The guardian., 1953-11-14

Charles Luckman
THE PRESIDENT of our great
nation has an humble but sin
cere July 4th letter from your
humble Boston Baker. Much is
confidential but this much we
can say. Four months ago l re-
uuested the President to study
the trend of increasing inroads
into freedoms by a small group
of Party politicians who are
seemingly in love with the Og-
pu and Gestapo. l said then,
as 1 say now these men will
bring great harm to the coun-
try.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
will have to stand blame" for
the small group which is stir
ring "hysterical harm. This
group mas already been freely
allowed to hurt and anger the
Protestant and Jewish people
with SANDER against their "loy-
alty". This is already costing
some votes. The same politicians
are trying to control our schools
and libraries and suppress free
dom of thought. But they will
fail here as they did abroad.
THE BOSTON Barometer of
the political poisons brewed by
the self appointed super
patriots" is becoming more evid-
ent. Boston. Cnce the "cradle
of liberty, is having a hard
time retaining the title. In re-
cent months I have argued my
rights to be a liberal which
now only means communist"
to some Bostonians. This means
that John Boyle O'Rielly, Ben
Franklin. John Adams. and
even Curley were reds" Ina
gine that.
THE RED suspicion reached
an amusing degree last week
when a paleface acquaintance
asked me the meaning of red
button I was wearing. We had
an attentive and suspicious
audience, so I loudly proclaimed
I was a Soviet atom bomb spy
from Moscow" But when 1
finished telling him the button
represented fund to eliminate
Jim crow schools in America,
Che audience looked sheepish
and ashamed.
BISHOP OMAN (who was
cleared OF a red-smear) pre-
diets a rising tide Of votes
against what he terms: Men
who. protected by Congression-
al immunity, in cowardice
slander American citizens; and
committees that release libel
lous testimony heard in secret
sessions, disclaiming respon-
sibility with a wave of the hand,
or with the easy statement that
they are not responsible for
testimony given under oath. :"
THE COP objective to root out
disloyal persons is not being
questioned. The issue here is
that the security of many 10y
al Americans is being threat
ened by seemingly irreSpon-
sible politicians who are taking
over the jobs delegated to J.
Edgar Hoover and our Courts.
Another sore issue is the ac-
ceptance of testimony" from
so called ex-Nazi and commun-
lists as fact and Gospel. They
could be wrong.
THE AMNESTY of forgiveness
handed out so generously to
the former Axis nations and
people who fought to over
throw America and our free
doms" and who are to-day be-
ing supported by every Ameri-
can tax payers dollar, is an-
other item of resentment
against those politicians wlo
are to-day "smearing" some Of
the very Americans who sa-
crifced so much in the past
three wars. Gratitude?
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE are
educated. They are also fed up
on political propaganda"
Some resent even the increas-
ing influx of British propog-
anda and Charchills charges
against a President who can
not reply" The Republican
Party can still correct mistakes
and carve out a glorious ed.
Soon or il will be out Of power