Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-Red legislation but discounted the affects of the Reds among U. S. work- ingmen: "They never won a strike in the U. S. . . . So far as taking this country over?that's all poppycock. When you look at the wild-eyed crowd of half-baked human junk constituting Communism . . . you will know that there's not a chance in the world...
...Communism or Chaos Sirs: In your issue June 23, p. 19, under heading "Radicals," appears an article which has amused me and raised a couple of questions in my mind which I would like to see answered editorially or by one of the numerous readers of TIME...
First: How can a Christian oppose communism when Christ was a communist? He taught it and it was practiced in the Church; in fact to be a communist was the first essential to becoming a Christian, as is proven by the story of Ananias...
Second: When the "Ham, Fish" committee gets through with its investigations, what will it propose? If it should propose to outlaw all communist activities, it will have some job on its hands, because all civilized countries, including the U. S., countenance and practice communism more or less. Take a peep at a few communist activities as officially practiced in these United States and we find among them: Army, Navy, Police, Prisons, Asylums, Reformatories, Public Schools, Libraries, Museums, Public Parks. All these activities are communistic because every man, woman and child pays directly or indirectly for their maintenance, whilst the benefits...
First witness was the Rev. Edmund Walsh, director of the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University, a vociferous protestant and propagandist against Russia's anti-religion campaign, a critical scholar of the Soviet political credo (TIME, March 31). So elementary a course in Communism did Father Walsh give the Committee that Chairman Fish was moved to announce that, whereas he (Fish) knew all about it. the other committee members less familiar with "the problem," would doubtless find Father Walsh's primary instruction "an excellent background for future work...