COMMUNIST ISSUE REFUSES TO STAY BURIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130029-5
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: September 25, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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Communist Issue Refuses
,o Stay Buried
The Communist issue, excepting
for a brief flareup over the Alger
Hiss case brought about by former
President Harry S. Truman who is
still trying to shield his administra-
tion from the Red stain, has escaped
political controversy so far in the
campaign.
Seemingly it has been, assigned to
a quiet tomb by both presidential
candidates, or, at. least Adlai Steven-
36n, the Democratic , nominee, has
taken it upon himself to speak also
for President Eisenhower.
At the time he repudiated Mr. Tru-
r-roan for his defense of Alger Hiss,
Mr. Stevenson said he went along
with Mr. Eisenhower in agreeing that
ommunism was no longer an issue
in the United States.
But still the specter of Communism
raises its deceitful head. There are
certain people who will not let it rest.
Among these is. Rep. Francis E.
Walter, chairman ' of the House Com-
mittee on un-American Activities.
The American people owe a tre-
mendous debt to these congressmen
who, at great political peril and even
personal danger, have carried on the
i i.ght.
Many of these individuals have suf-
#ered under typical Cominuhist smears
rod attempts at character assassina-
vestigation and other security agencies
branch of government did little to
Interrupt` the Red operatives until
conspiracy.
It is quite evident that the onus for
action still rests with the Congress
which In the last two decades not only
has exposed the Communist party as a
conspiracy to overthrow our govern-
impact of these laws and'attempt to
rret them changed or wiped out.
But the relentless battle against Com-
munism has gone on In the legisla-
tive branch, degite the smears ~aTd.
then 502%$
natitnhl" nnn+r?ihn4i"n hi nt bo
i made to it by the House',, ~ ` mmittee
on un-Amo;ican Activitie a com-
mitts a has. just publishe ,e first
volume o a symposium entitled,
"Soviet Toid * War, Historic Mission of
Violence Deceit." The second
volume is to be issued in another
week.
The symposium is the work of
noted persons whohave been in close
contact wit communism and its work.
Such men , Allen W. Dulles, chief of
the Cell nee age-acy; J.
Edgar Holler, chief of fie -Federal
Bureau of" Investigation, and Whit-
taker Chambers, a former Communist
spy, contributed to the work.
It is as Representative Walter says
In a foreword to the symposium:
"We find that the 120 contributors
do not suffer from false illusions. In
he Communist threat, they clearly
see, the gre test danger that the free
`world has er had to face. They un-
mask its deits and subterfuges-its
relentless psychological, political, eco-
nomic, socJogical and military stra-
tegies...They are fully aware that
in hoping for peace we cannot permit
ourselves t be froz into extinction
as free mez Unless we meet the total
challenge of Cenqniunist unconven-
I tional war, we shall assuredly con-
demn ourselves to the Arctic hell of
Siberian slave labor camps. There is
no third way:. either we prevent the
achievement of Communism's `historic
i mission'-o we perish."
We think that the presidential candl-
dates owe it to the American people
to speak out a.on. this issue. The
American people want to know what i
they think. Each candidate should
devote a major address to the Com-
munist menace, both as it exists
nationally and internationally.
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