The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
THE HOME FRONT By William E. Bohn A Right-Wing Trojan Horse The election campaign just winding up as I write these words has been calm and rather dull, but not without a few funny twists and...
...The man has a gripe against the world...
...And, of course, if Stevenson is elected this Marxist Red will run the show in Washington...
...Nine pages of this 16-page campaign document are given over to a fanciful account of the men about Adlai Stevenson...
...If the Republicans win," he temptingly explains, "even though the 'liberals' are now in control of the GOP the constitutional conservatives may have an opportunity to regain power in the party and exert real influence in Congress very much sooner than might be expected...
...The fact that the revolutionary activities were against the Tsar is not worth mentioning...
...The most important facts about the Democratic candidate himself are that he spent some months in Moscow, that he went to Harvard Law School, and that he was employed in the Government in Washington at the time Alger Hiss was there...
...When I asked her if Mr...
...I have read this pamphlet with deep interest...
...This wooden-horse strategy—with Ike as the horse—assumes that the American people are about as simple as the ancient Trojans...
...If Stevenson is elected, it means that Walter Reuther will run the Government—and the country might not survive such a calamity...
...That practically ended the interview...
...At this moment of danger, Mr...
...In the course of time, naturally, the author gets around to David Dubinsky...
...But don't get Mr...
...He doesn't trust any of the people who are running it...
...Its proponents are saying: "You won't vote for us or any of our representatives...
...He is talking to those who hate the candidates of both parties...
...Kamp was in, she said no, looked at me rather suspiciously, and asked who I was...
...He offers to direct the discouraged citizen to a safer future...
...There you have it: Elect Eisenhower in order to give the pro-American constitutional conservatives a chance to take over as soon as Ike, despite his good heart and his fine head-to-toe physique, begins to fade away...
...I suppose he is a sort of primitive animist...
...Thus, you have three prime symbols of subversion: Moscow, Harvard and Alger Hiss...
...It is not going to be easy," he writes, "for honest and forthright citizens of character and principle to make a choice between two candidates both of whom, in their judgment, are unworthy of support...
...I—always over-honest—made the mistake of telling her...
...When I asked how many copies had been sold, she said she didn't know...
...For it is only too true, as Human Events declares in its issue of August 25, that 'once Ike is re-elected, his strength—because he cannot run for a third term—will begin to wane.' And when Ike's influence wanes, the power of the 'liberal' party leaders will quickly decline...
...It is enough to know about him that he was born in Russia and that he was jailed there for revolutionary activities...
...He seems to take it for granted that his readers will understand what he has in mind...
...Hesitantly she sold me a copy of Election Guide for Voters Who Don't Like Ike...
...It is not necessary to quote one disloyal word or mention one unpatriotic act...
...She seemed tired, and I felt guilty for troubling her...
...He feels obliged to personalize the evil forces which have created the troubles that irk him...
...He is a ruthless, reckless, lawless labor agitator...
...This is a crisis...
...He is not plugging for Stevenson and Kefauver...
...It obviously is the product of a mind so turgid that the simple facts of life are thoroughly confused and transformed...
...This piece of campaign "literature" is entitled Election Guide for Voters Who Don't Like Ike...
...Any-way," she said, "I only work here...
...It must be conceded," he goes on, "that the anti-Communist friends of McCarthy and McCarran have a thousand excellent reasons for being reluctant to vote for President Eisenhower this time, but for every good reason they have not to like Ike there are a dozen more compelling reasons to like Stevenson a whole lot less...
...THE HOME FRONT By William E. Bohn A Right-Wing Trojan Horse The election campaign just winding up as I write these words has been calm and rather dull, but not without a few funny twists and quirks...
...I encountered one of these when a friend of mine showed me a pamphlet written by Joseph P. Kamp...
...But when he reaches Walter Reuther our pamphleteer really cuts loose: "He is a foul-mouthed opportunist who parrots the fallacious fulmina-tions of his left-wing ghost writers...
...A psychologist would have a more or less exact term for it...
...Kamp wrong...
...The man is clever...
...About other aspects of the business she was equally ill-informed...
...But that is not the whole story...
...but if you will just elect Ike, we will sneak into power behind his back...
...But this is not just an ordinary occasion on which it would be safe to sit back and let nature takes its course...
...To satisfy my curiosity, I traced this pamphlet to its source at 342 Madison Ave., near the heart of the public-relations business...
...He blames Walter Reuther the way a caveman blamed a rock or a tree...
...There, in a small office, I found a rather precise-looking young lady...
...Hence, you must vote for Eisenhower to save the country from Reuther...
...He never does get around to telling exactly why he doesn't like Ike...
...Kamp leaps gallantly to the rescue...
Vol. 39 • November 1956 • No. 46
