A WEEKLY COMMENTARY
Year Twenty-Seven ... Number Forty-Seven ... November 21, 1980
WORDS TO REMEMBER
Our former collaborator and publishing partner, the late Upton Close, held to a theory which fits our moment in time. He expressed it in an address to the Rotary Club of Chicago on April 3, 1941, in these words: "I have been coming back from various parts of the world over the course of the last twenty years, and I have had occasion to feel the pendulum-like quality of American sentiment. I have seen how these people who are the most unconcerned about a situation today may in a year or two be the most hysterical about the same situation; how a Lindbergh Senior can be ridden on a rail, tarred and feathered, and later be admired as a martyr; and then how his son Charles can be put in the beginnings of the same cycle. And I know that, if you find American sentiment on the extreme end of the pendulum swing at one moment, you will find it at the extreme other end of the pendulum swing later." The same can be said of Upton. He was a political truth-teller at a time when the pendulum was on a leftward sweep. But now American sentiment is swinging to the right. And it seems fitting to us that the political truths he expressed thirty years ago, be recalled and reconsidered.
Thirty years ago we met Upton for the first time. He was on a lecture tour and came through Tulsa where we were broadcasting. Later we would form a partnership and move to the Palm Beach, Florida area. He had just concluded an address before the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce in Oklahoma City. One of Upton's friends had a transcript of that lecture which Upton Close gave on October 10, 1950. The following is taken from that lecture, which was titled: "The Treachery in Our Government."
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I want to talk to you today on the subject of the men who want to rule the world. Uncle Joe (Stalin) and his crew aren't the only people who are out to rule the world, to rob your pocketbook, to get all of the wealth of the world into their hands and establish a one world economy under their control. That is the basic aim of the Marxist movement, which is a good deal older than Marx. I think we need a historical sketch of that movement which very few people in the United States know. It is surely something that should be put in every textbook that is studied in every American school...
The movement to put the police force with the economic production -- that is essentially what the Marxist movement is: putting police power and production control in the same hands; establishing a double control over the human being. Not only control of the policeman's club or the militiaman's bayonet, but job control, wage control, and control of the raw materials that the producer and the processor have to use to stay in business. In other words, the Marxist system provides to a ruling group, control of man's food, control of his shelter, control of the very essentials of living for every man, his wife and his family -- this in addition to the police control that has always been known in the world.
The Marxist system started in organized form the very same year that the Declaration of Independence was written. It was organized in a German University by a man named Adam Weishaupt, one of the professors. It spread first through Bavaria with special headquarters in Munich. The Society of the Illuminati, it was called in European tongues. Illuminati in the Latin they used, means the illuminated ones, the self-styled enlightened ones; in other words, The Society of the Wise Guys, if you want to put it in just ordinary language. They were the wise guys who were going to take over the world. They began with a basic principle -- that the world was going into a machine age and whoever would control the machines could control human life and human thoughs, by adding to that police power; state power plus economic power.
The first success of this movement was the French commune -- and there's that name Communism way back then. That was terminated by Napoleon. The second attempt of the group was the series of revolutions in Europe in 1848, which almost succeeded in Germany. One of the members of this group, named Karl Marx, fled out of Germany to England, established himself in the London Museum Library and set to work to become the scribe of the movement. He wrote its "bible" and gave the movement its name. He became the great teacher of the movement because he "perfected" it for our age -- The Machine Age. Marx taught in his books called "Das Kapital" that all production for man's needs would be by machines, in quantity; that whoever controlled the machines, plus the state power, would control all life and thought; and that the control of the machines could be obtained (for the "wise ones") by organizing and controlling the working man. The organized workers would dispossess the private employers, called "capitalist" owners of machines, by vote and force. All ownership would reside in the "state" -- meaning at last resort, of course, in the self-promoted "wise ones." This perfection of the conspiracy was named by Marx "The Class War," which became the sacred war to Socialist devotees. Marx was supported by his confederate in Germany, Frederich Engels. There were very many more of them, of course. These men were the forerunners of the Lenin-Stalin movement, and also of the Fabian Socialist movement in Britain and America.
From the very inception of the movement it has been in direct antithetical contrast with, and struggle with, the American system. These two systems were started in organized form within the space of twelve months, in 1776. Today, you and I are living to see the ultimate showdown between these two systems. If the Marxist system were confined to Europe as it once was, if it were confined to Russia, even if it were confined to Europe and Asia, the United States would be only remotely threatened. It is because the Marxist movement has wormed its way into the United States, and is today actually in control of the present administration of the United States in many respects, that we in America are in supreme danger.
Now, of course, you are all aware of the fact that the Marxist system, from its very inception, has been noted for its schisms, for its internal quarels, for the violence of those internal quarrels, for the fact that the winning group in an internal quarrel never has any tolerance for the losing group. This began in the days of the French Commune. There were Danton, Robespieere, and a whole succession; one killed the other to assume control. Many of you are old enough to recall the "internationalists." Each one claimed it was the International Organization. The First International grew up around Marx himself, the Second International around Marx's daughter in England, and it spread to the United States. There were Third and Fourth Internationalists. There was a row between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in Russia. Then came the split between the Trotskyites and the Stalinites, and the later Vishinsky purges, when Stalin purges his old comrades. Purges have gone on and on as there are sects, schisms, and break-offs in the Marxist fraternity (there was a split between Hitler's National Socialism and Stalin's International Socialism, the later split between Tito and Stalin, then the split between Communist China and Soviet Russia, now the current purge of the Maoist "Gang of Four" and other purges and splits to add to Upton's list of splits and purges - Ed.)
Now, the importance of this is that today we Americans are in danger of being misled completely; misled as to the interpretation of events because of these sectarian differences in the Marxist faith. We have two branches of that marxist faith. Together they are destroying the free people of the world. One branch has its headquarters in London. It is the branch which grew out of the British Fabian Society and which planned so cleverly because of the shrewd brains that were in it -- the brains of George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, the Webbs, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Morrison, Harold Laski, John Strachey, and the rest of the younger ones: Atlee, Shinwell, etc. Then they dragged in labor leaders, such as Ernest Bevan, just as our Socialists in America have dragged in the top labor leaders. The Fabians (British Marxists) planned so shrewdly to seize and acquire power that today, in 1950, they are the government of the British Empire.
The other branch of the Marxist faith is the one that has had the big publicity among us -- the branch in Moscow -- the one that our government propagandists out of Washington spent so much time adulating, building up, praising "good old Joe," creating friendship, preparing us to become brothers to the Russians.
In two ways, Marxism is closing in on Americans. One is through foreign policy. The other is through the Social Welfare State policy. You're all aware, through the attempts made by Senator McCarthy and others to expose what happened in China, that a group of pro-Russian young men got control of the State Department and put through the amazing policy of destroying our Number One ally in Asia, the one we went to war to protect, the Nationalist China of Chiang Kai-shek, the most natural ally we had in the whole world. The members of this junior group finally succeeded in making themselves felt through an organization. It was called the Institute of Pacific Relations (a satellite of the Council on Foriegn Relations - Ed.). It proved out eventually (some of us tried to reveal it for years and just got slapped around every time we mentioend it) that the Institute of Pacific Relations was a Communist Front ...
The English Socialist movement had meanwhile been spreading over the United States. The great apostle of English Socialism (Fabianism) here in the United States was Harold Joseph Laski, a small dark, taciturn person of non-Anglo-Saxon appearance and said to have an almost hypnotic influence over those he chose as disciples. At the age of 21 he arrived from Oxford to lecture at Canada's McGill University. After two years there he spent four years as a lecturer at Harvard, also giving guest lectures at Amherst and Yale. Laski then returned to England to become a pundit of the London School of Economics. He had a formative influence on American students, particularly those chosen for Rhodes scholarships. Laski's influence on one man in America, eleven years his senior, is making history -- bad history for free enterprise! That man is Felix Frankfurter. From 1910 until he was made a Supreme Court Justice by F.D. Roosevelt, Frankfurter was Laski's host on a number of the Englishman's visits when he counseled with New Deal and Social Welfare politicians. Harvard Law School became permeated with his thinking. Graduate after graduate from Harvard Law School was sent down into government offices in Washington with Frankfurter's endorsement to help him. Alger Hiss, Philip Jessup, Dean Acheson, the Service boys, Owen Lattimore -- any number of young fellows came down to Washington with the same credentials, and that is where the China group tied in with the British Socialist group. Not only into government, but into dominating influence in journalism, publishing, education and religious fields, and in some states into politics, went this stream of Fabian Socialists to change American thinking and life. While Americans were totally oblivious of what was going on, were trusting the fate of the nation and the world to the Administration in Washington, this Administration was being taken over in its policies, foreign and domestic, by this British-Socialist-China-Frankfurter group. Today, you're getting the fruits of it. They ripened in the Yalta and Potsdam agreements.
What happened in Yalta and Potsdam was the attempt by the two branches of the Marxist faith to make a deal to divide up the world, and destroy capitalism. Each one had its assignment. The Moscow-based group of Socialists was to be given the world from Japan west to Berlin. The Anglo-American group of Socialists was entrusted with the job of destroying capitalism from Berlin west to Japan. Japan would have gone into Moscow's share -- but there was one man in the whole world those young Marxists couldn't manage -- MacArthur. So, here we are today. Joe Stalin took what was given him. Then he began encrooaching on the part of the world designated to come under "reform" by his Anglo-American pals.
I hope you see through this stuff! I hope you see what the objective is. I hope you see it isn't just bungling. No! It's damnably shrewd and conniving. Western Marxists have got to keep the spectre of this Communist menace alive -- in order to keep the American people in a state of emergency so they'll be willing to sacrifice, to vote, to give to the Socialists in Washington so they can carry on, continue their plan. What they hope is, come the crisis with Russia, they will be firmly in the seats of power in the United States. Then, although they know the Kremlin's agents here are going to make all the trouble they can, they think they can beat the Kremlin's agents to it when the time comes, and they're willing to take that risk. This group of Anglo-American Socialists is just as thoroughly and ruthlessly 100 percent Marxist as the group in Moscow. America will never be safe until good Americans who believe in the American and Individualist system get this through their heads, and take back their government.
And I repeat -- it may be very late right now! If the Anglo-American Socialists have their way, we are going to be part of a World Federalist State, in which you and I will have no say at all; which will draft our sons to fight anywhere the official policy dictates, or where any accident happens or whim directs: which will bleed the United States of billions and billions of dollars more of our wealth, and which will eventually use us as slaves and minions in the final showdown of power between the two groups of Marxists who want to rule the earth.
I think it's time for everyone of us to do what he can: to wit, to pause in this drift, to take enough time out from this current to study where we are, to find measures to re-establish America on the basis of the Declaration of Independence of 1776. As I say, the two systems began their organized resistance in the year 1776. I think the answer as to which will survive will come soon.
| (Foregoing is from an address by Upton Close, Oct. 10, 1950. A few words and phrases, but not the intent or meaning, have been changed to make the address more pertinent in 1980). |
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