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Show IN THE MERCURY'S OPINION dreds of Communists have been unearthed un-earthed inside and outside of the government and the search is far from over. Where are we going? When is this hue and cry against the cleaning clean-ing out of our diseased Federal agencies going to stop Who got us into our present mess ? Are they going to be exposed ex-posed and punished? How many Harry Dexter Whites are there still in government ? Who was the man so powerful that he could persuade President Truman that the promotion of White should be made at a time when the FBI had informed the Executive Department of his treah sonable activities? Let's get the answer to this and many other unanswered questions of this kind and get to the bottom of this tragic mess. And let's see that real Americans occupy the key positions, that we may get back on solid ground. Democrats and Republicans alike must work together or we shall forfeit for-feit the heritage that is ours. We will break faith with the coming generations unless we act now. Uy KusHell Magiilre (Itaprlntad from the American Mercury for May, 1954.) Over three centuries ago, a group of courageous Englishmen became voluntary exiles from the land of their birth to escape a tyrant king. They realized that freedom was their most treasured possession . With their honesty, moral courage, cour-age, and their belief in their future, fu-ture, they founded our country. They refused to submit to the terrors ter-rors of tyranny and they formed the most democratic government the world has ever known. It is our God-given heritage. Ours is the solemn sol-emn duty as trustees and custodians custod-ians to guard, protect, and perpetuate perpet-uate it. For the past two decades, our nation has been under the rule of a group of alien intellectuals whose beliefs were completely opposite to the principles laid down by our forefathers and earned out by their successors. This philosophy has warped our thinking. It has kept us mentally and morally impoverished. impover-ished. It operates by repeated promises pro-mises of assembly line welfare along with a false premise that the world owes every one of us a living and that the working habits and Christian faith of our ancestors were false and decadent. Democrats and Republicans alike were fooled by these dangerous and unworkable theories. Many of them still are in the dark as to the plan of the conspirators. Our public debt is beyond comprehension; com-prehension; our government is bursting with two and one-half million bureaucrats who are still hanging on the public payroll. Hun- |