Foreword
This tract unmasks the plot and power of the foe within our borders. It points out the things we shall suffer if his plot succeeds.
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THIS TRACT DOES NOT VIOLATE THE LAW — UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECREE QUOTED
We took a terrible clubbing — the worst in all our national history — in slaughtered men, sunken ships and lost territory in the Pacific, for our sound sleep of complacency and smugness. And now we are concentrating all of our resources and manpower to win back our territorial losses, and to save ourselves from further havoc.
But in spite of our alertness to the peril which threatens us from across the seas, we still are complacent, we still are smug, and we still are dead to the reality of our peril from within. Either from sheer ignorance, or fear, or shortsightedness, or plain drunkenness from the cup of subversive propaganda, we ignore our internal peril created by an ambushed, predatory enemy, whose purpose and plot are even more deadly than those of the foe that split us to bits at Pearl Harbor.
The stark truth is that our peril from within is so great that unless we are educated to this internal danger at once, and constantly combat the enemy that creates the danger, no matter how many billions of dollars we spend or how many millions of men we may sacrifice in winning a victory from the Axis powers, still we shall go down to defeat under a surprise attack from this hidden foe within our gates!
And this attack, if it comes, will not be a military blast against Pearl Harbor merely. It will be a simultaneous shattering of our entire governmental structure, a smashing of our entire national wall of security, a destroying of all industrial, transportation and communication facilities, and a headlong plunging into the caldron of civil war, attended with all of the hellish torture that racked the people of Russia and Spain for three long years; for it will bring from the same infernal pit of conspiracy and lust for power as did those appalling conflicts.
Shutting our eyes and ears to the truth, wishful thinking, shirking responsibility and “passing the buck” can only lose our necks. History confirms this warning. Current events shout it into the heavens around the world, and few there be who hear it.
Has freedom come so easily and have we had so much of it for so long a time that we are surfeited with its sweetness and are dead to its tremendous cost and its priceless worth? Are we so brutishly stupid that we believe that this heritage can not be destroyed, that it is self-perpetuating, and that it needs no active support from us individually to preserve it?
President Roosevelt has truthfully said that we are all in this war, and are all the way in. And so we are. Furthermore, whether we believe it or not, by reason of our plight we are subjected to an increased hazard from foes within our gates, as well as from enemies who are without.
This tract unmasks the plot and power of the foe within our borders. It points out the things we shall suffer if his plot succeeds. This pamphlet was written in the hope that our Congress, our State Legislatures, our army and navy, our air forces, our labor unions and captains of industry, our police, our sheriffs, the public-spirited leaders of our institutions, the press, and all citizens will become aroused to our national internal peril and be moved to relay the facts and sound the warning.
The Dies Committee1 said that un-American activities can be successfully combated only by law-enforcing agency bodies, supported by “an informed public opinion,” and that an exposure of these activities “should keep pace with an active campaign of prosecution by various agencies of government, to the end that America and American institutions may successfully repel insidious forms of attack by foreign powers.” (Dies Com. Report Jan. 3, 1940, p. 3)
To supply these facts is the burden of this tract. It does not violate the law. It may be distributed freely. It is a national defense weapon, compiled under the right of free speech and free press.
In his message, preserved in this volume, President Roosevelt, speaking of Hitler's attack upon the world, forcefully said:
“What we face is nothing more or less than an attempt to overthrow and cancel out the great upsurge of human liberty, of which the American Bill of Rights is the fundamental document. It is an attempt which could succeed only if those who have inherited the gift of liberty have lost the manhood to preserve it.”
Concerning the American Bill of Rights, the United States Supreme Court, on April 22, 1940, said that to speak as Americans think “on matters vital to them, and that falsehood may be exposed through the process of education and discussion, is essential to free government.”
And from the same decree I further quote:
"In the circumstances of our times the dissemination of information concerning the facts of labor union dispute must be regarded as within that area of free discussion that is guaranteed by the constitution.
"Free discussion concerning the conditions in industry and the causes of labor disputes appear to us indispensable to the effective and intelligent use of the processes of popular government to shape the destiny of modern industrial society.
"Publicizing the facts of a labor dispute in a peaceful way through appropriate means, whether by pamphlet, by word of mouth or by banner, must now be regarded as within that liberty of communication which is secured to every person by the fourteenth amendment against abridgment by a state.
"The freedom of speech and of the press, which are secured by the first amendment against abridgment by the United States, are among the fundamental personal rights and liberties which aresecured to all persons by the fourteenth amendment against abridgment by a state.
"Those who won our independence had confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning and communication of ideas to discover and spread political and economic truth. Noxious doctrines in those fields may be refuted and their evil averted by the courageous exercise of the right of free discussion."
In a decision handed down by the United States Supreme Court on December 22, 1941, which was “a major interpretation of the Wagner Act,” the court, in a 7 to 0 decision, ruled that an employer may speak his mind freely on labor's issues, provided his utterances are not part of a plan to coerce his workers in violation of the act. (Case involving N. L. R. B.'s order against the Virginia Electric and Power Company2; A. P. report, Dec. 22, 1941 )
Bearing directly upon this point of free speech, Wendell Berge, Assistant United States Attorney General3, on January 11, 1942, speaking over radio station WWDC on the subject of freedom of speech in time of war, said that there would be no “witch hunts” aimed at locking up critics of the war policy, and that:
“If law enforcement officers were to start jailing people merely for what they think or write, such officers would experience terrific difficulty in devising standards by which to determine what kind of criticism shall be permitted and what kind of criticism shall not be permitted.”4 (AP report, Jan. 11, 1942)
This tract is not a criticism of the war policy of the United States Government. It is not a discussion of a labor dispute, or of a political issue. It is simply a presentation of original source facts which exposes “noxious doctrines,” “falsehoods,” strategy and treachery of a plot to destroy the United States Government and the liberties of the people by a foreign power through a conspiratory organization functioning within the boundaries of the nation as a political party.
It is an educational tract which comes clearly within the rights of free speech and free press, and wholly supports the President of the United States in his declared American aim when he said:
"We are going to win the war, and we are going to win the peace that follows."
The educational purpose and facts presented in this pamphlet are identical to those of the Dies Committee, the American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Disabled Veterans of Foreign Wars, the National Education Association, the American Federation of Labor, the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church, the Christian Science Church, the Church League of America, and scores of other patriotic, religious and civic organizations. And these facts, furthermore, are supported by the United States Supreme Court and many State Supreme Court decisions, and they voice the findings of the special committees appointed by the House of Representatives of the United States Congress to investigate un-American activities in the United States, one committee of which was presided over by Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr.5, and another by Representative Martin Dies6.
Therefore, labor, industry, churches, schools, lodges, clubs, associations and all other organizations and private persons have the right to distribute the facts recorded in this tract with perfect freedom and without fear of violating any rule of law. Because this booklet is an educational weapon of defense in the hands of the people to defeat all attempts to destroy “human liberty of which the American Bill of Rights is the fundamental document,” and which attempts, as President Roosevelt so truly said "could succeed only if those who have inherited the gift of liberty had lost the manhood to preserve it.”
This tract does not violate the law. It may be distributed freely by all persons and organizations. It builds for defense!
The Author.
Some of the original source documents consulted and, from many of which material has been taken in the preparation of this tract. These documents would be admissable in any court.
They prove, beyond all possibility of doubt the existence of the Communist Party-Soviet Union conspiracy.
The documents shown comprise part of the material used in the compilation, MASTER KEY REFERENCE ON COMMUNISM, by the author of this tract, and which is abbreviated in this volume as MKR. in the references.
An early, informal name for the House Un-American Activities Committee.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10459812
N. L. R. B. v. VIRGINIA ELEC. & POWER CO. (1941)
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/314/469.html
Freedom Of Speech In Time Of War By Wendell Berge
Address delivered by radio on Station WWDC in Washington, D. C., on January 11, 1942.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40219069