Sixteenth-Century Wisdom, was Re: [lbo-talk] Basaev

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 4 11:38:02 PDT 2005


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
>For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
> Sir John Harington (1561-1612)

Ever read that enomrously popular right-wing tract from the 60s called None Dare Call It Treason? Revealed the Council on Foreign Relations as a commie plot!

Doug

<http://www.aobs-store.com/reviews/ndcit.htm>

Owing largely to the concerted book-distribution campaigns of such patriotic groups as The John Birch Society, some six million copies of None Dare Call It Treason were distributed in the first eight months after its publication, setting an all-time record for the sale of so many books in so short a time period. (Another million copies of the book have been sold since.) Only the campaign of the early 1970s to distribute Gary Allen's None Dare Call It Conspiracy and the current campaign to distribute James Perloff's The Shadows of Power have come close to matching the enthusiasm generated by Stormer's book. To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the seven-million-copy best seller, Liberty Bell Press recently published None Dare Call It Treason ... 25 Years Later. The commemorative edition contains every word of the original edition, as well as nearly 200 pages of new information to update the "carefully documented story of America's retreat from victory." Even more so today, the book is "must" reading for concerned Americans.

Losing the Cold War

Although the Cold War between the forces of freedom and those of slavery had begun in earnest only after the rise of the Soviet Union to world prominence following World War II, by the time the original edition of John Stormer's book was published it was clear to all objective observers that the forces of freedom were rapidly losing that war. In 1945, for example, the communist conspiracy had succeeded in conquering and enslaving only the 160 million people in Russia. By 1964, the number of people enslaved by communism had reached the one billion mark, and the Kremlin's empire of evil stretched from Eastern Europe to a Caribbean island-nation just ninety miles from the shores of Florida. During that time, of course, the United States Government had seemingly gone to great lengths to prevent this vast expansion of evil throughout the world, spending some $600 billion to fight communism and sacrificing thousands of American lives in the Korean War.

Subversion from Within

In his book, John Stormer raised one of the greatest questions of our century: "Where have we failed?" And the sobering, if not shocking, answer was readily apparent. While ostensibly "fighting" communism with its right hand, the U.S. Government had actually been aiding, supporting, and promoting communism with its left. A substantial portion of the original edition of None Dare Call It Treason was devoted to proving this incredible truth beyond all reasonable doubt.

"Almost unnoticed by most Americans," Stormer wrote, "Congress, while appropriating billions for defense against communism, has at the same time given over $6 billion in direct military and economic aid to the Communists." He provided a damning indictment of modern U.S. foreign policy that included all the significant "failures" since World War II -- from the sabotaging of Joseph McCarthy's investigations into communist infiltration, the disarmament campaign that was conducted in spite of the Soviet Union's repeated violations of prior treaties and agreements, the betrayal of the Cuban freedom fighters at the Bay of Pigs, and the implementation of a "no-win" policy toward the communist enemy, to the continual support of communism in the form of food, money, credit, and technology transfers, and favorable diplomacy.

More than foreign policy came under scrutiny in None Dare Call It Treason. An equally damning indictment charged that many of our most vital institutions -- including our educational system, the news media, organized labor, our government, and even our churches -- had been infiltrated by communists and fellow travelers. As a consequence, the author solemnly warned, America was in grave danger of being subverted from within.

John Stormer cast his penetrating spotlight even on the high and mighty. He was, in fact, among the first writers to expose the nefarious goals of the Council on Foreign Relations, and to reveal the funding of subversive leftwing causes and groups by the wealthy tax-exempt foundations. Stormer also courageously exposed the un-American character of the United Nations, denouncing in the process the entire spirit of internationalism.



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