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ABOU T DE G A U L L E

by

Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Amet iu n Opinion 1962

(M r . B lumenfe l d is S e c r e tary, a nd o ne of th e o r i g i nal

fo unde rs , of the Amer ican Comm i t tee f o r F ra nce a nd Alge r ia,

compos ed of a doz en su c h d i s t i ngu i shed scho l a r s a s Colonel

R. V . C. Bodle y , James B u rnham, a nd Prof . Thom as Molnar.

Th i s commi t t e e publis h es the mo n th ly U. S. /FRANCE REPORT,

a vailable f o r two dol lars p e r year from Room 1012 - - 175 Fifth

Avenue, New Yo r k 10 , New York .

Mr . Blumenfe ld was i nv i ted to speak on re c ent a nd c u r r en t

developm e nts i n France a t the meet i ng of our COUNCIL h eld in

Chic a go on Sa turday, May 26. Our member s we r e so imp r e s sed

b y hi s r em a r k s that the y ask ed if copies c ou ld be made avai la b le .Sinc e Mr. Blumenfeld, in order to be c a r efu l a nd accura t e in

what he sa id, had spoke n d i r ectly from ma nusc r ip t , filli ng th i s

reques t i s eas y . So we a re herewith sending copies of th e full

a nd exac t t ext of his s hort speech t o a ll memb e rs of the COUNCIL,

i nclud i ng the few who we r e unable to be pres ent, )

F i r s t, I want to tha nk Mr. Welc h f o r givi ng me t h e oppor tunity t o address

the COUNCIL. P r io r to my vi s it to Belmont two we e k s ago, mos t of what

I knew about The John Birch S ociety h ad com e to me via the mass media

pres s . I had r ead severa l i ssues of Amer ica n Opin ion, o ne of the bullet ins ,

and som e of your printed mat ter . But I ha d to meet M r. Welch personal ly

a nd read the Blue Book m yself before I c ou ld come t o some adequate judg

me nt conce r n i ng the or ganiza t io n and i ts Founder . I ca m e away f r om Bel

mo n t highl y im p r e s s e d w ith ever yth i n g I saw and ev e r yon e I spoke to . Mos t

importa nt , I discovered tha t Mr . Welch ha s , in my perso nal opinio n, a fa r

bet ter g r a sp of t he full mea n i ng of the Commun is t con s p i r a c y t ha n a ny oth

e r an t i -Communis t I ha ve met to date. I ha ve s pen t many hours in the com

pany of su ch w ell -known ant i -Communis ts as Victor Lasky, Eugene Lyons,

Clifford Fo r s te r , Ro y Brewer, Wi l l iam Buckley, Marvi n Liebma n, Thomas

M olnar a nd Brutus Coste , but none of them have ever quite g ra s pe d the sub

j e c t as thoroughly a s Mr. We lch, or if they hav e , none of t h em have bee n

able to c onve y i t t o me. I th i nk the reason for t h i s may be tha t i t is v i r t u

a lly impossible fo r the avera ge human being to unders ta nd or conce ive of

t h e total depravity of the Communist . As for the ex -Communist , he tends

to s t i l l think ther e i s som e va l ue in Commun ism as an ideology, but that i t

has bee n p e rve r ted by Commun ists . What th e y do no t admi t is tha t Com

mun ism is a sys t em of to tal theft a nd the us e of t o ta l force, a nd that as a

poli t ical phe nom e no n i t more close ly resembles o r ganized crim e than a ny

other f rrrrn-of a c t i v ity .

S e cond, I wan t t o thank this ver y dis t inguished body of Amer ica ns fo r the

pr ivi leg e of appea r ing befor e you. I t is i nd eed a p r i v i lege and an honor

to be able to add ress what I cons id e r to be the s i ngle mos t courageous

g r o u p of me n in Amer ica today . Knowing the s lander , abuse, and at tack

to whic h you have been subjec ted by your m i 8 g u i d e d ~ n mi sin fo rmed com-

- ' .

Th is eight-page fo lder was carried as an insert in the

Jul y, 1962 Bulletin .



pa t r i o ts , I can e a s i ly imagi ne t he ki nd of p r e s s u r e s that a r e b e a r ing down

o n yo u. However , your s teadfas tness , your uncompromis ing ad here nce to

the p r inciples of i ndividual f r eedom will s e r v e a s an examp le to s t r e ngthe n

a whole new ge neratio n of A m e r i c a ns; A m e r i c a ns who m u s t l e a r n o nce and

fo r a l l tha t to compromise o n p r i nciple is t o compromise wi t n one ' s own

life. The hundreds of thou s ands of yo ung A m e r i c ans lying i n m i l i t a r y c e m e

t e r ies a r e the p r i c e paid for comp romis e o n p r i nciples. In e v e r y r e s p e c t

you a r e a s s u m i ng t he r i s k s that hav e to be assumed, i f t h e t ide is to be

t u r ned. F o r h ~ a ll A m e r i ca n s wh o love freedom m u s t some day p r a i s e

you a nd tha nk you.

A nd now for t he s ubj e c t a t hand : Char les d e Gaulle .

I am s u r e you a r e aware of t he u n r e s e r v e d p r a i s e and a d m i r a t i o n with

whic h this alleg ed S t a t e s m a n is now being s howered by the A m e r i c a n p r e s s .

He ha s be en called a poli t ical ge n ius; one of the g r e a t e s t s t a t e s m e n of a l ltim e; a ma n of h i s to r i c visio n a nd dest iny ; t h e p e r s o n if icat io n of ho no r a nd

i nteg r i ty. To m e , howe v e r , Char les d e Gau lle is no l e s s t ha n evil in c a r nate,

o ne of th e e x t r a o r d inary l i a r s in a l l history, a t r a i t o r to h is country, a ha t e r

of hum an beings, a r uth l e s s a nd c r u e l despot , a m a s t e r of t r e a c h e r y a nd de

ce it, a d e s t r o y e r of human values, a political c r i m i n a l - - in s hort , the v e r y

wo r s t k i nd of ind ividual to whom should ha ve been e ntrusted the in s t r u m ent s

of s t a t e .

Now, of c o u r s e , hav ing made t h i s h a r s h judgment of de Gau lle , I mus t

d e m o n s t r a t e to you tha t my a s s e s s m e n t is c o r r e c t . When I use the t e r m

evil inc a r na t e I do so with the int ent of being a s p r e c i s e i n defin it ion a s p o s

sible . Hav i n g been an edito r for the l a s t te n y e a r s , I do not use words l ight ly .

I have a r e s p e c t fo r p r e c i s e definitio n. T h e r e fore whe n I s a y evi l in ca r na t e ,

I mea n that I can fi nd no b e t t e r d e s c r i p t i o n fo r the man and wha t he has done.

E vil to me is anythi ng wh i c h is a n t i - s u r v i v a l . Evi l is a l s o anything which

d e s t roys values. Values a r e those th ings which contr ibute to m a n ' s ex i s t

ence a nd happi ness , a nd we judge va l u e s by how much t hey c o n t r i bu t e to

m a n ' s life as he l ives it in a ma nn e r prop e r to him.

Now gove r nm e nt is a value to man insofar as it con t r i b u t e s to his s u r vival.

A gove r nm en t prop e r to man p r o t e c t s his r ights, p r o tects his life and h is

prop e r t y . Tha t is the only r e a s o n why ma n should jo in in co n t r a ct with other

me n to f o r m gove r nm ents and pay taxes ; to d e r ive the be nefits of a s s o c i a

tion , the safety , s e c u r i t y and m a t e r i a l adva ncement that c om e from voluntary

a s s o c i a t ion. Should this a s s o c i a t i o n , howeve r , become the i n s t r u m e nt of h i s

death, t h e r e would be no r e a s o n fo r a man to suppor t i t o r r e m a i n loyal to i t .

Now we k now tha t no man has the r ight to initiate the use of f o r c e aga i n s tany o t h e r man , and s ince no ma n has t h is r ight he c e r t a i n l y cannot del egate

i t to any government ; on the other hand we know that ev e r y man has the r i gh t

to s e l f -defense , a nd it is p r e c i s e l y this r ight which men dele gate to t h e i r

gov e rnm e n t in a f r e e, rat ional s o c i e t y . The r efore I a s k you to con s i d e r the

si tua tio n of the F ren ch ci t i ze ns in Alger ia , who a r e no t o nly being d epr ived

of thei r ba s i c r i gh t to defend t he m s e lves, but aga inst whom i s being applied

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th e fu ll force of a s t a t e exerc is ing powers which were neve r l eg it ima t el y

delegated to it .

De Gaulle was brought to power a s p r e s ident of a Consti tut ional Republic,

in which his powers were s t r i c t l y l imited by the Const itu tion adopted by

the F r e n c h in 1958. This Const it ut ion was not perfect , in that i t made the

usual compromises on princ ip le and was vague enough in places to p e r m i t

a potential us u rpe r j u s t enough room fo r maneuver . Nev erth ele ss , i t of

f e r e d protect ion of l ife and p r o p e r t y fo r th ose who subscr ibed to it. I t a l s o

specifical ly defined the F r e n c h Republic a s indivisible . The t e r r i t o r y of

this Republic included a l l of the o v e r s e a s depar tments which have been a d -

m i n i s t e r e d as p a r t s of the Republic; including the depar tments in Algeria ,

the Sahara , and the is lands of Reunion, Mart in ique, Guadaloupe, etc. This

Const i tut ion s t a t e s categorical ly that i t is the duty of the P r e s i d e n t of the

F r e n c h Republic to p r e s e r v e the t e r r i t o r i a l integrity of the Republic. Anym e m b e r of the government , including the P r e s i d e n t , attempting to al ienate

any p a r t of the t e r r i t o r y of the Republic is su bject, und er the Constitution,

to punishment by imprisonment .

Somewhere in 1959, de Gaulle decided that A l g e r i a was no longer a p a r t of

the F r e n c h Republic. This decis ion was a completely p e r s o n a l and a r b i t r a r y

one going agains t the d e s i r e s of mil l ions of F r e n c h cit izens in a ll p a r ts of

the Republic 's t e r r i t o r y who had voted for the Const i tut ion. De Gaulle, by

p e r s o n a l decis ion, decided to withdraw that protect ion of l ife and p r o p e r t y

to which the ci t izens in the Alge ri an depa rtment s were en title d, an d forwhich th ey had paid taxes . They had a l s o paid for t ha t p rot ec ti on in other

ways a s well: by fighting and dying in t h r e e F r e n c h wars , by contr ibut ing

in e v e r y manner po ss ib le to the m a t e r i a l and s p i r i t u a l wealth of th e Repub

lic a s a whole. But not only did de Gaulle depr iv e t hem of the government ' s

protection; he then refused them the l ega l means where by th ey could p r o -

t e c t themselves . Now a population of t en m i lli on people who suddenly find

themselves d i s p o s s e s s e d of t h e i r Const i tut ional r ig hts , d ep riv ed of the p r o -

tect ion of t h e i r own government, and prevented from forming t h e i r own

self-defensive institutions a r e indeed in a very s e r i o u s si tuat ion, p a r t i c u -

l a r l y when they a r e under b r u t a l phys ica l a tt ack from a conspiracy of

poli t ical t e r r o r i s t s and c r i m i n a l s intent on seizing power .

What de Gaulle has done, in other words , is completely to p e r v e r t the

function of gove rnment f rom a protect ive value to a r e p r e s s i v e evil . This

is the f i r s t and f o r e m o s t of his c r i m e s . This a c t a l s o indicates what de

Gaulle 's philosophy of government is : to de Gaulle, government has no

l im i ted p rot ec ti v e functions; to de Gaulle, government m e r e l y m eans "m y

w i l l . " Now you and I know tha t no man who believes in l im i ted p rot ec ti v e

government would o r could s ign any s o r t of a cont rac t with a man who bel ieves in government a s my will. Government of "my will" is the oldes t

form of tyranny known to man; a s a government it r e q u i r e s no Constitution,

only guns and enough poli t ical hoodlums to point them. I t is the government

of Genghis Khan, Atti la , Stalin, Hitler and Khrushchev . I t is the govern

ment of poli t ical g a n g s t e r s , a form of tyranny which t ook centur ies to e l i m -

inate and which our Founding F a t h e r s optimist ical ly thought they had f inally

vanquished.

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Now, what de Gaulle did with the government functions in A l g e r i a was to

t r a n s f o r m them from a protect ive function into a persecut ive one. This

persecut ive function is now being e x e r c i s e d against one whole segment

of F r e n c h ci t izenry: those residing in the Alger ian depar tments . Now it

would be different if d e Gau lle were doing ' this in o r d e r to t r a n s f e r the

protect ive function of the F r e n c h government to the protect ive function ofanother government of home rule . But what he is actually doing is t r a n s -

f e r r i n g the p e r s e c u t i v e function from h im self to a local group of gangsters

who wil l m e r e l y continue the p e r s e c u t i o n de Gau lle h as in i t ia ted.

De Gaulle 's High Commiss ioner in Alger ia , M. Fouchet , r e c e n t l y com-

p la in ed t ha t the ci t izenry in A lg eria w ere refusing to pay taxes any longer

to the government. Can you imagine the population of a country paying

taxes to a government which has abdicated i ts legi t imate f un ctio ns a nd has

become its p e r s e c u t o r s ? T h a t ' s like the si tuation in which the Nazis r e -

quired the Jews to pay the t r a i n f a r e to the gas c h a m b e r s .

Incidentally, t h e r e is a st r iking p a r a l l e l between H i t l e r ' s p e r s e c u t i o n of

the German Jews and de Gaul le ' s persecut ion of the F r e n c h Alger ians . The

German Jew s w ere f i r s t deprived of t h e i r ci t izenship, then t h e i r proper ty ,

and f inal ly handed over to the Ges ta po f or disposal . The F r e n c h Alger ians

too a r e being deprived of t h e i r cit izenship in t h e i r native land, and a r e being

manacled by the F r e n c h government, which is handing them over to the FLN

for f inal disposi t ion. The FLN will f i r s t take t h e i r p r o p e r t y and perhaps

t h e i r l ives. We can c a l l this s o r t of thingakind of "mixed genocide,

"in

whic h th e victim can get out al ive i f he decides to give up everything he owns.

I IDe Gaul le ' s f i r s t and f o r e m o s t c ri m e , t h e r e f o r e , is his violation of the

government contract , the C onsti tutio n, and his p e r v e r s i o n of the govern-

m e n t ' s legi t imate functions.

Now the iron y of the si tuation is that de Gaulle owes his r e t u r n to power

to the very people he is dispossess ing: the F r e n c h of Alger ia . He gained

t h e i r confidence through the b a s e s t deception e v e r p r a c t i c e d by a poli t icall e a d e r over a people . Hitler was a paragon of honesty compared to de

Gaulle. Hit ler never hid his h a t r e d of the Jew s and his d e s i r e to d e s t r o y

them. De Gaulle , on the other hand, not only hid his intentions, but de-

ceived the F r e n c h Alger ians i nt o t hi nk ing that he alone was the man who

could give them what they wanted: s e c u r i t y a s F re n ch m e n within the F r e n c h

Republic. Now I do not believe that when a man lies and cheats an e n t i r e

people one can say that he is a model of honor and int eg ri ty . An honorable

man is one you can t r u s t , whose word is a s good as gold. A man of in teg-

rity is one in whom impeccable honesty is the c o r n e r s t o n e of his c h a r a c t e r .

But o u of the mouth of de G aulle has come such a steady s t r e a m of l i e s

that I c anno t f or the life of me under sta nd how anyone can judge this man

a s anything than what he is: a l i a r .

Having gained power by deception, de Gaulle m u s t maintain i t by force .

Thus we now have in F r a n c e concent ra ti on camps for a c t i v i s t s and F r e n c h

Alger ian sympa th i ze rs ; we have governmenta l t e r r o r organizat ions which

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int imidate opponents whom they dar e not imprison ; we find the use of

adm in i s t ra t ive a r re s t , that i s , a r r es t without charges ; we have the use

of tor ture to ext rac t c onfe s s i o n s , censorsh ip of the press , confiscation

of newspapers ; we hav e phony t r ia l s with hand-pi cked go v e r nm e n t judges

guarante e ing tha t the regim e w il l ge t i ts ve r d ic t; in shor t we have all of

the t rappings of th e police state . I t i s the he ight of irony that , in a l l ofthis, the OAS should be accused of t rying to bring fasc ism to France when

i t is a l read y the r e and i n full operation.

B es ides ha v ing p e r ver ted the f unc t i o n s of gove rn m e n t , de ceived and be

t ra y ed h is followers , d e Gaulle has comm i t ted other c r im e s which will

have the i r long te rm il l effe cts on the Wes te rn c au se .

The s i ng l e mos t h ideous c r ime he has c om m itte d is the tota l destruct ion

of the best an t i -Communis t a rmy in the f ree world. Up to 1958, the French

Arm y th r o ugh i t s exp e r ie nce s in Indo china and Alger ia had dev eloped te ch

nique s of g ue r r i l la a nd psycholo gical wa r f a r e wh ich made it the mo s t ef

f e ctiv e an t i -Communis t c om ba t ive force developed s inc e the Communis t

tak e o v e r of Russia in 1917. At l a st, with th is French Army we we r e on

the road to developing a t ru ly an ti -Commun i st mil i ta ry force, commanded

by bril l iant knowledgeable off i c ers , equipped wi t h excel lent mate r ial,

m anned by we l l - t r a ined ca d re s of p rofess ionals wit h a legendary espr i t de

corps and a morale that wa s g r o w ing as their v i c t o r i e s over the Communis ts

in Alger ia multipl ied .

What has happened to this A rmy s in ce de Gau lle to ok power ? All of i ts

highes t offic e r s have been imprisoned ; i t s psy chological se c t ions have

been disman t led ; i ts profess ional ca d r e s broken up and dispe rsed among

differen t c on sc r i p t units in France and West Germany ; its v ac an t p ositio ns

filled with Communis t office rs and its un i ts sprinkled with cel ls of Commu

nis t d raftees . Th is new a rmy i s now consor t ing with France ' s fo rme r ene

m ies and t r a ining thos e enemi e s to d es t roy the French cit izenry In Alger ia .

Th i s c r ime alone a gains t the Army wou l d be enough to wa r ran t sending d e

Gaulle to th e gallows.

The next c r ime c o m m it te d by de Gaulle is his betrayal of the lo yal French

Moslems , h is d i sarming them and turning them over to the i r execut ioners .

I know of no mo re h ea rtb reaking s i tuation than that of the loyal French Mos

l ems who , a f te r hav ing g iv en a ll f o r France, ha ving r i sked thei r l ives a -

gainst the i r fanatic Moslem bre thr en who murdered tens of thousand of

them, have been c om p le t e l y bet rayed by d e Gaul le and handed over to th ei r

wo r s t enemies . De Gaulle has done i r reparable harm to the cause of France

in North Africa . I do not see how Fran ce ca n ever expect any Moslems ever

to t rus t he r aga in . So g r ea t a bet rayal w il l not eas i ly be forgotten . N ev e r

theless , odd as i t may seem , there a re Moslems who s ti ll r ema in loyal to

France and they show i t by the i r suppor t of the OAS . At bo th th e Jo uh aud

and Salan t r ia l s Moslems tes t ified in defense of the g e n e r a l s and res ta ted

thei r lo yalty to the i r F r ench national ity . Some of these Moslems a re a ctu

ally in pr ison fo r suppo r ting th e F rench ca u s e , wh i l e t h eh FLN bre thren

a r e now be ing r el eased t o p u r s u e the i r te r r o r is t a c t ivi ti e s u nhampered by

the pol i ce .

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One of the reasons why the F re nc h A rmy had a ch ie ve d suc h grea t success

in Alger ia pr ior to the de Gaulle betrayal was because the Army had en

g ag ed th e Moslem masses on the i r side . They w ere ab le to do this by con

v incing the Moslems that France was in Alger ia to stay and that France

would never abandon them to the FLN. This promise on the par t of the

Army was backed by every government pr ior to de Gau lle a nd was considered

as the A rmy 's sa cre d oath to the Moslem masses . When de Gaulle reneged

on this promise , he had the Army withdraw its protect ion from the Moslems.

1:0. so doing. French off icers were actual ly ordered to confiscate any f i re-

a rms these Moslems might have had in orde r to make it eas ie r fo r the FLN

to ta ke c on tr ol over them . In so doing de Gaulle also exposed these pro -

French Moslems to the bloodiest and cruelest repr i sa l s a t th e hands of the

FLN te r ror is ts . Such is the nature of de Gau ll e's be tr aya l.

I t was the height of hypocr is y f or de Gaulle to shed tea rs a t the sight of a

Nazi atrocity commit ted du ri ng W orld W ar , II in France , when he is causings imi la r atroc i t ies to occur in Alger ia .

De Gaulle 's betrayal of the Europeans in Algeria is an ac t without precedent

in French history. I t is an act , in fact, unique in i ts baseness and futility,

for a t no t ime was France forced to su r rende r so much to so despicable an

enemy. The French Army had won the batt le in the field; the Moslem masse s

had remained loyal to France ; and the Europeans remained solidly at tached to

the Metropole .

Nor was i t even necessary to su r rende r to the FLN in orde r to disengage

France from her responsibi l i t ies in Alger ia . Salan had indicated that the

Europeans and loyal Moslems were qui te capab le of assuming full respon

s ib ility fo r th e mil i ta ry an d e co no m ic maintenance of Alger ia . In fact, a

proposal to have Alger ia defended by only Frenchmen born in Alger ia was

made in Par l i ament and was rejected by de Gaulle. In shor t , de Gaulle

made it p la in th at he intended to hand over the country, lock, stock and bar -

re l to the FLN w ith the hands of the opposition t ied. As I said earl ier , from

one/persecutor to the other . And why not? De Gaulle being no m o ra lly b et

te rthan the FLN fel t quite

cer ta intha t he could join with them in destroyingthe Alger ian French.

To give an example of de Gaulle 's vindictiveness I might te l l the s tory of

Alain de Serigny which I related to M r. Welch two w ee ks ag o. Alain de

S erigny, ow ner and publ isher of w hat w as North Africa 's l a rges t newspaper,

L 'Echo d 'Alger . was one of the men mos t responsible for bringing de Gaulle

back to power. He contr ibu ted mi ll ions of f rancs to this purpose . A year

after de Gaulle was in power de Serigny was impr i soned, his newspaper

confiscated, the p la nt s hu t down. Recently de Gaulle ar ranged to have the

facili t ies of this grea t newspa pe r tu rn ed over to the FLN for the i r own publishing act ivi t ies. Hearing this, the OAS destroyed the p lan t, th us d ep riv in g

the FLN of the bes t print ing faci l i t ies in a ll North Africa.

De Serigny is now living in Par i s , a b ro ke n m an . His c ountr y is being

destroyed; his newspaper, the achievement of a long, product ive career ,

del ivered by de Gaulle as a gift to the enemy. One can cite hundreds of

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A year and a half a go I p r e d i c t e d that d e Gaulle wou l d go to the v e r y l i m i t

to impose his i r rationa l policy on Alg e r ia, no mat te r how many p eople

we r e k i lled , no m a t t e r how m any gen e r a l s he had to t h r ow in jai l . Toda y

I p r e d i ct that h e wi l l do l ikewi se to fulfi l l his policy in Europ e , which m eans

c om p le te be t r a yal of a l l a nti-Communi sts ' in Europe, a b e t r a ya l of the Anglo -

Saxons a n d a n entente with Rus s ia - - in o the r wo r d s, a E u r op e f rom the Atlantic to th e Urals united again s t the Anglo-Saxons and th e Chines e . Whethe r

th e Kr emlin w il l a c comodate de Gaulle by producing a t e m p o r a r y b r e a k w i th

th e Chinese i s a quest ion we s h a ll s ee answered in t ime . I f b y pla ying up th e

Russia n-Chinese rift, the Communis ts can swallow up a l l of We s t e r n Europ e,

i t w i l l be no p r ice a t a l l to pay.

The b ig quest ion now is how long it w ill take the Anglo-Saxons a nd th e West

Europ eans before they s e e what d e Gaulle is t r y i n g to do. We know that he

dece ived his own people c l e v e r l y en ough to p r event them from taking suc

c e s s f u l mea s u r e s a gains t him. But that was becaus e he c o n t r o l le d th e in

s t r u m ents of state and made ex c e l le nt use of them. But the European na

t ions, West German y in p a r t icular , a r e no t under d e Gaul le ' s control . T he y

ca n s t i l l somewhat ve t o his policy, a s the y finall y d id Napoleon 's . But we

m u s t r em e m b e r that d e Gaulle ' s a l l i e s wil l b e the Comm uni s t s and l eftis ts

in eac h of these c ount r i e s and that they wil l back his policy for a ll it is wo r t h .

It wa s Communis t suppor t wh ich ena b l ed d e Gaulle to put ove r h i s p olic y in

Alg e r ia . It w ill be Commun is t s uppo rt which w il l enable de Gaulle to put

ov e r h is poli c y in Western Eu rop e.

In c l o s ing I would l ike to r e a d a n exce r p t f rom a l e t t e r from our Commit te e ' s

European c o r r e s p o n d ent, which we s h a l l publish in our June r e p o r t . "The

Gaul l i s t r egime , " he wr i te s, " is l eading F r a n c e to catas t rophe . Mora l va lue s

ha ve disappear ed , c i v ic s p i r i t is non-ex i s tent and only the e x t r em es a r e bu i ld -

ing up the i r s t r ength for t h e showdown. Th rough thi s blood a nd th es e t e a r s ,

w e see th e g r o t e s q u e s p e c t a c l e of a man blinded by hi s p a r a no ia , spout ing,

sne e r i ng , w i s e c r ack ing, pol ishing his c a s u i s t r y a n d studying his g e s t u r es a s

if fa c ing a m i r r o r , a d e r i s iv e p r ovincial ham who i n s i s t s on going on w i th his

a c t in a n emp t y t h e a t r e . The r e s t is propa ganda and b ra inwa s h ing. T h e p a r tpla yed by A m e r i c a n f o r e i gn c o r r e s ponden t s , l iving f rom gove r nme n t handouts

a nd fav o r s , s a t i s f i es pla in ly thei r newspape r s and m a ga z ines; but the da y wi l l

come when that inc r e d i b l e f raud wil l be exposed . I t w i l l be exp ose d by the be

t r a yal of a unified Europe , th e bet r a ya l of d emo c r a c y in the We s t and t h e

handing ov e r to Communism of th e l a s t We s t e r n bastion. As i t has been fo r

the p a s t fifty y e a r s , we sha l l onc e m o r e be one mo v e too la te . Will Am e r i c a

e v e r unde r s t a n d ? Is she to b e the c u r s e of Weste r n Civil izat ion ? "

A compa r a t ively s m a l l numbe r of copie s of this t r a n s c r ip t of Mr.

Blumenfeld 's speech we r e made on an offic e duplic a t o r f o r m e m b e r s of

ou r COUNCIL. The demand f o r add it ional c opie s imm edia te ly b e cam e

s o hea v y that we have run off a la r g e r s upp ly by offs et. Any quant i ty de

s i r e d may now be ob ta ined , t h e r e fo re , a t 20 fo r $1. 00 (in lo t s of 100- 999

a t 4f ea c h ; ov e r 1,000 a t 3 i n »each ) f r om

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