WHERE RIGHT GOES WRONG

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 1999
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• Publication Date: October 18, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 1999/09/17 :. CIA-RDP.75
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CHICAGO, "Al.
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.WHERE RIGHT GOES WRONG
,vi-- are thousands. perhaps millions, U1. pulbuils , -
co'untry of ours who would if they could (and tneyre trying
(runt communism, socialism, Democrats, Repub
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save you
licans, liberals, integration, income taxes, 'labor unions,'pitbli '
the NAACP, thc'CT
reme Court
the Su
,
p
aorta programs,
I ("'I Smuts the 1'WVCA;'thc YMCA, Dwight D:'L".t
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t I .,public school
bower. Richard M. Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson
. c.3munity Chests, old-age pensions, the United Nation` ,
Atomic Energy Commission, immigration and tkc flu to ;,.1
as your u, inning .
all of its elements share 1
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right that at one time or another has assaulted all of then .
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could (an
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they're trying) destroy the America that we Know and.tua ,
th
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re couducting
I assume, all of us cherish. And they
assaults while shouting pro=American slogans.,, Its makes
curious story.
The has has often been told in various books about tl
right wing. A new and vigorous study of the subject appeare
and Ilerijamin R. Epstein, with a foreword. by Dore Schad.
tional chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'n
na
I3' 'th (ft'~n l'm 1[ott~e $4.95 hardback, '$2.95 papcrbac .'will continue to be a problem for moderate Republicans, and
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I:psteit is the league's. national director and Forster is i s for such conservatives as Buckley who must, the authors write,
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and the book was written, says the report,
eneral coun:ael
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part of the ADi: s total public service program. They to
close and long at 11 dwellers in the intellectual slums oft o
radical 'right--.Robert Welch of the John Birch Society,,
Frederick C. Schwarz, the Rev. Billy ' James Hargis;-.
George Denson. the Rev. Carl MClntire,.Dean'Clarence Ma nion
Edgar Bundy, Kent and Phoebe Courtn y
T)an Smoot
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and Willis Stonc-and at such extreme conservatives as Ad
Ben Morrell and William F. Buckley, with'bricfcr treatme t
nd or
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' VL lest pc:lsoinSes a
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Danger His Its Funny Side . ,
THE READI it who has kept his political and intellect. 1
THE
,bout hum may be amused by part of,.."Danger"ott t e
a week, lives in a $44,000 home bought for him by nis organ-
ization, uses $200 of its funds a week for maid service in the'
'parsonage,? rides in a $7,500 car bought by the Crusaders
and travels in a Greyhound bus that they reconditioned for
hint at a cost of $50,000 (steel kitchen, refrigerator, radio
broadcasting 'facilities and sleeping accommodations for-five).
One would only observe that Paul Revere furnished his own
horse.
'There may aico he an cictiient of indulgent humor found in -j
-the odd blending of childishness and mental derangcment?that !
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Danger,
marks the far right and its fellow. travelers. What the
on the ]tight" authors say about the young students among
the extreme conservatives might be said about their elders as
hclicvc that there is such a thing as absolute good and absolute
truth---and being of tender years, they believe that they have-
the key to these absolutes and the answers that flow there-
from." They would solve all problems with 'a single simple
solution (invade Cuba). They are not prepared for a life that
may perforce be lived out In a dim zone bets eca victory and
defeat. They yearn to know once' more a nation that can -'l
simply' send the Marines to Nicaragua, 'and lot it go at.Ihat.jN?
... Until You Stop And Think About it y
IItJ'1' 'CN[: reader's laughter cannot be sustained. He niust
let the weight of the movement sink in: Read the list or:con-'.!?
iributors among wealthy individuals and large corporations
that obviously agrce?with the rightists, and consider' tile' ?pos-.
sible impact of the movement upon our future.
Most of its members seem pleased by the Republican nom-
of Sen. Barry Goldwater for the .['residency. It was a
ination
victory for them, whatever the disclaimers entered by, non-
right Republicans. The rightists have seen their members, and 'i.
supporters elected to Congress and to other high officcs.'They 'r
are raising up a young generation, undergraduate and post-
It
graduate, that is articulate, intelligent, crafty, and dedicated, l
and that will be with its for a long time to come. The rightists
t a rc ei ,
eventually come to the day when they regar
the Crusaders, the Mclntires, the Smoots and the Courtncys as r;
millstones of which they must be free."
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But, the authors add, t
problem: "It cannot afford confusion'on the right, and if the
contusion ,persists, the public will in the crid reject the Con-
icrvative along with the radical. Our' democracy, needs a
conservative faction. Without it, we wi)l be the poorer, but
we will survive.'
radical right will 'also survive-our, military-foreign' policy,
the Supreme, Court, the income, tax, Social Security, TVA; the
war on poverty, the cause of civil rights-=because American
'decisions have always bcen'mado "at, or near, the vital center
1---sometimes a little to the left, sometimes a little to the right.
For that .is where the voices of reason and moderation are
t 1 1
heard tt i I 1 y: f'; t' ' -~"f
chuckle` ovet'_the 'vast sums of money.! thev_collcet and t
Certainly,, in, tile ai of'lranglco ue.lcauun WILL uvvu,.4.
the crusaders of the right manage to engender, a reader nn y
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OCT 18 1964
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luxury with which some .7 them sunoun emse s
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