8 APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ble living space for dependents of per- 1 now overseas? Under the usual rule arging the full rental allowance for ade- quarters, regardless of the actual worth 1 apartment, the Government would not ym the deal, the dependents would be 1 care of within their means, and the losers would be the wealthy individuals would be somewhat restricted in their 8 of places to play. at I am proposing is, In effect, the es- ihment of dependent communities r Government operation, similar to the nities in which the dependents now verseas, ‘These communities would oc- apartment, court, or hotel space now only part-time by vacationers who have anent homes elsewhere. The persons le to occupy the centers would be fam- now overseas, who are returned to the of the interior in order to clear the sas theaters of noncombatants. turious quarters and surroundings are er required nor desirable, but adequate space is 8 necessity and should be made ible by the Government, since it cer- + will never be provided any other way. nething like this is done, we overseas landers will be relieved of a tremendous m and worry. Colonel, EUCOM. rsras, December 21, 1950. iere New Hope for the People in the Eighty-second Congress? EXTENSION OP REMARKS iON. LAWRENCE H. SMITH OF WISCONSIN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, January 12, 1951 . SMITH of Wisconsin. Mr. Speak- ere is a courageous editor in the State of Oklahoma. He is Richard Jones, of the Tulsa Tribune. In ttorial on January 6, 1951, Mr. Jones : some questions and makes some nents that every Member of Con- should read. I commend it to ittention and insert it at this place 2 REcORD: \UTWIT THE MADMEN OF THE WorRLD (By Richard Lioyd Jones) ew Congress meets. The people hope. ovember repudiation of the New Deal ‘air Deal rascality must be put into mance. Our sons must be saved from rtures of increasing ware through the tty and arrogance of men who have mtrusted with our country’s fate. new Congress meete. And the new ®88 must know that the American peo- ® thred of being lied to, tired of being mted, tired of being pushed around, mM taxes, and they are not going to lie and die. The dilemma we face has made for us by crackpot economists, 1 welfare leaders who have no con- n of the nobilities and the integrities alone can establish a sustaining social 8. ) impoasible for even our bureaucratic ers to imagine George Washington, as Jefierson, and Abraham Lincoln los- elr courage and their character in any conviviality with a Stalin. y-three billion dollars. We wasted aime of it on the European Continent. ‘s that they are, the more we gave those ‘tes, the less they liked us, and they all ur benevolence to build more powerful our enemies. Much of our loss of respect by the European nations we attempted to pacify by purchase was due to the fact that what we did do, we did 80 badly. Our economic bureaucrats were slovenly tn their attempted performance of their fuzzy-minded thinking. Fuzzy-mindedness became a popular pastime of those who have professed to be smart, and genuine intellects who were smart enough to comprehend the political fakery were so in- timidated they had no courage to reveal the fakes. So we rocked along with incompetency, and we had treachery, which in many incidences crossed the threshold into treason. Culture 1s no more a matter of mathe- matics, irregular verbs, and parsed poetry than is the alphabet literature. Culture is measured by one’s ability to participate fn the refinements of human relations. For the last 15 years or more culture has not been the aim of our educators. Youth has been taught to admire men who sneer at nobility and who smear those who comprehend and would conserve our country. Five years ago not one among us would have ever guessed that our country would meet its first defeat in Korea. Five years ago people would have asked, “Where is Korea?” We bought and paid for a peace agreement with Russia. Russia was to let Korea alone. Russia turned her guns on us in Korea. Russia does not know how to tell the truth, to trade honestly, or to have decent relations with any peoples. Yet she sits in the United Nations with power to veto human rights. Wo have turned the new year. A new Con- gress now sits in our Capitol. We have thrown out a lot of the political fakers who were there. Have we enough Americans tn this Congress to save us from the evil forces that we have condoned? Who would have thought 5 years ago that the hillsides of Korea would be consecrated with crosses to commemorate the total sacri- fice of our sons who were placed there by no wish of their own but by the filtppant bar- tering of human rights at Tehran and at Yalta? And now the political frauds who caused these crosses to consecrate Korean hill- sides are trying to throw the blame on Gen. Douglas MacArthur. More mean- ness. Smear. He wasn't at Tehran or at Yalta. He asked for no backing of our bil- Mons to bungle the badly directed Marshall plan. He went into Korea because he was ordered to go there. And when he got there he had no weapons with which to fight. The money that was appropriated to supply those weapons hed already been spent in the scandals of Fair Deal corruption. And so, to hide thetr shame, these bunglers now try to pass the blame to the man who was never permitted to go beyond orders and who, when ordered, was directed by the United Nations. We find tts word worthless, its support worthless. We have let Russia make it powerless. Our Department of State would not let the Chinese Nationalists fight with us. General Hurley could have saved this Korean dis- aster. But Marshall was sent to take his place and botch it up. So we gave the Reds the green light to make our cemeteries on Korean hills. The new Congress is handed the accumu- lated bunk and betrayals to unravel. Some courts seem little impressed with treason. A strong America would have a field day with impeachments. Never did a Congress face ® more exacting test than that which met last Wednesday. Remember Lindbergh? When he visited Russia the iron curtain was not as tight as now. He saw all Ruseia’s factories and foundries busy making war weapons. He came home to warn us. Then our officials began to throw mud at him. Smear patriotism. Congress meets to cope with the confisca- tions that have been made on the private purses of the people. We are all going to get our income-tax blanks in a few days. And we are warned that about one-third of our honestly earned income has got to go to pay for the debts of the wars that were made by Roosevelt and Truman. Wars that could have been prevented. Shall we have more preventable wars? Or is there enough char- acter and stamina in the new Congress to gave the people from further Hquidation? The fumblers of the last Congress have warned us that we must be cheerfully pre- pared to accept a lower level of life than has been America’s glory for a hundred and fifty years. We lived increasingly better, generation after generation, until Franklin Rovsevelt, Harry Hopkins, Alger Hiss, and a lot of exalted “acholars’ threw the switch and buried us under an avalanche of taxes. Now we are told to like it because there is going to be a lot more of it. And our colleges are now dishing out that fatality as if a lower level of living were an exalted attain- ment, The American people have no will to lower the level of their lives. We need educators who have the intelligence and courage to re- pudiate such infamies. it is up to the Con- gress to stop that concession to calamity. The earth still turns upon its axis. The sun shines and the rains fall on fertile fields. Man's ingenuity has felled forests and tapped mines and scattered seeds on furrowed fields. He has reaped sewing machines, telephones, refrigerators, automobiles, We have shown the world how honest men can live. We have gone far in the material attainments. But we have gone back spiritually. The char- acter caliber that made this exalted life has been smeared, corrupted. Its debauch has been bought and paid for. Paid for by the raid upon the taxpayers of the country. Those who raid the people's private purses by usurious taxes are the foes of freedom. They are the enemies who are determined to lower the level of our lives. But we have sent to Congress some men who have told us, ‘We are not going to lower the level of our living.” Only by sustaining our high level of living can we rid ourselves of our tax wasters in Washington and make again the great spir- itual and physical power that the corruptible gapitals of other countries will respect and ear. Only by ever seeking a higher level of life can we hope to outwit the madmen of the world. Resolution Adopted by Sunbury (Pa.) American Legion Post and Auxiliar Following the President’s Declaration of State of Emergency EXTENSION OF REMARKS . HON. IVOR D. FENTON OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, January 12, 1951 Mr. PENTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to place in the REc- oRD a copy of the resolution adopted by Milton Jarrett Norman Post, No. 201, American Legion, of Sunbury, Pa., and the post’s auxiliary, following the Pres- ident’s declaration of a state of emer- gency: Whereas on Friday night, December 15, 1950, the President of the United States an- nounced on the radio that he was declaring
APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a state of emergency to exist in this country, which declaration was made official Saturday morning, December 16, 1950; and Whereas the 1,700 members of this Milton Jarrett Norman Legion Post, No. 201, of Sun- bury, Pa., and the 700 members of the aux- iiiary of this post, believe it to be part of their duties as citizens to express to the President their loyalty and their desire to be of service to the country; and Whereas the said post believes that it is necessary to arouse the American people to a full realization of the seriousness of the problems at hand: Now, therefore, at a meeting assembled, be it hereby Resolved, as follows: 1. The President of the United States should be permitted to assume the leader- ship of the country and politics and parti~ sanship should be set aside in this time of emergency. In assuming such leadership, the President should call upon the very best qualified citizens of this country, who should be statesmen and leaders of public opinion and not merely followers. Any fu- ture recommendations for appointments to public office should be limited to loyal citl- zens and not those about whom there 1s any tinge of communism, no matter how small. 2. The scope and importance of the state of emergency declared by the President on December 16, 1950, should be made plain to all, There should be a definite statement of purpose of what is to be accomplished and what the leaders of this country are going to do as a definite national policy. With- out details, there should at least be a na- tional program that can be understood and followed by all who are willing to do so. If the condition of national affairs is as seri- ous as indicated, every means of communi- cation available should be utilized to em- phasize the necessity for an unselfish and patriotic approach to this problem. 8. Our fighting men ijn Korea should have the complete support of every citizen in this country, No person's individual rights or wishes must be allowed in any way to inter- fere with the united support that these fighting men are entitled to. 4. It is time to turn to God for spiritual guidance in helping to solve our national problems and the President, as the leader of our .fation, should call for a united religious action in this regard. Resolved, That a certified copy of this res- olution be submitted to the President of the United States and to our Senators from Pennsylvania and to our Congressmen from this congressional district, and be made pub- lic in the local newspapers. Stop, Look, and Listen EXTENSION OF REMARKS HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, January 12, 1951 Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, both the Congress and the American people are being confused by the con- flicting statements, actions, and policies now coming from the top-ranking offi- cials in the executive branch of the Gov- ernment. The Economie Stabilization Director and other administration spokesmen now tell us there will be no temporary or per- manent across-the-board freeze of prices and wages any time soon, and indicate the present situation is not sufficiently serious to justify such an action. The Secretary of National Defense tells us that it will be necessary to draft 18-year-olds, and to increase the period of forced military service to 27 months, as a part of a long-range program of building up our national defenses. Other leaders tell us we will be in a semi- war economy for 10 or 15 years, even though world war ITI does not come. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder and the President now tell Congress we must quickly enact another new tax bill— and raise at least $15,000,000,000 in addi- tional revenue to balance the budget, It is generally predicted the President’s budget requests next week will total at least $70,000,000,000, and probably more. In the last few months Federal taxes have been increased by an estimated $7,700,000,000. This is in addition to the $15,000,000,000 or $20,000,000,000, or even $25,000,000,000 more in taxes Mr. Snyder wants voted immediately. There is a growing demand for balancing the budg- et and paying as you go for the expand- ed defense effort, and, of course, if we are to balance a $70,000,000,000 budget at least fifteen to twenty billion dollars in additional Federal revenue must be ob- tained. If the budget is higher than $70,000,000,000, and some say that, re- gardless of what the President's budget message may contain, in the coming fis- cal year we will have Federal expendi- tures of seventy-five or eighty billion dollars; and probably $100,000,000,000 in the fiscal year to follow. Then to bal- ance the budget and pay as you go addi- tional Federal revenues must be raised. But, with President Truman, Secretary of Defense Marshall, General Eisenhow- er, and others telling the Congress and the country that it will take a long, hard pull for America and the other free na- tions of the world to build up their de- fenses against aggression, and in con- sideration of the slowness with which the funds already voted for military purposes can be spent, why all the pres- ent great rush and haste about enacting additional tax legislation? Why does the Secretary of the Treasury insist that we must hurry so much in levying and collecting new taxes when those in charge of holding down the inflationary trend and the cost of living by control- ling prices and wages say there is no need to hurry? Certainly before a new tax burden of another $15,000,000,000 or $20,000,000,- 000 or $25,000,000,000 is to be added to the $7,700,000,000 tax boost just voted, we should stop. look, and listen and be sure that we are doing the right thing in the right way. First of all we should attempt to re- duce or eliminate every unnecessary gov- ernmental expenditure. We should cut the fat out of the governmental struc- ture. We should eliminate every civilian activity not absolutely essential to the health and safety of the American peo- ple. We should reduce the cost of our Federal Government to the very mini- mum, While that is being done, we should attempt to determine what is nec- essary and what fs not necessary in the way of expenditures to meet the na-« tional emergency. Once that is done— but not until it is done—can we deter- A119 mine how much money must be ralsed to operate our Government and to meet the cost of our national defense program. ‘We should make certain that any tax legislation which is enacted will be in such a form and make only such levies as our economy can stand. A hasty, ill- conceived tax bill can easily wreck our national economy and do irreparable damage to our productive capacity and our national defense effort. We must not enact tax legislation which will in- terfere with, rather than benefit, our main objective—a strong national de- fense. Before Congress acts on additional tax legislation, we must know for a cer- tainty what further levies on individual and corporate earnings can be made without destroying incentive or lessen- ing our productive capacity—for there is a limit on the tax burden any people can long pay or carry. We may find, as the majority floor leader of this House, Mr. McCormack, pointed out, that we cannot raise sufficient Federal revenue from income taxes on individuals and corporations, but will be forced to con- sider some sort of Federal manufactur- ers’ or sales tax, or some method other than the income-tax plan to raise the revenues we need. But certainly, above all else, this Con- gress has no moral right to increase the tax burden on the American people again and to compel them to make greater sac- rifices unless the Federal Government itself first proves its good faith by elimi- nating every needless expenditure. If we are to have an austerity program for the American people, we should have an austerity program for the Federal Gov- ernment. We should not increase taxes just to give the tax spenders more tax money to spend, but only to raise the funds absolutely necessary for the de- fense and security of those to whom this country and this Government actually belong—the more than 150,000,000 citi- zens who together constitute the United States of America. Justice for Poland EXTENSION OF REMARKS HON. JOHN W. McCORMACK ° OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, January 12, 1951 Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, un- der leave to extend my remarks in the Recorp, I include the following address by William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor on the Justice for Poland radio series: It is now completely clear that there can be no justice for Poland as long as it is kept behind the iron curtain. In all the long history of oppression of the Polish people during the bitter years of occupation by the Russian czars and the German emperors, never were they 80 en- slaved, never were they so cut off from the free world as they are today under the smoth- ering dictatorship of communism. Iam thoroughly convinced that the people of Poland, in whom the spirit of freedom and
A120 liberty haa always burned brightly, cannot and will not submit indefinitely to the rule of their Communist . Lam confi- dent that whenever the opportunity presents itself, the Polish people will throw off the yoke of dictatorship and again seek the free~ dom and independence which is their right and their ultimate destiny, Of course, right now there is very little the people of Poland can do to regain their freedom except to keep thelr hopes alive, and to maintain their moral and spiritual integrity against the onslaughts of Com- munist propaganda. Especially is this true of the younger generations who are com- pelled to attend schools where they are in- doctrinated with Communist teachings which sneer at religion, make a mockery of human freedom, and glorify Soviet criminality. In fact the only chance the imprisoned people of Poland have of learning the truth is from outside broadcasts which they are forbidden to listen to and from letters they receive from friends and relatives who have escaped from the tron curtain and are now living in exile in America and in the free nations of Europe. It is therefore of the utmost importance that the exiled citizens of Poland never give up fighting for freedom for their beloved land and give encouragement to their coun- trymen at home to keep their faith and hope for eventual justice. According to information received by the American Federation of Labor on conditions within Poland today, information that comes to us from secret but reliable sources, Polish workers are indeed enslaved to the Soviet war machine. In the past, the American Federation of Labor had many opportunities to meet with and to work with the representatives of free Polish workers at international meetings for the advancement of labor standards and living standards throughout the world. We were deeply impressed on every occasion by the progressive policies and liberal viewpoint of organized labor in Poland. But today those leaders have been kilied, imprisoned, or forced into exile, first by the Nazi invaders and then by the Russian oppressors who succeeded Hitler as the rulers of Poland. A& @ result, Polish workers today have no free organization to represent their interests. They are compelled to work at jobs assigned to them by the puppet Communist govern- ment, at wages fixed for them by that govern- ment, and they have no voice tn determining their own working conditions. Of course, the Communists brazenly de- claim that under their regime the workers are the masters. They even require the workers to belong to unions. But it should be emphasized that Communist unions are not free trade-unions. They are not unions freely chosen by the workers to represent them. The unions are imposed upon the workers by the Communist regime. Instead of defending the rights of the workers, the unions are used to police the workers and to enforce harsh discipline on any individuals who do not live up to the prescribed con- ditions. A simple illustration of the effects of such perverted unionism can be found in compar- ing the workday in Poland with the stand- ard prevailing in this country. In America the law says that workers cannot be required to work more than 8 hours a day, unless overtime is paid. In Poland, the law says workers must work at least 8 hours a day before they can be paid at all. The empha- sis, you see, is completely reversed. Work- ing conditions under Communist rule are Just the opposite to what they are in a free land. Free workers, represented by free unions, decide for themselves the conditions of employment they will accept, But en- slaved workers, herded into Communist unions, are told what conditions they must conferm to under threat of heavy penalties for violation. Those penalties are so dresdful that I hesitate to describe them. We have re- ceived detailed information on the forced- labor camps maintained by the Communists. Millions of captive human beings, whose only sin is unwillingness to bow down to Communist dictatorship, are consigned to those camps where the most brutal copdi- tions prevail. The unfortunates who occupy the forced-labor camps rarely ilve long. They are Killed off by hunger, by cruel pun- ishments, and by sheer overwork. The workers who manage to satisfy their Masters and escape being sent to slave-labor camps have little to show for thelr hard work. Wages are pitifully low and living standards far below what the free world regards as decent; nor is the production of Polish work- ers being used to rebuild Poland or to strengthen its national economy. Most of the manufactured goods and farm products are siphoned off by the Communist dictator- ship for use by Soviet Russia's war machine in its mad quest for world conquest. Today even those nations which once were duped or intimidated into accepting Com- munist propaganda at face value now realize how counterfeit it is. By fomenting war while preaching peace for othere, the Com- munists have exposed the cruel purpose be- hind their hypocritical mask. The whole free world is uniting against them. Therein lies the greatest hope for the ad- vent of justice to Poland. The Communist dictatorship cannot survive without constant transfusions of new wealth and new produc- tion gained from military conquest. As the free nations of the world unite to resist Com- munist aggression, the prospects of addi- tional acquisitions to the Soviet orbit by revolution or military intervention become nullified. In my opinion the Communist regime, if forced to rely upon ita own production, wrung from unwilling workers, is bound to crumble and fall apart before too long. The defection of Yugoslavia from the Soviet Union is 8 portent of what will happen in the future. When the time comes, the peo- ple of Poland, too, must be ready to liberate themselves from the Moscow noose. Today Stalin is still able to suppress justice for Poland by sheer power. But the Polish people will never be converted into substi- tuting communism for their faith in God. They believe, as they always have believed, in a God of Justice, a God of mercy, an ever- lasting God who tramples the tyrants of a moment into the dust. The free men and women of America and their compatriots in exile are praying today with the oppressed people of Poland that God, in His wisdom, will soon help them to overturn the tyrants and regain Justice, Criticism of Our National Leadership EXTENSION OF REMARKS HON. GEORGE B. SCHWABE OF ORLAHOMA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, January 12, 1951 Mr. SCHWABE. Mr. Speaker, every mail brings a number of letters to my of- fice from people scattered all over the United States, and especially from my district, in which is expressed a sincere desire on the part of the public that Secretary Acheson be relieved of his po- sition as Secretary of State, and that if President Truman should not see fit to request the resignation of the Secretary of State, the President be impeached on APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the grounds of incompetency or derelic- tion of duty. Criticism of our national leadership is heard on all hands, and from people of all political faiths and religious convic- tions. The follovving letter from one of my constituents of Tulsa, Okla., is illus- trative of the sentiments expressed in hundreds of letters I have received on this subject and to the same effect. I quote the entire letter of my constitu- ent to the benefit of those who may read the same. The letter follows: Recent world developments ssem to me to to be of such serious import that all Amer- jeans who are truly concerned with the wel- fare of their country should consider them- selves under obligation to convey thelr thoughts relative to certain aspects thereof to their representatives in Congress with a view to urging them to use their best efforts to place our country in the strongest possi- ble position to survive the crisis which 1s now upon us and which will undoubtedly assume vastly graver proportions in the not too distant future. Accordingly, I respect- fully submit herewith for your consideration the following thoughts relative to certain conditions in the conduct of our national and international affairs which I believe place us in a disadvantageous and very dan- gerous position: 1. Our national administration continues to use units of our Navy to prevent the armies of the Chinese Nationalists on the island of Formosa from making an invasion on the Chinese mainland to oppose the Chinese Communists. How can it be any- thing but utter foolhardiness to withhold our permission for the Nationalists to under- take such a venture and for us not to give them every assistance possible in transport- ing their troops and equipment to the main- land for such an operation? Our present policy is tn effect rejecting the material as- sistance of a willing ally and is actually using our fleet to assiat an enemy who Is now exacting a heavy toll in American Uves in Korea, 2. The present Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, by his part in helping to place the Chinese Communists in power, by his espousal of the policy above-mentioned in item 1, and by numerous similar instances has raised serious doubts in the minds of his countrymen as to whether or not he rec- ognizes communism as the enemy to all free countries which !t obviously is. Mr. Ache- son's motives are obscure, and it is difficult to understand if he js, in fact, a loyal American. In any event, he has lost the confidence of @ great majority of the American people and refuses to take action which obviously is called for at the earliest possible moment for a firm handling of the Communist at- tacks in Korea and elsewhere. It is our opin- ion that if the President cannot be per- suaded to remove him, action should be brought to impeach him. 8. Our policy in the United Nations and in regard to our principal European allies is still too soft spoken and too tolerant of deals, compromises, and appeasement in dealings with Communists. Our representatives should be instructed to state before the United Nations and to the several govern-° ments of Europe that this country does not regard this as a suitable time for them to continue “business as usual” dealings with Soviet Russia and Communist China, and that if they expect our assistance in defend- ing thelr own countries against Communist engulfment, they must so demonstrate im- mediately by suitable actions, which in addl- tion to the immediate withholding of any additional supplies to the Communist ag- gresaors would also be pointed toward the immediate of their countries to the fullest extent of which they are capable,
APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 4. The half-hearted and insufficient efforts toward rearming our own Nation should at once be superseded by complete mobilization, Including activation at the earliest possible moment of the industrial capacity necessary to support an all-out military effort. Doubtless you are receiving similar letters from many other loyal Americans who are sorely disappointed with our national lead- ership at this critical time and who are look- ing to our Congress té see that our Govern- ment will take steps necessary to insure our survival as a free people. I feel sure that we can count on you to do What you can to place the actions of our Government once again on a basis of sanity and honor. Truman Incorrect—Canada Does Not Have Universal Military Training EXTENSION OF REMARKS HON. HOWARD H. BUFFETT OF NEBRASKA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, January 12, 1951 Mr. BUFFETT. Mr. Speaker, in his state of the Union message last Monday, President Truman made the following claim: “Our North Atlantic treaty part- ners have strict systems of universal mil- itary training.” This statement is seriously misleading. Our North Atlantic treaty partner, Canada, does not now, and never has had, universal military training. Our partner, little Iceland, has no mil- itary organization whatever. Mr. Speaker, misleading and dis- torted statements of fact are often found in political speeches. But it is deeply regrettable to find such inaccuracy in a state of the Union message, where every line is most certainly checked and re- checked for factual accuracy. Jam con~ strained to believe that the President was not aware of the deceptive nature of this passage in his message. Address of Rabbi Maxwell H. Dubin EXTENSION OF REMARKS HON. SAMUEL W. YORTY OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HDUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, January 12, 1951 Mr. YORTY. Mr. Speaker, last night the President of the United States de- fined the opposing world forces as those believing in a moral code and the indi- 1dual dignity of man on the one hand; and on the other, those who look upon man as a mere, soulless component of the material universe. This broad defini- tion is excellent because it excludes the narrow view that only Christians have @ moral code. We Christians who have studied the ancient origins of our faith are appreciative of the great religious concepts which our Christianity bor- rowed from some of the more ancient religions, among them the great concept of the one Almighty God, which was and is part of the Jewish religion. It is therefore logical that great Jew- ish leaders should see in the dialectics of materialism preached by Marxian Com- munists a threat to their ancient faith. This has recently been so eloquently ex- pressed by Rabbi Dubin, of Los Angeles, that I should like to include in our Rrc- orD a letter of transmittal from Mr. Har- ry M. Warner, one of California’s most distinguished citizens, and a copy of ex- cerpts from a talk of Rabbi Dubin, which ur Warner has been kind enough to send 0 us: Warner Bros. Pictures DISTRIBUTING CorP., Washington, D. C., December 13, 1950. Hon. SaMueL W. Yorry, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Dear MR. Yorty: On behalf of Mr. Harry M. Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pic- tures, Inc., I am happy to present you with @ recording of an address delivered by Rabbi Maxwell H. Dubin, of Los Angeles. Mr. Warner was so inspired by this patri- otic anti-Communist message that he wants to make it available to all America if pos- sible. He especially wants every Govern- ment official and legislator to hear it. A copy of the text is enclosed for your con- venience, but we hope you will listen to the recording as the delivery adds to the power of the message. I would be grateful if you would acknowl- edge this directly to Mr. Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros Pictures, Inc, Burbank, Calif, Sincerely yours, Gerorce M. Dorsey. CONDENSED VERSION OF TALK DELIVERFD BY Rassi MAXWELL H. DuBIN, WILSHIRE BOULE- VARD TEMPLE, BEFORE THE CONGREGATION ON Rosh HASHANA, THE JEWISH NEW YEAR Last night we ushered in the new year. In Jewish life this period is called the Yomin Neroim, the awesome days, the days when the fate of the individual, so Jewish tradi- tion tells us, is determined by God for the entire year. It seems to me that there is a Yomin Neroim atmosphere, an awesome days at- mosphere, for the entire civilized world to- day, but the fate of all civilization lies in the halance trembling and mankind 1s awaiting the decision. Now this is not the place and there is not time to detail all the mistakes that the dem- ocratic nations and peoples made during the past 5 years since the war ended. But I do want to consider with you one of them, be- cause it is the crux of the problem. The first and the most fatal error that the democratic world made was our absolute failure to understand the true meaning of communism and the real aims and ambi- tions of Soviet Russia. We were led to be- Meve in America that communism was & forward-looking social movement, led by great idealists who had a high code of social and international morality. We were sold the idea that Soviet Russia was a civilized country, determined to direct its interna- tional life in paths of peace and of prog- ress. We were told that Soviet Russia had a@ government that would have respect for law and order that would have respect for its international promises and commitments and would devote its best interests to the welfare of its own people and to the peoples of other lands. We Jews knew from the outset that all those statements and claims made by Soviet Russia were not true. We Jews knew the truth about the Communists and about So- viet Russia and we knew it through years of bitter experience and pain and blood and suf- fering and terrible horrors. We paid a bitter price for that knowledge. We know that the Jews of Russia, the millions of Jews who A121 lived there when the revolution took place were the first ones to be liquidated by the Communists. They were sent to labor camps, they dug the canals, they were sent out to Siberia, and they died—by the hundreds of thousands—because tie thing for which the Jews stood and stands—respect for human individuality—was not and is not wanted by Soviet Russia. We knew the truth, but no one listened to us. When the Jews, during the rise of the Nazis, told the world that the burning of those synagogues in Germany was only a prelude to that which eventually led to the bombing of Westminster Abbey and the other English churches, nobody Nstened to us. So no one listened to the Jew when he warned the world against the aims and the ambitions of Soviet Russia. We warned the world even during the honeymoon pe- riod when Russia was working with us, not an ally—she never was an ally—we just hap-~ pened to have had the same common enemy, that’s all; we warned the world to be care- ful and to be wary, but no—we were just a voice crying in the wilderness. So Rus- sia was treated by the nations of the world like a spoiled child that threatens to hold its breath if it does not get what it wants. We accepted her word, we had faith in her signature, faith in the agreements that were made. And what was the result? We are facing it now. Russia violated every promise to the Western World. She abused our trust, spread her power, seized lands, destroyed governments, developed fifth col- umns throughout the world, and poisoned the minds of millions of peoples against their native governments. Well, 5 years too late, we of America real- ize and the world realizes the bitter mistake that was made. We have to rid ourselves, to rid every aspect of our lives, social and political and industrial and economic, of the Communist infiltration So we are at the brink of momentous days, you and I. The destiny of a world is in the scales and no one can tell of a certainty what is going to happen. Officially, we are not at war because Con- gress hag not said there is a war. But, fac- tun"'», there is a war at this moment. There is a war, Russtan-inspired, Russian-led, Rus- sian-equipped, In Korea. Right now on Rosh Ha-Shono morning when I am talking to you, boys of this congregation—I know of two who are at this moment in battle with the marines in Korea—American boys are dying, newspapers are carrying casualty lists, homes are being broken, hearts of parents are being torn. Reserves are being called. We are at war, and that war is being waged on two fronts. I am not concerned so much about the war in Korea if it does not spread, and, please God, it may not spread. That does not worry me very much because I know that that front is going to be cleaned up before long. But there is another front, the home front, and that front worries me. Be- cause on this home front war has been de-~ clared on us by Soviet Russia. And that has to concern us. And it has to concern every man, woman, and child in America. Because you see, my friends, the whole character of war has changed. Wars are no longer fought only on the battlefield; and wars are fought not only by men, and yes, even women in uniform. You and I who are not in uniform, you and I today are just as much in the service as though we actually wore a unl- form. Wars today are fought at home. Wars are fought in the laboratories, wars are fought in the factories. That is where Rus- sia has declared war upon us. Her aim is to paralyze, her aim ts to sabotage, her aim is to slow down the work that we in America are trying to do in order to prepare ourselves for the ordeal. In the days ahead you and I have to be on guard, very much on guard, because attempts have been made and attempts will be made to befcg the issue. You are going to be asked