Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-10
EDITORIAL PAGE
OF THE
Red Menace at Worst
7 EVER was this country m'
' communism than it's today.

~ communism than tits today
The process of "softening up has gone on with
incredible rapdty the announcement OF Germany
Soviet Russia and Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles astounding ueup with our one AVOWED enemy.
The wave of emotional surprise that swept the
country when England and Russia became alles was
Immediately seized on by all the Reds here and their
fellow travellers" and overt to soften up the
American public in its attitude toward the MoscoWte
slave-stae.
How the "softeners working:
1-On the Fourth of July the Moscow official radio
i dedicated a whole hour TO Independence Day. II
extended ardent greetings 10 the American people on
the occasion of their glorious national holiday.
1t the principles proclaimed on that glorious Gus
national holiday" that COMMUNISM HERE is OUT TO
DESTROY ROOT AND BRANCH
C-To show the hypocrisy Of this Fourth Of July
81 "softener' a United Press dispatch from Washing
ton says that Calvin W. Hassell assistant solicitor OF
the post office department. testified before the House
appropriations committee that within the last six
months Soviet Russia stepped up her propaganda cam
pagn in the United States and that in one month alone
the New York postmaster seized more than feoo
packages of anti-Amercan printed matter from Russia
C-At the recent meeting at Madison Square
y Garden sponsored by the American Council on
Soviet Relations Hed front organization nothing
hut American flags seen, 1.-The Star-Spangled
Banner" was sung by the audience and Earl PROVIDERS
shushed by order of the the expert soft
eners" in charge of the meeting.
A speaker was Coriss Lamont, former leader in the
Friends Of the Soviet Union
And as a concrete result of how the 'softenng up
process is working quote this from the New York
Times in its account of the meeting:
''In the audience Corliss LamOnts father
Thomas A. Lamont Morgan partner and Mrs La
mont 1t was the first time Mr.. Lamont had attended
a meeting in which his radical son took such prom-
nent part"
A-The Daily Worker. official organ of the Communist
4 Party of America, prints poem in which it exult-
ingly procaims America going Redward concluding
with the line:
"Now all America speaks for Earl Browder!'
THIS campaign to undermine way of life and our
/ free institutions by linking emotionaly, II not
officially with the enemies of all that American clvliza-
ton stands for caused Rep Frederick c. Smith OF Ohio
to utter this truth and this warning:
1.-THE policy of this administration In giving mill
tary aid to Communist Russia overthrows everything
Congress and the country have done to check commu-
nsm within borders.
by this action the administration has made us
the partner with all the Communists and subversve
groups within borders.
1.-THE big thing In the United States Is to
prevent ourselves from being communized here at home
now that we i'm bed with Stain."
Russian communism greater menace IMAM
since the Bear has put the garments OF Grand
mother Riding Hood and climbed into bed with us.
To ally ourselves with Red Russia is to ally our
selves with the CAUSE of Red Russia-which is whole
sale plage confscaton and public under the
comprehensive title of Social Justice