Speaker 1: The following presentation is Del Marvis Studio's production.
Speaker 2: You are listening to the Fact Hunter Radio Network. Here
is your host, George Hobbs.
Speaker 3: Welcome back truth seekers from around the world. We are
back after a week vacation. I hope you all have
been well. I'd like to say it was nice and relaxing,
but we spent to be honest, we spent much of
last week just cleaning up from the last storm. And
as I sit here today it's about noon Eastern time
on this Monday, March the sixteenth, we're under the thread
of more storms and heavy winds, and we'll see what happens.
You know, hope for the best, prepare for the worst,
as they say. But all is well. We had a
nice weekend. We had a great service at church yesterday.
I had the opportunity to lead Sunday School and was
officially named an elder yesterday. And we have a lot
of big news coming this weekend, but I'll save that
for tomorrow's episode. Tonight, it's been a while since we've
done a classic audio series, and we're stepping back to
nineteen fifty eight, almost seventy years ago, and obviously one
of the older classic audios that we have done. This
is at the height of the quote unquote Cold War.
Right the Soviet Union had only recently launched Sputnick, the
tensions between East and West were rising, and of course
many Americans were deeply concerned about the spread of communism
around the world. Now, the voice you're about to hear
for the next two hours is Robert Welch. He is
the founder of the John Birch Society. In this speech,
he lays out what he believed was a long ranged
strategy that was designed to gradually reshape the United States
from within. And we've heard these warnings from many truthers
throughout the last fifty years, whether it be Bill Cooper,
Fritz Springmeer, on and on and on right now again,
whether one agrees with his conclusions or not, the recording
itself is really a fascinating snapshot of the political climate
seventy years ago. And it's interesting listening to this voice
from seventy years ago, how much of it has obviously
come true When you listen, pay attention how he connects economics,
government policy. Education is something we talk about often and
public opinion into a broader theory about how societies can
be changed slowly over time.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: We always talking about boiling the frog, right, So sit back,
listen and enjoy. This is Robert Welch in nineteen fifty
eight explaining what he believed was the long range plan
to transform this country again. Plastic Audio. Tomorrow is a
regular episode of the Fact Hunter. I have a bonus
classic audio for you on Wednesday, and then this Thursday
I will be on Joe Harper's podcast, so look.
Speaker 1: Out for that. Everybody.
Speaker 3: Enjoy tonight's classic audio.
Speaker 4: And now, ladies and gentlemen, we come to the real
substance of this evening's program. Mister Welsh is going to
deliver a speech in two parts. The first part of
that speech is a condensation of the blue Book, entitled
fifteen years Ago, exactly as it was delivered at the
fifteenth Birthday dinner of the John Birsch Society in New
York on December seventh, nineteen seventy three. Then the second
and shorter part of mister Welsh's total speech is entitled
and fifteen years Ahead. It will round out the total
presentation which he has epitomized under the heading in one Generation.
To give you the proper setting for this dramatic offering.
We are going to call on mister William J. Grady,
who for a great many years was president and then
chairman of the board of Grady Foundries, a highly successful
business with eight plants today, which he established over fifty
years ago. At one time he was also both president
and then chairman of the J. I. Case Company, which
is one of our country's very sizable corporate industries. Mister
Grady is a former president and then chairman of the
Board of the National Association of Manufacturers and a former
President of the National Council of YMCA's of the United States.
But today, being as near to total retirement from business
responsibilities as a man of his dynamic character can become,
mister Grady is and for many years has been chairman
of the Executive Committee of the John Birch Society. What's more,
mister Grady was himself present at the founding meeting of
the Society in in Indianapolis on December eight and nine
of nineteen fifty eight. We are also pleased to have
some others from that founding meeting at our head tables
here tonight. We have asked mister Grady to set the
stage for the first part of mister Welsh's speech. So
it is my great pleasure to present to you a
truly wonderful American, mister William J.
Speaker 2: Grady, Ladies and gentlemen. Having known and admired my friend
Bob for more than ten years before the founding of
the John Birch Society, this is an opportunity, and I
might say, a temptation to use more time than is
allotted to me to enter this really good friend and
great patriot. But my function here tonight is to ask
you to join us as stage properties. If you wish
to a performance of fifteen years ago, we want you
to go back in your minds to the outlook at
that time and in that mood, to constitute yourselves as
the eleven men of whom I was one who sat
and listened for two full days to an exposition of
what was happening to our country and what was going
to happen unless we woke up and did enough about it.
This meeting was at the home of Miss Margarete Dice
in Indianapolis. A picture of her home is on your program.
As you look at this picture, the front right hand
corner is the living room where our two day session occurred.
Of the seventeen men that were originally invited, eleven had accepted,
and every one of those eleven showed up, despite the
fact that the weather was about the nastiest and sleetest
that December can produce, and both major airlines which served
Indianapolis were on strike. Not one of us had ever
met or even seen Miss Dice before, nor had mister Weld,
although he and she had become very good friends by
mail because of her outstanding patriotic efforts, and on learning
about the proposed meeting, she had volunteered her home in
hospitality for the group. Incidentally, Miss Dice, with her very
friendly servants taking care of the coffee breaks and luncheons
and other needs of hospitality, and with her own chair
drawn up out of sight of the group in the
corridor just around the corner from the door of her
living room, had listened to most of the whole two
day discussion without any of us being aware of it,
and she was not favorably impressed. As she told mister
Welsh on taking him to his plane Wednesday morning, she
did not think that anybody would ever stand still for
the thoroughness with which we tended to examine every problem.
Within two or three years, however, she had completely changed
her mind and had become an ardent life member of
the society for the rest of her day. Mister Welsh
had arrived on Sunday, so by Monday morning he and
Miss Dice had borrowed from the local church a full
sized podium and had set it up in one corner
of her living room. It'd also arranged all of the
chairs and sofas for exactly where each of us was
to sit at nine forty five that Monday morning. Therefore,
when everybody had arrived despite the weather, and had been
duly seated, the meeting got underway. Or, as your editor
puts it, a trembling boy fifty eight years old, having
screwed up his courage to the requirements of this ordeal,
went to the podium and installed himself immovably from behind
it for two days. This is the nearest Bob said
that he ever came to being a preacher of the Gospel,
although he had taught the Bible classes in college for
over forty years before. In any event, he was still
wondering what would be the reaction of these extremely busy
men to what they were going to hear after having
committed themselves to two full days plus travel time to
come and hear it, but with all practical escape now
cut off, Bob Welsh finally plunged into that marathon monologue
on which he'd been working during most of October and November,
and which eventually was to become the Blue Book of
the John Birch Society. You are going to hear that
monologue tonight, compressed into about one tenth of its former volume.
But this condensation has been accomplished by a very careful
selection and pulling together of phrases and sentences from the
original text so as to carry the main thread of
thought from the beginning to the end. Now, naturally, a
great deal of the documentation, background and explanation with regard
to many of the point will have to be omitted.
The fact that there have been such omissions will be
indicated by Bob by an occasional aside during the first
two or three minutes of his speed, but after that
he will assume that you are taking them for granted,
But no transitional or connection phrases or sentences will will
have been added at any point. This is from the
original textive. So we ask you to keep constantly in
mind that all of the statesmens you hear were made
fifteen years ago, and that every one of them is
verbatim from the original presentation. So now we again ask
you to remember or imagine that you are an audience
of eleven men sitting in a living room in Indianapolis
on December eighth and ninth of nineteen fifty eight, and
listening to mister Robert Well. Hm.
Speaker 5: Gentlemen, let me welcome you to Indianapolis. All of you,
I believe are already aware of my appreciation for your
being here. At this point there's an omission of five lines.
But each of you also felt that you would not
have been asked to give up everything else and come
to this meeting and then to listen to my voice
off and on for so much of the two days
unless I had some very serious matters to put before
you and proposals to this discuss. Frankly, the matters are serious,
and the proposals are far reaching, so much so that
just their presentation makes me feel solemnly humble at the
size of the task envisioned for. Increasingly, before tomorrow is over,
I hope to have all of you feeling that you
are taking part here and now in the beginning of
the movement of historical importance. But long journeys start with
easy steps, and our first step should be to identify
our fellow travelers. No pun intended. Many of you are
known to each other, but some are not. So let me,
as informally as possible, introduce each one to the group.
This was then done, and here we also omit one page.
Speaker 1: Our immediate and.
Speaker 5: Most urgent anxiety, of course, is the threat of the
commonest conspiracy, and well it should be for both internationally
and within the United States. The Commonists are much further
advanced and more deeply entrenched than is realized by even
most of the serious students of the danger among the
anti Commonists. I personally have been studying the problem increasingly
for about nine years, and practically full time for the
past three years, and entirely without pride, but in simple thankfulness,
let me point out that a lifetime of business experience
should have made it easier for me to see the
falsity of the economic theories on which communism is supposedly based,
to see them more readily than might some scholar coming
into that study from the academic clusters. While a lifetime
of interest in things academic, especially world history, should have
given me an advantage over many businessmen in more readily
seeing the sophistries in dialectic materialism. So I have felt,
rightly or wrongly, that my grasp of Communist purposes and
even of their methods, should have been more rapid than
that of some of my patriotic friends who have gradually
become staunch anti Commonists. Yet almost every day I run
into some whole new area where the Communists have been
penetrating and working quietly for years, until now they are
in virtual control of everything.
Speaker 1: That is done in that slice or corner of our
national life.
Speaker 5: Again an omission of one page, but as background for
our further discussion, I'm going to ask for your patients
while I make a much more general review with you
of how far the international conspiracy as a whole has
now gone and where we stand today now amid twelve lines,
and from here on I must simply quote extracts, sometimes
many pages apart, without giving you the background to which
they belong. Are calling your attention to the size of
our jumps ahead. But we do ask you again in
order to avoid confusion, please to remember that all of
those lines were written and then spoken in the fall
of nineteen fifty eight. Section one look at the score.
Throughout all history, the barrel of bad news has been
a most unpopular person. So I certainly am not seeking
any garlands of popularity at present, for the truth I
bring you is simple, incontrovertible, and deadly. It is that
we are living in America today in such a fool's paradise,
as the people of China lived in twenty years ago,
as the people of Czechoslovakia lived in a dozen years ago,
and as the people of Iraq lived in only yesterday,
And as George Santayana so brilliantly pointed out, those who
will learn nothing from history are condemned to repeat it.
Lenin died in nineteen twenty four, but before he died,
he had laid down for his followers the strategy for
this conquest. It has been paraphrased and summarized as followers.
First we will take Eastern Europe, next the masses of Asia.
Then we shall encircle the last bastion of capitalism, the
United States of America. We shall not have to attack
it will fall like overripe fruit into our hands. To
make doubly clear what he meant and how firmly he
meant it. With regard to taking Asia ahead of Western
Europe and then using Asia as a stepping stone and
base from which to conquer Western Europe and the rest
of the world. The strategy was also stated that for
the Commonists, the road to Paris led through Peking and Calcutta.
Today you can easily see how that road to Paris
is leading back from Peking through Calcutter, Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad
and Algiers. Now, gentlemen, there are many remarkable things about
that three step strategy, but the most remarkable is that
the Commonists have never wavered from it one iota. They
have used the philosophy of socialism as an ideological weapon
in this struggle whenever they could and for whatever it
was worth. But they've also used bribery, lies, blood, brutality,
the countless tentacles of treason, murder on a scale never
before dreamed of in the world, and every possible means
to advance them on this road without the slightest concern
for any moral difference in those various means, and above
all they have used.
Speaker 1: Patients a patient.
Speaker 5: Gradualism has been the most important key to the Commonist's
overwhelming success, and in October nineteen fifty Stalin's lack Is
formalized their puppet state of East Germany. By this time,
of course, there were other takeovers going on in other
parts of the world, as we shall see, but we
are dealing here only with Europe, and East Germany finished
the job there as it had been planned by Lenin
twenty six years before. The Communists now had Eastern Europe entire,
and the first step of their three step program was complete.
Next was Asia. Actually, the anti communist position is crumbling
rapidly everywhere in Asia. If you will look at a
map of Asia with all of these countries properly shaded, I.
Speaker 1: Think you will agree with me in my estimate the
Communist progress.
Speaker 5: It is that they have already gone three fourths of
the way towards the completion of the second step in
their three part program. Now let's consider the rest of
the world. It is with the benefit of this realistic background, therefore,
that I venture.
Speaker 1: To offer the following opinion.
Speaker 5: It is that the Commonists, through long and careful and
insidious preparation have already gone at least one fourth of
the way towards the accomplishment of their third and final step,
which is taking over this country and with it, of course,
the rest of the world. Now one plus three fourths
plus one fourth adds up to two out of that
total of three. And not to believe that the Communists
are already two thirds of the way towards carrying out
their total program, or that they are not now moving
at an accelerated pace and with increased momentum to finish
the job is to close your eyes to the plain facts,
as surely as did the good people of Czechoslovakia in
nineteen forty eight, and with the same ultimately fatal results.
Now please note, gentlemen, that the Commonists have never made
any of this immense progress by the direct use of force.
They have beguiled Chinese into fighting Chinese, Koreans into fighting Koreans,
Vietnamese into fighting the French and each other, the Israelis,
British and French into fighting Egyptians, the Algerians into fighting
the French. They have even maneuvered Americans into fighting Chinese
Commonists in Korea, with the Americans hands.
Speaker 1: Tied behind their backs.
Speaker 5: But not one Russian regiment has ever taken part in
any of this imperialistic advance, except for the suppression of
rebellion in already conquered territory, as in Hungary. There are
three possible methods by which the Commonists might take us over.
One would be by a peaceful couta tar, as in
Czecho Slovakia in nineteen forty eight. The second method would
be by fomenting civil war in this country and aiding
the common ast side with military might. But there is
a third method which they are clearly relying on most heavily,
and this is taking us over by a process so
gradual and insidious that communist rule is slipped over so
far on the American people before they ever realize it
is happening. The process in that direction is going on
right now, gradually but surely, and with ever increasing spread
and speed. A part of that plan, of course, is
to induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty, peace by peace,
and step by step to various international organizations, of which
the United Nations is the outstanding but far from the
only example. For another part is the conversion of the
United States into a socialist nation quite similar to Russia
itself in its economy and political outlook, before police state
enforcement is ever introduced. The best way to explain the
aim here is simply to quote the directive under which
some of the very largest American foundations have been secretly
but visibly working for years. This directive is so to
change the economic and political structure of the United States
that it can be comfortably merged with Soviet Russia. A.
Here are the communist aims for the United States. One
greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting
rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully
as possible. Two higher and then much higher taxes. Three
an increasingly unbalanced budget fight the higher taxes. Four wild
inflation of our currency. Five government controls of prices, wages,
and materials, supposedly to combat inflation. Six Greatly increased socialistic
controls over every operation of our economy and every activity
of our daily lives. This is to be accompanied naturally
and automatically by a correspondingly huge increase in the size
of our bureaucracy and in both the cost and reach
of our domestic government. Seven far more centralization of power
in Washington, and the practical elimination of our state lines.
There is a many faceted drive at work to have
our state lines eventually mean no more within the nation
than our county lines do now within the states. Eight
the steady advance of federal aid to and control over
our educational system, leading to complete federalization of our public education. Nine,
a constant hammering into the American consciousness of the.
Speaker 1: Horror of modern warfare, the.
Speaker 5: Beauties and the absolute necessity of peace, peace always on
commonist terms of course. And ten the consequent willingness of
the American people to allow the steps of appeasement by
our government which amount to a piecemeal surrender of the
rest of the free world and of the United States itself.
In summary, gentlemen, we are losing, rapidly losing a cold
war in which our freedom, our country, and our very
existence are at state. And while we don't seem to
note we are losing this war, you can be sure
the commonest do. There is just one thing, only one
thing in the whole world which.
Speaker 1: The commonists fear today.
Speaker 5: It is that, despite that tremendous influence in our government
and over all of our means of mass communication, the
American people will wake up too soon to what has
really been happening and what is now happening right under
their very noses.
Speaker 1: The only thing.
Speaker 5: Which can possibly stop the Commonists is for the American
people to learn the truth in time. One matter on
which most Americans need to become better informed is what
being subjugated by the Commonists are arriving at an accommodation
with Communism as they want it called, would really mean.
For their cruelty and terrorism is almost beyond imagination, and
the domination of our press, television, and radio by Communist
influences is now so great that you simply.
Speaker 1: Are not allowed to learn or be reminded of the.
Speaker 5: Real nature of the beasts to whom we are losing.
General Mark Clark, for instance, officially reported from career quote,
we obtained solid evidence that the Communists slaughtered eleven thousand,
six hundred and twenty two members of my command while
they were defenseless prisoners of war. These men were tied
to their fellow prisoners and transported to previously selected sites.
They were dumped alive into trenches dug for the purpose,
and summarily shot about five thousand of those boys were
from your hometowns and mine. But how many of you
ever saw that report in your headlines or anywhere else.
During the so called Spanish Civil War, the London Times,
which then is now certainly was not slanted in favor
of the anti commonness, reported that in one twelve months period,
the Communists had murdered over four thousand priests in cold blood,
and had driven more than that many nuns out into
the streets of various Spanish cities, inflicted horrible obscenities on them,
and then murdered the nuns. In some places, the Communists
herded priests and their congregations into churches, set the churches
on fire, and burned the Christians and their buildings together.
These and similar epic cruelties of the period are facts,
documented beyond all questions, But how many of you have
ever heard them? All of the specious and purposeful savagery
I have been trying so inadequately even to indicate is
not something happening on some other and far off planet,
are perpetrated by the Assyrians twenty five hundred years ago,
are dreamed up as the imaginative nightmare of an Edgar
Allan Poe. These gentlemen are the very real acts and
deliberate policies of the recent past and the very present
of people whom we treat as human beings, and with
whom we sit around conference tables and arrive at truce
terms and concessions to appease them. There are some seven
hundred million non Russian non commonists now living daily lives
of virtual slavery behind the Iron Curtain, some forty million
of them in the actual slave labor camps of Russia
and Red China, who only a dozen years ago are
much less enjoyed practically the same personal freedoms as do
you and I today. These people now say to each other,
but above all to themselves, if I'd only known, if
I'd only believed, there is no amount of work and
sacrifice and suffering I would not have given.
Speaker 1: If I had only.
Speaker 5: Realized the necessity the danger in time. Now it is
too late, and any amount of ruggle and of sacrifice,
even of life itself, is all in vain. The number
of people subject to these cruelties is now increasing by
tens of millions every year, and we are directly in
the path of the conqueror. Are we really so hopelessly blind,
so stupefied by prosperity on one side and the insidious
propaganda on the other, that we cannot even see the
wolves devouring the carcasses of our brothers are drawing ever
nearer to ourselves? Are we going to let our country
and our whole civilization go under and new dark ages
of serfdom be ushered in while we happily play at
our little games. May God forbid, but may we speedily
become more worthy that he should?
Speaker 1: Section two. But let's look deeper. Now.
Speaker 5: If the danger from the communist conspiracy where all we
had to worry about, it would be enough.
Speaker 1: But in my.
Speaker 5: Opinion, the first great basic weakness of the United States,
and hence its susceptibility to the disease of collectivism, is
simply the age of the Western European civilization. Some of
you will already have recognized, in fact that I am
drawing a corollary to the conclusions usually connected with the
name of Oswald Spangler. Spangler's theory is absolutely fatal to
the acceptance of socialism or any form of collectivism as
a forward step or as a form of progress in
man's sociological arrangements. For in Spangler's view, collectivism is a
disease of society, concomitant with decay and remarkably similar to
cancer in the individual. The Roman Empire of the West,
for instance, started dying from the cancer of collectivism from
the time Diocletian imposed on it his new deal. And
it is perfectly evident right in the cases of the
various civilizations that we know most about, that both the
Greek and the Roman civilizations did perish of the cancer
of collectivism, and that the civilization of Western Europe is
doing so today. It was Western Europe which made the
last half of the nineteenth century the period of the
highest level to which man has yet climbed in his
struggle to reach an enlightened and humane life. But as
so often happens for the individual, by the time Western
Europe had the knowledge, the wealth, and the ability to
get the most out of life, it was ready to die.
The truth is that, by a cycle which seems inevitable,
whether it is a biological reality or only an analogy,
Western Europe was worn out, and under those circumstances, the
degenerative disease of collectivism, the cancer of social organizations began
its peripheral infiltration. The American civilization was every bit as
much of an entirely new and different civilization from the
old and ancestral one of Western Europe, as was Rome,
a new civilization distinct from Greece. And this American civilization
at the turn of the present century was only three
hundred years old. It had the strength and bigger and
promise of a healthy young man in his late teens.
Speaker 1: There was no.
Speaker 5: Reason on earth for any such organism to be attacked
by and then start succumbing to the cancerous disease of
collectivism at that stage of its young manhood, with its
whole lifespan of accomplishment before it. But we have the
cancerous disease of collectivism firmly and planet now. Nevertheless, we
have people feeling that nothing should be done by them
but everything for them by the government. Its disastrous ravages
are quite far advanced, and we have it basically because
of too long and too close an association with a
parent that was dying of the disease that was old
enough and weakened enough for the virus to be rampantly
active throughout this parent's whole environment. When Woodrow Wilson, cajoled
and guided even then by the collectivists of Europe, took
us into the First World War, while solemnly swearing that
he would never do so. He did much more than
end America's great period of happy and wholesome independence of Europe.
Speaker 1: He put his healthy young country.
Speaker 5: In the same house, and for a while the same bed,
with this parrot, who was already yielding to the collectivist cancer.
We never got out of that house again. We were
once more put back, even in the same bed by
Franklin D. Roosevelt, also while lying in his teeth about
his intentions. And we have never been able to get
out of that bed since. Push the commonest back, get
out of the bed of a Europe that is dying
with this cancer of collectivism, and breathe our own health,
the air of opportunity, enterprise and freedom. Then the cancer
we already have, even though it is of then, the
cancer we already have, even though it is of considerable growth,
can be cut out. And despite the bad scars and
the loss of some muscles, this young, strong, great new nation,
restored to bigger courage, ambition, and self confidence, can still
go ahead to fulfill its great destiny, and to become
an even more glorious example for all the Earth than
it ever was before. It should be centuries from now
before the natural time comes for the decline of America
and for the highest thoughts of civilization to be taken
over by the rising newer nations to the west. But
we do have to achieve the sufficiently drastic surgeries, and that,
of course is a herculean task. We shall return to
a study of it when we come to the more
positive part of this program, Section three and deeper stills. Now, gentlemen,
in looking thoroughly and realistically at the danger to everything
we have inherited, spiritual as well as material, and at
the cause of that danger, we come to the second
of the fundamental reasons for deep and basic anxiety, and
putting that matter bluntly at once, the reason is simply
loss of faith. Not just loss of faith in God
in all his works, but loss of faith in Man
and his works too, in his reasons for existence, in
his purposes and.
Speaker 1: In his hopes.
Speaker 5: All of us. Thank whatever God we severally worship that
there is so large a remnant of the really true
believers still left. We honor them We need their steadying
adherence to the rock of reverence, and their aspiration of
unwavering obedience to ancient and divine commandments. We desperately need
their unshakable confidence in absolutes in eternal principles and truths
in a world of increasing relativity and transitoriness in all things.
Speaker 1: We admire them.
Speaker 5: In fact, as will become more clear tomorrow, the young
men I admire most of all of those America has
produced was a Fundamentalist Baptist missionary named John Birch. But
we must not let our admiration far dependence on and
feeling of spiritual kinship with the fundamentalists blind us to
the visible fact that their number grows smaller every year.
Among the people literate enough and ambitious enough to be
activists in Europe and America, those who are honestly true
believers in a faith which most of them still profess
is an ever smaller minority, but is far worse fully
one third of the services that at least the Protestant
churches of America are helping that trend. Some ministers have
converted Christianity into a so called social gospel, which becomes
in fact indistinguishable from advocacy of the welfare state by
socialist politicians, and some actually use their pulpits to preach
outright communism, often in very thin disguise, if any, while
having the hypocrisy as atheists to thank God in public
for their progressive apostasy. We must not only know the
truth that faced the truth, if it is to set
us free or to keep us so. Except for the
diminishing number of fundamentalists of all religions, faith has been
replaced or is rapidly being replaced, by a pragmatic opportunism
with hedonistic aims.
Speaker 1: And what a fall that is for a.
Speaker 5: Race which can boast of once having listened to a
Saint Augustine, a Saint Francis of Assisi, a John Milton,
or an Alfred Tennyson. In Western Europe and America, today
we are living in a spiritual vacuum, exactly as were
the Romans after they had lost any real faith in
their pagan gods, and before the rise of Christianity. The
most terrible result of this collapse of the rock of
faith on which our morality was built is the rise
of the immoral man, of which the usual communist himself
is the most illustrative example for the chief point of
this whole present section of our discussion runs parallel to
the main point, in connection with the extent to which
the cancer of collectivism has weakened and endangered us. Besides
the short term job of eliminating the communist danger, we
have the equally important, longer range job of ending this
mass psychological flight towards amorality and of restoring convincing reasons
for men once again to strive to live up to
moral and humanitarian ideals. Otherwise there is no chance of
saving our Christian style civilization. Otherwise there is no chance
of saving our Christian style civilization from self destruction, and
it will merely go down to chaos and the ultimate
surctum of the week under the strong more lingeringly than
if it is destroyed and its once free members are
enslaved by the commonists. We shall return to the constructive
side of this need and this undertaking in the morning
section four and so let's act. We come now to
the question of what is to be done about these problems.
The very first thing we must realize is that there
is no easy formula possible now brilliant scheme devisable for
beating the commonests. The conspiracy is now incredibly well organized.
It is so well financed that it has billions of
dollars annually just to spend on propaganda. It has the
benefit of decades of successful experiences. It has one set
goal of world rule by any means, to which every
act in all of the lives of some forty million
party members are now wholly subservi. And it is guided
by men who had to have supreme cunning and ruthlessness
to have achieved their present positions within the conspiracy itself.
The human race has never before faced any such monster
of power which was determined to enslavi it. But there
is one basic consideration of tremendous importance which we must
always keep in mind. This is that communism has been
imposed and must always be imposed from the top down
by trickery and terror, and that it must then be
maintained by terror. Truth, reality, human instinct, and the overwhelming
weight of human desire are on our side. We have
these points in our favor against a conspiracy which must
depend on falsehood, cunning, and terror utilized by less than
five percent of the total population. To feel that we
cannot win that struggle. Is a form of pessimism to
which I, for one, shall never yield.
Speaker 1: But I have.
Speaker 5: What I have chiefly intended this brief introduction to lead to, therefore,
is the realization that every effort we undertake, every battle
we fight, even if we lose it, and every sacrifice
we make is cumulating. Every bit of dedication to the
cause is worthwhile. Obviously, the place for us to begin
is in the United States, because the American support of
the international communist conspiracy is now the backbone of its strength,
and has been for many years. If and when we
can reach the point of turning just the American government
from actively helping the communist conspiracy everywhere in the world,
we shall have one a most important battle.
Speaker 1: In the war ahead. The amount of.
Speaker 5: Work, the amount of work required to do that, in
the face of a way that cards have been so
painstakingly stacked against.
Speaker 1: Us, is something to contemplate.
Speaker 5: And yet there is nothing but work and more work,
thinking and more thinking, dedication and more dedication which we'll
do the job. So now let's look at the job itself.
One first, we would establish reading rooms, small and inexpensive
in just as many of the cities, towns, and villages
of this country as we could, just as rapidly as
we could.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 5: Second, since getting the truth about both recent history and
current events into as many hands and heads as possible
is so important, we would see that the circulation of
the conservative periodicals was expanded as rapidly as it could
be done without too much waste. Three we would do
everything we could to support, maintain, increase the number of
stations used, and widen the audiences of such radio programs
as those of Fulton, Lewis, Parents Manion, and dozens of
more localized broadcasters throughout the country. Four we would institute
the organized planning and control to make full and effectively
coordinated use of the powerful letter writing weapon that lies
so ready at hand. Five we would organize fronts, little fronts,
big fronts, temporary fronts, permanent fronts, all kinds of fronts.
Speaker 1: Six.
Speaker 5: Another thing we should do, and one badly needed, would
be to start shocking the American people, or an increasing
percentage of the more literate and more intelligent who have
not yet been completely brainwashed into a realization of what
is happening, into a dawning realization of how far and
how how completely commonists and communist influence have crept right
into their communities, into institutions and activities where the general
public does not have the slightest suspicion of such infiltration.
The best way to do this is by exposure, which
is why the Commonists just had to get rid of
McCarthy and went to such extreme lengths to do so.
Speaker 1: Seven.
Speaker 5: There are now dozens of slimy characters at loose in
our midst whom I'll call to your attention by describing
one who is more or less typical. His usual name
is Gordon Hall, though he also uses and has used
many aliases, and we could silence him and those like
him with comparative ease.
Speaker 1: Eight. We would line up a.
Speaker 5: Large list of speakers ourselves all.
Speaker 1: Over the country. Nine.
Speaker 5: Ninth and current in this listing would be our undertakings
on the international front.
Speaker 1: For many reasons.
Speaker 5: We would start extending our body into other countries as
soon as there were energy and resources which.
Speaker 1: Could properly be spared for that purpose. Ten. Finally, and
probably most important of.
Speaker 5: All these courses of action, we would put our weight
into the political scales in this country just as fast
and far as we could. We are at a stage, gentlemen,
where the only sure political victories are achieved by non
political organizations, by organization which has a surer, more positive,
and more permanent purpose than the immediate political goals that
are only means to an end, by organization which has
a back moon and cohesiveness and strength and definiteness of direction,
which are impossible for the old style political party organization. Fantastic,
of course, it's fantastic. But everything I am talking is fantastic.
We are living in fantastic times and a fantastic situation.
The alternative to sufficiently fantastic measures and efforts is a
fate of fantastic suffering for our children, and the equally
fantastic loss of a whole, humane civilization that has cost
countless sacrifices, immeasurable labor, and an infinite number of noble
dreams across centuries in the building. We are in circumstances
where it is realistic to be fantastic. I was careful
to bring into this group only men of sufficient intelligence
and imagination to understand that paradox, and tomorrow morning I
hope to make the realism of this afternoon's hypothesis and
these proposals at least as believable as is the unbelievable
present power of the forces of evil arrayed against us.
Speaker 1: May you have a.
Speaker 5: Good dinner, a little surcease from such serious thoughts, and
a good night's sleep in the meantime, Section five, Under
positive leadership. This morning, in retracing our footsteps, we come
first to the cancel of collectivism, to the question of
how to stop its further ravages, and how to restore
the American body politic to good health, renewed strength, and
as much promise for the future as is possible in
view of the damage already done. And that, gentleman brings
me to one of the basic purposes for which this
meeting was called. It is one which I approach with
great humility, but with no misgivings as to its necessity.
For we simply are not going to be able to
save our country from either the immediate threat of communism
or the long range threat of socialism by organizational leadership.
Our only possible chance is dynamic personal leadership. Let me
begin with an illustration of the difference which also supports
the argument. In nineteen fifty two, I disagreed with Bob
taft On at least three of it ten most important
political principles. Yet I had made twenty five radio speeches
for Tapped in the primary campaign on my own time
and my own money. I was wholeheartedly and enthusiastically taped
for the nomination and the presidency because I trusted him
and he was going generally in my direction. The fact
that he didn't see two or three issues out of
ten the way I saw them didn't dampen the energy
of my personal support.
Speaker 1: For him in the slightest.
Speaker 5: But if in when I am a member of any organization,
political or otherwise, and there is disagreement on the part
of any sizeable percentage of the membership as to three
out of ten of the organization's policies or planks, a
splintering of the organization into two groups is almost inevitable.
Personal leadership holds together a following in the way that
organizational leadership never can.
Speaker 1: Present.
Speaker 5: We are in the position of trying to defeat a disciplined,
well armed, expertly commanded army with a collection of debating societies,
and it can't be done. So let's look briefly at
the possibility, the advantages and the disadvantages of finding this
desperately needed leader in the political field, and the easiest
way to do this is to conduct the discussion around
some individual from the very start. Now, the one man
who comes nearest to measuring up to all the needs
and qualifications whom we see on the political horizon at
the present time is Barrygalwarter. I know Barry fairly well.
I'd love to see him president of the United States.
I'd love to see him president of the United States,
and maybe someday we shall. But does anybody in this
room think there is any slightest chance of Barrygalwarter supplying
the dynamic overall leadership needed to save this country for
anybody to be president of If so, I think he
is still not fully aware of the nature and totality
of the.
Speaker 1: Forces at work.
Speaker 5: The Goldwater, by the very circumstances of his political success,
present prestige, and the expectations of his supporters, will inevitably
think and move in terms of political warfare, even if
he personally should reach the point and the understanding of
wanting to consider political action as just the part, no
matter how important of much broader overall action. How much
chance do you think there is that his friends and
supporters would let him step out of the strictly political
role in which he has been so successful.
Speaker 1: How much chance is there.
Speaker 5: That they would let him build and utilize forceful leadership
on all of the other fronts where we must fight
the commonists. How many of the steps which we discussed
yesterday afternoon, and which I am sure must be taken
if we are to have any chance at all?
Speaker 1: Do you think you could count on Barry.
Speaker 5: Goldwater's leadership to bring about no matter how much he
was beseeched, and no matter how much he himself came
to feel inclined to do so, or more for the
other illustrative points that will arise than for any hopes
offered by the prospect. Let's look at Richard Nixon in
this connection. He's an extremely smart man. He is one
of the ablest, shrewdest, most disingenuous, and slippriest politicians that
ever showed up on the American scene. He can sit
in Washington one night and convince some of the most
modern Republicans that he's the best ball carrier they have,
and spend four hours in the Waldorf Towers the next
day convincing MacArthur and.
Speaker 1: Herbert Hoover that he is their man.
Speaker 5: He can use the tremendously overrated and over publicized but
actually highly cautious part he played in the algehis exposure
to hang on to the hopeful loyalty of the vigorous
anti Commonists at the very time when he is insinuating
himself into the good graces of the left.
Speaker 1: By quietly knighting McCarthy.
Speaker 5: Nixon could pose as a conservative Republican congressman and yet
be one of the original founders in nineteen fifty of
Republican Advance. This was intended to be not the Republican
opposition to but the Republican team made of Americans for
Democratic Action, and it even had some interlocking left wingers
who were members of both groups. Nixon can claim still
to be vigorously anti communists. Yet when he has a
chance as Vice President to break the tie and cast
the decisive vote for HR three to re establish some
chance of prosecution of subversives actually advocating violent overthrow our government.
Speaker 1: What happens.
Speaker 5: He moves heaven and earth to have Wallace Bennett found
and pressured into voting against HR three, defeating them so
that the Vice president will not have to vote. What
good would such a man be to us, even as
president unless outside forces and accomplishments made it opportunistic and
expedient for him to ride an anti communist wave which
those outside forces had created. As for being a leader,
the sad truth, hard for many hopeful and wishful Conservative
Republicans to realize, is that Richard Nixon, a most engaging
personality and clever politician, has never been a leader in
connection with any event or development, or at any stage
in his career. He has been a writer of waves
so far as public support was concerned, and a manipulator
of uncanny skill behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: I have I have made these remarks.
Speaker 5: Here in this really inner circle group in order to
emphasize the wisdom of the old advice put not your
faith in politicians.
Speaker 1: I am thoroughly I am thoroughly.
Speaker 5: Convinced that we cannot count on politicians, political leadership, or
even political action, except as a part of something much
deeper and broader to save us.
Speaker 1: Now. I didn't always.
Speaker 5: Feel that way, and I think that up to the
time that the nomination was stolen from Bob Taft in
nineteen fifty two, it was still possible to have saved
our country from the immediate communist danger anyway, primarily by
political action. But my study of the whole picture convinced
me more and more that no one outspoken senator, nor
a dozen outspoken senators, and no amount of the ephemeral
political support they might muster, could possibly save our country
unless unless there was encompassing them and their efforts and
support this far larger and broader movement.
Speaker 1: Of which I keep referring.
Speaker 5: Two that there was not going to be any such
movement without the dynamic overall personal leadership to which I
have also been referring. And three that with all of
my own shortcomings, there wasn't anybody else on the horizon
willing to give their whole lives to the job with
the determination and dedication I would put into it if
I didn't what really what really moved me to cross
this rubicon? However, the consideration which more than any other
gradually brought me the necessary measure of courage and determination
for so staggering and undertaking was another result of many
years of study of not only the present but the past.
Speaker 1: This is the.
Speaker 5: Conviction that, even warding our commonest slavery and reversing the socialist.
Speaker 1: Trend is only half the battle.
Speaker 5: We can never win even that half unless both leadership
and following have a positive dream, which is more important
as a hope than the negative nightmare is as a fear.
Unless the promise of what we can build supplies more
motivation than the terror of what we must destroy, and
unless this faith in the future is based on a
deeper faith in eternal truths, the nature of these truths
and the tenets of this faith, which I hope and
believe every man in this room can accept and approve.
I shall come to later this morning. What I'm trying
to do here as an introduction to and part of
our thinking about how to rid America of the collectivist cancer,
is simply this. I want to convince you, as I
am convinced, that only dynamic personal leadership offers any chance
for us to save either our material or our spiritual inheritance.
I want to convince you, as I am convinced, that
even under such leadership, we have no chance unless the
specific battles are fought as part of a larger and
more lasting movement to restore once again and upward reach
to the heart of man. And I have wished to
make clear what you are bound to be, assuming already
that with whatever I have in me of faith, dedication,
and energy, I intend to offer that leadership to all
who are willing to help me. Section six to restore responsibility.
With that much explanation as background, let's see what basic
principle we can establish and what specific objective we can
define with regard to the particular battle against collectivism. And
it seems to me, gentlemen, that the whole essence of
our purpose can be summarized in just five words. Less
government and more responsibility. The principle is simple enough for
all to understand, and yet it is broad enough, I
believe to be comprehency with regard to all that we
really desired to attain through political action. We must try
to make it a convincing political standard and an accepted goal.
What we must start asking our fellow citizens everywhere to consider,
is this on the basis of all known past human experience,
are there and in general conclusions with regard to the
organization of society which can be set forth with confidence?
It seems to me clear that there certainly are one. First,
government is necessary, some degree of government in any civilized society. Two.
While government is necessary, it is basically a non productive expense,
an overhead cost supported by the productive economy.
Speaker 1: Three.
Speaker 5: Third, government is frequently evil four Four Government is always
and inevitably an enemy of individual freedom.
Speaker 1: Five.
Speaker 5: Whatever must be done by government will always cost more
than if it could be done by individuals or smaller groups.
Six Government.
Speaker 1: Six.
Speaker 5: Government, by its size, its momentum, and its authority, will
not only perpetuate errors of doctrine or of policy longer
than they would otherwise retain acceptance, but it will multiply
their effect on a geometric scale as against the arithmetical
cumulative effect of those errors if confined confined to individuals
are smaller groups.
Speaker 1: Seven.
Speaker 5: As any society becomes reasonably settled and shakes down into
a semi permanent pattern of economic and political life, the
drive always begins to have government become the management of
the social enterprise, rather than merely its agent for certain
clear purposes. Yet, a government trying to step in and
improve the working of a free market is exactly like
a man who takes a lighted lantern outdoors at noon
of a bright June day to show you the sun.
Speaker 1: Eight Eight.
Speaker 5: As a government increases in power, and as a means
of increasing its power, it always has a tendency to
squeeze out the middle lass to destroy a week in
the middle for the benefit of the top and the bottom.
Speaker 1: Nine.
Speaker 5: The form of government is not nearly so important as
its quality. Ten, which brings us to the last, and
in my opinion, the most important of these basic generalizations
concerning government, and now our tenth point is that neither
the form of government nor its quality is as important
as its quantity. The increasing quantity of government in all
nations has constituted the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century.
The greatest enemy of man is The greatest enemy of
man is and always has been government, And the larger,
the more extensive that government.
Speaker 1: The greater the enemy.
Speaker 5: The Commonists believe that a collectivist society should swallow up
all individuals, make their lives and their energies. Comp is
subservient to the needs and the purposes of the collectivist state,
and that any means are permissible to achieve this. In
the true americanist believes that the individual should retain the
freedom to make his own bargain with life and the
responsibility for the results of that bargain, and that means
are as important as ends in the civilized social order
which he desires. There are many stages. There are many
stages of wealth caurism, socialism, and collectivism in general, but
communism is the ultimate state of them all, and they
all lead inevitably in that direction. In this final state, communism,
you have a society in which class distinctions.
Speaker 1: Are greater than in any other, but.
Speaker 5: Where position in these classes is determined solely by demaggic
political skill and ruthless cunning. And you have a society
in which every fault of government that we have discussed
above is held to be a benefit and a desirable
part of the framework of life. But there is an
exactly opposite direction. This direction leads toward a governmental environment
for human life, founded on the basis of long experience
with government, on experience which shows government to be a
necessary evil, but a continuous break on all progress and
the ultimate enemy of all freedom. It is the forward direction,
the upward direction, and Americanism I hope shall become its name.
Speaker 1: Section seven.
Speaker 5: And help to build a better world. We are the
music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. We
in the ages lying in the buried past of the earth,
built Nineva with our sighing and babble itself with our mirth,
and overthrew them with prophesying to the old of the new.
World's work. For each age is a dream that is
dying or one that is coming to birth. For the
last fifty years, our age has been a dream that
is dying to this very group. But this very moment,
I am proposing that we turn our faces forward instead
of backward, begin to make even our defensive actions fit
into a constructive design, and do our part to usher
in a new age that is coming to birth.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: I don't expect the New York Times to begin announcing
excitedly in January that, obviously the world started on a
new era in Indianapolis in December nineteen fifty eight. Of course,
it is only the work we do afterwards, the work
we persuade and inspire others to do, and the long
results in widening reach both that can make of this
meeting anything but a two day seminar in philosophy and
current affairs. But if every man here should leave tonight
feeling in his own mind that he had been at
the beginning of a new chapter in history.
Speaker 1: It would be true.
Speaker 5: It would be true, no matter how long the historians
might take to find it out. The basic reason why
our old age is dying, as I tried yesterday to macclaar,
is that the faith which was the core of its strength,
no longer commands the unquestioning loyalty of enough of its devotees.
For the dream of any nation or any people must
depend on faith. The foundation of our new dream must
be faith, or it will never come to pass. Where
is this faith and what is this faith? So true
that neither our hearts nor our reasons can deny it,
so broad that it takes in without violation the faith
of our fathers, and so deep that it can inspire
martyrdom at need. As to where it's right in front
of us, and as to what it is, exactly what
we in this room already and actually believe, let me
repeat here for the devout Catholics and fundamentalist Protestants who
are among my best friends and strongest supporters, that it
is no part of my purpose to disturb their beliefs.
In the slightest are the beliefs of any man or
woman who really does have a religious faith instead of
just the shell of one. What I am concerned about,
what we must all be vitally concerned about the day,
as the very essence of our problem is morality, integrity,
and purpose. That morality, that morality must be based on
a bedrock of faith. For those who already have such
a bedrock of faith and stand on it and abide
by it, I can offer nothing, and I would certainly
take nothing away. But for those who are no longer
sure exactly where they do stand on what rocks are,
how firmly I want to try to show them that
all of these bedrocks together constitute a foundation with room
and strength for us all. For unless we willingly anchor
our moral judgments to eternal truths, we become just chaff,
blown always before the winds of confusion.
Speaker 1: For I doubt not through the ages.
Speaker 5: One increasing purpose runs that there is a purpose in
man beyond anything calls for by his individual needs, and
far greater than his personal desires, can be not denied
only by the most depraved maniac or the most ignorant fool.
One of the best summarizations of the force and beauty
and eternal quality of that purpose is contained in William
Herbert Carruth's each in his own tongue, which I should
like to recall to your minds. A picket frozen on duty,
a mother starved for her brood, Socrates drinking the hemlock,
and Jesus on the ruin, and millions who humble and
nameless the straight, hard pathway flood. Some call it consecration,
and others call it God. Who can read that realize
the incontrovertible and wonderful truth of the story of man's
purpose at work which the poet tells, and fail to
feel reverently bound to serve that same purpose faithfully?
Speaker 1: And well? What is that purpose?
Speaker 5: And this too has been summarized by yet another poet
in just one brilliant line. Thou hast put an upward
reach in the heart of man. Not only are we
a part of some mighty purpose beyond our understanding, and
not only do we have a clear duty to be
true to that purpose to the fullest extent that we
are allowed to grasp its workings and its direction. But
all human experience shows that the total happiness of any
generation and of its posterity is directly tied to the
respect of that generation for the upward reach in man's nature.
We have all the reason here that man can ask divine.
Our human are pragmatic for keeping our consciences attuned to
the emotions and impulses which increase man's upward reach, and
for then obeying those consciences, abying by commission as well
as omission, to the utmost of our respective will, powers,
and abilities. The substance of my conscience is, I believe
it is really the substance of the conscience of every
man in this room, was gratitude and a corresponding sense
of responsibility. Gratitude, if you will let me paraphrase Henley's
line without the slightest implication of blasphemy, gratitude to whatever
God there was, and gratitude to all of the noblemen
of the past for the life and the environment for
that life which was given.
Speaker 1: Me, And responsibility to God and man.
Speaker 5: Be worthy so far as I was able of the
human race at its best. And gentlemen, what firmer foundation
can we possibly need for the faith on which to
build our new age and with which to inaugurate the
dream that is coming to birth.
Speaker 1: Wherever we turn in.
Speaker 5: Looking at whatever blessings we have for the present and
hopes for the future, we find a need for gratitude
that makes the acceptance of responsibility a duty and a
source of inward happiness. Consider, for instance, and for an instant,
the blessing of freedom. Kipling once wrote, truly all we.
Speaker 1: Know of freedom. All we need to know this.
Speaker 5: Our fathers one for us, long and long ago. Are we,
as Lowell put it, going to be trade us to
our sires, and lose that freedom for our children and
their children? McCauley had horatious say, and how can man
die better than facing fearful odds for the ashes of
his fathers and the temples of his god gods? And
so we ask ourselves, in simple sincerity, if it becomes necessary.
Speaker 1: Just how can man die better?
Speaker 5: Especially if in doing so he appreciably reduces the odds
faced by his compatriots in their fight against the overwhelming
forces of evil threatening us today. But it is not
even to the martyrs, perhaps that we owe the most.
There have been missionaries and scholars, the Catholic monks of
the Middle Ages, poets and philosophers, builders and explorers, statesmen
and scientists throughout centuries receding into the unknown past, who
have toiled and dreamed, and sacrificed and died that you
and I might have the comforts and freedoms and hopes
that we enjoy now in so fair and happy a lend.
One of the worst and most sad and disturbing traits
of many of our young people today is that they
take their inheritance for granted and have no thought of
its cost. This is a vital part of the moral
breakdown that is endangering our civilization. It shows how basic
and necessary a component of faith is man's feeling of
continuity and gratitude. Let us, with a faith for the
future based on this very principle of gratitude to God
and man, live up to ourselves, lived up to by ourselves,
and made a living and articulate faith for others. By
both example and teaching, let us try to bring many
of these young people who are now at loose ends
because of their lack of any faith, back into the
conscious current of man's increasing purpose for.
Speaker 1: A code of honor and an.
Speaker 5: Ennobling sense of responsibility are themselves gifts to the human
soul which have been won by its upward reach, and
so gentlemen, without any claim to goodness, wisdom, or originality,
I have tried, in far too short a time, for
so huge a subject, to indicate to you the element
of a faith which I still hope and believe is
shared by all of you, no matter how differently you
might have explained or expressed it. It is a faith
for which I have earnestly hoped that it might encompass
the individual beliefs of most men of goodwill, that it
might refill our ancient funds of inspiration, and that it
would become a basis and a beginning of renewed dedication
to a dream of man's future. Section eight through the
John Birch Society. Now, how do we go about asking men,
in the words of Santiana, to trust the soul's invincible surmise?
We come at long last to the question of ways
and means and methods. In connection with all of these
plans and aims and hopes, I am proposing, as the
most immediately tangible outcome of this meeting, the formation of
the John Birch Society. And I ask you not to
give undue thought at present to the name in the
small packets for each of you there are copies of
my little book, The Life of John Birch. I hope
you will read it when you have the opportunity, if
you have not already done so, or even if you have,
you will find, and I believe agree, that John Birch
possessed in his own character all of those noble traits
and ideals which we should like to see become symbolized
by the John Birch Society. And the kind of life,
a peaceful opportunity and responsibility, which John Birch wanted for
his fellow Americans, and for his Chinese friends, and for
all men of goodwill, is exactly the kind of life
we should like to see possible everywhere. It is my
fervent hope that the John Birch Society will last for
hundreds of years and exert an increasing influence for the
temporal good and the spiritual and noblement of mankind throughout
those centuries. For I am staking my mind whole aspiration
to play my part in forwarding man's one increasing purpose
on whatever can be accomplished through it. The John Budge
Society is to be a monolithic body, a republican. A
republican form of government are of organization has many attractions
and advantages under certain favorable conditions, but under less happy
circumstances it lends itself too readily to infiltration, distortion, and
disruption and democracy of course in government or organization. As
the Greeks and Romans both found out, and as I
believe every man in this room clearly recognizes, democracy is
merely a deceptive phrase, a weapon of demagoguery, and a
perennial fraud. The fear of tyrannical oppression of individuals and
other arguments against the authoritative structure in the form of
governments have little bearing on the case of a voluntary association,
where the authoritative power can be exercised and enforced only
by persuasion, and what little validity they do have is
outweighed by the advantages of firm and positive direction of
the society's energies. Especially for the near future and for
the fight against communism, which is the first great task
of the society, it is imperative that all the strength
we can must be subject to smoothly functioning direction from
the top. As I've said before, no collection of debating
societies is ever going to stop the communist conspiracy from
taking us.
Speaker 1: Over, and I have.
Speaker 5: And I have no intention of adding another frustrated group
to their number. We mean business every step of the
way we can allow. We can allow for differences of opinion.
We shall need and welcome advice, and we expect to
use the normal measure of diplomacy always called far in.
Speaker 1: Dealing with human beings.
Speaker 5: But whenever differences of opinion become translated into a lack
of loyal support, we shall have shortcuts for eliminating both
without going through any congress of so called democratic processes. Otherwise,
communist infiltrators could bug us down in interminable disagreements, schisms,
and feuds before we ever became seriously effective. The purpose
of the John Virch Society, as officially stated, will be
to promote less government, more responsibility, and a better world.
Speaker 1: That says it.
Speaker 5: All members of the John Birch Society, not only in
the United States but anywhere in the world, not only
can be good patriots in their respective cuts entries, but
necessarily will be. For internationalism as it is conceived and
promoted today is an attempt to impose more government and
a more centralized one world government on all of us everywhere.
For that reason, it is automatically contrary to everything we
stand for, and one of the movements we shall oppose
with all the strength we can. The John Birch Society
will function almost entirely through small local chapters.
Speaker 1: Each will have a chapter.
Speaker 5: Leader appointed through offices of the Society in the field,
who have themselves been duly appointed by headquarters, the dues,
or whatever their member wants to make them with a
minimum of twenty four dollars per year for men and
twelve dollars per year for women. We shall expect the
chapter leader to get all of his or her chapters
together at least once a month, and in many cases oftener.
And we expect the chapter leader to be in practically
contentious contact with his or her members to whatever extent
may be necessary for handling the organizational mechanics of the
Society and for helping to form new chapters. We shall
have a paid staff man with a title of coordinator
for each area of the proper size. Above these coordinators,
in time, we shall have supervisors with the rank or
title of major coordinators. And we shall further build the
organizational framework from the bottom up, as made necessary by
sufficient membership. We are expecting far more work and dedication,
and far more sacrifice of other interests on the part
of those who do become members of the John Birch
Society than you have ever thought of giving to any
other organization which you joined or even considered joining. For
unless we have the cumulated weight and effect of such
solid effort and sacrifice on the part of our members
as a weapon to be wielded against the Communists, we
are certainly not going to be able to hold on
to even the increasingly confused, dark and immral world. We
now have much less help to build a better one.
So we are asking for a lot, and we want
you to know it if in when you sign an
application blank from membership in the John Birch Society, that
brings us next to a consideration as to the very
nature of our undertaking, which needs to be made clear
for all revolutions, as Metternich once pointed out, begin.
Speaker 1: In the best minds and write downward.
Speaker 5: While most religions begin at the bottom with the masses
and gradually acquire both respectability and acceptance at the top,
we are neither and both far from founding a religion.
We are merely urging Protestants, Catholics, Jews are Moslims to
be better Christians. Better Jews are better Muslims in accordance
with the deepest and most humanitarian promptings of their own
religious beliefs. And we are simple trying to draw a
circle of faith in God's power and purpose and of
man's relationship to both, which is broad and inclusive enough
to take each man's specific faith into that circle without violation.
Yet the evangelical fervor with which we expect our members
to fight the forces of evil and work for a
better world makes certain principles with regard to religious groups
apply to ourselves. We are not beginning any revolution, nor
even a counter revolution, in any technical sense, because while
we are opposing a conspiracy, we are not ourselves making
use of conspiratorial methods. Yet our determination to overthrow an
entrenched tyranny is the very stuff out of which revolutions
are made. The net result of these reflections is that
we are not a copy of any movement of the past.
We are unique. We are ourselves. We are something new
as befits, a moving force for a new age. We
believe in profiting by all human experience, but we shall
make our own amalgam of the organizational metals forged by
that experience, with the mercury of our own purpose. Without
darning sackcloth and ashes, we shall try to inspire saintly
men to join our efforts to.
Speaker 1: Make this a better world.
Speaker 5: And without building barricades in the streets, we shall still
try to rally rational men to our efforts to preserve
the best of the world we already have. And now, gentlemen,
I am nearing the end of the semi formal part
of this long undertaking as to what is expected of
you in either effort or money. If you are thinking
of halfway measures, we might as well quit now. But
I might as well also reveal my fanaticism by telling
you that there is no force and no discouragement.
Speaker 1: Which could make me quick or.
Speaker 5: Even put less of my life and energy into the stroke.
The last, the last resort of my own mind, has
been expressed by Louise Imogen Guinea. To fear not sensible failure,
nor covet the game at all, but fighting, fighting, fighting,
guy driven against the wall. I repeat, however, that we
do not have to die driven against any war, nor
do we have to lose the struggle at all. As
I've said elsewhere, there's enough strength, enough money, enough intelligence,
and enough patriotism in the vast business community of America
to form the nucleus that will stop and destroy the
Commonist conspiracy if we can stir it to action in time.
What I am proposing here is the mechanics and the
leadership through men like yourselves by which it can be
stirred to action and that action made effective. Let me
repeat just one thing that I said to you yesterday morning.
There are in the satellite countries today thousands of men
just like you and me, who only ten years ago
could regularly meet in such groups as I propose. Not
only that, but they could go out openly within before
larger groups to try to spread the alarm and to
stop the Commonists from taking over their countries. These men
now say to each other, but largely to themselves. If
I had only known, if I had only recognized and
believed the danger and the horror of commonest rule in time,
there is nothing I would not have given to save.
Speaker 1: My freedom, my family, my country.
Speaker 5: If I had only recognized the urgency and the desperate need.
Now it is all too late, and any sacrifice even
of life itself would be entirely in vain. We do
not have to be too late, and we do not
have to lose the fight. Commonism has its weaknesses, and
the conspiracy has its vulnerable points. We have many layers
of strength not yet rodded by all of the infiltration
and political sabotage to which we have been subjected. Our
danger is both immense and imminent, but it is not
beyond the possibility of being overcome by the resistance that
is still available. All we must find and build and
use to win is sufficient understanding. Let's create that understanding
and build that resistance with everything mortal men can put
into the effort while there still is time. Then, while
we are destroying, and after we have destroyed the communist tyranny,
let's drive on towards our higher goals of more permanent accomplishment,
towards an era of less government and more responsibility in
which we can create a better world.
Speaker 2: And now, ladies and gentlemen, you can simply be yourselves again.
Fifteen years after that last setting, we are over two
thousand virtures and friends at dinner together in Los Angeles
on March ninth, nineteen seventy four those of us at
this table that were a part of that party of eleven,
and I'm sure all of you I'll have a realization
of how accurately prophetic mister Welsh was fifteen years ago.
Now let's save time for him by omitting any further
introduction or comment by me or applause by you, as
we hear what he has to say about the next
fifteen years.
Speaker 5: Bob, ladies and gentlemen, we shall now condense what needs
at least two full days into thirty minutes. So please
forgive the extent to which these remarks become both cryptic
and staccato. We pick up at the point where I
had just finished the last line of the two day
presentation at Indianapolis. Ben McMillan leaned forward in his chair,
holding out towards me what looked like an old envelope
on which he had been scribbling. I stepped forward, took it,
went back behind the podium, and then, to my delighted surprise,
was able to hold up for the other ten men
to see a check from Ben to the John Bird
Society for one thousand dollars with a note that read, here, Bob,
we're in business. Indeed, we were in business at once, and,
as Bob started has pointed out, in relatively better financial
position than we've ever been since. What's more, we proceeded
to survive in a bitterly hostile environment and are now
still celebrating our fifteenth anniversary, which occurred exactly three months ago.
So we begin this look toward the future with an
extremely brief glance at the past. Section aid some points
to remember. One, Throughout all of the diverse pulling and
pressures from within and from without, the Society has been
kept strictly on its originally charted course. Two, it is
still unique as the only cohesive, voluntary, non religious organization
for adult education on a permanent nationwide basis in all
human history.
Speaker 1: Three.
Speaker 5: Consequently, the Society has had to become a pioneer in
almost every respect, not only as to its organizational structure,
but by creating its own means and methods for carrying
out this educational task. Four, it offers the only kind
of opposition which the collectiveness in general and the contemporary
international conspiracy in particular, have never faced before. We have
maintained education as our total strategy and truth as our
only weapon. So the conspiracy has known only one way
to fight back, which was never tried to refute the accusations,
but always seek to destroy the accuser. Consequently, the Society,
from the time it was two years old began to
face more vicious smears, lying propaganda, massive attacks, and undermining
tactics than have ever been turned on any other non
religious group in America.
Speaker 1: Five.
Speaker 5: Despite those impediments, our thoroughly organized educational program is now
functioning solidly, continuously, and with rapidly increasing effectiveness in all
fifty states, also at an embryonic stage in three foreign countries,
and with and with an amorphous influence that extends thinly
throughout the world.
Speaker 1: Six.
Speaker 5: The educational tools and methods of the John Birg Society
now include books, pamphlets and reprints distributed by the millions
of copies per year, a monthly and a weekly magazine,
which are becoming increasingly recognized as authoritative in their field. Films,
film strips, records, reel suriel tapes and cassettes, which altogether
are played to an enormous quantity of people. And a
speakers bureau which, when measured by the number of engagements
filled or the total audience reached we believe to be
the largest in the world.
Speaker 1: Seven.
Speaker 5: Through literally thousands of Bathooe committees, including our speakers forums,
we have multiplied the reach and defectiveness of our actual
members at least four fold.
Speaker 1: Eight.
Speaker 5: Through the tireless patriotic thought, labor and dedication of its
staff and tens of thousands of its members, the Society
has played an extremely important role in certain basic battles
staged by the conspiracy. These have included our part in
preventing the establishment of a Negro Soviet republic in the
Southeastern States, our stopping cold almost entirely through the impact
of allen Stein's pamphlets and speeches, a similar movement by
Rasti Arena to set up a Chicano independent government in
some of our southwestern states, and largely by using patriotic
Indians as our speakers and project leaders, our current blocking
of a similar American Indian movement so decisively that Theist
controlled scoundrels at the head of it are blaming us
for all of our troubles.
Speaker 1: Nine. Nine.
Speaker 5: With regard to more explicit activities, let us offer an example.
The notorious doctor Martin Luther King was a spoul, a
pro communist philandering, big spending, trouble making, violence creating, liar
and crook, as the Conspiracy has ever sponsored in any
of its programs against any people, and almost single handed
through our very courageous and patriotic Negro speakers, we exposed
these facts so thoroughly that King became only an embarrassment
to the insiders like Nelson Rockefeller, who were financing his
carnival show. In fact, during the last weeks of his life,
King canceled entirely the whole series of speeches already set
up for him on a tour from Memphis to Richmond
and back.
Speaker 1: Rather than be up.
Speaker 5: Against the exposures in a parallel series of speeches over
the same area by our speaker Julia Brown, he could
He could no longer be of any practical value to
the insiders at all as a live agitator, but only
as a falsely glorified dead martyr. So much to our regret,
that gruesome transformation was arranged by the Conspiracy in very
short order. Also, let us mention the magnificent role played
by our support your local police committees all over the
United States in putting an almost end to the Communist
inspired and communist controlled civilian police review boards. These boards.
These boards had been designed by the ruthless harassment of
all police officers who tried to do their duty in
handling communist criminals and agitators. And there have been about
forty other specific, similar specific accomplishments of major or appreciable
importance for which the Society has been responsible in the
course of its efforts to expose and slow down or
stop various projects of the conspiracy. Ten and most important
of all is a general consideration. For a dozen years,
there have been unceasing efforts, mostly behind the scenes, on
the part of both Richard Nixon and William F.
Speaker 1: Buckley Jr.
Speaker 5: To damage or destroy the John birdg Society that have
been more open but recurrent attacks, frequently laced with vicious
lives for the same purpose on the part of some
thirty senators, governors, and pundits of the press and the airways. Yet,
despite all of these smears, the standing and character of
our members, the dependability of our educational tools, and the
quality of our methods have gradually brought about an immense
change in the attitude of the public towards the John
Birch Society. Until today the fraction of the public that
feels favorably towards the society has climbed from about four
percent to at least fifty percent.
Speaker 1: And a final.
Speaker 5: And a final measure of our value to the anti
communist cause can be expressed most comprehensively in a single thought.
Suppose there had been no John Brudg Society at all,
and no sign of its educational program over these past
fifteen years, then just try to imagine how much more
completely in the dark the American people would beat to
day about all that is happening, and how tremendously easier
it would be for the insiders of the conspiracy to
carry out the final steps in their plot to enslave us.
Section B how fares the other side one. For almost
two hundred years, the goal of this self perpetuating conspiracy
has been to destroy all religion, all regularly established governments,
and all traditional human institutions, and then to impose its
new world order on the chaotic ruins that will be left.
The conspirators have never been able to destroy anything of importance, however,
by attacks from the outside, but only by subversion from
the insights. Almost every member of the conspiracy therefore leads
a continuous life of falsehood to his friends, of pretense
to the public, and of underlying doubt with regard to
his own future. From Algeister Richard Nixon, every communist or
insider has a gnawing fear that, although he is a
peacock today, he may be a feather duster of tomorrow.
The abnormality of such existence adds up to a basic
liability which is forever tugging away at the solidity of
the whole conspiratorial organization, and the effects of this defiance
of all normal human instincts are beginning to show up
today the whole international scene more clearly than ever before.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 5: The insiders and the illuminati before them have always intended
that about three percent of any population should have absolute
rule over the other ninety seven percent. This is because
their obscene lust for power is more happily satisfied by
success in proportion to the scarcity of others who also
enjoy the prequisites of power, in other words, by an
inverse ratio. This seems a very strange and cruel psychological
quirk to traditional Americans in a country where even those
with the ambition and ability to become very rich. Have
always wanted to see others become rich also, and to
have everybody around them enjoy all the comforts and even
luxuries of an increasing national prosperity. And this attitude alone
on the part of the insiders, as demonstrated at present
by their calculated effort to wipe out the whole middle
class and to reduce everybody but themselves to a level
of bast subsistence, is going to militate very strongly against
them as their design becomes more obvious.
Speaker 1: Three.
Speaker 5: The the whole conspiracy always has been, and still is,
an over extended, very thin shell of power, being constantly
enlarged by blood, audacity, and the ruthless use of terror
terror to smother all resistance piecemeal.
Speaker 1: The insiders themselves.
Speaker 5: Never know just when or where this shell may be broken,
nor how serious they break may be.
Speaker 1: The forced exile of.
Speaker 5: The pro communist King Constantine of Greece by an anti
communist military hunter was one example. A more recent one
has been the placement of Salvador Allendi, the communist bosson
would be tyrant of Chile, by an anti communist military group,
which suddainly seems as does the one in Greece to
be determined to restore a constitutional, republican government to their
respective countries as rapidly as possible. The conspiracy certainly cannot
be sure of what is going to happen on mainland
China when MARCHI Toong dies, or how long Willie Brandt
can last in West Germany, when despite all of the
moral support that Richard Nixon could give him, he still
barely won the last election in nineteen seventy two by
two votes which were purchased through outright bribery. Also, of course,
per Elliott Trudeau, still ruling Canada without even a majority,
could have the sordid facts of his utterly treasonous and
criminal past begin to catch up with him in the
minds of the Canadian. And there are a dozen other
seriously weak spots in the shell where there could be
a blowout at any time. Four in Soviet Russia itself.
As you may learn from all the trustworthy news that
you can excavate, there is doubt that even another Stalene
could hold the lid.
Speaker 1: Down tight enough on the boiling pot.
Speaker 5: There is a crime wave among the youth at least
equal to our own. Over half of all crimes of assault, rape,
and hooliganism by children of the ages of sixteen and
seventeen are due to intoxication. A recent report showed that
over eighty percent of these youngsters had started drinking vodka
before they were sixteen. There are now increased fines for
parents and jail sentences for others who encourage youth under
eighteen to escapism from sordid reality by the nepenthe of alcohol.
But even these tender attentions from the loving big brother
government do not seem to provide the promised degree of
bliss in this commonist paradise, nor does anything else. Charges
of ideological aberration and even treasonous heresy by some officials
against other officials have become commonplace. So Sendson has had
plenty of company among scientists as well as other writers,
in risking imprisonment, torture, or death for complaining about the
inhuman conditions and the spread of terror in many parts
of the vast Soviet Union, besides the prison camps.
Speaker 1: Even after half.
Speaker 5: A century of unceasing attempts to stamp out all religion,
the powers that be today and some have some hopes
of still being tomorrow, are now having some trouble with
a religious revival, more trouble than from many years. Indeed,
the resistance of all kinds at any cost has now
gone so far that for the first time Soviet planes
on domestic flights are being hijacked by Soviet citizens in
attempts to escape. The plain truth is that the commissars
who are trying to rule the Soviet Union today are
sitting on a powder keg which would blow up at
any minute that they ceased to have the ostentatious financial support,
moral support, and material support of the United States government.
And the same thing is true of a great many
other regions within the vast communist corral of nations.
Speaker 1: Five.
Speaker 5: The truth is that everything now depends more than ever
before on what happens in the United States, and this
is a shaky read on which the insiders are leaning.
Speaker 1: They are using the.
Speaker 5: Protracted assault on Nixon to distract American minds from what
Nixon is still doing to advance communist plans, also to
cause distrust and despair in American minds about our whole
economic political system so as to get an easier acceptance
of drastic changes which spell communism. But they are also
generating some very serious bitterness and rivalries within top revolutionary circles.
Few men, if any, have ever done more to increase
Commonist power and prestige at home and abroad than Richard Nixon,
and few have been more skillful at seamtting grateful Communist
commissars and ambitious insiders into the circle of his own support.
Yet some of the most powerful insiders seem determined to
throw Nixon overboard in order to put more power directly
into the hands of the Rockefeller faction and such Rockefeller
agents as Henry Kissinger, and we believe that they are
thereby creating a lot of future.
Speaker 1: Headaches for the whole conspiracy. Six.
Speaker 5: More important than any of these considerations, however, is a
now rapid awakening among the American people. What happened to
the Equal Rights Amendment last year, and to the Genocide
Treaty and the Land Use Bill this year are just
straws in the wind. The insiders have not dared to
install actual rationing of gasoline, which they have so badly wanted,
nor has the Nixon administration yet dared to establish full
diplomatic relations with Red China. Also, we think the present
obvious intention to surrender the Panama Canal completely into international
communist hands. Through the communist government of Panama may run
into quite a jot. Didn't bumper stickers appear on that
many American cars reading as followers, don't give Panama our Canal?
Give them Kissinger instead, And ladies and gentlemen, we are
accepting orders for those stickers.
Speaker 1: Right now at four for one dollar seven.
Speaker 5: These are also straws in the wind, but the insiders
can see which way the straws are blowing. The next
administration already has executive orders on the books sufficient to
establish a dictatorship, but Nixon does not dare to make
a protest to be their reception or their constitutionality. Regional
government Regional government is being pushed hard, but still on
the phony pretense of increasing federal cooperation with state and
local governments rather than usurping all of their functions and powers.
The drive for more and bigger crime waves, although fully
supported and encouraged by the pro communist governors of at
least five states, has not yet dared go far enough
to make the American people welcome a national gestapo. All
of the conspiratorial forces with municipal, state and federal backing
have not yet succeeded in taking our guns away from us,
and the insiders have never been able and the insiders
have never been able to establish permanent communists rule over
any country whose citizens were armed. Eight And the biggest
problem of the whole conspiracy, as we said in the
March bulletin, is even more basically, it is the incredible strength, productivity, resourcefulness,
and momentum of the American free enterprise system which makes
it which makes it so extremely difficult to destroy. Also,
there is a changing mood, a rising spirit of anger
and determination coming up in the American people, which is
crowding the insiders into a race against time. For time
like truth is on our side. So with all of
these factors, so with all of these factors and circumstances
in mind, we solemnly ask ourselves house stands the battle today,
and in deadly seriousness, seriousness, we repeat the answer that
we started giving you in nineteen seventy three early in
the year. We think that for the past year, the
objective odds have been and as of today still are
about even in this struggle for victory by either side.
This is because we now have the size and strength
and resources. I'm sorry, that's a misprintment.
Speaker 1: This is.
Speaker 5: Not because we now have the size not being left.
This is not because we now have the size and
strength and resources to meet the enemy on realistic terms.
Speaker 1: Not at all.
Speaker 5: We don't, not at all, my friends. We never delude
ourselves nor anybody else. But it is primarily we think
the odds objectively or even because we really mean better
business in this most crucial fight of all human history,
as we always have. We believe it is possible for
us to continue expanding our total program until it does
measure up to the practical need before the hour is
too late. And that even if the conspirators, sensing and
fearing this possibility, should have some of us meet with
fatal accidents our start unleashing against the society more vicious
falsehoods than ever before, we are still prepared. Our total
undertaking now has the organization, the experience, the courage, and
the will power to use our growing strength to best advantage,
to act as a catalyst and a rallying point for
the patriotic uprising that is now underway, and thus to
play a decisive part in helping to save our country
and hence our whole civilization from the living death that
is called communism. Section C, which is the last of
the three sections in this section seed, So what.
Speaker 1: Must we do to be saved?
Speaker 5: Having thus used two thirds of our time on the
background of the speech, let us now use the other
third on the substance that will justify its title. So
we first answer our question in the words of Saint Augustine.
We must pray as if it were all up to God,
but worked as if it were all up to us.
And and fundamentally our own work, of course, must be
exactly what we have already been doing, only a great
deal more of it, with more people to help us.
But the major purpose of this whole effort tonight is
to add a powerful new concept to our understanding and
our aims. To make that concept player, we must creep
up on it through a few brief items of history
out of a thousand details we should like to offer
for strengthening our point. So we skipped many volumes and
begin with one most significant fact. There was absolutely no
reason on earth for the American people, or any other
people for that matter, to become.
Speaker 1: Involved in World War One.
Speaker 5: The whole horrible conflict was deliberately plotted and brought about
by insiders of the Master Conspiracy through their working in
and on the governments of both sides, with loyalty to none.
Their objective was to create the ways and means through
which the war could be used to advance the Commonist movement.
The insider's three major goals in this respect with regard
to World War One were aid to overthrow the government
of Russia and enable the Commonists to establish there a
first physical base of Commonnistas power. B to drag the
United States into this kind of totalitarian foreign war with
all the changes in the structure of our government and
the outlook of our people that the war wouldn't make possible,
and seem to give birth to the embryo of their
future world government in the form of the League of Nations.
The first two items on that profoundly evil agenda came
off according to designs, and it is hard to tell
which was most important to the conspirators.
Speaker 1: Far from our entry.
Speaker 5: Into World War One, there was a prompt beginning and
thereafter a gradual development over the next twenty five years
of the role of the United States as a food supplier,
equipment manufacturer, prestige builder, financial angel, ideological disciple, general benefactor,
wartime ally military arsenal am vicious hatchetman for the Soviet Communists,
until by the end of World War II, the United
States government had clearly become the most powerful single force
in promoting the rise of commonist power all over the world.
Most of this was exactly in line with what the
insiders in the United States and elsewhere had plotted and expected,
so naturally they had used many waves of deceptive propaganda,
with much diplomatic trickery by their tools, and all the
governments involved, and every act of cold blooded murder or
vicious treason to their respective countries which would Row Wilson
and Winston Churchill together could devise in order to involve
us in World War I and its aftermath at verseilles adverseites,
but in typical communist fashion. As a means of continuing
and increasing.
Speaker 1: Our involvement in world.
Speaker 5: Affairs, the insiders all also invented a semantic weapon with
which to smear and ridicule and discredit all Americans who
were sensible enough to oppose their sinister plans. The basic
term of this ideological two was isolationists or isolationism, and
over the next few decades the insiders made it into
a verbal bludgeon of tremendous force. For World War II
was plotted, contrived, and utilized by the same conspiracy for
the very same purposes as World War One, plus many
other purposes as well as the same ones. Franklin Roosevelt
and George Marshall also aided every step of the way
by Winston Churchill even produced some improvements on the lies
and treason and ruthlessness of Wilson and House in order
to drag us into this new international milstrong and by
this time even prominent Americans this is by getting into
World War we're getting into World War II. Even prominent
Americans of unquestionable patriotism quailed before the prospect of being
called isolationists. Until by the decades after that war, the
now communist dominated American government had tens of thousands of bureaucrats,
millions of American soldiers, and billions of American dollars scattered
all over the world. This was for no other possible
real reason than to help the Communists to impose their
brutal tyranny on an average of seven thousand more newly
enslaved human beings somewhere in the world. Every hour of
every day, throughout every year, every lying pretense or diplomatic
skull degree imaginable, as well as every foul misuse conceivable
of American money and military might, was being utilized on
an enormous scale for that purpose by our conist controlled
State Department. And the surest way to discredit all critics
of this rampant treason was to vilify them as isolationists.
But the time has come at last when it is
both wise and possible to identify this brazen fraud as
one of the most blatant big lies in the whole
realm of communist propaganda. So brush the insider's dust out
of your eyes, my friends, and the communist soap SuDS
out of your brain, and ask yourselves, in all honesty,
what on earth is wrong with the United States simply
mining its own business, or with having its foreign policy
function primarily for the safety and benefit of the American people,
which is exactly what we had done for the first
one hundred and forty years of our existence as a nation,
to the incredible advantage of ourselves and everybody else. Everybody
that is, excepting numerically small clique of powerlusting conspirators who
had somehow inflicted themselves on a gullible world. We do
not have to pull into our shell by any means.
Certainly we had never done so when Yankee clippers sailed
the Seven Seas, or when American automobiles first began to
put the whole world on wheels. The United States should
be glad to maintain the comfortable minimum of diplomatic relations
with every civilized nation, as we always were. Our people
should certainly be glad to exchange commercial goods, cultural productions,
and happy visits with the people of all nations, as
we always have been. But we should remember Richard Cobden's
famous warning that real peace and happiness will come to
this earth when the peoples of different countries have as
much to do with each other as possible, and their
governments as.
Speaker 1: Little as possible.
Speaker 5: And we should also remember that the continuous colossal medley
of our government with the affairs of other governments all
over the world does unmeasurable damage to the people under
those other governments, and to our own people as well.
Let's get back on the road to greatness, which we
followed with such confidence and success during our first four
generations as.
Speaker 1: An independent nation.
Speaker 5: Then, standing on our own feet, let's once again become
an envied example for all the world by our productiveness,
our inventedness, our individual rights and freedoms and upper tunities,
by our sense of responsibility, our compassion for the unfortunate,
our basic moral codes, and our noble aspirations, and by
our determination to preserve the wonderful inheritance which our founding
fathers bequeathed to us for our own descendants, and as
an asylum for all worthy people who suffer under tyranny
through no fault of their own. If this worthy ambition
of this and this humane of this humane course be
dubbed isolationism, then let's take pride in being called isolationists.
Above all, let's not be not be prevented from using
our common sense, from leading patriotic lives and standing on
our god given rights through fear of a tricky phrase
invented for that very purpose by the most vile and
merciless criminals in all human history.
Speaker 1: Section D. I thought I'd combined this.
Speaker 5: In section C when I said it was the last,
But I do this.
Speaker 1: I split it. I do remember now I did find
a split it, but.
Speaker 5: Anyway, it's the last half of the last section. So
let me encourage you section D in conclusion. In fact,
if you're speaker were a young man of fifty and
a politician of which goodness knows he is neither, he
would start running for president in nineteen seventy six or
an isolationist flat form, and the internationalist insiders might be
amazed at how many millions of Americans or would come
such surgeon to his support. So we offer the idea
free to any qualified person who wants it, while we
turn to a very brief summarization of what we hope
the John Bird Society will help and even sometimes lead,
the American people to accomplish during the next fifteen years.
One our first and most important specific undertaking should be
to restore the complete independence of the United States. This
this includes our resolution to get us out of the
United Nations and get the United Nations out of the
United States.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 5: We must once again make our money freely redeemable in
gold at some realistic price. And we must take all
practicable legislative steps to prevent a recurrence of the enormous
thievery and other subbressive crimes that have been perpetrated on
the American people through a contrived inflation by every president
from Franklin Roosevelt through Richard Nixon.
Speaker 1: Three.
Speaker 5: Three we should reduce the number of government bureaus, of government,
civilian employees, and the whole quantity of government by at
least fifty percent, And we should achieve at least this
much reduction in proper fashion through gradually convincing a majority
of the American people of the wisdom of such a course.
Speaker 1: Four.
Speaker 5: We should withdraw all American troops from every spot on
Earth that is not American soil, except when and where
such troops may be required, as decided by Congress to
protect American lives and property from criminal vandalism.
Speaker 1: Five.
Speaker 5: Five We should get government out of the areas and
functions and activities where government does not belong.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 5: Again, all steps to this end should be taken gradually,
but nevertheless, just as rapidly as enough of the American
people can be persuaded to support such progress. Any such
achievement will require a truly massive educational force, but that's
exactly what we hope to build during the next fifteen years.
We could go ahead for at least one hundred numbered items,
but the John Bird Society will undoubtedly be working on
more than that many specific projects which will be laid
out in its bulletins before another one hundred and eighty
months will have rolled around, and all of them will
fit into All of these projects will fit into the
general pattern indicated by the five major objectives listed above.
So let's really wind up this marathon monologue with one
final thought. None of us can guarantee anything about what
the future will bring. Your speaker knows what a job
we have before us to rid our country of the
scourge of communism within the next few years, and then
to go ahead on our constructive program so well that
fifteen years from now we shall already be entering an
era of far less government, of a much sounder sense
of responsibility, and, with God's help, of a better world.
But I sincerely believe that it can be done, and
thus much I know if every man and woman in
this audience should leave here tonight feeling in his or
her own mind and heart that it can and must
be done, must be done, then it surely will be.
And so all of you, patriots of good character, good conscience,
and noble ideals whom we can reach with the filmed
version of this speech in a thousand other audiences. It
is with a great deal of confidence and energizing will
to win that we invite you to join us.
Speaker 1: In our epic undertaking Ale.
Speaker 5: To all of you great wonderful friends in this present audience,
I certainly extend my very deep thanks indeed for so
much patience and attention.
Speaker 1: Thank you and the money you're listening to the Fact
Hunter Radio Network. Just the facts, Mammy