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Remarkable 128 page tract1 published by Attorney Jeremiah Stokes (1877-1954) in 1942 regarding the threat of Communism in the United States by Internal Peril, the enemy within. This publication has as much relevance today as it did 80 years ago.
Jeremiah’s and others’ warnings in the 1930’s, 1940’s preceded the more well-known 1950’s Joseph McCarthy2 Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings - not to be confused with the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings3.
Jeremiah’s and others’ warnings were not heeded to the extent they should have then, and they are still not heeded today. And the enemy within has flourished.
America's Three-fold Task for Self-preservation
First : Defeat, decisively, the external, visible powers that are arrayed against us.
Second : Expose and smash decisively all internal, invisible conspiracies; and
Third : Educate every man, woman and youth concerning the reality and full extent of our peril4, both from within as well as from without, and make of every soul a well-informed minute-man dedicated to the cause of saving America, steeled to his task, and actively station at his post of duty.
It is in the spirit of Jeremiah’s 3rd fold of America’s Task for Self-Preservation that this Substack was created - to educate. This Substack will publish sections about every 10 days until the full tract is available here for posterity.
May God Give Us
The Intelligence
To Protect Ourselves
By Warning Our Neighbors
Of Our Growing
Internal Peril
To Suppress the Truth
Of Our Internal Peril
And to Neglect
To Warn Our Neighbors
Is to Aid the Plot
Of Our Enemies
To Destroy
tract [ trakt ] noun
a brief treatise or pamphlet for general distribution, usually on a religious or political topic.
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
McCarthy's hearings are often incorrectly conflated with the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). HUAC was a House committee, and as such it had no formal connection to McCarthy, who served in the Senate, although the existence of the House Un-American Activities Committee thrived in part as a result of McCarthy's activities. HUAC was active for 37 years (1938–1975)
It is in the spirit of this 3rd fold of America’s Task for Self-Preservation that this Substack was created - to educate.
