Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Towards communism, I wouldn't like to live in a
Communist regime, I am not a Communist, never have been one. But if
somebody likes it, let them have it. And I get along very well with
fellow workers who are Communists. For instance, in Yugoslavia, I
got along very well with them. Of course, we didn't discuss politics
very much out there. On the contrary, you have to stay away from that
subject. But I consider the other person's point of view.
If somebody is a Communist, let them be a Communist. That is his
business.
Mr. JENNER. Have you----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I do not try to propagandize him, and I see some
good characteristics in communism.
Mr. JENNER. There are some indications that you have expressed that
view from time to time during your lifetime while you are in this
country, that there are some good qualities in communism.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, there we mean--or what do you mean? What is your
concept of communism?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I am looking at communism more or less more from
the economic point of view. I think it is a system that can work and
works, and possibly for a very poor man, and a very undeveloped nation
it may be a solution.
Mr. JENNER. A temporary one?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. A temporary one, yes--which eventually, and I
believe in evolution, and I have seen through my life that communism in
certain places has developed into a livable type of an economy, a way
of life.
Now, I repeat, again, that I would not like to live there. Otherwise, I
would be there. Because I am too independent in my thinking, and I like
business to be free. But----
Mr. JENNER. You like individual freedom and free enterprise?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Which you find in the United States?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. And while you can see some benefits in communism as to
persons of limited means, and poor countries, for initial development,
you think that for a higher level of economic or cultural development
communism is not good?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Is that about it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Exactly.
Mr. JENNER. I don't want to put words in your mouth.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Exactly.
Now, I am very much influenced by a book called "Poor Countries and
Rich Countries," by the editor of the Economist in London, which
expresses my ideas on economics of the world as it is today.
It is a book which says that--which is available any place here--which
says that the world today is divided into poor countries and rich
countries, and that the question of communism and socialism is for
ignoramuses. That freedom can exist in both types of economies--could
exist eventually.
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