Evening star., 1954-11-10

thyl" The Daily Workers story
that day read. and ! quote 1t:
I'VE urge all New Yorkers to
write to Ives insisting he support
the Flanders resolution. We urge
New Yorkers to write to Senator
Herbert Lehman suggesting he
put the heat on the Democrat
Senate leadership to line up be-
hind the resolution. We urge
readers everywhere to line up
behind the resolution. We urge
readers everywhere to take SINH
lar action in connection with
their Senator'S" In this vein the
campaign continued, gaining
momentum day by day: and even
as I speak to you now a new
story denouncing me is rolling
of the Daily Worker presses.
Move Was to BE Expected.
There is. Of course. nothing
remarkable in the fact that the
Communists have modified their
strength behind the Flanders
resolution. This was to be ex-
pected. From the moment I en-
tered the fight against subver-
sion back in 1850 at Wheeling.
w. Va, the Communists have
said that the destruction of me
and what I stand for is their
number one objective In this
country.
Now it does not follow neces-
sarily that an objective Of the
Communist Party is, ipso facto,
contrary to the interests Of the
United States. But surely the
strongest sort Of presumption lies
in this direction. And I beg the
American people IN every in
stance to have cogent, air-tight
reasons for diSregarding this
presumption before they embrace
the objectives of those who have
sworn to destroy this country.
Perhaps the Communists are
mistaken in believing that Nc
Carthyism is the greatest obstacle
to their success. But I know of
no better judge Of what helps
and what hurts communism
than the Communist Party itself.
"Anti-Anti-C Communist
There is another group that
regards my destruction as its
chief political goal and that will
claim a victory if censure is
voted. This group has been well
characterized as the anti-anti-
Communists - persons who pro-
fess opposition to communism
but who spend most of their time
attempting to discredit those who
hurt the Communists. For some
years now this group has played
the theme-in the press and on
the radio, from public lecture
platforms and in the classroom
that hard anti-communism
somehow represents q greater
threat to America than COM
munism itself! They have chosen
to call hard anti-communism
"McC Carthyism." I accept their
nomenclature and I am, OF
course, honored by it.
This group is as powerful as
it Is ruthless. It has at its beck
and call the greater part Of the
opinion -molding machinery OF
the United States. It dominates
the Nations literature. It has
enlisted a majority Of the press.
It manages the Luce empire
which long ago abandoned any
rretext of objective reporting in
its news sheets.
After censure has been voted,
the anti-anti-C Communists will
indeed deserve a large share of
the credit. For they contributed
nightly to the campaign to "get
Mccarthy" But who benefits
from such a victory? Is the Com
munist gain any the less because
it has been brought about by the
cooperation of nom -Commu-
nists? Whenever the advocates
of softness toward communism
get their way, the only real VIC
tor is the Communist Party.
Cites Red Party's Power.
Now, my fellow Americans, is
not all Of this eloquent testi-
mony to the great danger con-
fronting our country? II I sue
ceed in nothing else during the
rest Of my life, I would like to
impress upon you the immense
and awesome power Of the Com
munist Party IN this country.
Nothing is more frightening tc
me than that some Americans
have apparently accepted the
shabby dictum that the Com.
munist Party is o small, ineffec-
tual group whose strength i,
measured only by its several
thousand members.
The real strength Of the Com
munist Party is measured by the
extent to which Communist OBJ
jectives have been embraced by
loyal Americans. It is measured
by the Communists ability to in.
1uence the American mind-tC
persuade large numbers Of other.
wise sound thinking American.
that our Government Is wise tt
let up in its efforts to clean out
the subversives and to attack
instead, those who have hurt thu
Communists. I would have thu
American people recognize, anC
contemplate In dread, the fact
that the Communist Party-s
relatively small group Of deadl,
conspirators has now extended
Its tentacles to that most re.