Word: schwarz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rising Furor. "We're not angels," Schwarz says. "We haven't right wings, left wings, any wings." For those critics viscerally disposed to dislike his "Crusade," but not disposed to study it, Schwarz does not make things easy. He has not uttered any simple, memorable piece of nonsense, like Robert Welch's statement that Eisenhower was a Communist dupe. The Schwarz Crusade proceeds right out in the open without any of the conspiratorial folderol of Welch's Birchites...
...weeks before Oakland's Auditorium Theater opened its doors on the first Crusade session there, the Bay Area was in furor. The San Francisco Chronicle denounced Schwarz as a phantom hunter; the Oakland Tribune, whose editor, former Senator William Knowland, is a Schwarz admirer ("Dr. Schwarz is very intelligent and sincere"), backed the Crusade. There was an unholy row about a proclamation, carrying the names of 55 Bay Area mayors, that declared last week "AntiCommunism Week." When Schwarz critics protested, the mayor of Fairfax denied that he had ever signed the proclamation, the mayor of San Jose said that...
...Blame Me." The man who caused this commotion is an Australian citizen with a sharp chin, a penchant for maroon bow ties, and a salesman's exuberance and extroversion. Born in Brisbane, he was the fourth of the eleven children of Paul Schwarz, a Viennese Jew who was converted to Christianity, became a Pentecostal lay preacher, migrated to Australia for his health in 1905 and, after World War I, prospered as a dealer in war-surplus goods. Fred Schwarz graduated from Brisbane's University of Queensland with both science and arts degrees, took a post as a science...
...Schwarz had an interest deeper than doctoring. In 1940 he fell into an argument with an Australian Communist. After this debate, he determined to find out all he could about Communism. He steeped himself in the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, to the point that friends recall his wife, Lillian May, saying: "I'm never alone with Fred. He always has Karl Marx along...
...Schwarz became a skilled anti-Communist orator, speaking from the pulpit (long a lay preacher, he describes himself as "a narrow-minded, Bible-believing Baptist") or on the public platform. He recalls one triumphant debate in his younger days with a Communist leader in a Sydney park: "I mentioned Dialectical Materialism, whereupon the Communist leader challenged me. 'What is Dialectical Materialism?' he asked. I replied, 'Dialectical Materialism is the philosophy of Karl Marx that he formulated by taking the dialectic of Hegel, marrying it to the materialism of Feuerbach, abstracting from it the concept of progress...