Evening star., 1960-02-24

your editorial OF cepFuaTy
18, How Did 1t Happen?",
resorted. surprisingly, to the
liberal double standard,
namely, alleging a smear
on the National Council of
Churches by the Air Force
writer. but then in turn
smearing him. The Air Force
quotes chapter and verse;
your editorial just walls and
emotes - and smears -
without disproving a single
statement in that portion Of
the now famous document
concerning alleged pro-Com-
munist proclivities Of cer-
tain of the leaders of the
NCC.
Does your writer go to the
trouble to tell us what is
innuendo. what is silly and
what is tripe in the airmen's
training document? Or why
this is so? Certainly not.
The reader must just take
his word that what he says
is true. What proof is avail
able to him to support his
charges - or rather, Smears?
I guess J. Edgar Hoover,
Representative Francis Wal
ter and the Communist Party
of the United States don't
know what they are talking
about when they tell us that
our churches are and have
been Communist targets. An
irrelevancy, no doubt. And
the fact that the public rec
ord confirms the Communist
activities Of many of the
leaders Of the NCC is, Of
course, to your editorial writer
another irrelevancy.
But, then, as your editorial
states, "fancied subversives"
pose less of a threat than
a person whom this par
ticular case - gives us some
indication of the extent
communism reaches into our
society. Your editorial writer
knows that every one of his
readers accepts this, so there
is no use explaining why this
is true.
Your editorial writer
stands condemned of de-
frauding his readers until
he changes his broad and
meaningless generalizations
- or rather, smears - into
provable and documented
facts.
X. M. Barnes.
Methinks that the Ma
tional Council of Christian
Churches protesteth too
much. The noisy protest con-
corning the Air Force train
ing manual may be just what
is needed to awaken many
sleepy Protestants around our
land. The evidence of the
truth of the Air Force state
ments is abundant, as alert
Representative Walters and
others are saying. I would
suggest starting with a look
at the Communist front Or
ganizations which bear the
names of the very leaders of
the NCCC. I suggest also
starting with the activities of
President Dahlberg.
Providentially I was in
Arlington when I read your
paper. and providentially I
had this bit of evidence with
me and I pass it on to you
and to the Air Force in COM
mendation for their job.
Concerning the Peoples In
stitute of Applied Religion:
The Committee on Un-
American Activities of our
Government in 1949 pub
lished a document entitled
"One Hundred Things You
Should Know About Com
munism and Religion" Ques-
ton 80 in this document
reads: What is the Peoples
Institute of Applied Reli-
gion?" The answer given is,
"One of the most vicious
Commu unist t organizations
ever set up in this country.
Declared subversive by the
Attorney General"
The director of this in
stitute was Rev. Claude C..
Williams. a minister in good
standing in the Presbytery of
Detroit. He made this state
ment May II. 1916, in the
First Baptist Church, Den
yer, Col: "Denominationally
I am a Presbyterian, reli-
giously a Unitarian, and po-
-litically I am Communist.
I'm not preaching to make
people good or anything of
the sort, I'm in the church
because I can reach people