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A publication of Traditional Catholics of 3t 15, 1989
John Kenneth Weiskittel
' ' ow we must join with others to bring forth a new Communist government in Nicaragua, while opposing tax
world order." A New World Order. This, you will credits or vouchers for parents opting to their children
recall, is the precise term Mikhail Gorbachev used to de- to private schools, the Creation doctrine in science classes,
scribe his vision of the future last December at the United laws against marijuana use, and aid to Salvador in its fight
Nations. It's the term flows freely from the lips and pens against Communist insurgents.
of members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Tri-
lateral Commission. And for those who can sift through the Consider, too, the followingNEA activities:
lofty rhetoric, it's a code word for One World Government.
• It issued "Choices: A Unit in Conflict and Nuclear
But the quote leading off this article came from neither Gor- War," with additional funding by the radical Union of
bachev nor Kissinger nor Zbigniew Brzezinski. In- Concerned Scientists. So one-sided was the 114-page
stead, it appeared in an article by Establishment historian booklet's support for unilateral disarmament that even
Henry Steele Commager, "A Declaration of Interdepen- the liberal Washington Post branded it as "political
dence" (interdependence-another synonym for world gov- indoctrination." (cited, Reed, p. 1
ernment), which ran in the March-April issue the
National Education Association (NEA) publication, • When hosting representatives of the Soviet school
'Today's Education. (cited, Sally D. Reed, Propa- system, it used the occasions to promote the lie that
ganda Front of the Radical Left, National Council for Better that nation has free unions. In NEA delegates
Education, 1984,pp. visited USSR and met with Soviet colleagues there.
Tass, the official Soviet "news" agency, used the meet-
What you may a-;k, is such a patently political piece like ing to further bolster the same falsehood. (ibid, pp.
Commager's doing in a journal aimed at grade school 65-66)
teachers? And not merely a political piece, mind you, but
one expounding a position that would be opposed by the • Also in 1979, NEA Executive Director Terry Herdon
majority of Americans-parents and teachers alike. The (a self-described "left-wing Democrat") had the group
answer is that it is simply reflecting the mindset of the endorse a television "documentary" entitled "The Un-
known War." The series whitewashed Soviet life dur-
In public (or, more accurately, government) schools ing the Stalin era. The New York never to be
throughout the nation the New World Order (NWO) is being confused for a conservative newspaper, denounced it
taught to students in a variety of guises: "globalism," "global as "soft-core propaganda" so in step with the Kremlin
education," "multicultural studies," "new age education" line that it was to "be shown unaltered" on Soviet TV.
and so forth. Whatever the name, argues Sally Reed, a (ibid., pp. 67-68)
parents' rights advocate and critic of NEA policies, the goal
is still the same: "inculcating young minds with political atti- • NEA marchers joined with the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
tudes that are conducive to the creation of a socialist world the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) and other
order." (p. 5) In columnist Russell Evans wrote: "A big ieft-wingers in the 1982 Solidarity Day "Peace Demon-
wheel in the machinery of the proposed New World Order is stration" in New York City. Among those leading the
the National Education Association … This (NWO-JKW) is way was NEA President Mary Futrell. (ibid, pp. 116-17)
an insidious global machine designed to crush our national
sovereignty." (cited, ibid, p. 59) 0 There has been other camaraderie between the
CPUSA and NEA. Commenting on the success of
"networking" by the American bolsheviks and other
When we examine recent positions of the it quickly radical Red writer Tim Wheeler notes in Politi-
becomes clear that Commager article, far from being an cal the Party's ideological that "(t)he
exception, is the rule. is the name of their and, ,awJuw Education Association has contributed office
the further of the better. The its space (to the CPUSA-JKW) in headquarters build-
seal of approval to on demand, of children in "(ibid, pp.
to other schools, a nuclear freeze, a national holiday for
Martin Luther King, rights," "sex education'' and the It would be bad enough if the NEA limited itself to taking
The polarize of
countless who don't want to in the subver-
This power shouldn't underestimated. Writes Reed: "The Alinsky's recommendation: "organize the ones
of state u::g1::,1a.1.ur
colleges all
Education." (p. 4) The
presidential
,VH~H . .V ' D '-'CUl,.U\.,,UL\., The history of the one that parallels
him in return for the of American development of going a
r.h,,ol't1'1acc a cabinet-level Department of basically apolitical in its early years into a huge,
first union," gloated one ,–,,i,l!o.-r»I ,-.,~u~,v- one that to overturn some of
own." (cited, ibid, p. 21) nation's most basic values. That has come in part
through Communist infiltration ought to be no surprise;
And no the 1.7 million member has no more than one well-intentioned body been misdirected
intention of sharing power. Not with smaller, less radical such a fashion.
American Federation Teachers which it seeks to
snuff out existence. with of students, Founded in as the Teachers Association, the
whom it accuses of trying to "censor'' class curriculum (of NEA not as a union but as a professional association.
course, ifs freedom" when the decides It became the National Education Association in fol-
which books stay which go!). lowing a with two other groups, and was granted tax
exemption in 1906. The possibility of infiltration up to
cannot totally rejected such was not readily clear
our research.
Things began to change significantly around
Gordon Drake, an educator who was exposing
over twenty years ago,
survey in
found that Two other teacher organizations which had a direct
the NEA ,.,,,.,,..,nn on the development of NEA these
legislation in ""'"''""' in any years were the Progressive Education Association
those states, you a new line the John Dewey Association. In 1930's,
of groups spearheaded a master plan to socialize
ica. The was widely the
lecturing a flock socialist-Marxist educators,
affectionately the "frontier thinkers." … Not only
thinkers but doers as well, they vigorously championed
the Education which would spawn the New Social
The can its members in this way v<A,"''-"''"' Order. to America,
it is not set up as a democratic institution. Christian
elections are held but, in the Soviet Union, they
are strictly elections. Locally elected represen- "frontier was John Dewey,
tatives have no real power; virtually all their de- widely hailed as "the of progressive education." Joy
cisions can be vetoed by the national office. Elmer writing in the Journal of the NEA, states that
"we have John Dewey profoundly to for drafting an
The members have no say in selecting the NEA's executive emancipation proclamation of childhood… (cited, Vernon
director runs the union; instead, he is picked by nine Kaub, Communist-Socialist Propaganda in American
people in a closed meeting. Although president is '"''"'"''" revised by Donald Laymen's Commis-
"''"'"""'"• he has real power. (ibid, pp. the American Council of Christian Churches, 1967,
Then, there is the conscious effort to radicalize teaching
establishment For this NEA to the notorious Dewey was a founding member the American
leftist organizer, Saul of the plan. .n.:,,,v-.,.,uu•v, and a of Humanist Manifesto I.
Alinsky Report boldly states:
2
industries ~~,,~~., cannot be cen-
and operated ownership."
dogma concluded could be
also them over and them at full
natural or national ,ntore>ct of all the
Rosemary Thomson,
House. p.
Of course, NEA wasn't restricting such views to its staff.
Dewey was with at least fifteen groups or publi- After all, the younger generation must be conditioned to fit
cations identified by Congress as Communist fronts. (see into the collectivist way of !ife. One of the methods used is
Kaub, Appendix pp. 144-45) He joined five other pedago- textbook selection and, in the years immediately following
gues-including Edward Ross, who had ten front ties-in World War II, NEA ran into one of its bitterest contro-
drafting an economic report for the January issue of versies with its enthusiastic endorsement of the Building
The Journal of National E'ducation Association that America history series. Dr. Harold Rugg, author of the
subtly pushed for socialism in the U.S. (ibid, pp. 10, books, was a tireless propagandist of the pro-Communist
169-170) line. In the 1930's, he had been the social studies editor for
Scholastic Magazine. It is interesting to read what Dr. Drake
The following year there came an explicit for it. The has written on the subject
NEA's Yearbook of Department of Superintendence, en-
titled Social Change and Education, contained a chapter, Between the years 1928-1935, Scholastic Magazine
"A Preface to a New American Philosophy of Education,'' featured articles by known Communists such as
that maintained: Langston Hughes. Two members of the advisory
board, who were also contributing editors, were
Confronted with a rapidly changing economy, Ameri- known Communists. Harold Rugg authored numerous
can educators cannot serve the youth of our country by articles eulogizing Soviet Russia and its Communist
continuing to make them intellectually and youth organizations. (p. 26. Drake bases this on find-
emotionally loyal to many of the doctrines contained in ings made by the Subcommittee of the House Commit-
our traditional social philosophy … tee on Appropriations, 74th Congress, in 1936.)
Enough data are now available … to show the general Rugg's bibliography for Building America was revealing;
direction in which we must go. Industrialism points to there he referred readers, states Donzella Cross Boyle, "to
national social planning. Our national ideal of social works by authors listed by State and Congressional Com-
democracy (that is, socialism-JKW) requires that this mitees as belonging to Communist-front organizations. One
planning be under collective control. Collective con- author often recommended in the bibliography is listed as
trol cannot be made a reality in a regime of private belonging to thirty Communist-front organizations by the
ownership of the basic industries. Undoubtedly we can Third Report of the California Senate Investigating Com-
learn much from the experience of other countries, mittee on Education." (American History Was My Undoing,
particularly Russia, but we … need not prematurely Education Information, 1961, pp. Mrs. Boyle's book
assume that collective planning and dictatorial bureau- deserves brief mention since it chronicles the difficulties she
cratic regimentation of social life are necessarily had in finding a publisher for her earlier pro-American, anti-
correlatives. (cited, lfaub, p. 20) Communist history text, Quest of a Hemisphere. Editors
praised her lively style and thorough research but, as one
The author of this essay, which can be taken as a signal for wrote back to her, "I am not sure that it is the history we
the educational community to embrace FDR's socialist New should to teach." After attempting to have it published
Deal. was Columbia University Professor John L. Childs. privately, she finally was contacted by The John Birch So-
Child's four Communist front affiliations included serving as ciety, which published Quest in 1970. To our knowledge, the
a debater for the American Friends of the Soviet Union. NEA never endorsed it.)
(Kaub, p. 141)
It might have been clear sailing for Building America if
Also in 1935, the "N.E.A. made Willard E. Givens Execu- California legislators hadn't read through the books as part
tive Secretary, and he ran the organization in that capacity of a routine check to see that they were fit to a.;;sign to grade
for the next seventeen years." (Alan Stang, "The N.E.A.," school students. They weren 't. The legislative committee
reprint of an article from the March 1972 issue of American examining them remarked that, on the one hand, the books
Opinion, p. 5) Perhaps he gained the post as a reward for the "belittle American statesmen who have been … heroes of
imporumt report he issued the previous year to its Depart- American tradition" while, on the other, the series "glamor-
ment of Superintendence in which he explained that "many izes Russian statesmen" and "contain(s) purposely distorted
drastic changes must be made. A dying laissez-faire must be references favoring Communism and life in Soviet Russia."
completely destroyed and all of us, including the 'owners,' (cited, Drake, p. 88) Further, in the California Fact-
must be subjected to a large degree of social control. A large Finding Committee on Un-American Activities discovered
section of our discussion group maintains that the credit
THE ATHANASIAN 3 APRIL 15, 1989
basis
In
of more than become increasingly popular in
their at Jefferson School on the new many
Communist as applied to I
urged the Communist teachers to exercise influ-
ence unity on and citizens' groups. modem concept of a One World Government can
(cited, ibid) back more tvvo to the of
Adam Weishaupt At very roots are the precepts of Free-
This influence continued through the decades. masonry and, as we've in an earlier article, it was in
Masonic circles the of Nations (the prototype of
the 1960's, the found again in a bit world-governing bodies) was established. That a New
stickiness over its reading list because such as World (which Pope Benedict condemned by
American in which, it claimed, was to has jointly been sought by leaders the Masons and
promote "good human relations." Although a books in Communists can be seen in the bloody revolutions
the vein Booker T. Washington's Slavery made fomented together in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, France, Italy
the list, a staggering number were penned by '-'V''"""' and Catholic countries (always in the context a
CPUSA National Committee members Herbert Aptheker larger master plan). They to overturn the Kingship
and James Jackson, Jr.; S. Foner, who was dis- Lord Jesus Christ and it with the reign of
missed from his professorial post at City College New Humanity. our they've been joined by new allied
York for being a secret Communist; "Stalin Peace Prize" secret societies such as the Council on Foreign Relations
winner Howard Fast; spy Victor Langston and the Club of Rome.
Hughes and W. DuBois, to name a few. Stang, p.
8, and especially pp. 98-119 and Appendixes I and II, For its the has been vocally supportive of the New
pp. 158-244) NEA President Braulio Alonso defended the World Order for better than forty years. In 1948, it pub-
ATHANASIAN 4 APRIL 15, 1989
say:
motives" (for the
"Vietnam"-JKW) and to "discuss
perceive a Soviet move as very
may the same move as purely defensive ex-
government ample, Russian troops in Poland-JKW). (cited, p. 7)
we may conclude safely that the is fully supportive
joined in tu•n,l-o"l·,nrl the Reagan-Gorbachev agreement to exchange
SCil()OlS: public in 1950 to help the content of textbooks in the two
of education to drop its plan to
more than one flag pole fly UN
Angeles' was obliged to have U.S. or Fail?
schools end their to the UN that had included the The NEA the rest American government school
words government of all the people." (ibid, p. 91) apparatus have gone a long way in Christian
values. Do you more evidence? Look around you.
un-Arntenican curriculum changed in the decades The desolation of our beloved country will be complete
Reed tells us: unless the forces that are responsible for that destruction are
overcome.
Ideas globalism or one-worldism are still current in
the As one for teachers advises, all means, traditional Roman Catholics are morally
giance to a nation is the biggest block to bound to send children to a thoroughly orthodox
creation of international government. boun- school whenever possible. But many have no such option
daries and concept Sovereignty must be abol- readily available. What are they to do? They must see to it, of
ished. The quickest way to do this is to the course, the youngsters are well-grounded in the
young to another and broader alliance. Opinion Church's and live in a spiritually healthy environ-
able to international government will be de,eloped in ment If able, they should consider home schooling. Beyond
the social in the elementary school." (p. 38) they need to work together similarly minded non-
~~~.. ~ .. ~~ to wrest the NEA-NWO stranglehold from the
scheme is to "condition" the young like lab animals schools. They must see that their schools remain in local
to renounce their own country in favor of the NWO of hands. Sally Reed notes, the true right to detennine the
Comrade Gorbachev. direction of schools belongs not to the educational establish-
ment but to "First, it is their children who are being
A major step in this process is the merger the U.S. and educated. Second, they pay for the schools." It is parents
USSR. As far back as 1936, the NEA was setting the ground- who must see that their values are being transmitted.
THE ATHANASIAN 5 APRIL 15, 1989
assert your rights
has come to the the Daily
of the even the irn- World, newspaper of the carried an exclusive
'""·,w.,,c,., harm it will cause to America. Graver indeed is the two-page interview with President Futrell. She
poison it to in the souls of your offspring. Their a to the Union by NEA delegates
eternal destiny-and yours-are in balance. not positive" went on to say that the "will be in-
think that any precaution can be great enough," warned the Soviets to visit us." This further confirms why the
Pope Leo "in keeping the young from masters and Reds have praised the NEA as a "militant fighter" and a
schools whence the pestilent breath of the Masonic Society "bona fide, progressive union."
is to be feared." May help you in this noble t
Examples can be multiplied almost endlessly of
bad things are" in the Conciliar Church. Eventually, Thomas Kelly, O.P., of Louisville, Ken-
however, citing such examples can become tucky. Commission will bestow one of its 1989
monotonous and so an effort is being made more awards upon a woman who, as a member of the Com-
more to refrain from doing so in the pages of this munist Party, has worked long hard to do her part
newsletter. Because Communism is so in- to destroy both Roman Catholic Church and the
volved in the following item, though, it would seem to USA.
be worth a few lines.
In 1937, Pope Pius XI stated: "Communism is in-
Anne is an identified Communist Both trinsically evil and no one who would save Christian
and her husband, Carl (also a Communist), were notor- civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking
ious for their activities on behalf of the Communist what.soever." That statement is every bit as true today
in the 1950's and 1960's. Both of them too, it as it was years ago but it obviously means nothing
should be noted, were closely associated with to Archbishop Kelly of Conciliar Church. Indeed,
Luther King, Jr. Now the story recently appeared in he ignores it with a vengeance in paying honor,
the news that Communist Anne Braden is to through his and Justice Commission, to Com-
honored. That, of course, is not news because the munist Anne Braden.
Reds often pay homage to their own. What makes this
particular event worth mentioning at all is that the Even for the Conciliar Church, honoring one whose
conferrer of the honor upon Communist Braden (per- allegiance is to atheistic Communism must be a new
haps already taken place by the time this article lowl
ATHA.lVASIAN 6 APRIL 15,
Fr. Francis E. Fenton
very once in a while the thought occurs to me that I power in relation to the immoral act in question is eventually
should write a cheerful or optimistic article in this neutralized. While the example of sexual immorality, be-
newsletter on some aspect of the national situation or cause of its nature and because it is today so rampant and so
current events. Whatever else it might accomplish, it would utterly gross in this country, is probably the best here, other
at least, I figure, be good for the morale of the readership. examples of the extreme moral decadence of our nation can
But such an article never materializes for the simple reason readily be cited to make the same point: abortion, drugs, dis-
that I see or know nothing of substance about which I could honesty, etc. And the point is: how can America survive
honestly write even a few encouraging lines or paragraphs. If when multitudes of its citizens are immersed on so vast a
there is a bright spot anywhere this side of Heaven, if there is scale in such depths of moral corruption as is cmTently the
some situation or development anywhere which offers sound situation on the American scene? How can a people, so in-
reason for hope-I assuredly am not aware of it. different to the moral law of God and so absorbed in the
pursuit of sensual pleasure and power and things material
"America will never be conquered from without but from and self-interest, have the will (much less the stamina) to
within." (Abraham Lincoln) "We will not have to attack It resist the atheistic, militant and utterly ruthless enemy of
will fall like overripe fruit into our hands." (Lenin) These Communism which is hell-bent at all cost to conquer and to
statements, usually attributed to Lincoln and Lenin, indicate enslave the USA? The Dimple but stark fact is that they will
the more likely manner in which the conquest of the USA not have that will to resist because it will have been neu-
would be accomplished, not by direct military invasion but tralized or killed by the poison of moral corruption with
by a process of boring or destruction from within. After all, which America is so deeply and extensively contaminated-
why should the Reds bring about the overthrow of the USA with the result that vast numbers of its population will prefer
militarily when the same objective can be achieved otherwise to live in slavery in the New World Order rather than to die
while leaving this country more or less physically intact? in testimony to God and in defense of freedom.
And how is this nonmilitary conquest of America being real-
ized-and already far advanced? Primarily, I submit, in three (2) And then there is the destruction of America from within
ways: moral corruption, Communist infiltration and Amer- which is being accomplished by way of Communist infiltra-
ican betrayal. tion and subversion. The Lord alone knows how many Com-
munists there are in this country at the present time but
(1) It is said that, in the course of history, 19 civilizations their number is substantial and ever increasing, to say
have eventually collapsed as a consequence of prolonged nothing of the far, far greater number of their dupes and
and rampant indulgence by a substantial number of the fellow travelers who are aiding and abetting the Red cause in
population in immorality of every conceivable kind. One one way or another. Through the United Nations, cultural
wonders how much further down the road and how much exchanges, trade and diplomatic and military delegations,
time remains before a similar collapse becomes a most tragic illegal entry, etc., the USA is today being infiltrated and sub-
reality for our civilization in general and for the USA in verted by Communist agents and spies to a degree far
particular. The overwhelming rejection of the sovereignty of beyond any previous activity of this nature. (It is estimated,
God and the brazen disregard or denial of His eternal law on incidentally, that there may be as many as 20 million illegal
the part of multitudes of Americans-this is so common a aliens presently residing in this country. One would be very
feature on the American scene today in one form or another naive to suppose that among that vast number there are no
that it appears at times next to impossible to escape its hard-core Reds who have illegally entered the USA over our
pernicious influence. Seemingly, nothing is sacred, virtue now largely uncontrolled borders.) And so, while the Ameri-
and morality and principle and character are concepts of a can taxpayer pays billions of dollars a year to build and
bygone era, anything goes-and the devil is in the driver's maintain a military defense against Communism, countless
seat But just as surely as death follows life, a day of dedicated agents of that criminal conspiracy are incessantly
reckoning is on its way for God will not be endlessly mocked at work to bring down this country from within-and the vast
with impunity. majority of the American people haven't the foggiest notion
of all this, much less of the gruesome future in store for them
One of the several evil consequences of immoral.ity is a weak- if this country goes under.
ening of the will, especially so if it involves a habitual sin and,
perhaps most especially, if it be habitual sexual immorality. (3) The third major factor contributing to the nonmilitary
The more an individual, for example, engages in a particular conquest of the USA is its betrayal by those who are sup-
form of illicit sexual activity, the more that person becomes posedly on the side of America and the free world. While
addicted to it and so the more easily he falls again. In other this betrayal is manifest in many areas (business, education,
words, his will to resist becomes progressively weaker with the media, the Churches), it is especially so-and especially
each repetition of the particular immoral practice-and, if ruinous-in the area of the American government where
such indulgence continues uncurbed, the individual's will pro-Communism is now pretty much the order of the day.
THE ATHANASIAN 7 APRIL 15, 1989
as Americans-and
appropriate
political power and
rrrn,n,.,nmnnr are not (with precious
nevvs1etter [ made an
welfare of this my reason
it destruction and ""'""''"= one, with
Communism. The objec- seven percent readership respond-
tive is a One World government in which the USA comments on that appeared in the September
is nonexistent and wherein those who to along are issue. But, as the "if at first you
either enslaved or liquidated-and it is towards goal succeed, try, try again." And so I did in the news-
that the American government is perlidiously leading this letter (March 1, 1988) immediately preceding this
nation in myriad ways. In a word, the USA is sold out one. My approach this time was by way of a pledge
by its so-called political leaders in the levels of fom1. the response has been disappointing, ,
government-and that sellout is ever more open and so. As of this writing, some weeks have
The word for it is treason. copies of March 1 issue were
only 15 monthly totaling $285.00,
Moral conuption, Communist infiltration and be- have received. While a of subscribers do
trayal-these are the three major factors contributing to the contribute either regularly or occasionally, several
conquest of nation from within. Nor is there any solid hundred (the vast majority) do not any contribu-
indication at present of any slackening of in the tion-and it was to them that the monthly pledge re-
incalculable destruction they are inflicting upon America. If quest was directed. To repeat, pledges were re-
there were any such indication, that in itself would be reason ceived-a two percent response to my appeal.
for at least some optimism. But the contrary is the
case. Moral conuption continues to increa'ie, Communist in- not understand. We many
filtration becomes ever easier to carry out and treason is now commend in the highest
"respectable." How long more will it be before this nation tenns yet, when I ask for some financial assistance
reaches the point no return-or already sufficient to cover our TCA and newsletter expenses,
been reached? I have complete trust in the wisdom the response I receive is, well, quite dismal. If The
and goodness and mercy of God, I refuse to lose and to Att.,nni1s1r,rn is (to mention some adjectives used
despair but, from a human perspective, I a very dim to describe it in the maii we receive) so "great" and
view indeed of the not-so-distant future in to the sur- "fine" and "excellent" and even "superb," why has the
vival of the and what's left of the free world. t response been so pathetically poor to my fund appeals
last year and this year? I do not know.
F Fenton
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