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Cece en ee e Oe aaah ieee ran Ps - recent le ad ee og 7 Re, . ‘ Boston - . -8- If opposition to arms pro; ramo and compulsory military training and the draft is "“communistic", then a strikingly high percentage of the clergy- men in this country are "communistic". If the belief that the itegro people are entitled to full civil liberties and the elimination of the hateful practices of segregation is "communistic", then 15 million N egro citizens are comuunistic and so am I+ If the belief that a public housing program is needed is "communistic*, then a frighteningly high percentage of our veterans have what J. Parnell Thomas calls "subversive tendencies". If demands for decent wages and shorter working hours are "communistic*® then millions of trade union members are "communiet inclined" « All of these proposais are damned es "red" by the reactionaries here at home. It is not amazing that they support kings, fascists, and reactionaries abroad. | But it is amazing that many fine citizens who can spot the falsity of the "red cry" when it ie applied to domestic policies, can't see it when it is used in foreign affairs. | There are communists in Europe -- millions of them. tie can either join , the most vicious reactionaries in descriting them as barbarians, savages, tools of the Kremlin, and subverters of democracy; or we can sober up a little and recognize that they are comauniste because they are tired of waiting for their ovn reactionaries to give them a crumb of freedom and relief from ancient feudalistic practices. (more)