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AVEPICAN FRIE ms § — CE COMMITTEE Comaunism is a topic we all have strong feelings and opinions about, but more often than not we find our convictions ledged in emotion rather than knowledge. Fear of Communism we see expressed daily in the papers on United States internal end external affairs. What is the "real" nature of Communism we wonder, and how best do we deal with it? These are only a few questions, a few problems that the "spectre" of Communism stimulates. You have others, as do our foreign policy experts, our teachers, Bring them with you to our Forum where you will have a chance to listen to and discuss with specialists and peers with conflicting ideas. We are sending you the enclosed study material so everyone attending will have some commen base for discussionse Some have been recommended by the resource leaders. It includes conflicting views and interpretations of certain facts, so read it critically. Dr. Charels Malik, "Is 1t¢ too late to win against Communism?" A reprint of e 1960 speech by a former President of the UN General Assembly from Lebanon arguing the West is losing in the struggle against Communism, that we must change our approach and attitudes toward the nature of the conflict. Fred Warner Neal, "Soviet Ideology.” Views the Soviet claim that the United States “will fall" not as a result of Soviet aggression but from inevitable capitalistic internal decay, and that Soviet foreign Pane! and Soviet relations must be understood in this e The Worker. The official organ of the Communist Party, USA. This pre-election issue furnishes much information about the Party's political interests. Dorothy Healey, "A Communist Talks to Students.” This pamphlet gives a brief summary of a Communist view. Being brief it is necessarily superficial. Try to formulate questions about things it says which you think are wrong or over=-simplified or brush over important facts. Be saan.