The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1952-09-06
BOSTON
BAKED
There are men among us
who use patriotism as a club
to attack other Americans"
- GOV. A. STEVENSON.
By MABE KOUNTZE

wv IA GANOO1Ns
JOHN RANKIN of Mississippi
was defeated for reelection last
week. Rankin called himself
patriotic defender of the U. S.
Constitution which all Dixiecrats
completely ignore. The aptly
named un-American committee
made John its Spokesman" and
Rankin promptly labeled most
colored Civil Rights spokesman
as "reds" or Front" agents.
John and the committee smeared
many other people.
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TED BILBO, the late Senator
from Mississippi, (where the
Constitution is unheard of also
paraded around as if draped in
the folds of The American Flag,
as did the Bund and the Ku Klux
Khan. Mr.. Bilbo wrote an in
famous letter to an Italian mother
and let everyone know he con-
sidered himself the only real Am
erican. Theodore even advocated
sending colored Americans to
Africa.
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SOME YANKEES in the early
days were much in favor of ship
ping all Irish people back to Ire
land, especially "those radical
Irishmen" who dared to speak
up for equal rights. The May
flower folk thought they were
the only real. Americans. And
so it goes. There is no doubt that
there have been, and still are,
foolish fanatics on patriotism"
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GEN. MARSHALL, one of AM
erica's greatest commanders has
been smeared by such fanatacism.
So too, has the great Gen. Eisen-
hover. Bot presidents Roose-
welt and Truman have been
called "reds" and the very core
of the u. S. Government has
been splattered with mud. Joe
Stain couldn't do a better job
to create U. S. disunity.
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DR.. BETHUNE whose life work
has been dedicated to Democracy
and whose belief in God puts the
Peglers to shame, was hauled UP
by the un-American committee
and questioned sharply for allow
ing kids of different races to mix
on NYA projects during the de-
preston. Dixie called this sub
versive. Captain Luther Fuller
was sent home from the Pacific
because Dixiecrats refused to al
low him to protect colored troops.
He was called a radical"
HOLLYWOOD FILMS which
pictured colored and white kids
playing together, were branded
Communist inspired" by Dixie
Gratis and banned in the south.
Similar other films and novels
have been smeared or banned.
Walter White and the NAACP
were called RED Fronts" as was
the entire Colored Press and any
colored man heard speaking
above a whisper.
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THIS WITCH-HUNT is going
to continue, according to some
fanatical politicians who are try
ing to usurp even the power of
J. Edgar Hoover, the Department
of Justice, and the American
courts. In South Africa, Dan
Malan is employing the same
terror tactics as member OF
the United Nations. Natives who
never heard of Stain are being
called 'reds" simply because they
are revolving against slavery.
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BOTH PRESIDENTIAL cand-
idates have now spoken out
against any political action" to
introduce, through gullible Con-
gressmen, the evil Old World
disaster Of 'thought-control and
suppression" which colored AM
orleans suffered in slavery and
with which, in recent decades,
the German Gestapo and Russian
Ogpu enslaved millions Of pale
face people. Unless America
faces this danger, Democracy viii
be lost to every citizen.