Evening star., 1952-02-07

lGeCGlO0 proved unnecessary, 2Uu
latter q time we settled back into
la normal routine and went oul
1own way.
| The comrades in the party
lshunned me. encountered q few
lof them on the Boston streets
Most Of them ducked me. Once
met Boone Schirmer and hi
snarled at me and turned hi
back.
The eleven stand convicted
their conviction affirmed by the
United States Supreme Court. But
the Communist Party and Its con.
lspirators are still at large. The
control OF the party and its vio-
lent revolutionary doctrine is .
paramount question Of national
policy.
What Is q Communist?
Hopes Fixed on Gullibility.
He is specially trained to be al
things to all men. In order te
achieve maximum success, hi
carefully cultivates the proper
veneer to conceal his motives anc
intent. Thus the most highly
skilled d-and the most dangerous
Communist is often . man oi
charm, wit, social standing. good
manners, executive ability. bril-
lance or achievement. Certainly
he will not carry q dagger in his
teeth, wear q long black coat, OF
convey the slightest hint Of con-
Spiracy.
Thus he plans not only to es-
cape detection; but he hopes that
gullible Americans, even when
faced with cold facts. will insist
why, he couldn't possibly be a
Communicates too nice (or
smart. or handsome) a guy"
Therein lies the reason why SO
many inherently loyal citizens,
evidently unwilling to think evil OF
any man. are miSled into SYM
pathy for Communists as well as
their fellow travellers and sup
posedly worthy causes.
The fight against the profess
sional Communist leader will not
be won by flag waving or name
calling. Patriots and would-be
patriots who go in for bombast
and two-fisted punching find that
their smashing blows against the
Communists too often sail through
a mist of angry controversy with
out landing on a solid object.
1t Takes Experts.
It is an underground war, call
ing for long. hard, tough in.
fighting. No one knows that bet
ter than the FBI. On the legal
level and before the bar of public
opinion. it calls for strenuous and
continuous intelligence and coun-
terspy work by Government
agencies charged with those re.
sponSibilities. It takes experts to
fight experts. If the inexperienced
Red-hunter cannot distinguish
between a Communist and an in
nocent liberal or a fake reaction
ary. then he is also unable to dis
tinguish bona-fide Communist
from q Government counterSpy
Every precaution must be OBJ
served, for example, to protect the
expert intelligence agent in the
ranks Of the Communists.
Such measures as the outlawine
Iof the Communist Party could
conceivably destroy Government
intelligence work without seriously
damaging the underground party
and thus in the end merely serve
to strengthen the Communist
hand.
Harm Seen in Oath.
The loyalty oath is another pop
Iular device. short of outlawry
which does more harm than good
for the cause Of anti-C Communism
In March, 1948, the State o1
Massachusetts, put the teeth OF
penalty into it's 13-year-old teach
|ers' loyalty oath law. Publicly
the comrades violently attacked
the law. But in the secrecy OF
cell meetings they laughed about
it, and gave orders which put
Communist teachers first in line
to sign up. A few teachers in the
State refused to sign and could
not teach. But they were non
Communists. The cause Of anti
Communism lost more than IL
gained. Such oathS give the Com
munist Party new propaganda
fuel, but they do not control party
members or activities.
What can the average citizen
do as to his part in the war against
communism?
Depends on Fear.
The most important single thina
is to avoid behaving the way 9
Communist says we must behave
in capitalist society. If the Com
munist had his way. he would
force all non-C Communists to the
extreme right, toward fascism anc
state control. The Communist
seeks by every means to create q
split in our society, to provoke
class hatreds and intense con-
Iflict.
II we adhere to our traditiona
dream Of q society of freedom, o1
individual rather than state re.
Isponsibility, Of individual and col
lective intelligence, and of civi
rights rather than rigid civil con-
Itrols, then we viii have disproved
1.-THE Communist theory of the in
levitability Of capitalist deteriora-
lti0n.