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4 *x CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, Mon., Dec. 8, '58 ned What WERE Lenin Words? © Quotes Can't Be Verified * ATRED of Com- . munists is in- tensified in this country by quot- ing warlike things said by the men who founded commu. nism. I used one of these state- ments las{ week. Lenin sain: “First we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia, then we will encircle the United States, which will be the Jast bastion of cap- italism, It will falllikean Overripe fruit into our hands.” -@ @e I TOOK this quote from the Congressional Record, which was quoting the American Bar Association. which was quot- ing the Collected Works of Lenin, Vol. 10, P. 172. Now -comes a Chicaro man, a Mr. Albert Bofman, who asserts. “Lenin never _ Said that.” ceived any reply to its closing invitation, and he answered, “Not a one." He offers as evidence a Jet- ter from Henry J. Duhester, chief of the gorecral reference and bibliography division, Li- brary of Congress, e¢ 2s 8 SAYS MK, Dubester, “ . . Though we have checked Vol- ume 10 in the 2d, 3d, and the 4th Russian editions, and in the edilion published in Eng- Ish by the Cooperative Pub- lishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., we have found no such state ment.” Did Lenin actually say this, or did someone invent it? Another Quote Can’t Be Found Here’s anoihcr quote at- tributed to Lenin: “We must secure the good will of teachers and profes. 60rs in sehools and univer: sities. of liberal ministers of religion and of pacifists and reformers of the world in or- der to create a mental bar- rage in the minds of the cap- ftalist youth, which shall forever bar them from par- ticipaling in a carnal! conflict with: the Communist order.” Did he realhy say il? Let's go hack to the Library of Congress and Mr. Dubester. “We have checked all of the fndexes to Lenin's works avail- able .in the Library of Con- fress as wel] as many of his articles and spveches ... but have failed to find any refer- ence tu the quotations.” ss «a AN FARLY Bolshevik, Dmi- tri Manuilsky, is supposed to have said capifalist countries would be trapped by spectac: war peace movements, and that “as soon as their guard is down we shall smash them with sur clenched fists.” The Library of Congress could find no such quotations by Manuilsky. Why Not Invent Some Old Quotes? AS an essayist of sorts, this intrigues me. How many phony quotes do I use in ws year? SEQUEL Seven months after this column was published I asked Mr. Mabley if he had re- Might I not invent one? “As George Washington said in his Memarahle miessage to his troops before the skirmish at Rum Hollow, ‘(make up your own quote)’.” ¢$ @ & MR. BOFMAN, who brings this up, is a man I presume who ts interested in promoting peace between the Uniied States and Russia. We are in. clined to be suspicious of peacemongers for fear they may be tricking us. Lenin quefes make us wary of a frap. Mr. Bofmsan is being unjustly penalized fn his work if these Lenin quotes are false, If anyone has evidence one way or the other, it would be welcome here. In view of the number of persons and organizations that had used these “quotations" and would want to vindicate their use of them if possible, it seems a safe bet that if they did not produce evidence of their authenticity, none exists. Many people, including President Eisenhower, have also quoted Lenin as saying that the Communist world would succeed in making the United States spend itself in- to destruction. But Joseph Alsop asserted March 14, 1959 in his column "A Danger- ous Fraud Imposed on the President" that neither Lenin nor any other Russian leader has ever made that claim, and that in fact it is the current Communist belief that “heavy defense spending is necessary to keep free capitalism going." Whether or not Lenin and Manvilsky made these statements is possibly not im- portant except to the mental furniture of those who hold that "Communism never changes." The moral of these disclosures is that -- in view of this deception, in which many honest people unwittingly took part -- we need to be skeptical of other hate and fear-inducing propaganda. the arms race, to which our economy is geared. Additional copies of this obtainable from: 15 for 25¢, 80 for $1, 440 lor §5. Without it we would not endure the burdens of Alice Franklin Bryant 2813 N. Broadway, Seattle 2, Wn.