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From The Twenty-Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower, Chesly Manly 1954
I. The Present Crisis
As THOMAS PAINE wrote in The Crisis, in 1776, �These are times that try men�s souls.� The question then was whether the American revolution could be saved. The question now* is whether the American Republic, born in a patriotic revolution against foreign oppressors, can survive a stealthy, encroaching revolution, motivated by treasonous allegiance to alien ideologies.
There is overwhelming evidence that the primary menace [1954] to this Republic is not the Soviet military threat, but internal subversion through control of foreign policy and related armaments programs. World War II demonstrated that domestic policy, particularly in the economic field, can be determined by federal expenditures generated by a great emergency. Revolutionaries learned that a post-war external crisis would provide continued justification for the taxing and spending levels and the stifling economic controls by which they hoped to destroy the American free enterprise system.
Earl Browder, who headed the American Communist Party for fifteen years, declared in 1950 that socialism had progressed farther in the United states than in Great Britain, . . (etc).
New York : Henry Regnery 1954, p. 1.
* On paper, the Soviet Union no longer exists.
Has there been no tradition of �treasonous allegiance to alien ideologies�, in this country, in many other countries ?
Apparently (on viewing the press, Internet, the recent literature), some people would like to pretend that no, there has never been anything like �treasonous allegiance to alien ideologies�, no, not—for God�s sake,—not in the U.S.A. (Just blame it all on the French or any people would come handy).
Are there no more "alien ideologies" in currency ?
This is a long story indeed. My (immodest) proposal for solution is The True International : The non-liars of all countries, unite.
WPT, 15 March 2005
Ronald Reagan, November 1979 to Mr. Otis Carney, Paicines, California
You are so right in your letter as to what is important to the people today. While they talk about the real issue of inflation, energy, etc., they hunger for a spiritual revival to feel once again as they felt years ago about this nation of ours. There is a great sense of frustration. I have been speaking on this. I don't know whether word has reached you or not, but I have been using a quote in my talks from Tom Paine back in the the dark days of the Revolutionary War when it didn't seem possible this nation could come into being. He told his fellow Americans, "We have it within our power to begin the world over again." I have tried to suggest that that might be the destiny for our party.
Reagan A LIFE IN LETTERS
New York etc. : Free Press 2003, p. 259.
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