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Suicide Lobby [MFS anti-communist conspiracy]
TranscriptMany years ago during the period called the "cold war", when Americans were very conscious of the threat of subversion, a huge Congress of the International Communist movement was held in Moscow. The meeting adopted a plan for fighting anti-communism. One part of the plan was directed toward the United States and called for a subtle campaign to make anti-communism unfashionable. The idea was to use well meaning liberals and others until an anti-communist would be ridiculed as some kind of right wing nut guilty of "witch hunting" and looking for Reds under the bed." And so, today most people in public life are afraid to hint at a communist conspiracy. Professor Jeffrey Hart of Dartmouth has documented some facts that reveal that a number of ghosts from the riotous, hate-filled 60's are stalking the land. They can be found in a network of organizations once prominent in the protest against the Vietnam war. Today their goal is support of the SALT II treaties and unilateral disarmament by the United States. There is a Soviet-dominated international organization known as the World Peace council. You'll have to admit that has a nice sound. Who's against world peace? Last Spring, Professor Hart says a Council member visited our shores to set up a new combine of anti-nuclear power plant people and advocates of disarmament. We now have M.F.S.--Mobilization For Survival, based in Philadelphia. Last October M.F.S. held a conference at Yale and the ghosts appeared--in the flesh. There was Dr. Spock, environmentalists Barry Commoner, Sidney Lens who is hardly on the right side of anything and Daniel Ellsberg who heroically revealed secret documents he was honor bound to protect. It seems the honor wasn't firmly fastened. Supporting the conference was the War Resisters League, American Friends Service Committee, Women Strike for Peace and others. They were joined by a new group, the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy. The M.F.S. group has six task forces working on Congress to cut military spending, drop all new advanced weapons systems and halt the building of nuclear power plants. Halt them that is in our country. They don't seem bothered that the Soviet Union is going all out on its own nuclear power program. The M.F.S. works closely with the National Center to Slash Military Spending, which is an American arm of the World Peace council and has in its upper crust a number of veteran members of the United States Communist party. They oppose the cruise missile (for us that is) the B-1 bomber (well that's already scratched) and so, I think is the MX mobile strategic missile. They are against the neutron bomb and anything else new we might come up with. They justify the Russians' huge arsenal on the grounds that the Soviet Union is surrounded by all those hostile nations. You could call these Americans a suicide lobby, but for heavens sake don't say "conspiracy." This is Ronald Reagan. Thanks for listening. |
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