78-03-B8

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Blind on the Left

Transcript A number of years ago when a concerted, organized effort was made to subvert the motion picture industry to a communist propaganda tool I asked a question which is still unanswered. The question was, why is it that the many defectors from communism, domestic or International make so little impression on those who had no trouble seeing the menace of Nazism or Fascism? Now--for the record-- I take second to no one in my detestation of Adolph Hitler and everything he represented. As a matter of fact I'm still mad at the Kaiser. But there are others in the world today as evil as Hitler and guilty of the same brutal, inhuman deeds. When a defector -- sometimes one who held a fairly high rank in the Soviet social order or even a domestic communist party member now disillusioned wants to tell us the reason for his defection or disillusionment, he is dismissed by many liberals as no longer a credible source. Yet very often those same liberals will accept as gospel the complaints of an American who disavows patriotism and proclaims from podium and printed page -- "What's wrong with America." I was reminded of all this not long ago when a remarkable women died in Washington, D.C. just a few days short of her 80th birthday. It would be impossible to count the lives she touched in England where she was born, in China, Japan, the Soviet Union and here in her adopted home, the United States. She once described herself as a "Premature anit-communist. I told the truth about Communism long before the world was prepared to hear it." And Freda Utley knew the truth about communism because as an idealistic young woman in the 1920's she accepted communism. In fact she married a Russian and went to live in Moscow. After he was taken away by Stalin's secret police she came out of Russia and wrote a book The Dream We lost in which she said --QUOTE-- "The just and the unjust enter through the same revolving door and the stream passing in with great expectations is matched or exceeded by the crowd of the disillusioned getting out." --UNQUOTE-- But many of the intellectuals didn't want to hear what she had to say. She had impressive academic credentials when she came to the U.S., but publishers and the academy closed doors against her. She understood all too well. She had tried communism and learned its falseness. She said only those --QUOTE-- "who have never fully committed themselves to the Communist Cause" --UNQUOTE-- can continue to believe in it. Her book The China Story which told of how the Reds were taking over became a best seller -- after China was lost. It is bone chilling now to read that Soviet defector Oleg Glagolev (Glogo-Leff) former consultant to the Kremlin on strategic arms is telling our government that Russia has the cruise missile already displayed in submarines off our coasts. Is anyone really listening? This is Ronald Reagan. Thanks for listening.		Details Batch Number 78-03-B8 Production Date 02/20/1978 Book/Page RihoH-136 Audio Youtube? No
		Added Notes Freda Utley