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™ ‘Over mountains and through valleys I weiched streaming, staggering lines of starring aged men, agonizing women, frightened childres, tiny, shrunken babies, the spawn end the epoils of Naxi-Fescist-Comemanistc totalitarlanians, I saw thera io the refugee compe and In the eosdside guttan of thie war-ruined world, and from their livid lips 1 learned terrible testimony to the mockery of the totalitarlaniam “paradiad” fram which they had been liberated! ‘They told no tales of Communism plenty, equality, and justice. Theirs were stories of hunger, oppression, and desth. Deprived of all but life itself, deluded sod debesed, they had been driven fam their plagued and plundered homeland. 1 have also seco the terror mirrored ia the tescemptiod eyes of men, wanee, sod children who, when told they wese going to be mpstristed, pee- fecred sukcide in exile to enslavement, cruelty, and desth at hornet If these memocies were yours, sa they are mine, if you believe with aoe that freedom ja the birthright of the grest and the smell, the stz0ng and the weak, the poor and the afflicted, then yoo would be convinced ot I thet Communism ts the antithesis of American Demnoctacy. “Bot that wee far scrome the seas, ta foreign lands,” you sey. “It cannot here” It can happen bere, end anywhere and everywhere thet Com- wusism, with its Hot of essh promises, takes root, In Americe the seeds of confusion snd disunioe ase spawning and spreading, and Commonian is grow- ing. In thelr efforts to ween Americans fram Americanism, Communists naniesounly revile and defile everyane whose opinions and convictions difler politically, socially, o mocally foo their own, Their subtle, sinister schem- dogg swny aod mislesd Americans who, ia ignotance or weakoem, yield to Com- couniam thels loyalty to God, to country, and 0 their fellow maa. FTEN we fail to put upon the precious things of life thelr proper price. Freedom is one of these, But freedom is oot treasure which, once possessed, connot be Jost; and it will be lost for us end for our children unless it ls cherished, defended, sod pacserved as it was fought for and won. The bistory of our United States le the story of the ceaseless struggle to knep alive this freedom and our Idess and ideals of liberty and democracy, and to defend them fron enemics within and without her borders. 1, exyself, saw the costly writing of thie story during 140,000 miles of waryenss’ travel over the land, on the sess, and in the skies, living, talking, pearing with thouseods of our men of the armed forces. On ncerly every foreign Geld of bettie out wen fought, suffered, and died to save America from foes outside her frontiers, and we, who through our soldiers’ sacrifices wee spared from the enslavement of totalitarianisen, must now defeod her froca this seroe pesil threstening us from withia our boundaries, Our martyrs, living and iil i ¥ 1 LiTEE i tt ij . ili ied fitls rH E x i i 4 Hie i i . #3 th ead bese tive] ai) t k i E E