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Communism is the RESULT of that crisis. That is, one
result!
Forty years ago I began to study and research into
Communism. I wanted to UNDERSTAND what it is. At about that time
United States Communists were offering a "home study course" about
Communism. I read it. In the early years of The WORLD TOMORROW
broadcast, beginning 1934, I had an arrangement with a secret
investigator, working in connection with a major city police
department, to receive regular weekly bulletins, containing inside
information in regard to Communist activities in this country. I
always suspected -- though he did not say so -- that this secret
agent was in reality connected with the F.B.I.
I knew the Communist purpose and goal. I knew the
Communist methods and tactics. I knew their philosophies and
teachings. I knew how actual Party members are yielded completely
to Communist Party discipline, obedient at any cost -- willing to
make any sacrifice for it.
But what I never could understand was WHY American college
professors, and educated Americans, could ever become inner-core
Communists, actually working for the overthrow (by violence,
finally, if necessary), of the government of the United States.
WHY? And yet I knew many did!
Knowing that Communists are taught to use every deception,
to lie, to pretend they are what they are not, to resort to the
most unethical, dishonorable tactics, it simply didn't make sense
that professional men -- some in high position, like, for example,
Alger Hiss -- high in the State Department -- would join such a
movement. Incidentally, I met Alger Hiss -- never dreaming he was
a Communist. He signed my special State Department Press Card, at
the United Nations Conference in 1945, at San Francisco.
I could never understand WHY such brilliant, intelligent
and able men turned Communist -- and I wondered -- until I read
Whittaker Chambers' book, "Witness," published in 1952.
I want YOU to understand why such men turn against our
country, and become loyal to Communism. For it EXPLAINS the real
REASON for The WORLD TOMORROW and The PLAIN TRUTH.
The world crisis had already started prior to World War I.
Only most of the peoples of the world were not yet aware of it.
But men like Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin knew. This world crisis
resulted from the impact of science and technology -- and the
injection of godless "German rationalism" into education. World
Wars are the military expression of that crisis. Worldwide
depressions are the economic expression. The so-called "New
Morality" is the moral expression -- plummeting morals into the
cesspool. Universal desperation is the spiritual expression. This
has spawned the beatniks and the hippies -- the riots -- the
marches -- the "civil disobedience" -- the breakdown of law and
order.