CACC
NEWSLETTER

January 23, 1967

A TALE OF TWO UNIVERSITIES--CALIFORNIA AND CARACAS

Dear Friend:

Another bottle in the war being fought for the control of the University of California has taken place. This war is between a group of revolutionaries who wish to capture the University of California for use as a base for the overthrow of American constitutional government and the people of California. These revolutionaries are united by the conviction that the present American economic and governmental system is evil and must be overthrown. The communists form an important element within this revolutionary group.

The importance the communists attach to the university campus is shown by the attention given by the communist press to the strike at the University of California which began on Friday, December 2. The communist newspaper of the East Coast, The Worker, and of the West Coast, People’s World, have devoted a great deal of their space to reporting and analyzing this strike.

The Worker of December 6, has the headline, “80 Per Cent of Berkeley Students Strike Against Curb on Anti-War Protest,” and the December 10 edition of the People’s World has a very large caption on the front page, “Why California Students Forced Showdown.” These reports make no attempt to hide their gleeful assurance that this is only one bottle and that there will be continuing trouble in 1967.

THE OBJECTIVE

The objective of the revolutionaries is that the University of California should become to the United States what the Central University of Caracas is to Venezuela. The Central University of Caracas has been the sanctuary from which Castro—trained terrorists operated. Safe in its confines they planned the assassination of government and military leaders, the sabotage of United State’s property, and the overthrow of the Venezuelan state. When threatened with capture, the assassins and saboteurs would retreat to the University where they have been safe from the police and governmental forces.

There has been a long tradition in Latin America that the University is autonomous and government security forces have been forbidden to enter university premises even to search for a murderer.

The autonomy is allegedly expressed by student—faculty control of the university. In reality this has been largely student control with the faculty intimidated. The students have often controlled the appointment of professors and even the examinations.

The students in turn have been directed by a revolutionary group of “permanent” students. These are Individuals who remain as students at the university year after year and concentrate on student political activity. Many of these are financed by the communists and become the communist agents who control the university.

The Latin American tradition of the inviolability of the university campus was recently broken when the President of Venezuela, Rciul Leoni, ordered troops to seize the grounds of the Central University of Caracas which has been for years a haven for communist subversive leaders. During a major wave of violence in 1962 and 1963, one dormitory became such a notorious hiding place for terrorists and weapons that it was called “Stalingrad.” Until President Leoni acted, police were helpless to move against terrorists on the campus.

There is a striking similarity between the announced objectives of the leaders of the recent strike at the University of California at Berkeley and the actual conditions prevailing at the Central University of Caracas. One of the strike leaders was Mario Savio, leader of the “Free Speech Movement” in 1964, who is presently one of the nonstudents who infest the campus at Berkeley. Speaking at a rally of over 5,000 students on December 6, Savio stated: “This is a long-range struggle. We are going to be back next term because our demands haven’t been met. Until the faculty and students control this university, there is going to be trouble.”

One of the demands of the strike committee was: “That police never be called on campus to solve political problems.”

If this demand was granted, the results can be readily foreseen. The term “political problems” is all embracing. It can even involve riots and assassinations.

THE PROFESSIONALS

The role of the permanent students of Latin America is played by the professional nonstudents at Berkeley These are revolutionary agitators who are not enrolled in classes at the University but who use university property as a base for organization and agitation. They are assisted by revolutionary students, graduate students, teaching assistants, and some members of the faculty. Some of the students and non— students are sons and daughters of long—time professional communists. This group forms the hard core of the revolutionary forces and generally they are known as “The New Left.”

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

All trained revolutionaries know that no revolution can be successful unless it involves large numbers of people who are not ideologically committed to revolution. These participants must be recruited by some issue of immediate interest with emotional appeal. The quest of the revolutionaries is for an issue which will unite a majority of the students and faculty against the administration and the regents. Such an issue was the “free speech” issue of 1964.

The strike organizers thought that “The presence of police on campus” was such on issue.

The events leading up to the strike are as follows: A U.S. Navy recruiting table was set up in the Union building. The “New Left” organized an anti—war table alongside it, and this table was manned by nonstudents. The Administration ordered the anti-war table off campus because it was manned by nonstudents. The Students for a Democratic Society organized a hostile demonstration. 500 protesters surrounded the Navy recruiting table and prevented it functioning. This illegal assembly was ordered to disperse and they refused. The Administration called the police and 10 individuals were arrested. Of those arrested, three were students and seven were nonstudents. This gives some indication of the student-nonstudent ratio in the leadership.

A mass protest rally was called on Wednesday evening, December 7. 3500 students attended, and it was decided to call a strike. A strike committee was formed including the associated students of the University of California, the Council of Campus Organizations, and a loose organization of independent students.

A meeting of 400 professors voted for the strike. Local 1570 of the American Federation of Teachers, which represents 400 teaching assistants, and Local 1474, which represents 125 professors, also voted their support.

On this wide base, it was hoped to gain the support of a majority of the faculty and to intimidate the Administration and the Regents.

THE OUTCOME

University chancellor, Robert Heyns, refused to meet with the strike committee which included the nonstudent, Mario Savio. He stated this was a matter for the students, faculty, and administration.

The academic senate met and gave Heyns a strong vote of confidence. The vote was 795 to 28 with 143 abstentions. This was a grievous blow to the strikers as the faculty had overwhelmingly voted support of the 1964 “Free Speech Movement.”

The Board of Regents met in special session Tuesday afternoon, December 6, and voted to support the stand taken by Chancellor Heyns and warned that any faculty members participating in the strike after Wednesday morning would be fired.

The strikers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night, December 6, to suspend their protest indefinitely. A noon rally of over 5,000 students on Wednesday, December 7, degenerated into a cult of “absurdity’ with the singing of “The Yellow Submarine.” Resolute action had triumphed.

This well-known poem seems appropriate:

Tender—handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
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WAR WITH WORDS

Our Lord teaches us, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

If we judge by this standard, America certainly does not have her heart in the battle to win the minds of the people of the world for the cause of freedom.

The Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary estimated in 1960, that the communists had assigned 400,000 people to spend $2 billion on propaganda or $2 a year per man in those countries not yet under communism. The United States spends 2 cents a year per man.

Facts do not speak for themselves except to a very limited audience. The vast majority must be informed through the written and spoken word. The record of communism is hideous and abounds with genocide, slavery, and increasing misery. This record remains unheard while deceptive propaganda paints a picture of economic improvement, better health and education, and moral development in communist countries. Unless the truth is told, the lie will triumph.

Dr. Sluis is now in Thailand to conduct a reconnaissance in depth as a prelude to an ideological invasion of this important country. The “enemy” are not difficult to identify and contact. They do not melt into the jungle when approached. They are those who are uninformed or misinformed of the nature, tactics, and objectives of communism.

There is no doubt of the effectiveness of the word—weapons. The truth is immeasurably powerful.

The problem is to find a delivery system which will saturate the “enemy” with the appropriate words.

This delivery system is costly, and we need maximum help in personnel and money.

If the battle for the mind is lost, the battle with bullets and bombs is sure to begin. The cost becomes enormous in dollars and deaths. Vietnam is presently costing more than $1 million per hour.

It would be appropriate to increase one hundredfold our investment in the war with words.

Each of us must cease waiting for others and enlist in the citizens’ army of “informers.” Armament consists of voices, pens, and purses.
We can win this war as the people of the world will inevitably choose freedom once the choice is clearly presented.

Yours very sincerely,
Fred Schwarz
President
Christian Anti—Communism Crusade