1. Americans are apt to scoff at the idea, that a military coup in the US., as so often happens in Latin american countries, could ever replace our government. but that is an idea that has grounds for consideration. Which military organization has the potenitialities of executing such action? Is it the army? with its many constripes, its unwieldy size its scores of bases scattered across the world? The case of Gen. Walker shows that the army, at least, is not fertail enough ground for a far right regime to go a very long way. for the same reasons of size and desposition the Navy and air force is also to be more or less disregarded. Which service than, can qwalify to launch a coup in the USA? Small size, a permenent hard core of officerss and few baseis is necscary. Only one outfit fits that description and the U.S.M.C. is a right wing infiltrated organization of dire potential consequence's to the freedoms of the U.S. I agree with former President Truman when he said that "The Marine Corps should be abolished."
2. My second reason is that undemocratic, country wide insitution know as segregation. It, is, I think the action of the active segregationist minority adn the great body of indiffent people in the South who do the United States more harm in the eyes of the worlds people, than the whol world communist movement. as I look at this audience there is a sea of white facts before me where are the negro's amongst you (are they hiding under the table) surly if we are for democracy, let our fellow negro citizen's into this hall. Make no mistake, segregationist tendencies can be unlearned I was born in New Orleans, and I know.
In russia I saw on several occiasions that in international meeting the greatest glory in the sport field was brought to us by negros. Though they take the gold medals from their Russian competitors those negros know that when they return to their own homeland they will have to face blind hatred and discrimonation. The Soviet Union is made up of scores of naturiclists asians and Eurpr-asian's armenian and Jews whites and dark skinned people's yet they can teach us a lesson in brotherhood among people's with different customs and origins.
3. A symbol of the american way, our liberal concesin is the existance in our midst of a minority group whose influence and membership is very limited and whose dangerous tendencies are sufficeanly controlled by special government agencies. The commuhnist party U.S.A. bears little resemblance to their Russian conterparts, but by allowing them to operate and even supporting their right to speak, we maintain a tremonusu sign of our strenght and liberalism harasment of their party newspaper, their leaders, and advocates, is treachery to our basic principles of freedom of speach and press. Their views no matter how misguided, no matter how much the Russians take advantage of them, must be allowed to be aired. after all communist U.S.A. have existed for 40 years and they are still a pitiful group of radical.
4. Now-a-days -- most of us read enough about certain right wing groups to know how to recognize them and guard against their corresive effects. a would like to say a word about them, although their is possibley few other american born person's in the U.S. who know as many personal reasons to know and therefore hate and mistrust communism. I would never become a psuso-professional anit-communist such as herbert Philbriks or Macarthy. I would never jump on any of the many right wing bandwagon's. because our two contries have too much too offer each other to be tearing at each other's trouths in an endless cold war. Both are conoutries have major short comings and advantages. but only in ours is the voice of dissent allowed opportunity of expression, in returning ________ to ________ the U.S., I hope I have awoken a few who were sleeping, and others who are indifferent.
I have done alot of critizing of our system I hope you will take it in the spirit it was given. in going to Russian I followed the old priciple "Thou shall seek the truth and the truth shall make you free. In returning to the U.S. I have done nothing more or less than select the lesser of two evils.
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