The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-07

was in Iraq in 1858. that old country
at the head of the Persian Gulf, where
the Tigris and Euphrates flow It is an
cient Babylonia and Baghdad is the CAPT
tai. During an hours conference with the
Foreign Minister, DR.. Mohammed Fadhll
al Jamal, he told me there were many
people in the USA prostituting the Bill of
Rights in order to destroy it. He should
know for he was in the United Nations
for many years.
Some months after I left Baghdad the
Communist revolt and take-over began.
A friend of mine from Wichita went
through it all. He returned to Wichita a
year and a half later. His hair had gotten
much winter and he looked ten years
older He told me that before he would go
through a Communist take-over again
they would have to kill him. He said the
speed and precision with which the Com
munists worked was unbelievable. They
first murdered the royal family, includ-
ing all the women and children. then the
public figures who could form a govern
ment They sentenced my friend, Dr.
Jamali, to death. but learned from re-
cent issue of Time Magazine that his SEN
tence had been COMMITTED to ten years
imprisonment While the anti Communists
were still resisting, the U. S. Government
rushed in and recognized the Communist
Kassem regime, and the anti-Comnunist
resistance collapsed.
The most unbelievable thing about the
take-over in Iraq was the fact that the
people whom one least suspected Of being
Communists turned out to be the biggest
ones This has also been the case in China,
Czechoslovakia, and other countries. and
will be the case if the Communists take
over our country.
My friend was manager OF the, Daura
refinery, owned by the government. The
biggest Communists in the refinery turned
out to be Iraq engineers educated in the
U. S. A. "A reign of terror was set up in
the refinery and girl working in the lab
oratory was the chief denouncer of the Sc
cret police Many of the refinery personnel
disappeared. They were either murdered
or sent to prison.
OF course, our magazines tell us that
Kassem, head of the Communist govern
ment, is not a Communist so we must
give Iraq foreign aid. or the Communists
around him might get control.
My friend said the continual barrage
of propaganda denouncing the u S. as an
imperialistic war monger and capitalistic
exploiter was terrific by radio, televison,
newspapers. speeches, and sign boards.
He said the amazing thing was that al
though you knew it to be a lie after so
long time you began to believe it your
self ~ a demonstration Of the phenome-
non of Pavloff's conditioned reflex.
DR. Kershner told me that several
people in the captive nations behind the
Iron Curtain advised him that if during
the four days the Freedom Fighters were
in control Of Budapest the U. S. Govern
ment had recognized them, it would have
spanked numerous revolts in Poland and
Czechoslovakia. However, we only rush to
recognize Communist regimes as those of
SukarnO, KasSem, and Castro.
An ex-FBI agent told me that he helped
screen the Hungarian refugees brought
into Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, during
the Hungarian revolt.
The first refugees from the revolt in
Budapest when the Freedom Fighters
were in control were the Communists. No
sooner had these refugees begun to pour
into Austria than the U. S. Government,
acting under Presidential directive, flew
planes over to pick them up and bring
them to the United States
The FBI had orders not to turn a refu-
gee back if he were Communist but
only if he had been a member of the
Secret Police. According to my informant
Mr. j. Edgar Hoover protested to Presi-
dent Eisenhower SO vigorously this policy
of admitting known Communists into the
country that the relations between the two
men became very strained.
The same agent told me had talked
to many criminals in prison, and that he
had always been able to get under their
skins by some means or other, such as
referring to mother, home. or you are
not bad guy at heart, joe but in his
long career he had never been able to
get under the skin OF Communist pris-
oner by any tactics. A Communist, when