The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-12-16
By o. JOHN ROGGE

choff? Mote: All federal employees
referred to in previous chapters.)
Why do the committee members
bring forth their sideshow stars, Blu
denz, Bentley, Chambers, Hewitt, tc
spin Grade B Matt Hari fantasies
Why did they take action against the
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Commit
tee? Why did they treat Harry D.
White with such callous inhumanity?
(Former Undersecretary of the
Treasury White died from a heart at
tack brought on by the inquisitorial
gruelling of the infamous J. Parnell
Thomas committee.-Ed.)
Why was Harold Christoffel in
dicted?
Why did Michigan State College
put seven students on permanent
disciplinary probation" for distrib-
uting a handful supporting a state
FEPC?
Our civil Liberties are vanish
ing. Why?
Is it to "stop Communism? The
un-American Committee has long
since unwittingly exposed the hy-
pocrisy of this slogan. They have
used the word Communism" to COW
er up their opposition to truly demo-
cratic, progressive ideas. This is
why Loyalty Boards inquire of vic
tins if they have ever had liberal
thought in their lives.
Is it to preserve "the American
way of life?
The American way of life is rooted
in the Bill of Rights. Now we are
told, with a straight face, that the
only way to preserve the American
way of life is to destroy it.
Unless the Bill of Rights means
the rights to organize, to propagan-
die, not only for reforms, but for a
change of form in our government,
it is not Bill of Rights at ALL 1t is
Bill of Restrictions. The right to
believe both in reforms, and in
change, is the fundamental right of
everyone who calls himself an Amer
lean.
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When the American people repud-
lated Dewey at the polls, why did
Pres. Truman retain Dewey's count
ing-house philosopher, John Foster
Dulles, to represent US in the U.N.?
Why has the State department
thrown millions of dollars of the
taxpayers money down the sewer
that is Chang Kai-Shek's China?
Why has the Administration spent
what would amount to $50 for every
man, woman, and child in Greece, to
promote one of the greatest interna-
tional fiascos of all time?
Why does the Marshall Plan pro-
vide for the expectation of Coca Cola,
cigarettes, bubble gum, and comic
books, to starving Europe? Why does
our State Department plan to return
the industrial Ruhr to the hands of
German monopolists with American
connections? Why are Use Koch |
and Franz Won Papen free? Why |
does the war criminal, Field Marshal
Albert Kesselring, leave prison for a
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wife?
The answer to all these questions
is that the national administration
is now trying to sell us the biggest,
latest, and phoniest goldbrick in
our history. 1t is bipartisan gold
brick.
The talk of humanitarian aid, of
feeding the starving and helping the
helpless, is the sanctimonious cloak
in which American monopolists are
hiding their huge profit take. We
have moved imperceptibly, but with
terrible finality, from the peoples
government of Franklin d. Roose-
velt to- the bankers government of
Truman and Dulles.
When | was corporation lawyer,
learned not to buy goldbricks. | i
don't intend to start now. No one
can tell me that the meat packers,
who are squeezing every last penny
out of us for the meat on our tables,
are Santa Clauses in Europe. The
,artelists who are reviving German
heavy industry and sitting in private
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