Note 72 — Chapter IV · WHO IS ATTACKED IN THE MEMORANDUM?

Congressional Record, August 2, 1961, p. 13439, col. 1,t.

We wish that the Senator had been well read enough to have known that a decade ago Mr. Philbrick warned Americans against becoming extremely radical rightwingers! “The most important single thing is to avoid behaving the way a Communist says the individual must behave in a capitalist society. If the Communist had his way, he would force all non-Communists to the extreme right, toward fascism and state control.” (I Led Three Lives, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1952, p. 300). “If we adhere to our traditional American dream of a society of freedom, of personal rather than state responsibility, of individual as well as collective intelligence, and of civil rights rather than rigid civil controls, then we will have disproved the Communist theory of the inevitability of capitalist deterioration.” (ibid., p. 301).