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CTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA ana and other foreigners, but ever make the slightest impression tic Americans.’’ And our own trained our own modern day Washingtons and id seurvily treated by our pre 3 sent d aericans by the over-confident English Sir, it ig r strata of society is or can be imm ‘anadian spy disclosures of two years ons of our own House Un-American d those of the Washington and Calj. his home to all of us, F most sincerely yvubt propagated by Communists and thed pseudo-liberals and alleged intel. ‘3 from and is bred only i : Y 10 poverty, vow been fairly well blown up aind en of the House Committee expressed d at the fact that nearly ali of those if-implicated themselves by refusing ame from so-called better class fami. high in scholarship, had never toiled mger or undergone any of the abuses social systems which are supposed onvicted Canadian spies were from 1 educated and well off, tian who was a professor and turned Soviet agents, a man of wealth and ily regarded. He was not a member with his hands, never had been to id not have a Russian background, ‘om thai step by step went inte the nmunism is bred in the lower ele sed, and the discriminated-against FALLACY tto warn you against what I call of you here today in your public itinuously to ridicule and destroy y Way to Destroy Communism is racy by Removing Communiam's this fallacy is that it is of course ‘a one-tenth truth. Ite foremost elt, a wise and Jearned lady, but miservatives, and even anti-Com- autterly preposterous sophistry. 3 of logic as are evailable even examine the Insidious Fallacy. ; Communism is to strengthen ittle adverb ‘‘only.’’ In other economic, and political systems + UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA 64] Step No, 2. Note carefully that there is no criticism direct or implied f{ Communism. By tacit inference at least it is either above eriticiam or gmune to attack. Only Democracy as we know it has failed and been ‘sand wanting. We are at fault; not the Communists. Third deadly step. All that western civilization implies, the majesty ! Roman law, the imperishable tencts of Christ, one thousand years of citer human struggle for freedom and liberty, human dignity of man epsus the state--all these priceless heritages aequired only by terrible wacrifices by countless martyrs down through the centuries are neatly ‘uated in one clever dialectical swoop with Asiatic totalitarian autoc- ‘acy. In other words, by the simple process of sophistry two totally mequal, opposite, and irreconcilable ways of life are tossed on the wates to be “impartially weighed against each other,’’ Could anything ne more fantastic? Now, note most carefully the next deadly step in this incredible asereise In human befuddlement and ehicanery. Demoeracy and all that suman liberty and freedom embodies are brazenly likened ta the com- ‘yodities of the market place. What these pernicious peddlers of the insidious Fallacy say in effect is this: ‘‘Our line of goods is not selling rell in competition with the Communists. They are crowding us out of ‘he market, We must improve our produce or we shall lose out.’’? In short, Democracy and human liberty are saleable commodities like auto tires, wap, cosmetics, or canned pork and beans which, unless they are speedily aptaved will otherwise be forced to give way to 4 more aggressive and Irnamic ideohogy. I submit to you, can the human brain evolve anything more utterly absard, fallacious, and self-degrading? Yet we have the spectacle of warned Justices of the United States Supreme Court, U. S. delegates ‘othe United Nations, and other profound pundits of the non sequitur iandly going up and down the land offering this priceless pearl of «phistry as the last words of buman wisdom. Nothing that I can think {so pointedly and devastatingly exposes the utter mental fatuity and sooselike ‘‘thinking’’ of some of our present-day ‘‘intellectuals’’ as does ‘His preposterous and fraudulent exercise in ‘social thinking.’’ You cave to be a Phi Beta Kappa to cook up such an insidious farrago of sheerest nonsense. . Let us have no more of this nonsense, but let all of us knock it on its retinous cranium wherever and whenever if raises its idiotie head. If “con ever hear anyone broadcasting the Insidious Fallacy ask him or - er quickly, before they make further fools of themselves, whether they ‘now anything about Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, and Sweden. lelanders and Swiss have enjoyed almost one thousand years of a far éparer and simpler form of Democracy than we have ever dreamt of in ; his Country. Neither country hes a Negro question, sharecropners, great j-uremes of poverty and wealth, ‘‘ Wall Street monopoly capital, ’’ shams, {mistreated or exploited minorities, colonies, or ‘‘ war-mongering imperial- “sm.’’ Yet both have troublesome and numerons Communist parties. dsweden and Denmark are even more advanced socially and economically. ilabor in these two countries is practically 100 percent organized and * ontrals the government. Cooperatives are extensive among producers 28 well as consumers and largely control the economies of these two 21—L-8208