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journalistic gutters! Funds from the great foundations are dispensed
to communist-line writers, artists, teachers. The endowments of great
Universities, supervised by businessmen trustees, maintain in the com–
fort to which they are accustomed notorious apologists for com–
munist causes. How many pamphlets, books, speeches and reports
pleasing to the Kremlin have appeared under the benign sanction of
the Foreign Policy Association or the Institute of Pacific Relations,
both recipients of such generous support from the suicidal statesmen
of the business community! Whittaker Chambers is fired from his job
("allowed to resign," in the formal phrase) by the lord of streamlined
business journalism; and Alger Hiss (whether he is legally guilty or not
does not affect the contrast) is coddled by the businessmen trustees of
the Carnegie Endowment. How strange that Hollywood and Broad–
way, which so readily and easily ground out pro-Soviet movies and
plays during the War and immediate post-War period, seem so in–
hibited in their output of anti-communist productions-though they
have never had a subject with half the potential drama of the com–
munist struggle to destroy and conquer the world!
The communists have studied the American businessman with
meticulous care. They have learned how to seduce him, while he
remains unaware, through his greed and ignorance and lack of vision;
and they have learned how easily, because of his political and moral
timidity, he can be intellectually terrorized. During 1949 they opened
a beautifully planned new front in their campaign for the demoraliza–
tion of the American business community.
It
began with the Jessup-Malik conversations at the United Na–
tions, the lifting of the Berlin blockade, and much talk about "East–
West trade." Then came a masterful thrust on the propaganda flank.
From a source anonymous and obscure in its channels but unmistake–
able in origin, an article appeared in the magazine,
United Nations
World,
edited by Louis D'Olivet, and supported by a long list of
our best citizens. This article was at once headlined as major news
by the principal newspapers. With all the rhetoric of "inside stuff"
and "most confidential," it "revealed" that Andrei Gromyko, during
his stay in the United States, had held a series of private conversations
with several dozen of the leading American businessmen. From these
