The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-08

of the American way of ute this nae ton is harboring a Trojan Horse, which threatens to destroy both our Government and our liberties.
 It name is Communism. r
 Because of our alliance with Rus- sia, references to Communism or Marxian Socialism are soft-pedalled in these days. It has been made to appear that any one who says a word against Communism is against Russia and guilty of sobtaging the war effort.
 This is nonsense. The two things are quite distinct, and let no one doubt 1t. Because she is on our side Russia never feels impelled to go into ecstasies about the glorieS of Democracy. Neither do I see any reason why, because Russia is on our side, we should go into ecstacies about Communism. NEVER TOLERATED
 Russia has never tolerated the kind of conniving, scheming, plot ting which is going on here today among our So-called i1tellectuals, our Providers, our pinks and our Reds who under the guise of our military kinship with Russia are seeking to undermine our Govern lnent. Certainly, she would not tol- crate 1t today when she needs all her strength for the most desperate struggle of her existence.
 Neither should we tolerated 1t. We are engaged in the same vital conflict and the Communist Tro- jan Horse within our gates is a grave menace to all we are fight ing for. It is threat we dare not ignore. DEEPLY RELIGIOUS
 In any case what Is making the lowly Russian great today is not the atheistic Communism associ- ated with his government, but his love for the fatherland, his fond- ness for its earth, his natural as- cetism and self-sacriflce, his deep and righteous hatred of an in- vader.
 It is known that in the ranks of the Russian people Q deep re- ligious spirit still resists every at- tempt at eradication and 1t Is not to be doubted that the great quail ities of the Russian soul are trace- able to these imperishable con- Victions.
 We admire the Russian people and sympathize" with them. But we do not need, therefore, to ad- mire Communism or to sympa- thize with its aims, which remain today what they have always been - the conflscation of property, the suppression of religion, the personality, and its absorption into complete suffocation of human the mass.
 REJECTS COMMUNISM
 We want these brave Russian people to drive the Nazis out of their land; and we want them to live at peace with themselves and with the world; but we do not want Communism in America any more than we want Nazism or FaScism.
 Yet, that, even more than the vic- tory of the Russian people, is the goal of the Communists in our midst. That is what we have to fear from our Trojan Horse. We must be on our guard, lest while we bend every effort toward winning over our external enemies, we allow our- selves to be betrayed by those with in.
 THREAT TO RELIGION
 It is ironical that this grave and insidious threat to religion and freedom should come at @ time when the American people, under the cruel lash of war, are turning to God as they have not done in years. Indeed, the whole world, finding itself helpless in the face of the wars sorrow, tragedy and hardship Is coming more and more to seek aid and consolation in religion.
 ROCK OF LIBERTY
 Soldiers say there are no atheists in foX-holes. The experience of Rickenbacker and his companions af1oat for days on the vaStness of the Pacific with little hope of rescue proves once again that when all human resource fails, even men who may not believe instinctively turn to God for help.
 How ironical then, if at a time when our people are renewing their faith, efforts should be made to deprive them of the rights to practice 1t! For communism makes religion the main object of its at- tack - and for very good reason. Religion is the foundation on which all our liberties are based as on a rock.
 Without belief in God there can be no true liberty.
 Only when a people believes that man is endowed by God with certain natural rights upon which no state may encroach are those rights protected by the state. Be- cause a belief in God carries with 1t the corollary that each man possesses an immortal soul, re- gard for the individual man and respect for his dignity is reflected in government.
 NO LONGER FREE MEN
 The tendency in the Communis- tic regime is to root freedom not in man, as true democracy does but in the collectivity. Freedom with them belongs not to the per- son, but to the class.
 In such a state, individual cit- tzens are no longer free men, but tools and slaves.
 Then, too, without God, liberty becomes license. Freedom degen- crates until 1t becomes merely the right of the strong to impose their will on the weak. without God liberty becomes what the ma. teFialist intelligentsia of America say it Is: The right to be cynical Of right and wrong. of conscience Of duty toward our fellows.
 MUST HAVE BELIEF
 Only when government ls based on . belief in do@ does every right 4 IA.