Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-06
COMMUNISM IS OUT TO DESTROY YOU!
Dr. Schwarz Ibelieve that the problem Is largely
an educational one but 1t is also spiritual one.

DR.. Schwarz. / believe that the problem slargely
an educational one, but 1t is also spiritual one.
III may say 50. / think your committee has done
magnificent educational job. do not know If that
is the prime function of your committee, but you
have certainly done splendid educational job in re-
vealing not only the theory but the actual practice
and character OF communism and Communists.
believe that communism should be taught In
the educational system, but believe 1t should b.
taught with moral directive In the same way thai
medical student Is taught that cancer is evil, that
tuberculosis Is evil and education about them is di
rected to their elimination and defeat think The
teaching Of communism without moral directive
can be very dangerous. Teaching II with mora
directive, should emphasize the basic foundations Of
American civilization, revealing the enemy theaten
ing their destruction, the erroneous beliefs leading
the Communist to undertake the destruction Of
freedom, the methods by which they propose to de
strOy and what must be done to defeat them II 1t
presented without moral direction, it appears sim
ply - an alternative economic system with certain
superior virtues. This has frequently been done in
the past and instead Of opposing communism. Il
tends to recruit to communism.
believe there Is a great problem before thu
American people: to provide education with moral
dynamic that reveals communism as q rationale OF
murder and lying and the destruction Of freedom
II 10 totally immoral, and mental and emotional
barriers against It should be erected in the minds Of
the young.
Then there Is. also the problem Of what is to
be done throughout the world, because communism
Is advancing by pincers movement. II is advancing
by internal deception, confusion Misrepresentation
and weakening and external growth of power. They
believe that by combination of the internal confu-
sion and degeneracy, in combination with the growth
of the external threat the final act of conflict can
be consummated without war and their violence
can follow later.
Mr.. Arens Do you remember the quotation from
Lenin on that that they will encircle the United
States and it will fall in the hands Of the Communists
like an overripened fruit?
DR.. Schwarz. That is their program The tragedy
OF our approach to the Communist danger through
out the world is that it is almost entirely on mate
rialistc plane that we are trying to defeat them.
Here is the great paradox. The Communists
profess themselves to be materiasts and we profess
ourselves to be idealists and spiritual people AS
consequence of these beliefs, the Communists are
winning the world by first winning the students
ideoogically, while we try to combat them by mate.
rial means. Basicaly the program, at least if you
look at it budgetwise, is about $40 billion approxi-
mately for military weapons, then about So billion
to 81 billion for material assistance, and tiny frag-
ment for purposes Of information, education, and
spiritual warfare.
y,
gram to combat communism rests on Marxist foup-
dation Marxsm teaches that the ideas of the mind,
as well as the emotions of the heart emerge out Of
the material environment.
When we want people of the world to resist
the Communist idea and to embrace the idea Of free
dom, We think that If we give them material bene.
fits this will automatically come to pass, and so the
idea is TO give economic aid and military assistance
in the expectation that communism will lose its
appeal and freedom will triumph.
The foundation is wrong. Materialstic meas
ures do not control the minds and the hearts of the
people, This must be done in more direct fashion.
We need scientific approach that will utilize the
moral, cultural, and spiritual values in each Of
these countries We need loving friendly, cooper
ative spirit and direct approach to their minds
and hearts to mobilize them against communism.
Let us consider India. The Communists want
India. If they conquer India the consequences are
incalculable. The average Indian must have reason
for being against communism. What reason is sig
nificant to him? You cannot say it is against his
economic well-being His economic well-being is so
low that it is difficult to make it any lower, You
cannot say it is against his constitutional liberties
He does not quite understand what they are. 1t
must be against something which to him is meaning
full and significant, it must threaten something to
him that is valuable The Communists very cleverly
deceive and hide their destructive program from each
group as they exploit their needs and conquer them
There are certain forces which, properly organ
ICED, will mobilize the people against communism
To the Indian his religious faith whetheri be Hindu
Moslem, or Christianity. is important. His family
relationship is important His moral code is impor
tant. His national aspirations are important Com
munism is against all these things; but in its APP
proach to the Indian, it appears to be favorable to
them.
am informed by Indians that the majority Of
Christians in India vote Communist The reason
they vote Communist is not because they approve of
Communist theories they haven't the faintest idea
what they are. They vote Communist because the
Communists sent very fine young student to their
village with glorious magazines showing them how
much their life will be improved under communism.