CACC
NEWSLETTER

June 1, 1967

Dear Friend:

My little granddaughter, Katherine Gae, has just celebrated her first birthday. She has taken her first tottering steps on sturdy legs. She has eight teeth and wispy blond hair. Both laughter and tears come easily, and she is the heart’s delight of both her parents and grandparents.

What future will we provide for her and millions like her? They are the children, the grandchildren, the nieces and nephews who add continuity and meaning to our mortal existence.

All around the world the hounds of war are baying. The slaughter constantly increases in Vietnam with no end in sight. The Middle East may burst into flames momentarily as the hostile armies of Egypt and Syria confront those of Israel and the warships of Nasser block Israel’s access to the Red Sea. Like an evil genie, the Soviet Union hovers over all.

The cities of America gird themselves for a “long hot summer” in which riotous racial mobs roam the streets burning and looting to the cry of “Black Power” and “Burn! Baby! Burn.”

Svetlana Stalin, favorite daughter of the late monstrous Soviet Dictator, begins her new life in the United States where she may drink the champagne of freedom and openly worship her God. Her flight reveals the secret aspirations of millions behind the Iron Curtain whose yearnings reach out to America which is to them truly the “Land of Hope and Glory.”

Can we preserve this country and create a world of increasing freedom for Katherine Gae and your children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews? The answer resides in the character, knowledge and wisdom of the youth who are being prepared to take over this land. Their eyes are alert and their hands are strong, but they need and seek guidance on how they should channel their energies in this perplexing period.

Given the correct guidance, their response is immediate and inspiring. Please read the remarkable letters which follow. They inspired me immeasurably, and surely such students deserve the best we can give them.

The time is short! The schools are as follows:
Washington, D. C. School, July 3-7, Mayflower Hotel.
Midwest School, Detroit, Michigan, July 17-21, Sheraton Cadillac Hotel.

I thank those of you who have already given, and I plead with you who have not yet sent your contribution to do so immediately and to make it truly “sacrificial.”

With Christian love,
Fred Schwarz

Letter 1

Dear Dr. Schwarz,

I have been wanting to write for quite some time to let you know that your literature is the most effective of any I have seen on the subject on Communism. I have passed around my copies of You Can Trust the Communists…, and your book never fails to inspire people to study further.

In the summer of 1964, I attended your Christian Anticommunism School in Washington D.C. (at the International Inn). Since then I have been married and have transferred from Purdue University to Drake University (Des Moines, IA) and now to the University of Illinois.

My husband will receive his second Bachelor of Science degree this year but will go on for two more years to get his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. I have summer school and a night course in order to get my degree in English Literature.

This year on campus a movement has started similar to the one on the Berkeley Campus. It is called “Students for Free Speech”, and its objectives this year were to “work for the repeal of the Clabaugh Act”-a state law prohibiting seditious or un-American speakers to use university facilities on campus and to gain university recognition (and permission to use facilities) for the W.E.B. Dubois Club. The movement gained impetus and the group brought Louis Disken to speak on campus and also had an official Dubois Club meeting in the Student Union without reproach, even though the state recently voted to uphold the Clabough Act.

A group of independent students sent a newsletter denouncing SFS activities to 18,000 parents of University of Illinois students and urged them to support the Clabaugh Act. We also ran a candidate for Student Body President, but his name was refused admission of the ballot. As a write-in candidate Jerry Clark received nearly 10% of the vote, even with SFS members manning the ballot boxes and counting the votes.

Next year my husband will be the president of a campus organization called the Liberty Council.

We would like to use your material and other material, which you deem appropriate for an educational organization. We would like to make The Liberty Council a legitimate organization, not one which will “scare away” prospective members.

Jerry Clark and many of his supporters have agreed to help us and Jerry is currently publishing a newsletter in spite of telephone threats and SFS opposition.

One of our main problems in money (as you well know yourself). Could you please send us a price list for 50 or 75 copies of You Can Trust the Communists…? This is going to be our text in the fall.

My husband and I are both full-time students and are working also, so we don’t have any extra money to support the Crusade right now. However, when we graduate we hope to be able to make it possible for other students to attend your Anticommunism School as I did in 1964.

Thank you for all the help and encouragement that you have already given us.
Sincerely,

Susan McConaughy Frost

Letter 2

Dear Dr. Schwartz,

I am a 16 year-old girl, a junior in high school, taking a course in American Government. My government teacher requires periodical book reports and, by chance, I acquired a copy of your book You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists). Before I read your book I knew that Communism exists, that it imposes slavery on all whom it rules, and that it threatens a free world. But, like those mentioned in your book, I vaguely assumed that it was the responsibility of our government to combat Communism.

However, I have now reversed my opinion: I want to participate in the struggle for freedom. As a girl, I cannot serve my country by fighting in Vietnam, and having a physical handicap, I cannot travel too far from centers of medical care. Also, being a student somewhat restricts my availability for a demanding cause such as this.

Yet I know that I am capable to help further such a noble goal. I was recently awarded membership in the United States Honor Society, a status that few students attain. Members are chosen on the basis of excellence in four fields: character, scholarship, leadership, and service. So I feel qualified to help fight Communism, but I have a few questions that I would like you to clarify.

First, with the aforesaid limitations, what can I as an individual do most effectively to further our aims?

Second, can you list any specific books I should read to increase my knowledge of Communism?

Third, how can I get extra copies (paperback) of You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists) and other related printed materials to distribute? If you can and will elucidate these points for me, I assure you that your efforts will not have been in vain. Your book alone has turned me into an ardent supporter of a cause, which I shall never abandon. With some additional assistance from you, I hope to communicate my newly found zeal to others, that we might prevent a worldwide Communist domination and preserve our freedom and heritage.

Devotedly,

Kathy

COMMUNISM AND NATIONAL PATRIOTISM

Recently Governor George Romney of Michigan was reported as stressing the difference between the National Liberation Front or Vietcong, and the North Vietnamese Regime or Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). He stated that the majority of the National Liberation Front were national patriots and not communists. From this he reached the conclusion that there is a potential conflict of interest between the Vietcong in South Vietnam and the North Vietnamese regime under Ho Chi Mirth. Our policy should seek, therefore, to exploit this difference and to drive a wedge between the Vietcong and the North Vietnam regime.

It is possible to draw false conclusions from true premises. It is true that the majority of the National Liberation Front are national patriots and not communists. The communists are a minority among the rank and file and possibly among the leadership. It does not follow that this communist minority does not control the significant attitudes and policies of the Vietcong. The communists are also a minority in North Vietnam.

Communism claims to be a science, and the communists have developed “scientific” methods by which small minorities control obedient majorities indefinitely.

The communists openly state this in their literature. The April edition of the “World Marxist Review” contains an article on the “Revolution in Colombia. “ The “World Marxist Review” is the monthly journal of the Communist Parties of the world led by the Soviet Union. Here are some quotations:

“Early in 1965 a new guerrilla movement sprang up--the Army of National Liberation led by student youth. The next phase of the struggle was ushered in with the establishment of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) in 1966.” Page 64

“The united military-political leadership of FARC follows the line of the Communist Party as set forth in the decisions of its central bodies The leading positions in the headquarters of FARC are held by such tried and tested fighters as Manuel Marulanda Velez, Ciro Trujillo, Jacobo Arenas and Isauro Yosa, all members of the Central Committee of our Party It can be said that the revolutionary armed struggle in our country is largely the result of the work done by the communists. “ Page 66

The national patriots of both Colombia and Vietnam are the tools the communists use for the immediate goal of national conquest and the ultimate goal of world conquest.

The Colombian Communists acknowledge their goal quite openly. They state, “Proceeding from the strategic aim of the Communist Party- -the conquest of power- -the conference charted the perspectives of the guerrilla movement, which is destined to become the core of a people’s army, the principal instrument for achieving this strategic aim.”