Show Tf AHEAD I GEORGE GEORGES S. S BENSON HI C 9 a What Witch Hunt No Communist no matter how many votes he should secure in a national election could even if ii he I would become President of ot the present government When a Communist Communist Communist Com Com- heads the government of the United States and that day will come just as surely as the sun sunrises rises the rises the government will not be a capitalist government but a Soviet government and behind this government government government govern govern- ment will stand the Red army to enforce the dictatorship of the pro pro- Please read the above quotation again Could an American have said that Or does it sound like a message from Moscow Indeed everything in that statement is un- un American It was written by Wil Wil- William William Villiam liam Z L Foster head of the Communist Communist Com Corn Party in the United States This statement is reprinted in large type on the back of a pamphlet prepared prepared pre pre- pared and distributed by a Committee Commit Commit- tee of the U. U S. S House of This is the Committee thatis that thatis thatis is accused of witch Sworn Statement Nor is the Congress guilty of distributing distributing dis dis- dis the sayings of Communists as propaganda for the Soviets The publication which carries Mr Fosters Foster's Fosters Fosters Foster's Fos Fos- ter's sworn statement is very much anti antiCommunist The booklet is called Things You Should Know About Communism in the U. U S. S A. A It is one of a series of five publications on ICon the Communist conspiracy and its influence in this country as a whole on religion on education on labor and on our government gov gov- By giving Mr Foster a prominent position on the back cover of this booklet our Congress hoped to show Americans that native Communists really condemn themselves whenever whenever whenever when when- ever they open their mouths In the quotation there is revealed Communism's Communism's Com Com- greatest appeal the lust for power and the urge to dominate others that some people have There is revealed also its greatest weakness for people everywhere do donot donot not like to be dominated by force i People like to be free Light and Facts The Congressional Committee to which I refer is the Committee on American un-American Activities If II you have ever listened to the palaver of Com Coin Communists travelers or the fellow Communist sympathizers the chances are you have heard this Committee of Congress strongly c criticized Like the committee says the right answers given in the booklet booklet booklet book book- let by using the facts must certainly certainly infuriate te the Communists Itis It Itis ItIs is true also that many of these right answers will shock the average citizen citiZen citizen citi citi- zen who has not studied the thc ism closely It is not my purpose to apologize for the Committee on un American un-American Activities No apologies are need need- ed It has done a great service to the American people in a time when light and facts are needed to clear up so much confusion If 11 the Committee Committee Com Com- has made minor mistakes inthe in inthe the course of its work it has at the same time tune done a glorious job in reselling our people on the American Ameri can way of life It has opened the dark secrets of Communist con con- tors Hired Men MenThe MenThe The Communist policy polley is to break breakdown breakdown breakdown down existing nations any way they can and in the confusion to seize control They will promise every kind of better life but they have nev never r been known to deliver de- de deliver deliver de de- liver Jt t. t As an American I am thankful for the work the Committee Commit Commit- with the Com Com- Committee tee has done I say You know what the United States is like today If 11 you want it itI 1 I exactly the opposite you should turn I j Communist But before you do reI remember remember re reo re- re I member member you will lose your independence independence inde inde- I your property and yow your freedom of mind |