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...susceptibility of modern society, especially American society, to exploitation for Communist ends that Schwarz really bears down. He notes that the number of actual, hard-core U.S. Communists has never been great. But they are surrounded by fellow travelers, sympathizers and "pseudo liberals." Most of these liberals "are to be found in the ivory cloisters of colleges and universities"; they are, in effect, the "protectors and runners of interference for the Communist conspirators...
Citing chapter and verse, Schwarz reviews the history of Communist efforts to subvert American society and institutions, to capture the mind of U.S. students ("That is always the first step"), to seize control of labor unions, to set up front groups to enlist the unwary to their causes. Such efforts, in fact, achieved their greatest successes in the 19305 and in the years during and immediately following World War II. But Schwarz, by slurring over dates and by drawing present-tense conclusions from past-tense examples, gives them dramatic currency, leaving the impression that the threat of internal subversion...
...Fred Schwarz the anti-Communist role of Government is limited at best, and his lopsided account of cold war history implies that the U.S. Government in spite of all its efforts has had no successes at all against Communism. Wrote Schwarz: "The time has come for people to cease looking for great organizations afar off, and to begin looking for things that can be done close at home. Every man who invites a friend into his home, gives him literature to read, and informs him of the danger, is helping to thwart the Communist program." Citizens so educated...
...Schwarz ignores or shrugs off most of these issues. To him, a military program is merely a temporary measure "which may hold back the flood for a short period and give us a little more time to find a permanent solution." Foreign economic and military assistance is hardly worth the bother: "The idea is to give economic aid and military assistance in the expectation that Communism will lose its appeal and freedom will triumph. Materialistic measures do not control the minds and the hearts of the people...
Crusader Fred Schwarz does indeed leave his readers and listeners eager to do something about Communism. The question is: What specifically does he give them to do that can be translated into national policy and action...