mixing of Knocks Out Security Rules ligious bodies to primarily destroy the beat several others has emphasized American and all other nationalist the white and black races. One of the various changes made the rising tide of juvenile delin­ governments and bring about a Com­ The group favors international con­ in fundamental and traditional quency in this country and the need trol of all armies and navies; the munist World State. procedure for the protection and for action. At its first meeting in Amsterdam complete abandonment of “isolation­ Personally, we do not think that security of the United States, and in 1948, it condemned the American ist” policies; strong limitations on na­ juvenile delinquency can be reduced system of government by passing a tional sovereignty; elimination of all of which the American people as long as adult delinquency is at an resolution against it and while they tariff restrictions on world trade and generally have been kept in ignor­ all-time high. went through the gesture of including a universal system of money although ance, is found in revised air regu­ When we consider the performance of mature citizens for two decades, Communism in the resolution also, it it is difficult to understand why, any lations. we cannot, in all honesty, blame the was only lip service for all of its of these matters should be of the Up until recently any applicant youth of the land for becoming con­ fused, frustrated and bewildered and, precepts are based on Communist slightest concern to the ministry. for a certificate to operate air­ They have made insistent demands with all moral and spiritual props ideology. craft in the United States was re­ jerked out from under them, for for “freedom of immigration” and reverting to the behavior of savages. It has come—because of those as­ quired by the Civil Aeronautics sociated with it and of the things for repeal"or revision of the McCarran- They have acquired the idea, Walter Immigration law to the end Board to be an American citizen through the Communist ideology which it stands—to be recognized by which has pervaded the churches, all persons of intelligence and per­ that Communist spies and subversive of undisputed loyalty with allegi­ that there is no God, and no here­ ception as an outright Communist agents from all countries may flood ance to the American Flag. after and that religion consists this country with propaganda. Inci­ It’s not that way now and such merely of a “Social Gospel” devoted propaganda organization. to the advocacy of pensions, fail- At the Amsterdam meeting and dentally, this law had to be by-passed certificates are issued to any in­ working conditions and adequate joining in with the condemnation of for the moment in order that these ternational bum of any country housing here on earth and that the his own system of government was a propagandists in the Council could regardless of loyalty or allegiance. hope of a Mansion in the Skies is an On March 23, 1954, Section 21-12 ignorant and superstitious concept of representative of the Union Theolog­ attend the Evanston meeting. a bourgeois society. ical Seminary of this country, Dr. There has been consternation in of our Civil Air Regulations was They have been convinced by our ammended in these words: John C. Bennett who said recently in many quarters that John Foster Dulles internationalist leadership that it is would permit them to be issued visas “21-12 Citizenship. An applicant wrong to love their own country, the Christian Century, left-wing for a pilot certificate with an air­ their own Flag and the institutions church paper: to come here but that is understand­ of the United States, and that their “Communism wins power because line rating may be a citizen of any loyalty belong! to some nebulous one- able since Dulles, himself was one of country or a person without na­ it has much truth in its teachings, the officials of the old Federal Coun­ world government now in the mak­ tionality.” All other sections deal­ ing. because it speaks to the loyalties cil of Churches (now the National and not primarily to the cynical ing with various types of air trans­ They have been taught in the self interests of men. As the Chris­ Council of Churches) which helped port have been amended in the schools, through UNESCO and other set up the World Council, as was subversive programs, that they must tian studies Communism, he will same identical language. throw off the influence of home and find many things to approve in it. Harold Stassen to say nothing of Al­ The action of the Civil Aeronau­ parents and try to live down the les­ I refer to the Communist criticism ger Hiss who also served on that tics Board in opening up this “loop­ sons in obedience, morals and good of capitalism and imperialism, the Council. hole” to our enemy is pointed out citizenship instilled in them around Communist practice as regards rac­ Even if Mr. Dulles were not per­ the family fireside. ial discrimination, the Communist sonally involved with the outfit, he in a bulletin issued by the Closer Their pride in their race has been goal of a classless society and the would have perhaps been helpless to Up-Don Bell ‘Reports from West destroyed by agitators and subver­ Palm Beach, Florida, a research sives holding responsible posts in generous motives that inspire many do anything to prevent the alien American society who have spread people to give themselves to Com­ propagandists composing it from com­ and writing team who have un­ Kremlin propaganda for the social munism with selfless commitment.” ing here. earthed scores of similar shock­ mixing of whites and blacks with Present also at the original meet­ After all, this World Council is a ing and unbelievable documented the objective of ultimate mongreli- ing was that seasoned old Communist- strong and vital part of the world performances from government zation of both. fronter. Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam So let’s face it. conspiracy whose invisible leaders files. who justified the criticism of “Cap­ dictate, and are not dictated to, con­ Through our abject surrender to italism” on the ground that there is cerning the actions of mere heads of the teachings of “liberals” in matters a definite “trend from competitive of government, of religion, of polit­ a government. Roy Cohn Is Out but John ical action and social behavior, we struggle to cooperative endeavor; Even if he had been disposed to have almost completely destroyed from selfish nationalism to sensible bar these Communist agents, he Adams Remains on the Job American youth’s belief in God, internationalism” and all the other would have been powerless to do so. loyalty to their country, devotion to fellow travelling preachers of this The greatest damage to American The scant respect which the Amer­ home and parents and respect and country who have swarmed to the society from the gathering, of course, ican people have for Pentagon poli­ pride in their race. Karl Marx movement in church cir­ lies in the attendance of many min­ ticians was not heightened any by the So what did we expect? That all cles, and which is of such dimensions isters of the United States at the con­ dishonorable manner in which they our young people would automati­ that it is fast taking over leading vention where they were re-indoc­ cally turn out to be perfect models handled the case of John Adams. of personal behavior and paragons Protestant denominations in the Unit­ trinated with the Communist ideology The impression was deliberately ed States. of good citizenship when once they and who will spread the contamina­ left that he would be forced out of were knocked loose from American The World Council of Churches tion among their congregations. his job in the Pentagon as a result of sponsors “co-existence and peaceful ideals and weaned away from the a trade between the Army brass and American way of life? the leftists on the committee which How gullible, irresponsible and THE COMMIES MAY STAY idiotic can we get and still demand BUT JOE MUST GO “investigated” the McCarthy-Stevens Senator Suggests We affair, whereby Roy Cohn was com­ recognition as worthy citizens of a pelled to resign. Constitutional Christian Republic? Give Stassen to Britian sen. This could have been done pre­ Cohn who was one of the most val­ Let’s tackle “adult delinquency” ferably under some sort of a lend- first and its natural offspring “juve­ One of the most practical sugges­ uable assistants McCarthy had in nile delinquency” will take care of lease arrangement which would have tracking down Communists has gone tions to come out of Washington in assured us that we would not get itself. years and one which will have the Mr. Stassen back.” while Adams who is not worth any­ hearty approval of millions of Amer­ If Senator Malone’s plan could be thing to anybody so far as national Word comes from Washington security is concerned remains on the icans, was that of Senator George carried out, it would save the Amer­ that new evidence has been un­ Malone of Nevada in a speech on the ican taxpayers many millions of dol­ job. This underhanded performance by earthed against Owen Lattimore Senate floor on August 17. lars although it would not enable to prove that he lied in his testi­ In a lengthy and brilliant discus­ them to recover the §59,000,000,000 Pentagon brass strengthens the rumor sion of the various giveaway schemes of their money which has already that Adams is secure in his job be­ mony before a Congressional Com­ thought up by Harold Stassen and been pooped off by Stassen and two cause of the influence of a powerful mittee, when he said he had not his handout crew designed to finally other knuckle-heads before him—Av­ female who once dominated the De­ consorted with Communists. They bankrupt American taxpayers, Sen­ erill Harriman and Paul Hoffman— fense Department and who still is re­ didn’t need any new evidence. ator Malone offered this pertinent since 1949. ported to have important contacts there. They already had enough and we observation: will believe they are going to do “I have long considered it unfortu­ nate that among our gifts to Britain THE COMMIES MAY STAY THE COMMIES MAY STAY something about it when they do we did not tender to them Mr. Stas- BUT JOE MUST GO BUT JOE MUST GO it. / September, 1954 Page 6 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Georgia Methodists Suspend Minister Girl Scout Leaders Are Reported to Have For Denouncing Communism in Church Restored Americanism to Their Material Sometime ago the Illinois Amer­ The time was not 1692. ican Legion passed a resolution with­ The place was not Salem, Massa­ 'We Go for Joe' Movement drawing support from the Girl Scouts Members of Supreme Court organization because leaders of that chusetts. group had deleted the American The occasion was not the trial of Deserve Mass Impeachment Launched in California Constitution, Bill of Rights, the a few helpless females charged United States Flag, and the National Anthem from their literature and with witchcraft. When the Supreme Court issued Out in South Pasadena, Califor­ its unfortunate ruling that Segrega­ nia, Irene Western, a patroitic and had substituted a lot of one-world The place was Atlanta, Georgia and United Nations tripe in their tion must be abolished, there was intelligent housewife, has started and the time was 1954. The oc­ material. a document in the files in Wash­ a movement with the slogan “WE The resolution said that the Legion casion was the trial of a small­ ington available to them which would GO FOR JOE” which has assumed would withdraw all support “until town Georgia Methodist preacher have made any decent and respon­ such time as the Girl Scout leaders and the charge was “imprudent sible man, or set of men, hesitate a such proportions that she has had restore the time-honored American long time before deliberately placing and unministerial conduct”. to spend sixteen to eighteen hours patriotic and historical ideals to their in the hands of our enemies a weapon per day answering the telephone, teachings.” Rev. Blake Craft of Clayton, which these same enemies openly and signing up her friends and Now it has been announced that Georgia editor of a monthly news- said would be valuable in enabling officials of the Girl Scout movement them to take over the United States. neighbors who want to join the have corrected this horrible blunder pa p e r called “O n e Methodist The document is in the form of a group. and have included the symbols of Voice” was being tried on charges tract issued by the Communist Party “Our purpose is to support Sena­ America in their published literature. preferred by the Annual Confer­ in 1912 and which was circulated tor Joseph R. McCarthy directly A regrettable thing about the inci­ ence of his church while thirteen among its members in this country dent is the statement of Irving who were few in number at that time and indirectly in his fight against Breakstone of Chicago, Commander “liberal” preachers of his denomi­ Communism by word, thought and of the Illinois Legion, who termed nation sat in judgment. as they had not yet acquired a strangle-hold on Washington and the deed” Irene says, and adds: the resolution passed by the Legion The offense of which the Rev. as “unfortunate” and said it had idea of directing American economic, “During the McCarthy-Stevens been passed in a “highly emotional Craft was admittedly guilty was political and social policies was still situation.” the bitter denunciation through . hearings we houswives got a break just a gleam in a Bolshevik’s eye. denied our husbands. We were for­ He is all wet and it certainly was the columns of his paper of the in­ This document said in part: not unfortunate. The Illinois Legion filtration of the Methodist Church tunate enough to be home instead rendered a very definite service by “We must realize that our Party’s of on the breadwinning job. We the resolution since it seems to have by Communist ideology and the most powerful weapon is racial gotten the job done and caused the membership of numerous minis­ tension. By pounding into the con­ pushed our television sets near the sciousness of the dark races that Girl- Scout leaders to reverse their ters of that faith in Communist outside window as we did our yard disgraceful action in eliminating ref­ for centuries they have been op­ work. We shoved them as close to Fronts. pressed by whites, we can mold erence to American documents. No the kitchen as we could hear while apology was called for by Mr. Break­ The Ministerial Court, after due them to the program of the Com­ munist Party. The terms ‘colonial­ ironing, cooking or washing dishes. stone, and it was in very bad taste deliberation, rendered a verdict in for him to express regret for an ism’ and ‘imperialism” must be We hurried to get the housework action on the part of the Illinois which he was suspended “from the featured in our propaganda. In and washing done between the Legion which commanded the respect exercise of the functions of his of­ America, we will aim for a sub­ morning and afternoon sessions. of all decent Americans. tle victory. While inflaming the We are particularly interested in fice, effective from this date to Negro minority against the whites, As a result we found out just what continue until the opening date of the matter as we were one of the we will endeavor to instill in the was going on and then we did first to come out of the corner fight­ the Annual Conference of the whites a guilt complex for their something about it”. ing when the Girl Scout leaders first North Georgia Conference in the exploitation of the Negroes. We The Pasadena lady, who also started following the Communist year 1955”. will aid the Negroes to rise to Party Line in February, 1953. In prominence in every walk of life, finds time for her religious duties the “Girl Scout Leader,” official In the meantime, the Rev. Craft in the professions and in the world in a local Protestant church, says publication of that group of that of sports and entertainment. With is prohibited from filling the pul­ that the slogan “W E GO FOR date, Girl Scouts were advised to this prestige, the Negroes will be read the books of Langston Hughes, pit in his home town by an edict of able to inter-marry with the whites JOE” is offered as a counter-thrust this clique of over-fed and under­ Negro Communist, and Dorothy Can- and begin a process which will against the noisy little set of Mc­ field Fisher, a white one. bred theological hypocrites who deliver America to our cause.” Carthy haters in Wisconsin who The closing paragraph of our edi­ have never offered a word of pro­ How thoroughly they planned this unsuccessfully promoted the “Joe torial said: test as their colleagues have spout­ program and how effectively they “If American parents want their sold it to suckers in this country Must Go” movement. children’s views on citizenship in­ ed Communist doctrine under the was forcefully illustrated when the fluenced by black male Communist guise of the Gospel, or raised their Supreme Court delivered its blow Fronters or white female subversives, hand against the subversives who against the pride and dignity of mem­ Copies of Educational that seems to be what they are get­ have swarmed into that and other bers of both the white and black races ting, but if they don’t, they had in the South. better take a good long searching denominations like a plague of Some o. the members of that Court Reviewer May Be Obtained look into what is going on.” seven-year locusts. acted deliberately and with full We are glad to read that Girl Evidence of a total and complete knowledge of the horrible potential­ Lucille Cardin Crain’s wonderful Scout leaders have corrected this ities involved in their decision; others situation and hope that it is true. lack of a sense of humor on the performed as simple dupes of subtle publication, The Educational Review­ part of those composing this Ec­ forces who outranked them in men­ er, which rendered invaluable senti­ clesiastical Kangaroo Court was tality, maneuvering tactics and stra­ nel service in warning the American Texas Loses Two Good Men offered in an assertion appended to tegic planning. people of the enemy within our edu­ And all of them functioned trai­ In Congress, Wins Two the verdict in which this highly torously in behalf of an enemy's an­ cational institutions, is no longer lo­ amusing claim was made: “We nounced plan to disrupt the morals cated at 112 East 36th Street in New The spending of millions of dol­ point out also that the Methodist of this country as a prelude to taking York. , it over. lars of outside money in a Texas Church is definitely against Com­ The target of attacks by subversive election resulted in the defeat of munism”. They should be impeached in a body. groups committed to the communiz- Congressman Wingate Lucas of Ye gods! Now we will expect ing of American schools, including the Fort Worth, who usually voted Americans for Democratic Action Saudi Arabia informed Washing­ National Education Association, the right and Congressman Ken Regan to come ou,t and proclaim their ton on August 13 to discontinue its Reviewer continues to have a wide of Midland, one of the most valu­ loyalty and devotion to the Con­ foreign aid program in that coun­ distribution, although the former able representatives ever sent to stitution and the American form of try. They have an oil income of headquarters are no longer main­ Washington from the Lone Star government. $200,000,000 annually and say they tained. State. They lost out in the first can manage their own future af­ From her apartment at 238 East primary. As a nation, we are a glutton for fairs. We have a thirty-man mis­ 23rd Street, New York, Mrs. Crain On the other hand, two outstand­ punishment. After EDC blew up, sion stationed there and have been continues to furnish information re­ ing Texans were elected in the Dulles turned his attention to set­ spending $1,632,000 per year in quested of her by those concerned in second primary with unimpeach­ that country. Whether our offi­ the maintenance of Americanism in able records for sound public serv­ ting up something in Southeast our public schools. Asia which it is proposed to call cials will discontinue the program ice, John Bell of Cuero and Wal­ as Requested or insist on continu­ Copies of the Reviewer still may SEATO. Well, that’s a very ap­ be obtained from Mrs. Crain by writ­ lace Savage of Dallas. ing to help them even though they There is no doubt that their propriate name for that is just ex­ ing her for information concerning don’t want it, was not disclosed, quantities, dates and prices of the election will add to the stature and actly where our Uncle Sam-o will but it’s a safe bet that we will publications which she has for distri­ dignity of the Texas delegation in get kicked. give up reluctantly, if at all. bution. Congress. September, 1954 THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE Page 7 Documented Case Gives Tip-Off as to Why Refrain of Top-Bracket Washington Politicians Is 'Joe Must Go' When the machinery of the Federal government and the facilities of Also, in comparison with the affluence and well being of those who the Senate of the United States are employed to discredit a prominent public have protected Communists in government and have given testimony in behalf figure like Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, there is some deep and underlying of subversives, Paul Crouch is reported, as a result of his testimony, to be reason for their remarkable action. without a job and unable to get work. An Associated Press dispatch from The reasons in his case are important in the extreme, not only because Washington sometime ago reported Crouch as claiming that an official of the their revelation would vindicate Senator McCarthy and prove that the ani­ Department of Justice had ordered him “banished” to Hawaii as the result of mosity he has engendered on the part of his accusers is based on their efforts the introduction of copies of testimony into the records of the Army-McCarthy to cover up the Communists he has sought to expose, but because scores of hearings. Two fellow traveller newspaper columnists in Washington are also Americans are frankly baffled by it all and confused in trying to evaluate reported in the same Associated Press article as trying to make Crouch pay the matter accurately and with fairness to all. heavily for his cooperation in exposing Communist Party “methods.” A book with thousands of pages would be required to outline all the cases never made public in which Communist spies have been identified with gov­ When the Personnel Security Board in Washington finally took up the ernmental operations having to do with the safety and security of the United matter of Oppenheimer’s loyalty in April, 1954 and held hearings for many States, often with the knowledge and protection of responsible officials of weeks, he was barred from any further secrets in connection with atomic government, and of outstanding laymen prominent in national affairs. projects but was gratuitously pronounced a “loyal American.” For our purposes, one such case will prove the point, and we will take Testimony in those hearings is highly illuminating but since it covers 992 the J. Robert Oppenheimer affair not only because he held one of the most pages, there is not much danger that it will ever be read by the general public. responsible positions in the development of our atomic energy weapons, but It will be remembered that Oppenheimer secured his job in the first place because less information about his case has been available to the public than partly through the intercession of James B. Conant, former head of Harvard in any other instance of Communist infiltration into strategic posts. and who was appointed by Eisenhower as High Commissioner in Germany. It was Conant who said: “There are no known Communists on the Harvard Oppenheimer was Director of the laboratory in New Mexico that perfected staff but if there were, the damage that would be done to the spirit of this the atomic and hydrogen bombs. In this capacity, he had access to various academic community by an investigation aimed at finding secret Communists, critical activities of the National Security Council, the Department of State, would be far greater than any conceivable harm such a person (Communist) « the Department of Defense, the Army, Navy and Air Force, the Central In­ might do.” He also made the brilliant assertion in Houston on his last visit telligence Agency and other top-secret units of government. there in a public statement: “Private schools for rich people’s children should Several years ago Senator McCarthy came into possession of information be abolished. There should be one public school for all.” Presumably he wants indicating that Oppenheimer was a security risk because of his personal as­ to concentrate them in one unit so they can be educated in the school of polit­ sociation and social contacts with Communists but he was later to learn that ical ideology subscribed to by his friend. Oppenheimer. this was not the half of it. He went to proper government officials with the Arthur Compton, now Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, information he had and was persuaded by the White House not to pursue the listed in Appendix IX in Washington files as having been affiliated with such matter “for security reasons” and having his hands full in investigation of Communist Fronts as American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual subversives in other agencies of government and the Army, McCarthy agreed Freedom and the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, was also to leave it for other authorities to handle. But he knew that Oppenheimer instrumental in securing the job for Dr. Oppenheimer. was suspect which meant that eventually, if others didn’t act, he would. This kind of information in the hands of Joe McCarthy spells danger to those The late Karl T. Compton, national sponsor of the Communist Front Na­ in government who have the same information but don’t act on it. tional Council for American-Soviet Friendship was another who helped Oppenheimer secure his responsible job in atomic energy projects. Harry Meantime, let us go way back to 1941 and see what Oppenheimer was Truman and Vannever Bush, President of Carnegie Institute, had high praise doing along about then. for Oppenheimer and his “service” to his country. On a night in July of that year, an important and closely guarded meeting William L. Borden former executive director of the Joint Committee on was being held at No. 10 Kenilworth Court, Berkeley, California. Participants Atomic Energy of the United States Congress, however, in testimony to the in the gathering were members of the Special Section of the Communist Party, Personnel Security Board Hearing referred to Oppenheimer because of his a division of that Party which is so highly secret that even the persons access to new weapons being developed in this country as “in a position to composing it do not know each other’s real names and who hold such strategic compromise more vital and detailed information affecting the national de­ positions with the Party that no membership cards are issued to them. Their fense and security than any other individual in the United States.” identity is protected at all costs, and their value to the Kremlin is beyond the “As chairman or an official or unofficial member of more than thirty-five power of the Western mind to evaluate. important government committees, panels, study groups, and projects, he has The occasion for the meeting was that a switch had been made in Commu­ oriented or dominated key policies involving every principal United States nist Party policy in Moscow which had to be transmitted to members of the security department and agency except the FBI” Borden stated in a com­ Special Section in this country and the meeting on that particular night had munication to the FBI which was placed in the official testimony at the hear­ been called for this purpose. ings. “This opinion considers the following factors, among others: He was Later when FBI agents investigated the matter, they found that the home contributing substantial monthly sums to the Communist Party; His ties with Communism had survived the Nazi-Soviet Pact and the Soviet attack upon at 10 Kenilworth Court, Berkeley was owned by a member of the faculty of Finland; His wife and younger brother were Communists; He had no close the University of California, but he had nothing to do with the meeting and friends except Communists; He had at least one Communist mistress; He be­ did not even know that it was being held. He had leased his home for the longed only to Communist organizations, apart from professional affiliations; summer through the Mason-McDuffie Real Estate Company who handled the The people whom he recruited into the early wartime Berkeley atomic project transaction for him. were exclusively Communists; He had been instrumental in securing recruits The name of the person who leased the home which was in a secluded for the Communist Party; He was in frequent contact with Soviet espionage section of the Berkeley Hills and could only be approached by a circuitous agents.” road, was Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and investigation by the FBI at the And yet he was kept on in top-secret positions in the atomic weapons utilities company showed that he paid the utility bills throughout the entire laboratories until it was impossible to longer ignore his affiliations with enemy summer season. agents and even then he was given a pat on the back by the Committee which The man who delivered the lecture at the Special Section session that night said: “he was a security risk but a loyal American.” to explain in detail the change in Communist Party policy was named Paul There is reason to believe that there are more Oppenheimers in sensitive Crouch, for seventeen years a top functionary in the inner councils of the defense positions of our government who will not be smoked out until their _ Communist Party. He also was a member of the District Bureau, one of the affiliations can no longer be ignored. most important party units in the country covering California, Arizona and Senator McCarthy probably has access to more confidential information the Hawaiian Islands. from accurate sources than any other individual in the world and if the con­ When Crouch became disillusioned with Communism, he sought to make tents of his vast files were exposed, it would probably do more damage politic­ amends for his connection with this treasonous conspiracy against his country ally than the explosion of a Russian bomb could cause physically. by giving all information in his possession to authorized investigating com­ Multiply this affair by hundreds and it will be easier to understand why mittees of Congress. so many highly-placed personalities in government are promoting the idea In 1950 he, together with his wife, Sylvia, testified under oath to the above that “Joe Must Go,” and why so many simple-minded persons on the outside circumstances and identified Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer as having been pres­ who have no more understanding and knowledge of what is going on than a ent at the session of the Special Section members. Crouch swore that he was cock-roach, are ready to fall in line and join the chorus. taken to the meeting that night by a Kenneth May, educational director of the Communist Party in Alameda County, California, and that the event No, the fight against the Wisconsin senator and the efforts to discredit occurred about one week before the Communist District Meeting in San Fran­ him emanating from so many sources are not spontaneous bursts of indignation cisco. Both Crouch and his wife further testified that later they were at var­ at any action on his part. ious social gatherings arranged by the Communist Party where Oppenheimer They result from a cold, calculated and designed plan to render him ineffective in his investigations of Communism but, above all, to nullify the was present. That testimony was in the hands of Washington authorities from 19o0 on, danger inherent in information he possesses which could conceivably blast but it was in the Spring of 1954 before action was taken to remove Oppen­ many careers to bits. . heimer. Meantime Russia’s stockpile of. atomic weapons kept pace with our own and some authorities have publicly claimed that it has surpassed that of THE COMMIES MAY STAY THE COMMIES MAY STAY BUT JOE MUST GO BUT JOE MUST GO this country. THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE September, 1954 Page 8 Tut Tut Old Comrades' New Communist Control Senator Warns Supreme Court It Has No Just Keep the Change Bill Gets Horse Laugh Power to Enforce Segregation Ruling In the closing days of the 83rd Just before Congress adjourned, Congress a bill to outlaw the Com­ The utter absurdity of the Supreme Court decisions on Segregation the attention of the Senate was munist Party was passed over and its complete inability to enforce it was presented on the floor of called to the fact that a small er­ strong opposition from the White the United States Senate by Honorable James O. Eastland of Mississippi. ror had been made in figuring the House but as the measure, as final­ Pointing out that there are 11,000 segregated school districts in total amount of aid to England dur­ ly passed, would outlaw the Com­ the United States and that each one of the districts would have to be ing the past several years and that munist Party but let the individu­ cited in contempt proceedings and a judgment obtained against that the mistake had just come to light. als who belong to it go free, it is particular school, Senator Eastland predicted that any serious effort to It seems that in the rush of get­ regarded a little more than a joke, enforce de-segregation would result in a “Century of Litigation”. ting off to a Washington cocktail and especially by the Communists. Expressing amazement that many people in the North think party, or some other equally im­ The boys in the Kremlin must have that the South will comply with this decision, Senator Eastland said portant gathering in the national popped their buttons off laughing in part: capital, somebody accidentally at it. “The opinion delivered by the Supreme Court will not change slipped a little matter of $4,000,- 000,000.00 more to England, under The Fair Dealers jumped into public opinion. The Court has merely antagonized the people. A court decree is worthless unless it is supported by public opinion. A court this program than had been al­ the act too in an effort to make lotted to her or that she had ex­ campaign thunder for this fall s decree to which the vast majority of Southern people are openly hostile pected to receive. election which added more comedy will be worse than useless in the South . . . This decision will fall of its as Fair Deal Democrats want a own weight because it is opposed by the vast majority of our people. We read on and on in the Con­ Communist control bill about like It will take force to bring compliance with the decision of the Court. gressional Record which told of it we want a hole in our head T.hey Where is that force? The Court cannot supply it! to see what, if anything, was go­ were in power twenty years hands “Here is what would happen: A school official, where the State ing to be done about it but nothing running and during that time their school laws have been adjudged unconstitutional in a case in which more was said of the matter. record on Communism was written the State was a party, and the judgment was against this particular However, in the same edition of and can’t be erased so anything school district, could be cited for contempt by the Supreme Court, if the Record we read of the con­ they say or do now about the sub­ the school official refused to comply with and resisted the decree of troversy Mr. Harold Stassen, ject is just blowing off steam. the Court. He could be put in jail until he carried out the Court decree. whose official job is to give away As we have said so often it has “This, however, will not apply to a private citizen. A private citi­ money, was having with some of become a chant, the real peril to the countries over there who have this country is not Communist zen, not a party to the suit, would not be in contempt and could not be informed him that they don t Party members but champions of proceeded against in a contempt action. What will happen, therefore, is want our money and who have ad­ Communist ideologies who never that private citizens will not permit racial integration of their schools. vised him to get lost. have and never will be members of They have the means to prevent it, and in my judgment will do so. So far, he has refused to take the Party. Senator Eastland further pointed out that any attempt by the their advice to go home and is still While the bill as passed won’t Department of Justice to prosecute private citizens under the Federal arguing with them that they do, do any harm, it won’t do any good Civil Rights statute would be confronted by the fact that the indictment too, want our money and is waving either. Neither will any legislation must be returned by a grand jury in the State involved and the accused it in their faces to show them how which may be passed in future un­ convicted by a trial jury in the State involved. “For one to think there pretty and green it is. til something can be figured out would be indictments or convictions in most areas of the South is an So maybe, this plan of giving that will wipe out such groups as absurdity” Senator Eastland asserted, and added: Americans for Democratic Action, them four billion dollars more the National Education Associa­ “The police power of the State under our system of Government than they are scheduled to get is tion, the National C o u n c i 1 of is supreme and absolute . . . The Governor of a sovereign State can use just a clever device to outsmart Churches, powerful minority the force at his command, both police, civil and other, to maintain public them and beat them at their own group organizations and several order and prevent crime and riots. In fact it is his duty to preserve game. order and prevent turmoil and strife within the State. Should he fail thousand individual Americans in After all, we peons are not ex­ high places, all of whom are pro­ to perform such duty, he would be subject to impeachment. He is ac­ countable to no one except the legislature and the people of his State. pected to understand the workings moting Communism far more ef­ of the brilliant minds of our diplo­ fectively in this country than Mal­ He is the Governor of a sovereign State and the Supreme Court cannot control and direct his actions, under the American system of Govern­ mats and leaders and what do we enkov could do if he were person­ know about high finance, any way? ally directing the job. ment. If the Court could do so we would not have a dual system of government, with its division of powers. The Court could not cite him for contempt and if it did so, he would ignore the summons. THE COMMIES MAY STAY BUT JOE MUST GO “If it’s O.K. to teach Commu­ “The only weapon possessed by the Court is the citation for con­ nism in the schools to show its tempt and that is an ineffective weapon. It is an impractical weapon evils, then why shouldn’t they also because the Supreme Court cannot operate the schools of the Southern Some editorial writers in this teach safe-cracking, opium smok­ States . . .” country express the fear that the ing, pandhandling, street walking, defection of Otto John from West swindling, guzzling, horse-handi­ Germany and his subsequent ap­ capping and crap-shooting to show Caryl Chessman, a thief,, rapist Whatever became of the United pearance behind the Iron Curtain how bad they are too” asks New and all-round hardened criminal Nations? We haven’t heard a chirp York columnist Lee Mortimer and was sentenced to die in San Quen­ where he is broadcasting Commu­ out of them in ages. They were the we defy any addle - brained de­ tin early this year. But he wrote nist propaganda, may seriously im­ fender of “academic freedom” to a book and California authorities ones who were going to take care pair the confidence of the German gave him a stay of execution and answer that one. of all the trouble spots in the people in the Adenauer govern­ his stuff is now running serially in many newspapers. Who said that World and make everything just ment. Maybe so, but it hasn’t work­ crime does not pay? dandy, remember? ed that way here. We have had Publicity on the meeting of the Communist spies identified with American Bar Association in Chi­ the American government in such cago during August pointed out Even though he had nothing to go on but the opinion of nine men the address of Earl Warren of the whose thinking has been dominated for years by left-wing groups, the numbers that it would be impossi­ Supreme Court as the high point Principal of the Hobbs, New Mexico, public school system, Charles L. ble to enumerate them. When they desert, or are exposed, nothing of the association’s 77th annual Mills went right ahead and jumbled up 3600 white children and four convention. We wonder what the hundred negro children on the opening day of school. In one case at happens. Nothing, that is, except low point was. least a negro teacher was assigned to teach classes composed partly of to those who expose them. white children. Mills took this step even though he was warned there THE COMMIES MAY STAY THE COMMIES MAY STAY might be violence. It would be interesting to trace his background and BUT JOE MUST GO learn where he acquired his racial views. BUT JOE MUST GO