ALAN CRANSTON the Shadow in the Senate

ALAN CRANSTON The Shadow In The Senate

Gary Allen, a graduate of Stanford Uni paigning, for personal or ideological pur versity, is the author of several best poses, with little chance of winning. Then selling books, including Communist Revo State Superintendent of Education Max lution In The Streets; Nixon's Palace Rafferty defeated Senator Thomas A. Guard; None Dare Call It Conspiracy; Kuchel in the Republican primary. It was and, Richard Nixon: The Man Behind a contest in which more blood was spilled The Mask, the defin itive study of the than at the Battle of the Marne, with the ambition and conspiratorial activities of result being that the Kuchel supporters our current President. Mr. Allen, a former defecte d to Cranston . That year the instructor ofhistory and English, is active Republican Presidential candidate swept in numerous humanitarian, anti-Commu the state and the Republican candidate nist, and business enterprises. A film writ for Senate took the political gaspipe. By er, author, and [ournalist, he is a Contrib the time the smog cleared, Max Rafferty uting Edito r to AMERICAN O PIN IO N. was on his way to political oblivion and the man derisively nicknamed "The Mor • THE United States Senate is often said tician" had become the "accidental Sena to be "the world's most exclusive club." tor." It was one for Ripley . It has welcomed the membership of great statesmen, profound thinkers, and mag The Legislative Record nificent leaders. It has also served as a Alan Cranston has been a very ener base for demagogues, rogues, and rascals. getic Senator. A study financed by the Occasionally the fates have even amused National Taxpayers Union has found that themselves by sending to the Senate a only six other Senators have voted to bona fide screwball, a man whose skills as spend more of the taxpayers' money than a leader qualify him for little more than has Cranston in his freshman term .The haranguing the indifferent pigeons in problem is that our government has been Pershing Square. It is a tribute to the running enormous deficits which are be sagacity of the Founding Fathers, and to ing financed by the printing presses, the system of checks and balances they reducing the value of our money to such wrote into our Constitution, that the an extent as to produce a suffocati ng American Republic has survived not only inflation . As a chief architect of deficit its election of rogues and rascals but also spending, the California Senator has con its occasional embrace of demagogues and trib uted mightily to the rising cost of screwballs. living, or "the inflation tax" as it has Consider the case of the man his been called. In the six years of his term, colleagues call "the accidental Senator." deficit programs that he has supported He is Alan Cranston, senior Senator from have been responsible for twenty-five California, the most populous state in the percent of our entire National Debt Union. In 1968, Cranston was considered every nickel of it bidding up the prices we by professional politicians to be a must pay for everything we buy . "throwaway candidate" - a man cam- Rather than vote to bring runaway

JUNE. 1974 49 government spending under control - the been very difficult to find any area of only way to stop this inflation - Senator human activity where Alan.Cranston has Cranston became a vocal advocate of not voted to expand government by wage and price controls. He cheered when spending ever more of our taxes. ' The President Nixon fastened dictatorial con single exception is national defense, the trols on the economy, producing wide main legitimate expense of government. spread shortages. And he has gone right Here he is thoroughly duplicitous. Speak on voting away the buying-power of our ing at California defense plants, Senator dollars by supporting one deficit program Cranston tells workers that the United after another. States must be kept "militarily and tech Fortunately for consumers and tax nologically strong." That is campaign payers, many of the big spending bills talk. When not campaigning, Alan Cran Senator Cranston has supported have not ston is a member of the board of trustees passed, otherwise the Budget would have of the United World Federalists, which been doubled - doubling inflation or openly advocates our complete disarma taxes. Cranston was a sponsor of literally ment and surrender of American sover scores of big-spending bills which merci eignty to a World Government. fully did not get out of Committee. If all Just to list those aspects of our lives in of the money he has sought to spend which Senator Cranston has actively were actually appropriated, Joe Taxpayer urged that the government interfere would be working fulltime for Big Broth would require a book the size of the Los er from January to September (instead of Angeles telephone directory. Here are a merely to May) just to pay taxes. few typical examples: . Some "Liberals" believe that the move Alan Cranston wants to spend $400 in only four years from the nation's first million to put the federal government in $200 billion Budget to our first $300 the population-control business. He fa billion Budget is worth the cost in infla vors spending millions to permit the tion, taxes, and controls. Honest, if de federal government to involve itself in the luded, they say so openly. But, in Current activities of our local police departments. Biography, Senator Cranston actually de He has sought substantially to raise your scribes himself as "a conservative in fiscal taxes to provide a "guaranteed college matters." If Alan Cranston is a fiscal education" for all. Cranston also wants to conservative, then Billy Jean King is a tax you to provide federal "underwriting male chauvinist and Tiny Tim a baritone. of local property taxes," assuring federal That the seventh biggest spender in a control ofall town and city expenditures, spendthrift Senate would describe himself including the schools. He wants more as "a conservative in fiscal matters" federal money to force racial balance in befogs the mind. It also casts doubt on schools. He wants to eliminate the prac the man's credibility about anything. tice of offsetting earnings against Welfare Cranston's problem is that Californians payments. Alan Cranston says he wants are weary of being had by the Big Brother the federal taxpayer to guarantee a job programs he has consistently supported. for everyone. He supports legislation He has therefore adjusted his rhetoric if which would virtually do away with the not his commitment. "You know, I just constitutionally guaranteed right to keep don't believe government has to be in and bear arms. Cranston even wants every aspect of your life," Senator Cran federal money to construct and control ston told an interviewer for Nation's local sewer systems. He has introduced a Business. "It needs to help where help is bill which would put the federal govern needed, but it doesn't have to be in ment in the business of establishing na everything." In practice, however, it has tional adoption laws, claiming control of

50 AMERICAN OPINION Senate Internal Security Subcommitte Report, 1954 At another point, he discussed the part he pl ayed in the production of Army T alks, whi ch have been shown above as the fountainhead of pro-Communist indoctrination in I. and E. Dr. Schreiber not only ap proved of the pro-Communist indoctrina tion of American troops during Wo rld "Val' II but he still approves of it. The record shows that as late as Apri l 1949, Dr. Schreiber was a ~lliillkQ."_,,.Lth

Senator Alan Cranston denies that he played schoolboy Lenin in Mexico as early as 1935 , but the photostat below indicates otherwise. He next toured the revolutionary fronts of Europe, later explaining he was an LN.S. correspondent, but LN.S. denied it. Back in the U.S., Cranston became the protege of identified Soviet spy Louis Adamic , by whom he was employed. Named to head a section of O.W.I., he employed a known Soviet agent as chief of his Italian desk and chose as his own top assistant one David Karr, an important Communist editor for the Daily Worker and Party Organizer. David Karr still contributes to Cranston (below right) . Under fire by Congress and the F.B.L, Cranston joined the Army and worked for confessed Communist Julius Schreiber (see above) writing Red propaganda for the troops which was reprinted in the Daily Worker and distributed by Communist Fronts.

Special Committee on Un-American Activities. 1943

Mr. ~lATI'lIEw8 . " 'ho sponsored you in YOUI' position with the Office of F acts and F igures I . . . .. Mr. KARR. Alan Cranston, Clnef of the F oreign Langu age Division of the Office of Facts and F igures. Mr. ?>IATrHEws. Did he personally invite you to ta ke th e position, 01' did you apply for th e P?siti on I .. , Mr. KARB. I never appl ied for any positron 111 th e Fed eral Govern- ment. . . Soviet spy Adamic Mr. MATrHEws. Did he pers onally invite ~' O\l to lake the posttron I .Mr. l{ARR. Yes, sir. Sacramento Bee February 13, 1974 WASHINGTON - Sen. Alan Cranston, a congres sional champion of public financing for federal elec tions campaigns, is relying heavily on big contribu tions from wealthy support ers in his own bid for re election this year... . Bankers Give John J. Peters, chairman of the California Financial Corp. in San Jose, has given $3,000. Officers of United California Bank donated $750. M. David Karr, an in vestment banker in Paris, sent $2,500.

JUNE, 1974 51 children as a federal right and calling for a our new cars by up to one-third. Alan "Cabinet-level post" on children.* And Cranston is consistent all right: First he Senator Cranston proposes spending an votes to restrict the supply of gasoline additional ten billion dollars on federal and then he votes to increase the demand. "make work" projects like the old W.P.A. The predictable result was a major blow Cranston usually defends such ex to the economy that has sent unemploy tremism by saying he is only doing what ment soaring and forced Americans to the people want. What he is doing is spend millions of non-productive man attempting to combine the support of hours in long, boring gasoline lines. hundreds of special-interest groups to If it does not ask more questions than assure his re-election. The theory goes it answers, Alan Cranston's record as a that if a politician will cater to every Senator does raise one question that pressure group he will get the votes of should be answered: Is Senator Cranston each even when all are displeased by most only another demagogue, trying desper of the other things he does. ately to hold onto the best job he has One instance where Alan Cranston has ever had, or is he a committed collectivist voted contrary to the clearly expressed working knowledgeably and willfully to wishes of his constituency is on capital expand the power of Big Brother over all punishment. Cranston voted against a of us? Let us return to those thrilling Senate bill designed to overcome the days of yesteryear and see who Alan 1972 Supreme Court decision which Cranston really is and why he does the abolished the death penalty. Another strange things he does. such area is the energy crisis. When it comes to ecological overkill, Alan Cran The Shadowy Background ston is the champion of the bug aria When one begins researching his curi butterfly set. ous and colorful background, Alan Cran Everyone is for common-sense solu ston, the Senator, quickly becomes La tions to pollution, but reasonable people mont Cranston, the Shadow . He would are opposed to destroying the economy rather reveal the number of his Swiss in the name of ecology. Cranston consis bank account than discuss his past. In tently voted for the bills which created deed, the Shadow is very touchy about the gasoline shortages Americans suffered his past. Broach the subject and he will this spring. First he opposed the construc grab the nearest megaphone and begin to tion of the Alaska pipeline, despite the wail that he is the victim of a political fact that every reasonable precaution had smear. Had Jack the Ripper run for the been taken to prevent accidents. Then he Senate in California he would no doubt led the fight to stop offshore oil drilling, have employed exactly the same tactic. despite the fact that there had been only To make certain no one would probe four major spills out of eighteen thousand too deeply into his sometimes mysterious offshore wells drilled. He next voted to past, Alan Cranston gave Max Rafferty force auto manufacturers to apply anti advance notice that he would call for help pollution devices of doubtful efficiency, under the Fair Practices Code if the increasing the gasoline consumption of Republican candidate were to say so much as an unkind word about his past. "Presumably Mr. Cranston would not recom The bluff worked. Rafferty turned con mend that the Cabinet post be filled by his son, trol of his campaign over to Nixon Robin, a convicted narcotics smuggler. Senator staffers who apparently convinced Raffer Cranston's son was placed on probation, though ty that all he had to do was to cam others go to jail for decades for committing the same offense. He was later indicted for drugging paign on the theme of "Tippecanoe and a girl at a sex party. Maxie too" and he could ride into the

JUNE, 1974 53 Senate on Nixon's coattails. It turned out period reports that William Cranston, the that Richard Nixon's coattails were close friend of Bolshevik newspaper edi shorter than Yul Brynner 's hair, and Alan tor Fremont Older, took his son Alan to Cranston became a United States Senator visit the Soviet Union during summer while Max Rafferty, once one of the vacations from high school. Cranston, hottest political properties in the nation, naturally enough, now finds it convenient was driven off to join the faculty at Troy to deny these visits to the Workers' State, a teachers' college in deepest Ala Paradise. Whatever the case, his father 's bama. Cranston escaped exposure of his comnlitment to Lenin is hardly grounds shady past. to send the son to the political guillotine . Although sold to Californians by the Following graduation from Mt. View electronic media as a calm and rational High School, Alan Cranston enrolled at "moderate," Alan Cranston was raised in Pomona Coilege in 1932 and later trans a radical family where he learned revolu ferred to Stanford. In the summer of tionary politics at his daddy's knee. Cur 1935 he decided not to go to Russia but rent Biography tells us that the senior to the University of Mexico where he Cranston was a close friend of "the noted participated as a teenage Trotsky in the San Francisco newspaper editor" Fre "wars" which led to the overthrow of mont Older, and that it was Older who Thomas Garrido Canabal. The San Fran inspired young Alan Cranston to decide cisco Examiner for July 19, 1935, tells upon a career of journalism. What is not the story of two Stanford seniors who mentioned in the information supplied to were described as "boy revolutionaries" Current Biography by the Senator is that participating in the uprising. One of those Fremont Older was an important Red "boy revolutionaries" was Alan Cranston, who had dedicated his life to revolution quoted in the same newspaper as saying ary causes. In a letter to Felix Frank "We stand with the University of Mexico furter, President Theodore Roosevelt de even though we're only summer students. scribed the man Senator Cranston cites as Down with the Dictator Garrido Canabal! instrumental in guiding his career: What a lark!" Yes, after Russia, what a lark. But it . .. Fremont Older and the seems Cranston has had another of his I. W. W. and the direct action anar convenient lapses of memory. He now chists and apologists for anarchy answers constituents who enquire about are never concerned for justice. his activities as a prototype Weatherman ... The reactionaries have in the by claiming that the report is "false" and past been a great menace to this declaring: "I did not participate in the Republic, but at this moment it is Mexican riots." Page one of the San the I. W. W., the Germanized Social Francisco Examiner of July 19, 1935, ists, the anarchists, the foolish crea says otherwise. tures who always protest against When is a lark not a lark? When the suppression of crime, the paci somebody brings up your revolutionary fists and the like, under the lead activities at a time when you are cam of. .. the Fremont alders and paigning as a "moderate." Amos Pinchots and Rudolph In the four years following his gradu Spreckels who are the really grave ation from Stanford in 1936 , Cranston's danger. These are the Bolsheviki of career again moved into the shadows. His America . .. . official biography in World Government News states that from 1936 to 1938 he They were indeed. And a next door was with the International News Service neighbor of the Cranstons during this as a foreign correspondent in London,

54 AMERICAN OPINION Italy, and Ethiopia. This is another fabri Adamic was actually and openly writing cation to cover Cranston's radical activi for the official Communist press during ties. When interviewed, I.N.S. officials the entire period in which he was training reported that Alan Cranston once worked Alan Cranston and was a Soviet spy. as a "volunteer" in their London office, It was while working under the tute his association with I.N.S. being con lage of Communist Louis Adamic that sidered "more of an apprenticeship rather Cranston hit the prints with a ringing than an actual position" and "no employ defense of labor boss Harry Bridges, ment record was ever kept on Cranston." whom the government was trying to In other words, the reported job with deport because he was an alien Commu International News Service was a cover nist. Bridges' Communist Party card was for other activity. Someone else bank turned over by his estranged wife to the rolled Alan Cranston's globe-girdling Immigration Service and was introduced tours of the world 's hot spots - someone as evidence in deportation Hearings. This whose identity Alan Cranston has found made little difference to Alan Cranston . it politically convenient to forget. Alan was denounced on the floor of Cranston returned to New York City Congress by Representative Fred M. Bus in 1939, working as a free-lance writer bey of Illinois, who noted Cranston's and lecturing on the "perils of American dedicated "support of Communist Harry isolationism." Among his contributions Bridges" which "in many respects paral to the world of literature during this lels the program of the Communist Par period was his own "unexpurgated" ver ty." Since Cranston's guru and editor was sion of Hitler's Mein Kampf, which Cran Soviet spy Louis Adamic, this is not ston removed from the book stalls when overly surprising. the Communists and Nazis signed the Rib Records of Draft Board Number Six bentrop Pact and became allies. He now teen in New York City show that after explains that it infringed on the Nazi the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Fuehrer's copyright. while Alan Cranston was again beating Late in 1939, Cranston associated the drums to march America into the himself with a radical lobbying group bloody war in Europe, he submitted a known as Common Council and became formal request for occupational defer the protege of Louis Adamic, editor of ment, explaining that he was employed the Council's publication, Common by the Common Council "in reference to Ground. Adamic moved Cranston to education and assimilation of the foreign Washington where the young man served born population in the United States." It on his staff. The two were inseparable was noble enough for others to march off friends, frequently weekending together to die, but the hide of Alan Cranston was at Adamic's home. precious and he would manage success Louis Adamic was as red as the Bol fully to stay out of uniform until the shevik leader Fremont Older, who Cran shooting was almost over. So hypocritical ston says started his journalism career. is he that during that Senatorial campaign According to the Hearings of the House he had the incredible gall to suggest that Committee on Un-American Activities his opponent, Dr. Max Rafferty, was a which were published as Report On The draft dodger. American Slav Congress And Associated A week before Pearl Harbor, another Organizations, Louis Adamic was a mem shadow crossed Cranston's life. Although ber of the Communist Party who be a youth untutored in foreign languages, longed to at least thirty-seven organiza working for a top Communist, he was tions that were officially cited by the selected to head the Foreign Language federal government as Communist Fronts, Division of the Office of Facts and

JUNE,1974 57 Figures, later the Office of War Infonna O.W.!. ~as to bully editors of foreign tion. Adding to the mystery was the fact language newspapers into taking a pro that Cranston, whose career had been Communist line. On September 29,1949, inspired and guided by Comrades Fre Paul Nadany, editor of AmerikaiMagyar mont Older and Louis Adamic, chose as sag, testified as follows before a Senate his chief assistant a young man named Judiciary Subcommittee: David Karr who (not incidentally) could neither read nor translate any foreign All through the war years, the language. Karr admitted to the House policy of my paper was advocating Committee on Un-American Activities on all military aidto Russia against the April 6, 1943, that Cranston had per Axis, but keeping the Communists sonally sought him out for the job. A three feet away, reminding them Civil Service Commission memorandum time and time again that they must dated June 25, 1943, offers this addi first prove their sincerity after the tional information: shooting phase ofthe war was over. Naturally, they resented this atti The various FBI reports on tude and with their influence grow David Karr are summarized as fol ing daily in Washington, they felt lows: While working for a brush free to attack my paper day after company . . . Karr formed a close day. Alan Cranston, chief of the association with the Communist Foreign Language Section of the Party, joining it before he was hired Office of War Information, and his by the Communist organ, the Daily first lieutenant, Dave Karr, former Worker. ly David Katz - I understand that ... Mr. Karr admitted to several he was with the Daily Worker FBI agents that he was doing re came to my office and practically write work for the Party Organizer. held a club over my head to tone The Party Organizer is the most down all differences with the Com confidential of all publications of munists. My publisher and I re the Communist Party. It is printed sented his attitude and told him so. for and issued to only those who are high in the ranks of the Party Karr was not the only Comrade em and it contains the latest instruc ployed by Alan Cranston at the Office of tions and decisions of the Commu War Information. Working directly under nist Party. Cranston was Carlo Emanuel Prato, whose background was documented in In other words, Alan Cranston sought the Congressional Record for July 11, as his chief assistant a man employed by 1950, Page A5016 , as follows: the Communist Party to deal with its most confidential papers and directives. Associated in the OWl division According to the Sacramento Bee of under control ofAlan Cranston was February 13, 1974, a mysterious David an allegedItalian Communist, Carlo Karr recently contributed $2,500 to the Emanuel Prato, who had been ex Senate campaign of Alan Cranston. The pelled from Switzerland as a Soviet article is entitled "Cranston Wants Public agent, entered the United States on Financing But He Must Rely On 'Fat a Czech passport issued to Milan Cats,'" and Senator Cranston's friend Janore. David Karr is now described as "an invest ment banker in Paris." According to a House Committee Re The Cranston and Karr policy at port entitled Investigation Of Un-

JUNE,1974 59 American Propaganda Activities in the programs which told the truth about the United States, the Criminal Alien Division Communist atrocities put off the air. of the New York City Police Department In fact, Alan Cranston became so described Prato as a "pay-off man of the viciously pro-Soviet that he was attacked OGPU." The O.G.P.U. was the Soviet by name on the floor of Congress on secret police. Prato later worked with November 4, 1943. The House Select Cranston as a pioneer in the World Committee To Investigate The Federal Government movement, yet today the Communications Commission uncovered Senator claims: "I did not employ Carlos evidence that the F.C.C. and Office of Prato (whoever he may be - I don't think War Information were deliberately setting I ever met him)." Prato, who also used a pro-Communist slant to foreign-lan the alias Perini, ran the Italian desk for guage broadcasts emanating from hun Cranston at the Office of War Informa dreds of radio stations throughout the tion. It was a key post and Cranston United States. The Committee specifical knew Soviet agent Prato all too well. ly charged that Cranston cooperated with Alan Cranston was also called on the the conspiracy. The House Appropri carpet by concerned Congressmen be ations Committee declared a month later cause he falsified facts about the Katyn that Alan Cranston's office worked "to Forest Massacre to hide the role of the further the interests of Soviet foreign Soviets from the American public . The diplomacy, oftimes in contradiction to Russians had murdered thirteen thousand the declared policy of the United States Polish officers, intellectuals, and scien Government ... ." This Committee fur tists, and dumped their bodies in mass ther found that Cranston's office has graves. When a special Committee of "brought pressure to bear upon reputable Congress investigated the massacre and democratic groups and individuals .. . in quizzed Cranston, he tried to explain order to force them into unwilling coop away the suppression by claiming that eration with Communists and Commu Anthony Eden , President Roosevelt, and nist-controlled organizations." The F.B.I. Sumner Welles believed the Nazis had investigated Cranston, and reported that committed the crime. He then admitted he "moves in Communist circles." that he had gotten that idea from a book Alan Cranston resigned under pressure. published years later, and that at the time His deferment from Draft Board Number he suppressed all reports of the massive Sixteen was no longer valid. As boss of Soviet atrocity he had no information the Office of War Information he had whatever that any of the three held any brought pressure to bear to insure defer such opinion. Today, the Senator still ment for others - including three editors plays games with the facts, maintaining: of the openly Communist newspaper "I did not set a false policy about the Slobdna Rech. But with Congressional Katyn Massacre. President Roosevelt investigators at his heels, and his defer made the decision . . .." ment at an end, he had no choice but to The Senator no doubt thinks that libel join the Army or be drafted. According of President Roosevelt will get him off to Karl Barslag, longtime investigator for the hook. After all, how many people are the Senate Internal Security Subcommit going to go back and read the Congres tee, Cranston "applied for admission to sional Hearings which reveal that the man Officers Candidate School but was denied responsible for the Katyn cover-up was [security] clearance by S-2 [Intelligence] Alan Cranston? Evidence brought out by of the Army in July of 1944 for reasons the 1952 Hearings on Katyn showed that unknown." So serious a security risk that Cranston went to such extremes to pro he could not even be cleared to serve as a tect his Soviet friends as to have radio second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, this

JUNE,1974 61 former high U.S. Government official and the last two pages are filled with graduate of Stanford now entered the material designed to transmit pro Service as a private. paganda favorable to Communism Today, Senator Cranston claims: "I and military dictatorship . . .. This did not resign from the Office of War document goes on to make many Information under fire; I did decline a sly comparisons which, by in government deferment and enlisted in the ference, condemn our represen Army as a private." The denial doesn't tative form of government and re square with the facts. In all of his commend to favorable consider biographical releases, again and again over ation the Soviet form of govern the years, Cranston has described himself ment. as entering the Service after declining deferment. He did not. The record of his How ironic that a man who has pre Draft Board shows that he had in fact pared Communist propaganda condemn tendered a three-page request for defer ing our representative government would ment. But, with both Congress and the be elected to the United States Senate F.B.I. looking into his activities he was because no one dared to report the truth just too hot to be pulled out of the line about his background. of fire. Once in the Army , Cranston managed The New World Order to get himself assigned to the Information At the end of the war, Alan Cranston and Education Division. Just as before, threw himself passionately into the move the Communists were again looking after ment for World Government. Of course, his career. A job was arranged for him many sorts of people have beaten the editingArmy Talks under the command of drums for World Government. Their num Major Julius Schreiber, a psychiatrist who ber includes myopic college professors , later admitted that he was a member of dreamy suburban housefraus, super-rich the Communist Party. (See Investigation international operators .. . and the Com OfMajor Julius Schreiber, Senate Internal munists. World Government is, in fact , an Security Subcommittee, 1954.) important tenet of revolutionarary Com It was during this period that Crans munism. ton prepared Army Orientation Fact In his book, The Bolsheviki And World Sheet No. 64, which was so clearly Peace, published in 1918 when he was Communist propaganda that it was re Commissar of War in Russia's first Com printed in the Communist Daily Worker, munist Government, Leon Trotsky de in the Red weekly In Fact, and later clared that "the task of the proletariat is reprinted as a pamphlet for mass distri to create a far more powerful fatherland, bution by a cited Communist Front. The with a far greater power of resistance Cranston "Fact Sheet" was described by the republican United States of Europe, Army Intelligence as a classic example as the foundation of the United States of of infiltration via the printed word. On the world." He argued that "the only way June 7, 1946, the House Committee on in which the proletariat can meet the Uri-American Activities observed of this imperialistic perplexity of capitalism is by document by Alan Cranston: opposing to it as a practical program of the day the Socialist organization of the In the entire discussion oc world economy." cupying eight closely printed World Government has long been a pages, there is not one word formal objective of the International against Communism or Soviet mili Communist Conspiracy. In 1936, for ex tary dictatorship. On the contrary, ample, the Communist International at

JUNE,1974 63 Moscow presented the following important Following the line set for dutiful directive as part of its official program : Communist propagandists, Alan Cranston claims World Government will bring ... dictatorship can be estab world "peace." If by peace one means the lished only by a victory ofsocialism peace of the concentration camps de in different countries or groups of scribed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, then countries, after which the prole Trotsky and Stalin and Foster and Cran tarian republics would unite on ston are on the right track. federal lines with those already in Mr. Cranston's first blow for World existence, and this system of fed Government was a book he published in eral unions would expand . .. at 1945 called The Killing Of The Peace. length forming the World Union of Cranston acknowledged in this book that Socialist Soviet Republics. the editing "of the entire manuscript" was done by Professor Frank Fleming, Joseph Stalin divided his plan for who as chance would have it had written achievement of this Communist world a book on the same subject. * Fleming has federalism into three stages: followed the Communist Line so slavishly that his efforts have been praised for their (1) Socialize the economies of "great contribution to peace" by Political all nations, particularly the Western Affairs, the official theoretical journal of capitalistic democracies; (2) bring the Communist Party, U.S.A. Alan Cran about federal union of various ston's "editor" has also been singled out groupings of these socialized na for praise by the Communist WorldMarx tions; and, (3) amalgamate all .of ist Review and has contributed articles to the federal unions into one world the Communist New World Review. Just wide union ofsocialist states. how Mr. Cranston again found himself in such company is a matter of specu Thus the dissemination of World Gov lation which we leave to you. ernment propaganda is essential to Com Just as planned , The Killing Of The munist strategy for capturing America. As Peace vaulted Cranston into leadership of Communist Party leader William Z. Fos the World Government movement. He ter put it in Toward A Soviet America : became a director of the executive com "A Communist world will be a unified , mittee of Americans United For World organized world. The economic system Government and served as chairman of will be one great organization .... The the Ways and Means Committee at the American-Soviet government will be an Conference On World Government at important section in this world organiza Dublin , New Hampshire, in 1945. It was tion . . .." But, says the official Commu Alan Cranston who was selected to pre nist publication International Affairs: sent the "Dublin Declaration" to the United Nations delegates meeting in Lon The concept ofa future in which don in February 1946. The Declaration capitalism and communism will "converge" on an "equal footing" *When Cranston had time to write su ch a book is utopian through ' and through is a mystery. How much was edited Cranston, [merely bait for American "Liber and how much was purest Fleming, is indicated als"]. The time will come, of by the fact that though this first volume was course, when there will be a world selected by the Ne w York Times as one of the government, but it will be the ten best books puhlished in 1945, Alan Cran ston has never sinc e published another book! government of a world Socialist Perhaps Professor Fleming hasn't had time to (Communist) community . ... "edit" another.

JUNE,1974 65 called for the transformation of the U.N. board. And, as you can imagine, he is General Assembly into a world legislature very touchy about the links between his with authority over an all-powerful UW.F. and Communism. According to United Nations Army. his organizat ion's house organ, World In 1947 , the discredited Americans Government News, Cranston issued the United For World Government disbanded following statement in the summer of and merged along with five similar orga nizations to form the United World Fed · So me of th e U.W. F. fo unde rs include suc h eralists. * Goals of the United World well known Co m m unists and fell ow tr avelers Federalists include world taxation and as: Stringf ello w Barr, w ho in December 19 52 creation of an all-powerful U.N. Army. signed an appeal for am n esty for lead ers of the Co m m unist Party co nvicted under t he Smith During 1949, Cranston lobbied for the Act (and who bo ast s mor e th an twenty-eight World Government Resolution which was other suc h affiliatio ns w ith Co mm unist Fronts being introduced by the World Federalists and causes) ; Van Wyck Bro o ks , affiliate d with in state legislatures around the nation. the Co m m unist Fro nt America n Co m mittee for Before the 'public realized what was hap Protection of the Foreign Born (and thirty-two ot her Red campaigns) ; Congressman Emanuel pening, Cranston and his United World Celler, a 'for mer Director of th e Co m m unist Federalists had succeeded in getting their sta ffed Garla nd Fund (who had alread y World Government Resolution through amasse d so me te n Communist affiliatio ns be twenty-three state legislatures. Only after fore th e U.W. F. Conferen ce) ; Clifto n Fadiman, an admitted Communist who in 1932 wrote an an intensive educational campaign, spear article in New Masses enti tled, " Ho w I Came To headed by the Veterans of Fore ign Wars, Co m m unis m "; Tho m as K. Finletter, a dir ector did the states begin to rescind these of the C.F.R. (who wa s named our permanent Resolutions to surrender U.S. sovereignty representative to N.A.T.O . during th e Johnson Administration); Waldo Frank, a Communist to a World Government. As one Califor and former spe cia l correspondent of th e Daily nia Senator declared in urging that the Worker ; George S. Kaufman , a spons or of the Cranston measure be rescinded: Comi nt em 's International Labor Defense (w ho had collected eight other such affilia tions by 1943); Serge Kou ssevitsky , a spo nsor of the This Resolution would apply to Communist Front American Committee for the California delegation in Wash Yug oslav Reli ef (h e had ten other affiliations ington to ratify United States entry with Communist causes at th at time) ; Lewis into a world government that Mumford, who wa s named in 1948 by the Cali would take away United States fornia Committee on Un-American Activities as a " fellow traveler" who had be en writing text sovereignty and permit a world b ooks for publie schools (he had by then pub army to exist stronger than the licly affiliated with seventeen Communist proj army of the United States. This ects) ; Sc ott N earing, an identified Communist; resolution would take away . .. Bish op G. Ashton Oldham, a founding m ember [our] sovereign right to maintain and officer of the National Council of Churc hes (whose affiliations with Red operations number an army, navy or air force . ... twenty-six) ; Elmer Rice , a spo nsor of the Co m How do we know that the power munist Front American Friends of the Soviet we entrust to this world court will Union (offici ally cit ed in 1949 for twenty-seven not be used against us? . . There such Red affil iat io ns); F rederick Schuman , (list ed in A ppendix IX of the Dies Co m m ittee are worse things than war. Slavery on Un-American Activities some twenty-four is worse . .. . times; R osika Schwimmer, the A mba ssador in 1919 fr om Hungary to Switzerland under the On June 16, 1949, Alan Cranston Communist regime of Bela Kun; Up to n Sin clair, became national president of the United offi cially cited in 1949 in California for thirty five Red Front affiliations; and , Carl and Mark World Federalists, a post which he has Van D oren, w hose total affiliations with Com held four times. Senator Cranston still munist Fro nts a nd proj ects at that time num serves, even today, on the organization's bered twenty.

JUNE,1974 67 1949, when the Communist Front rec if others are breaking their oath to uphold ords of some key United World Federal the Constitution and to protect Amer ists were made public: ican sovereignty, it should be fine with us that Cranston is doing so also. I charge that those who shout Alan Cranston defends his advocacy "Communist" at every new [sic] that the United States surrender our solution proposed for today 's polit independence to a World Government ical, social and economic problems with such doubletalk as this: are disloyal to democracy . ... It is preposterous to suggest that UWF is (World Government) Resolution a Communist conspiracy . ... it is a 64 does not propose that we give known fact that we are looking for up a shred ofsovereignty. Plainly it a libel suit to decide the issue once proposes a means by which we can and for all . . . . gain the ability to exercise our presently impotent sovereignty in Twenty years have now passed and the vital area of war prevention. It Cranston and his U.W.F. cronies are still proposes that we create a limited looking for that libel suit to "settle the world government and deposit our issue once and for all." Your doctor will sovereignty there . ... advise you against holding your breath. That is, he would so advise you if he had Senator Cranston says we won't "give followed my researchers through our ne up a shred of sovereignty" if "we create a cessarily limited me of Senate and House limited world government and deposit Committee documents which indicate our sovereignty there." Lewis Carroll that the total number of affiliations with couldn 't have said it any better. Neither officially cited Communist Fronts and could George Orwell. projects by the forty-two key founders of But let us not leave it at that. Let us the United World Federalists amounts to assume Cranston means what he says and at least 740. Going a step further, we find seriously examine his view of World from a similar scanning of the public Government. First, he says he merely records of 180 U.W.F. officials and mem wishes to "deposit our sovereignty" in a bers that a total of 116 have managed to world superstate. He claims we can both amass at least 1,250 affiliations with have our cake and eat it, but he does not Communist Fronts and publications. explain how sovereignty can exist in two But the real issue of the Cranston places at once: Either the United States is Question is this : How can a man who as a sovereign over our country or the World Senator takes an oath to uphold the Government is sovereign. Clearly he Constitution of the United States at the means the World Government to be sover same time be an officer of an organiza eign for he has proposed as a first step the tion whose single most important purpose turning over of one-tenth of the Amer is to so destroy the Constitution of the ican defense budget - some eight billion United States as to subject American dollars a year - to the United Nations for sovereignty to control by a World Gov its own fully equipped "peacekeeping" ernment? The Senator cleverly evades this force, presumably to be quartered on question by muttering that his United American soil. But remember, that is only World Federalists are now headed by the first step . In order to make it an Joseph Clark, once a Senator, and that all-powerful "peacekeeper," the U.N. other government officials have also sup military force would have to be stronger ported the anti-Americanism of the than the collective armies of all individual United World Federalists. In other words, nations. Otherwise it would not have the

JUNE, 1974 69 power to enforce peace. : What Cran pendent nation? Today the United ston is proposing is the sort of World States Senator from California believes Government advocated by Lenin, Stalin , in abolishing the United States. If that and William Z. Foster. isn't an issue then America has gone But Cranston insists he is for a mad. "limited" World Government. He notes that his global superstate would' be The Great Come-On "limited" to controlling all arms (includ In 1952, Alan Cranston began building ing nuclear weapons) in order to keep his grass-roots political machine back in the "peace" - just as Trotsky proposed. his native California. He started by or That's some limitation. The only pow er ganizing the California Democratic Coun World Government would have is all the cil, known as the C.D.C., a federation of guns in the world. Once a World Gov local Democratic Clubs. Cranston served ernment has that, how does one prevent as president of C.D.C. from 1953 until he it from usurping every other power ? became State Controller in 1958. Senator Cranston has never answered Once again, as he had throughout his that question. The answer should be entire adult life, Cranston operated in obvious even to a Baby Snooks. collusion with known Communists. Dur And, of course, the World Govern ing the winter of 1952, Louise Todd, ment which Alan Cranston wants to then Secretary of the Political Commis succeed the government he took an oath sion of the Communist Party of Cali to defend would have the power to tax . fornia, announced at a Political Commis That is a prime objective of Cranston's sion meeting of the Communist Party United World Federalists. In other that Alan Cranston was preparing to form words, your tax rate would be set by a new grass-roots political organization. the mini-states of South America , The Communists and fellow travelers had Africa, and Asia. That's democracy. been working tn the Independent Pro How do you think they would decide to gressive Party , but that "Front" had been tax you? Naturally, it will be on the basis so thoroughly exposed that it was of no of "ability to pay." And if we decide we furt her use to them. The Comrades don't like being bled white by the world's needed a new organization for protective Reds, well that's tough. If Cranston had coloring, and control of a network of his way , they would have the guns. Democratic Clubs was obviously prefer Would we have the right to secede? Do able to an independent operation. In the you think the U.N. would let the golden C.D.C. the Communists could mingle goose secede before it had extracted the with, and attempt to manipulate, honest last golden egg from the American econ Democrats whose patriotism could not be omy? If we are ever subjected to Alan impugned. And the association with the Cranston's beloved World Government it Democratic Party through the California will be more "forever" than any dia Democratic Council would give the Reds mond. a respectability they could not otherwise This is what Alan Cranston is for. This obtain. In view of this, Comrade Louise is what he says will bring us peace. You Todd ordered Party members out of the don't have to be a genius to figure out LP.P. and into the New Cranston that all it would really bring us is slavery. group . If the Republicans had any courage , they A check of the rolls of registered would make this the key issue of their voters will show that the Communists campaign against Cranston. What more within the LP.P. moved into Cranston's important issue could there be than the organization en masse as soon as it was survival of the United States as an inde- founded in 1953. What is highly signifi-

JUNE,1974 71 cant here is that the Communists had wide circulation and could well advance knowledge of Alan Cranston's serveas an instrument to prod labor plan and moved to support him even and other people's organizations before the formal creation of his Califor further in political participation. nia Democratic Council. This fact has been confirmed by Karl Prussion, who for It was Alan Cranston's control over many years served as an F.B.I. counterspy the California Democratic Council that within the Communist Party. Here is Mr. propelled him into electoral politics. In Prussion's testimony: 1958 he was elected to the office of Controller of the State of California During the winter of 1952, at a despite the fact that he is so notoriously section political commission meet ignorant of the value of money that his ing of the Communist Party, it was wealthy father had to place his inheri revealed to all comrades that Alan tance in a "spendthrift trust." In 1962, Cranston of Los Altos was pre despite a horrifying fiscal mess, he was paring to form a new organization re-elected for a second four-year term. consisting of California Democratic In 1964, however, the Cranston ex Clubs (C.D.C.). All communists press was brought to a temporary halt were instructed to start an exodus when he lost to Pierre Salinger in a from the Independent Progressive primary race for the U.S. Senate . Salin Party . .. into the future C.D.C., ger's connection with the Kennedy family and to organize such clubs at the proved too much for even Alan Cranston. appropriate time .. .. All commu In 1966, he again tasted defeat at the nists were also instructed to take hands of Ivy Baker Priest, who rode with them into the C.D.C. all left Ronald Reagan's coattails into the State wing, sympathetic, liberal, social Controller's office. Undaunted, Cranston istic elements from the Indepen made another bid for the Democratic dent Progressive Party .. .. The nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1968, C.D.C. did organize, and now com and this time he was successful. munists direct the policy through hidden identity .... For example, What To Do at the 1960 convention of the It is doubtful that one California voter C.D.C. , held in Fresno, California, in one thousand has the slightest idea of the entire platform of the Commu the radical background of "their" Sena nist Party was adopted in toto. tor. The mass media in the state , and nationally, have cooperated in burying This is further corroborated by the the information, all a matter of public report of longtime Communist leader record, which we have just presented. In Dorothy Ray Healey to the Southern fact, most of the major media in the state California District Convention of the endorsed Cranston instead of exposing Communist Party, U.S.A., meeting at Los him. The machines of misinformation not Angeles on April 13-14, 1957. Comrade only camouflaged Cranston's background, Healey declared : they created a public image of him as a moderate middle-of-the-road crusader The recent convention of Cali battling extremism of the Left and Right. fornia Democratic Clubs held in Cranston could not have bought this kind Long Beach had over 1,200 dele of phony image with ten million dollars. gates - an amazing turnout for an It was handed to him by an irresponsible off-election year. The speech of press that has elected to chase the Water President A Ian Cranston deserves gate chicken thieves while it protects the

JUNE,1974 73 radical wolves gnawing at the vitals of the Senator Cranston, as many of our readers nation. Presenting Alan Cranston as a will no doubt want to do. ask him to moderate is the biggest propaganda ripoff answer fully all of the following ques since the New York Times assured us that tions. We think that how he answers these Mao Tse-tung and Fidel Castro were questions will make it obvious who is agrarian reformers. telling the truth. It is, after all, important And bear in mind that, although never that you know. given mass circulation, much of the infor mation presented here has been published Questions For Cranston before. When it was, the Senator I . In view of your demand that the screamed like a stuck boar and issued President release the Watergate tapes to general denials. Cranston declared: clear up the record, will you waive Congressional courtesy and request the I have never found anything House Committee on Internal Security attractive about communism, philo and the Senate Internal Security Sub sophically or politically. committee to release all data in their files on your extremist activities? The record, cited here as to chapter 2. How has the fact that your son is a and verse, says otherwise. But it would be convicted narcotics smuggler, let off with the height of naivete to expect a man like ' a slap on the wrist, affected your position Senator Cranston to confess and resign on tougher penalties for dope smugglers his office. He would prefer to wail that he and peddlers of narcotics? is the victim of a monstrous scheme to 3. Is it true that you were influenced smear him by calling him a Communist. to enter journalism by Fremont Older , We are not calling Senator Cranston a described by President Roosevelt as an Communist. What we have done, from American Bolshevik? the public record, is to establish that 4. Is it true that the San Francisco throughout his entire adult life he has Examiner of July 19, 1935, reports that closely associated himself with Commu you were engaged in revolutionary activi nists and Communist purposes. Whether ties in Mexico? Cranston is a perpetual dupe, or knows 5. Is it true that you were the protege exactly what he is doing, is something of Louis Adamic, an identified Soviet spy about which we can only speculate. Even and member of the Communist Party, if he were to announce tomorrow on the by whom you were employed and with steps of the Senate that he is a Commu whom you worked closely ? nist, and has been a Communist since he 6. Were you denounced on the floor was a teenager, his claim to the remainder of Congress by Representative Fred M. 'of his Senate term is secure. Being a Busbey of Illinois for your active support Communist is not, after all, against the of Communist Harry Bridges? law. Neither is it against the law for 7. While working for the Office of politicians to devote themselves to every War Information did you hire David deception. In politics, as in the market Karr, a writer for the Communist Party, place, the motto of the people must be as your top assistant? caveat emptor - let the buyer beware. 8. Did David Karr recently donate If Cranston runs true to form he will $2,500 to your political campaign as soon issue the usual snake-oil denial, reported in the Sacramento Bee of Febru pasted smartly on a quibble or two about ary 13, 1974? some area of his background that he 9. Is it true that you and the Commu thinks the average American will not nist Karr bullied anti-Communist foreign bother to check. So when you write to language newspapers and broadcasters to

JUNE,1974 75 withho ld all criticism of the Soviets as were long president of the United World documented in Congressional Hearings? Federalists, and are to this day an of 10. Do you still deny your close con ficer of the nation's leading proponent of nections with Carlo Prato of the Soviet World Government? secret police? 19. How can you take an oath to 11. Did you come under Con uphold the Constitution of the United gressional criticism for your role in States and still champion the cause of covering up Soviet responsibility for the World Government? Katyn Forest Massacre of thirteen 20. How could the power of a World thousand Polish officers and intel Government be limited if it has the lectuals? superior military power necessary to guar 12. Is it true that the House Select antee world peace? Committee To Investigate The F.C.C. 21. If the U.N. had the military power concluded that your O.W.I. office worked you have advocated, how could we then "to further the interest of Soviet foreign prevent the General Assembly from diplomacy, oftimes in contradiction to fastening, for example , a fifty percent declared policy of the United States surtax on the incomes of all Americans Government . .."? for distribution to the "poor" of the 13. Is it further true that this Com world? mittee also concluded that you "brought 22. Is it tru e that the Independent pressure to bear upon reputable demo Progressive Party was heavily infiltrated cratic groups and individuals . . . in order by Communists? to force them into unwilling cooperation 23. Is it true that the Communists with Communists and Communist con were told to leave the Independent Pro trolled organizations"? gressive Party to join your new organiza 14. Do you deny you were turned tion, the California Democratic Council, down for Officers Candidate School by even before organization of the C.D.C. Army Intelligence? was formally announced? 15. Do you deny that while in the 24. Did you ever introduce a Resolu Army you worked with confessed Com tion to have known Communists ejected munist Julius Schreiber and wrote Fact from the California Democratic Council? Sheet No. 64 which was reprinted by If not, why not? Communist publications and distributed 25. Do you believe that your back by Communist Fronts? ground should be an open book to your 16. Is it true that your Fact Sheet No. California constituents? If so, will you 64 was described by the House Commit agree to place this article in the Congres tee on Un-American Activities as "favor sional Record and assist in its distribu able to Communism"? tion? 17. Is it true that the "editor" you Considering the fact that you are up credited for your book, The Killing Of for re-election in just five months, Sena The Peace, has been repeatedly praised by tor Cranston, we hope you will find time the Communists and contributed articles to answer these questions as soon as to official Communist publications? possible. Your convenient muddy denials 18. Is it true that you were director of in the last hours of the campaign will be Americans United for World Government, too little too late. -- Reprints of this copyrighted article are available at the following prices:One to 99 copies, four for one dollar; 100-499 copies, twenty cents each; 500-999 copies, eighteen cents each; 1,000 or more copies, fifteen cents each.Order from: American Opinion, Belmont, Massachusetts 02178

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