The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-17

'Eotors NOTES.-The Star and the News ACCEPT
responsibility tor the personal views Of PegIer
and often disagree with them much as many Of
his readers. His articles serve the good purpoxe NJ
making people think.
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
NEW YORK-1n another of her sidelong
pleas for the communists, Mrs Roosevelt
recently wrote 1--WE live in country in which
proud boast for many years has been
| that we could speak own minds on any
subject and be protected in our right to hold
to beliefs or to express ourselves as we
pleased.'
| AS against that, 1 should like to say that
the groups for whom, later in the essay, Mrs.
Roosevelt bespoke this cherished American
right, are violent enemies of freedom of dis
sent and to cite again some pertinent testi-
mony from the writings of the late Frank
Knox. Mr. Knox wrote that the government,
of which Mrs. Roosevelt, by personal push
fulness, soon made herself an active and in
fluential part had established, at public ex-
pense, an enormous propaganda that func-
lions along lines quite similar to the organi-
cations of Stain, Hitler and Mussolini,' to
tell the American people that her husband was
a great president and that the new deal was
great, idealistic program. He wrote further
that sin addition to being a propaganda or
ganzation, it is an espionage system in full
bloom
And, for reply long in advance TO Mrs.
Rocsevelt's current haunting reminder of the
freedom which Americans enjoyed before her
own accession to influence as the wife of one
whom she has had the confident effrontery
to call the ruler of the American people,
Mr.. Knox set forth the elements of political
intimidation by which Mrs. Roosevelts party
has to a great degree suppressed old
right to speak minds on any subject"
Let person of prominence speak up I'M
criticism of the new deal,' Mr.. Knox wrote,
land one of three things, or all three, isl
likely to happen to him. In due time he will
in Washington. He will be publicly castigated
by an obedent officeholder in Washington
and/or, he will be put on the calling list of
the Internal Revenue Department.
l would say further, that many substantial
Americans of unquestionable loyalty nowadays
are afraid to speak their minds on controver-
sial subjects lest they be prosecuted by the
Labor Relations Board, or the War Labor
Board denied necessary priorities or renego-l
tiated or harassed by Internal Revenue Il
would say further til at Mrs Roosevelt herself
very we'll knows that members of labor unions,
which her new deal government compelled
them to Join, are afraid to criticize the
goons. communists, and commons. under
world criminals in the union movement, lest
they be fired and blacklisted or even beaten
to death, all of which reprsals have frequently
occurred.
People nowadays commonly say Tets not
60 into details on the phone" because that
espionage system of which Mr.. Knox wrote
has put them in fear of punishment by her
political associates in the new deal govern
ment or by her followers in the sub-govern-
ment of the unions.
"A few people in Washington" Mrs. Roose-
welt wrote further, "who hold minor positions.
have been troubled by investigation into their
private lives or into Their political views and
activities"
suppose Mrs R. here refers to the Dies
committees recent disclosure that she, among
others, in the White House, and many indl-
viduals the Departments of Justice and Agrl-
culture and regional directors OF the Farm
Security Administration had received telephone
calls from the New York office of the Political
Action Committee is a communist organiza-
ton. Even President Roosevelt and Attorney
General Biddle have said that communism
is subversive and the Dies commlttee was
organized to expose subversive activities.
Pursuant to this mandate the committee
investigated the PAC and it just happened
that Mrs Roosevelt and the rest were loen-
titled in the long distance telephone recorus
as recipients of calls from the New YORK mead
quarters at time when the new deal was
irving to deceive the people by pretending
that the PAC was just an independent group
of progressive Americans entirely uhcohheeleo
with the Roosevelt party
But if minor persons in Washington were
| "troubled'' as she says for their assoclauoh
with the groups to which she helseH 1las oee
martial the fact remains that MIS-. H. LEVEL
said word in rebuke of the spies ana terror
ists of her own party and government who
| bounded and oersecuted and went after other
Americans according to the method that Frank
| Knox described.