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Is Communist M enace ‘Real? ia } | @: Ht ‘y Papers, magazines, book publishing companies, schools,” _ sort, can we? Isn't the entire mat- ’ certain pressure groups. the truth "stand the term: aa . Act: £ LETS al a, Is It Molehill or Mountain? - owt ae _ Writer Strips ‘Party’. Veil oe J Oe a ae Tle (June 24, 1 ¥ TOW much truth is there in all this talk about a Com... we os _ re munist menace? Are the Communists really so impor-— tant? Are they really a Fifth Column for Stalin? Do ~; oa wer they control so many unions and other organizations, and, ‘have they infiltrated into the army, the navy, the mee Department, and other government offices? And into _ leges, churches, scientific groups, the radio, the Stages ., the movies? _ What is there to all this, anyway? Some. peop screaming all the time about “reds, reds, : to be a label for anyone they op-@ = 7. h kers oure- |- This pow te grotesquely under-~ You near see den rated. because the Communist Party has deliberately minimized tte own. Emportance in order to prevent’ tts vietims from taking alartn tm time.” By using the cleverest of publ” . relations methods. it’ has circulated “" = an the fiction that the Communists are _ only a negligible bandful of “pro-"t = gressives” and that anybody who aS says otherwise is a blood brother of" " Goebbels, Pranco, Rankin, and Bubo. . a ae . Roosevelt Not Red _ rere “Wo. the whole CIO tant Coninil: nist. But about one-third of the CTO wx. strength at the top. policy-making ~~~". level is controlled by the Communist . weeps Party, Wo. President Roosevelt was ~~ “which 38 pose. ing all the New Dealers as a pack of reds) And many an outraged conservative has charged that Prea- ident Roosevelt was a red and that the whole CIO is red. We can't belleve things of that ter a childish exaggeration, making a mountain out of a molehill? In the name of common sense, what la the truth about the Communists? Here is the answer that mest he given by every responsible observer: Strange as It may ‘seem. fantastic |” as {t may sound to the ordinary man who ts not in a Iaber union or in government or polities or In ~a ve eee nevertheless is that the so-called Communist Party la not a political party at all, as Americans under- that it ls a con- splracy, a Pifth Column for Its mas- ters in Moscow: that there fe a sim: .: der co | en conspiracy tn every other co In- ig: esin Sene an.