Masters of deceit : $b The story of Communism in America and how to fight itHoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)
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Masters of deceit : $b The story of Communism in America and how to fight it
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)
Communism -- United States
Within a few weeks, as noted in Chapter 3, the disclosures of
anti-Semitism came in the Warsaw, Poland, Yiddish-language communist
newspaper _Folks-Shtimme_ on April 4, 1956, regarding the Soviet purges
of Jewish leaders and culture under Stalin. Later, on April 13, 1956, the
_Daily Worker_ expressed regrets and then admitted “... we were too prone
to accept the explanation of why Jewish culture had disappeared in the
Soviet Union in the late 1940s.” With the agility of “whirling dervishes”
the communists then sought to develop a justification for the Soviet
communist leaders’ action.
World public opinion over the Soviet communist leaders’ injustices
mounted and as Khrushchev turned on the “smiles” and started visiting
other countries, he was confronted with the accusation of anti-Semitism
in Russia.
In England, Khrushchev characterized “anti-Semitism” as “nonsense” to
which he would not listen. To a French delegation he protested that he
was not anti-Semitic but that the Yiddish language is fading away in
Russia as the Jews in the Soviet Union are learning to speak Russian.
A new low in deception was reached when Khrushchev claimed that, in
the early years of the revolution, “Jews occupied a disproportionately
large number of high Soviet positions because the country had few
trained people.” He then asserted that the Kremlin had received protests
from “the various Soviet Republics that too many Jews held desirable
positions.” The New York _Times_ story on June 10, 1956, then reported
that Khrushchev “... reportedly pressed Lazar M. Kaganovich, only
high-ranking Soviet leader of Jewish origin, to confirm his statements,
which Mr. Kaganovich finally did, saying one word, ‘correct’....” And now
there are no top communist leaders in the Kremlin of Jewish origin since
Khrushchev ousted and denounced Kaganovich last summer.
The president of B’nai B’rith, Philip M. Klutznick, answered the
communist propaganda claims when he made the factual observation that
only in Soviet Russia and its satellites is “Jewish life languishing and
approaching extinction.”
The Communist Party of the United States at its February, 1957,
convention sought to hoodwink the American public by a series of
statements to the press of how it had declared its independence from
Moscow. This deceit was established in no unmistakable terms by the
handling of a resolution dealing with anti-Semitism in Russia. The
resolution was submitted by Professor Morris U. Schappes in typical
communist language: “Resolution: On Jewish question, some aspects.”
The resolution stated: “This matter concerns us as Communists in a
country which includes 5,000,000 Jews.” It then points out,
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