Americans will surely be surprised to learn that in 1939, long before Senator Joseph
McCarthy's time, Martin Dies publicly disclosed a list
of 539 government officials and employees, including numerous high-salaried New
Dealers, whom he charged with being members of a
Communist-funded and -controlled organization, the American League for Peace and
Democracy (notice the high-sounding title).
Needless to say, Dies was bitterly lashed for calling the League Communist.
Many years later, in his pamphlet 'Socialism in America', former Secretary General of
the U.S. Communist Party Earl Browder identified the
League as an arm of the Communist Party, which "rose to become a national political
influence ... on a scale never before reached by a
socialist movement claiming the Marxist tradition.... Right-wing intellectuals
complained that it exercised an effective veto in almost all
publishing houses against their books, and it is at least certain that those
right-wingers had extreme difficulty getting published."
These revelatory words of Browder's should stun us into a realization of the extent of
the menace that Dies clearly perceived and was
pitting himself against -- that is, our country's disastrous turn to the Left and the
writing into law of Marxist/Socialist tenets
masquerading under the name of liberalism.
In the mid-1960s Dies wrote a series of articles for 'American Opinion' magazine (a
precursor to The New American); in one of those
articles he discussed some of these hidden inroads, unfortunately taken for granted by
most Americans.
For instance, the very first plank of Marxist doctrine is government ownership of the
land and abolition of private property.
In 1954 Dies persuaded the House to require the first inventory of government land
ownership; he was shocked to discover that federal,
state, and local governments owned a third of the land in the United States.
Since then the overall figure has exploded to more than 40 percent.
Dies stressed that the most important attribute of ownership is control, without which
the paper title is meaningless.
In the gradual program of communizing a nation as defined by Marx, the state might
first seek control without appropriating the title.
That is what has happened to American agriculture.
As the number of farms drastically decreased, the number of employees in the federal
Department of Agriculture drastically increased and
expenditures for subsidies exploded.
With the handouts came FDR's Agricultural Adjustment Act and the socialization of this
huge and crucial section of our economy.
Hundreds of federal mandates determine what crops may be planted, what crops must be
withheld, how much may be planted, where produce many
be sold, to what use one's own produce may be put, and what price the farmer receives
for crops sold as well as those never planted.
Dies lamented how the effect of this control of farming became far-reaching and
profound, resulting in the obliteration of small farmers
whose assigned quotas were too small to sustain a livelihood.
Millions of Americans, especially black Americans, were force to move to big cities,
where, qualified only for farm labor, many ended up on
welfare.
Thus from this one Act we got not only federal control of almost all farming land and
the consolidation of farming in a few
"agri-businesses," but a powerful impetus for the emerging Welfare State, political
manipulation of blacks, and today's enormous inner-city
problems.
How can FDR's shocking coddling, protection, and promotion of Communists and their
objectives be explained?
In his 1963 autobiography Dies reasoned, more lucidly than most and largely from
firsthand knowledge, that there were two closely related
prongs to FDR's pro-Communism.
One was the crass buying of votes for which he was willing to harm his country, the
other was that FDR was actually a philosophical
Communist -- that is, a Communist sympathizer.
As evidence for his conclusions, Dies related the following examples of FDR's mindset:
In 1938 FDR tried to persuade Dies to abandon his
aim to expose Communism in the CIO.
As recounted by Dies, FDR told him in a face-to-face meeting:
[I]f you expose the communists in the CIO, the CIO will turn against the
Democratic Party.
If we lose the CIO in some of the eastern states, we cannot win an election...
Yes, there are Communists in the CIO. Some of them may be in positions of
leadership as you say.
I think, however, that you exaggerate the seriousness of Communism.
The Communists have just as much right in the CIO as anyone else.
Dies reminded us that Winston Churchill, in 'The Hinge of Fate', quoted a note he had
received from the President:
"I know you will not mind my being brutally frank when I tell you that I think
I can personally handle Stalin better than either your
Foreign Office or my State Department. Stalin hates the guts of all your top people.
He thinks he likes me better, and I hope he will
continue to do so."
By 1940 the Dies Committee had established the fact that thousands of Communists and
their stooges and sympathizers were on the government
payroll "boring from within."
Dies went to FDR with the membership records and asked for something to be done.
As recounted by Dies, FDR became very angry and replied: "I do not believe in
Communism any more than you do, but there is nothing wrong
with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have are
Communists."
In 1943, FDR told William Bullitt, our first Ambassador to the Soviet Union: "I have
a hunch that Stalin doesn't want anything but security
for his country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for
nothing from him in return, he won't try to annex
anything and will work for world democracy and peace."
Also in 1943, FDR's devoted friend, Archbishop (later Cardinal) Francis Spellman, took
notes on FDR's remarks during a lengthy conversation.
Unfortunately for mankind, those notes were not published until 1963.
If FDR had been exposed instead of idolized, the appalling tragedies resulting from
our pro-Communist foreign policies might have been
averted.
Spellman's notes revealed that FDR told him that the world would be divided into
"spheres of influence"; that he (FDR) hoped the Soviets
would get 40 percent of the capitalist economy of Europe; that the European countries
would have to undergo tremendous changes in order to
adapt to the Soviet Union; that China would get the Far East; and that there was no
point to opposing Stalin because he had the power and
it was better to give in gracefully.
>From whence came this worldview?
Dies believed it flowed partly from the influence of FDR's closest confidants, such as
the fanatically pro-Communist Harry Hopkins, and the
Soviet agent Alger Hiss, and partly from FDR's insufferable egotism, which led him to
believe he could carve up the world at will.
In 1945, broken in health and dispirited from political ostracism, Dies retired from
politics.
The final straw had come when the White House ordered the Justice Department to
disregard his findings and Justice branded them unreliable,
in spite of the fact that they contained the names of Alger Hiss, Nathan Witt, Edwin
Smith, Lee Pressman, Donald Hiss, and others named
years later as members of the Red underground.
Yet in 1952, fully recovered and urged to run again, Dies was re-elected to the House
as Congressman-At-Large to fight once again for the
Truth.
In a remarkable triumph, he received j,979,889 votes from the people of Texas, more
than the combined votes cast for all the other Texas
representatives.
Yet his own Democratic Party knifed him.
Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, kept him off the House Committee on Un-American
Activities he had so superbly chaired.
Instead, this invaluable asset to the anti-Communist cause was assigned to Merchant
Marine and Fisheries.
In 1959 Dies returned to the practice of law in Texas, where he died in 1972.
Martin Dies should be gratefully remembered as a valiant warrior; a man of great
perspicacity, dedication to duty, perseverance, and
honor; and a beacon of strength and integrity in the perpetual struggle for Truth and
Liberty versus the consummate evil of our day.
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by Jane H. Ingraham
Contributor, The New American
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THE NEW AMERICAN
http://www.thenewamerican.com
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I so truly hope you enjoyed this bit of the American Experience,
and to be eternally vigilant in protecting our Liberty and Freedom.
Bard
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