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From The Road Ahead, John Thomas Flynn 1949
The Communist party seeks by artfully and very intelligently planned programs to create as much discord and disorder in our social system as possible. For instance, it has created innumerable organizations—Communist front organizations—which bear attractive and humanitarian names, ostensibly set up to promote the interests of some racial, regional or class group but actually to arouse them, to make them angry, to stir up divisions and hatred among these groups. The Communists� business—and they go about it systematically and intelligently—is to set off Negro against white man, Catholic against Protestant and both against the Jew and the Jew against both, to inflame worker against his boss and the boss against the worker, North against
South, East against West, town against country, and various American groups of foreign origin against each other. There is a devilish cunning in this, and I know it is very difficult for the average American to believe it.
It is this terrible fact which for so many years the Committee on Un-American Activities has spent so much patient effort bringing to public attention. For this the members were subjected to a steady stream of abuse such as has been showered upon no other public servants. Despite some false starts and some unhappy errors their work stands today as a monument to their vision and their patriotism. They have compiled a list1 of 1160 organizations and movements brought into existence by the American Communist Party to promote all sorts of seemingly laudable social objectives. The list is available to any student who wishes to consult it in the published reports of the Committee. These organizations were formed to invade every class in the community—workers, farmers, Negroes, racial and religious groups of every description, political and welfare groups of all sorts. Thousands of citizens who were not Communists were induced to lend their names to these seemingly proper social causes and millions of dollars were contributed by innocent dupes to finance them. The injury that has been done and contiues to be done is beyond measure.
1 Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 78th Congress, 2nd Session : Appendix IX (in six sections with cumulative index) on �Communist-Front Organizations.� U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1944.
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New York : Devin-Adair 1949.
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