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THE RECORD is here, docu-
mented and annotated—the record
of more than 30 years of betrayal
of the people of the United States
—and the peoples of the world. It
is a terrifying record, one that
cannot help but make its readers
realize the perilous road the U.S.
has been travelling, one that will
arouse them to an understanding
Of the graye dangers that face the
American people today.

Here, in Albert E. Kahn’s High
Treason, is the history, brought
together for the first time, of the
assaults upon the U.S. Constitu-
tion and its Bill of Rights in the
period between the end of World
War I and 1950.

here is the record of the plots
by monopoly capital to overthrow
the U.S. government by force and
violence.

Here is the sordid story of the
force and violence used against
the people by U.S. capitalists; the
murder of working people trying
to organize into trade unions; the
terror invoked against the labor
movement; the lynchings and mob
violence against’ the Negro people;
the attacks upon the foreign-born;
_ the gagging of people demanding
their rights.

Here is exposed the far-reaching
power cf the FBI, the U‘S. secret
police.

: Here the halo is torn from the

‘new heroes of U.S. capitalism,
dredged from the slime of corrup-
_ tion. Here they are revealed as
greedy monopolists willing to have
murder and pillage done to main-
tain their super-profits out of the
expleitation of the workers.

Kahn’s ‘Hig
betrayal of

Here is the proof that the “anti-
Communist” screams of the cap-
italist un-Americans are only the
noise to hide their aims and en-
slave the people in order to insure °
their profits and to force the U.S.
into the terror of an atomic war
against the Soviet Union, China,
and the New Democracies of
Europe.

* * *

ALBERT E. KAHN, with the
able assistance of Arthur Kahn,
has done an immeasurable service
by bringing together this record
of betrayal. .

It is so easy to forget, in: the
swamp of propaganda, what has
happened to American liberties in
the past, It is easy to fail to realize
the full scope of the destruction
of these rights as they are whit-
tled down bit by bit. Kahn’s book
serves to give the reader the full
impact of the vastness of the con- .
spiracy against the people, and
how far along the. road toward
fascism the United States has al-
Teady been forced. —

Further, it sounds a grim warn-
ing to those leaders of labor, lib-
erals and the Negro people who
think they can save their own
skins by being in the forefront of
the anti-Communist hunt. For
they will be destroyed, too, when
the monopolists find their useful-_
ness ended. f ‘

* * *

I CANNOT LEAVE this other-
wise most admirable book, how-
ever, without commenting on
what appear to be weaknesses.

h Treason’ records

U.S. liberties

In the discussion of the New.
Deal period there is a slurring
over of the dominant role played:
by the working class and its allies
in achieving the gains then made.

Secondly, there is not enough
about the struggles of the people
to defeat the betrayal by -the >
monopolists in this 30-year period.

Thirdly, there is not enough to
explain that the anti-Communist
mask of the monopolists covers
their aims against the entire peo-
ple, or that if the Communists are
attacked that other sections of the
people will be attacked next.

It should be made clear that the
attacks on the Communist party
create the danger of the loss of
one of the most positive forces in
American society. Certainly his-
tory is plain on this point. ©

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Let us take the period begin-
ning with the economic crash of
1929. It was possible at that time,
with 14,000,000 workers jobless and
with the labor officials collaborat-
ing with the bosses against the’
workers’ interests, for the mono-
polists to impose fascism.

It was the Communists who
gave the lead to the unemployed
to struggle for food and jobs
against their enemies, the mono-
polists. ‘ ;

When the Negro people, worst
hit by the economic crisis, were
abandoned by their official lead-
ers, it was the activity of the
Communists that set them into
motion in struggle for their rights
with the impetus of the Scotts-
boro case. —

And it was the Communists who
in this same period provided the
stimulus for the organization of
the industrial unions of the CIO.

Thus, the Communist party cre-

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fascism in the US. in the thirties.
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