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None Dare Call It Treason
None dare call it Treason is a careful compilation of facts from hundreds of Congressional investigations of communism and dozens of authoritative books on the communist-socialist conspiracy to enslave America.
It dissects the failures of the Eisenhower Administration just as effectively as it details the blunders of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson. It documents the concurrent decay in America's schools, churches, and press which has conditioned the American people to accept 20 years of retreat in the face of the communist enemy. You won't finish None Dare Call It Treason without concluding that America is in serious trouble.
It dissects the failures of the Eisenhower Administration just as effectively as it details the blunders of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson. It documents the concurrent decay in America's schools, churches, and press which has conditioned the American people to accept 20 years of retreat in the face of the communist enemy. You won't finish None Dare Call It Treason without concluding that America is in serious trouble.
255 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1964
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John A. Stormer
12 books12 followersProminent American anti-communist author, Protestant pastor, and head of the Liberty Bell Press.
Stormer's main book, None Dare Call It Treason, argued that America was losing the cold war because it was being betrayed by its elites, who were pro-communist. It was published in 1964 and sold over one million copies in the first six months.
In 1989, he wrote that perestroika and glasnost were merely Soviet propaganda tools.
Stormer's main book, None Dare Call It Treason, argued that America was losing the cold war because it was being betrayed by its elites, who were pro-communist. It was published in 1964 and sold over one million copies in the first six months.
In 1989, he wrote that perestroika and glasnost were merely Soviet propaganda tools.
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December 16, 2012
John Stormer represents an American subculture from the Cold War that is today understudied and often forgotten, but which was probably larger than many of the more accepted intellectual sub-cultures beloved of historians. Like many Americans of the day, Stormer perceived a world in which traditional American values were in transition while a new superpower arose Eurasia, and connected the two in an ideology of anti-Communism. Stormer's book reflects this strong belief in conservative Christian values, and in the most panicked varieties of anti-Communism. In Stormer's narrative, Joseph McCarthy was not an opportunistic Senator making indiscriminate attacks on innocent people to further his own political survival; rather, he was a martyr to the defense of America, destroyed by a liberal press and political machine supported by financing from foreign powers.
Stormer may be of especial interest to historians of the period, because unlike many similar writers, he represents the general trend of anti-Communism without falling into one or other of the more obvious “extremist” trends of the period, such as the John Birch Society or the National States Rights Party, much less the KKK or American Nazi Party; Stormer never endorses racist or terrorist positions. This is not to say, however, that his narrative is without any implications for civil rights. He accuses school textbooks which decry the false patriotism of the Klan as being involved in the conspiracy to teach children to hate Americanism, and frequently links Civil Rights activism with Communist subversion. It is these kinds of subtleties that make Stormer’s book worthwhile for anyone trying to understand US politics, and especially conservatism, of the period.
As a source, obviously, Stormer has to be taken with rather more than a grain of salt. Although he has arranged an impressive array of citations, most of these are from Congressional hearings organized for the purposes of gathering hearsay, and his extensive list of places in which the Soviet Union made inroads ignores US support for violent and often undemocratic anti-Communist regimes. Clearly, the world wasn’t as close to Communist domination in 1964 as Stormer and his ilk believed, or else the Soviet system wouldn’t have collapsed in 1989. As we proceed into an unknown future, historians and analysts of current events would do well to remember that our worst fears sometimes turn out to be shadows of our own insecurities.
Stormer may be of especial interest to historians of the period, because unlike many similar writers, he represents the general trend of anti-Communism without falling into one or other of the more obvious “extremist” trends of the period, such as the John Birch Society or the National States Rights Party, much less the KKK or American Nazi Party; Stormer never endorses racist or terrorist positions. This is not to say, however, that his narrative is without any implications for civil rights. He accuses school textbooks which decry the false patriotism of the Klan as being involved in the conspiracy to teach children to hate Americanism, and frequently links Civil Rights activism with Communist subversion. It is these kinds of subtleties that make Stormer’s book worthwhile for anyone trying to understand US politics, and especially conservatism, of the period.
As a source, obviously, Stormer has to be taken with rather more than a grain of salt. Although he has arranged an impressive array of citations, most of these are from Congressional hearings organized for the purposes of gathering hearsay, and his extensive list of places in which the Soviet Union made inroads ignores US support for violent and often undemocratic anti-Communist regimes. Clearly, the world wasn’t as close to Communist domination in 1964 as Stormer and his ilk believed, or else the Soviet system wouldn’t have collapsed in 1989. As we proceed into an unknown future, historians and analysts of current events would do well to remember that our worst fears sometimes turn out to be shadows of our own insecurities.
January 7, 2025
"Events since World War II have developed largely according to plan." Whose plan? Communists and globalists. This anti-communist tract is the product of a patriot of the old republic's grappling with what had become of his country in the postwar New World Order. John A. Stormer starts out by differentiating revolutionary communists and gradualist Fabians. The latter strategy is the more relevant one in today's world.
He exposes the leftist fiction that the US government was uniformly anti-communist right-wingers during the Cold War. Those people most certainly were not – they were globalists. Doubtless admiring the ruthless totalitarianism of the Soviet Union, they aided and abetted communism to hold up as a boogeyman justifying their creation of a one-world government. The globalists oversaw the transfer of the power of the constitutional government of the US to an unaccountable patchwork deep state of agencies, departments, and bureaus, ultimately intended to cede all control to an international socialist government controlled by cosmopolitan technocrats.
Some of the book is dated, but much is still relevant today, or at least of historical interest. Soviet-style communism is largely dead as a force of evil now, but the Fabian approach has been universally embraced by the globalist elite. Stormer details the progressive infiltration and subversion of many fields, including education, religion, the press, psychiatry, and NGOs. Unfortunately he does not address another major area: the "Civil Rights" movement, in full swing at the time of writing. MLK was a fellow traveler, his handler and speechwriter was a Jewish communist, and the whole movement was riddled with communists and Zionists.
He exposes the leftist fiction that the US government was uniformly anti-communist right-wingers during the Cold War. Those people most certainly were not – they were globalists. Doubtless admiring the ruthless totalitarianism of the Soviet Union, they aided and abetted communism to hold up as a boogeyman justifying their creation of a one-world government. The globalists oversaw the transfer of the power of the constitutional government of the US to an unaccountable patchwork deep state of agencies, departments, and bureaus, ultimately intended to cede all control to an international socialist government controlled by cosmopolitan technocrats.
Some of the book is dated, but much is still relevant today, or at least of historical interest. Soviet-style communism is largely dead as a force of evil now, but the Fabian approach has been universally embraced by the globalist elite. Stormer details the progressive infiltration and subversion of many fields, including education, religion, the press, psychiatry, and NGOs. Unfortunately he does not address another major area: the "Civil Rights" movement, in full swing at the time of writing. MLK was a fellow traveler, his handler and speechwriter was a Jewish communist, and the whole movement was riddled with communists and Zionists.
September 13, 2018
Bad news, folks! The Abu Dhabi plan was a bust! Turns out YOUR PRESIDENT can’t even waterboard his own staff with all the RED tape and regulations they got around this place, buncha bleedin’ hearts singin’ Kumbaya. I told Sarah Sanders to get on the floor and make a base for one of them human pyramids, and that two-faced block of lumber just walked outta the room, didn’t say a word. RUDE! I tell ya I just wasn’t made for swampland, I belong out there in the desert where anything goes, you think those guys whacked Osama by saying please and thank you? Guess again!! I gotta be honest with you people, things are gettin’ real bad around here. Seems like everyone’s plotting against me, I got the whole deep state right here under this roof, they’re all tryin’ to throw this investigation off the rails, just wanna talk my head off about some big-dick storm or something, BOO-FUCKIN’-HOO, go buy an UMBRELLA, snowflakes! I got Melania yappin’ in my ear trying to haul me to bed, like I’m supposed to sleep when that Resistance Rat’s still running free in MY HOUSE. Seems like even Barron’s been extra odd lately. I gave him that dog leash Pete bought yesterday, told him go jump some rope or something, I ain’t gonna need it now. What a disappointment. You know, when I think about the COWARDLY attack on this terrific nation 17 years ago today, and I remember those two tall, beautiful towers tumbling like a stack of toothpicks, and all the stuff that George and Dick did to keep this great country safe from Saddam and ISIS and the rest, I get so jealous of those guys you wouldn’t believe it, I mean those two could get away with anything. Things just ain’t the same today. No loyalty, no nerve. It’s just like it says in this book, everywhere you look there’s commie spies gettin’ their jollies off to Crazy Bernie. My hands are tied, folks! I read this book and I thought boy I wish Uncle Roy was here, I really do, he’d know what to do, he’d help me find who wrote that article. But all I got is Pete and a cabinet full of backstabbers and dipsticks, like that hick Pompeo. Guy calls me up today, wants to talk about Iran or something. I told him go fuck a cow.
January 7, 2024
Every political football getting kicked around today has its roots in what John Stormer wrote in this book 59 years ago. Education, Nuclear Family Disintegration, Racism, Religion's Role in Society, Sexism, Socialism, Everything.
It is extremely well indexed and noted. Even the most virulent opponent of Stormer and his book should admit that if they are being honest. Then again, after you read about how the Media willingly compromised itself even then, I'm not sure any opponent of this book could admit that the sky is blue and water is wet.
I especially recommend the chapter on Education. The role John Dewey played in establishing indoctrination over education is the cornerstone of why so many students are barely functional and how teachers have been absolutely lied to over the last century when it comes to their students. The fact that he started this garbage in Chicago cannot be overlooked.
NOTE: When looking for this book, make sure the author is John Stormer. There are at least two others with the same title written by different authors. There is also an updated, 25-year anniversary edition by Stormer.
FIND IT! BUY IT! READ IT!
It is extremely well indexed and noted. Even the most virulent opponent of Stormer and his book should admit that if they are being honest. Then again, after you read about how the Media willingly compromised itself even then, I'm not sure any opponent of this book could admit that the sky is blue and water is wet.
I especially recommend the chapter on Education. The role John Dewey played in establishing indoctrination over education is the cornerstone of why so many students are barely functional and how teachers have been absolutely lied to over the last century when it comes to their students. The fact that he started this garbage in Chicago cannot be overlooked.
NOTE: When looking for this book, make sure the author is John Stormer. There are at least two others with the same title written by different authors. There is also an updated, 25-year anniversary edition by Stormer.
FIND IT! BUY IT! READ IT!
March 17, 2009
Interesting look at the development of America and her politics thru the eyes of an ultra conservative.
November 9, 2017
One star for content (the Dulles Brothers are commies in this bat shit crazy screed) but 4 or 5 for this humorous example of the “paranoid style” in American politics.
December 17, 2017
This book is MILD compared to the treason that is going on now. The book is excellent and all of the chapters are interesting and applicable to all of our lives. The book discusses communism for real and strips away any illusions. Most of the chapters create a further interest to delve deeply in to the problems. E.g, the lies of the communist press. Reading more books on the subject, as well as searching great, politically incorrect websites, tapes, blogs, pamphlets, etc, will reveal that there has been no freedom of the press since 1914! Among the good websites I have found is: jesus-is-savior.com. On this website, we learn that liberals have been demanding that we believe what is evil, untrue, mythological, anti-family, unpatriotic, internationalist and that we believe a united nations is good for mankind. We learn that left wingers are EVIL and serving satan. Liberals try to close our mouths when we are guaranteed free speech by our U.S. Constitution. We are told that the dictionary is not true and that their perversions are true. E.g, "gay" means light-hearted, merry. "Gay" doesn't mean serial murdering, child abusing, fecal eating, urine drinking, disease ridden, disease spreading sodomites: Gen 13:13, 19:1-29, 1Kings 15:11-12, 2Kings 23:7, Leviticus 18:22, 20:9, 13, 15; Isaiah 1:18, 5:20-23; Romans 1, 2; Revelation 20:10-15, 21:8, 22:15; Proverbs 10:27, 31; 13:13, etc.
Another chapter deals with education. We conclude that the PTA does no good. Leftists have an agenda and nothing deviates from the agenda. The public schools brainwash children and never expose the evils of the world. It is worse now with the lies of "climate change", "animal rights", environmental eco-terror and so on.
Another chapter deals with economics. I first learned from None Dare Call It Treason that we have been lied to. FDR was NOT a great president. FDR was a vicious communist, and even admitted to having friends whom were communists. One knows a person by the people he associates with! FDR did NOT lead us out of the great depression. He made it worse.
About the only matters that Mr. Stormer did not know about was the Jesuits and the international bankers. The Jesuits control immigration. our Founding Fathers intended the United States to only allow immigrants who would improve the condition, culture, fabric and well-being of the United States of America. They never intended to commit treason by normalizing illegal immigrants, bandits, murderers, drug addicts, childnappers, drunkards and those who did not want to become Americans. Also, the international bankers owned Woodrow Wilson. Wilson created the Federal reserve, which is TREASON. The Federal reserve {Fed} is NOT a government agency. Our Constitution says "Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof". Our currency is to be backed by gold and silver. The bankers tried to destroy this all along. "The one sure thing about paper money is that it will become worthless." None Dare Call it Treason is a great book, as it is a worthy introduction in the vast study of what is good and what is evil.
Another chapter deals with education. We conclude that the PTA does no good. Leftists have an agenda and nothing deviates from the agenda. The public schools brainwash children and never expose the evils of the world. It is worse now with the lies of "climate change", "animal rights", environmental eco-terror and so on.
Another chapter deals with economics. I first learned from None Dare Call It Treason that we have been lied to. FDR was NOT a great president. FDR was a vicious communist, and even admitted to having friends whom were communists. One knows a person by the people he associates with! FDR did NOT lead us out of the great depression. He made it worse.
About the only matters that Mr. Stormer did not know about was the Jesuits and the international bankers. The Jesuits control immigration. our Founding Fathers intended the United States to only allow immigrants who would improve the condition, culture, fabric and well-being of the United States of America. They never intended to commit treason by normalizing illegal immigrants, bandits, murderers, drug addicts, childnappers, drunkards and those who did not want to become Americans. Also, the international bankers owned Woodrow Wilson. Wilson created the Federal reserve, which is TREASON. The Federal reserve {Fed} is NOT a government agency. Our Constitution says "Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof". Our currency is to be backed by gold and silver. The bankers tried to destroy this all along. "The one sure thing about paper money is that it will become worthless." None Dare Call it Treason is a great book, as it is a worthy introduction in the vast study of what is good and what is evil.
October 3, 2016
One stunning revelation after another, wow! The psychological, economic, atheist, class warfare tactics and propaganda of socialists-communists are not new to this generation. America has been poisoned for more than a century. And the enemy within and without is >this< close to reaching its ambitions : the end of individual freedom and individual rights. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are in great danger.
Must read!
This edition is 1964 but Stormer updated it twenty years later. I'll be reading that as well!
Must read!
This edition is 1964 but Stormer updated it twenty years later. I'll be reading that as well!
May 16, 2012
Though written in 1964 for the Cold War era, the effects of the infiltration of socialism/communism are still in America and are continuing to endanger our beloved freedoms and Constitution and families. This book can be viewed also as an expose(?) at the danger associated with the Occupy movement. We must stop the continual infiltration and growth of socialism/communism! A must read for every American who wants America to remain the great republic it was designed to be.
December 19, 2018
Cold War Conservative Classic: Author claims that Communists are infiltrating US diplomacy and the Education without going too much into the deep end.
June 13, 2021
In NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON, John Stormer makes the bold claim that anyone not partaking of a pure America-first, right-wing, conservative politics, is effectively a tool of the Communists. Oh, he is very careful to say that some people are not consciously agents of the Soviets or Red China or whatever, because to say that of Dwight Eisenhower (five-star general! President!) or Allen Dulles (director of the CIA!) would be, you know, insane. Concluding, from things not turning out in Eastern Europe or China or Korea the way John Stormer would have liked, that the United States was sabotaged by Communists or commie-simps; well, that's just non-partisan patriotic logic!
Okay, but for all that, the book is interesting as a historical and critical-thinking exercise.
Stormer manages to hit on some fair points, in the sense that hitting a broad side of an aircraft hangar counts as accuracy. It is maybe not fully acknowledged how many Western intellectuals really wanted the Soviet Union to be a new and improved society, to the point where they would rationalize the blatant early failures of the Soviet system. The earlier Fabian socialists in Britain, too, had quite a few "big oof" notions, though Stormer myopically fails to quote any of them. The Russians did try to subvert Westerners and Western organizations. The VENONA cables (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_...), declassified in the Nineties, showed that some people really were working for the Russians, when previous evidence had been on the scanty side. He also makes a fair, if not very specific, critique of the news media favoring "access" over telling hard truths, which is better than whining about "liberal bias" or whatever (though he does that too).
But Stormer's research methods of taking J. Edgar Hoover's word as Gospel and agreeing with the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations whenever they accused someone of being a Communist agent, is not the way to do it. And in some ways he cedes ground to the Soviets by blindly asserting that any point of agreement with the Soviets means Soviet capture - way too much power for a system that allegedly can't work and can't sustain itself. And ultimately, if you take notes, Stormer seems to focus mainly on a small handful of alleged Communist agents, which weakens his wilder claims about broad and sustained acquiescence to the Communist menace. He also has a laughable view of history, as if the United States could have unilaterally prevented the loss of China, Korea, Cuba, the Warsaw Pact countries, various African states, etc. to Communism. Even in the wildest imperial-power fever dream that's like a pick-one scenario.
Oh, and if you're looking for some right-wing bigotry in the guise of anti-communism, it's here! Stormer isn't exactly the obvious racist you'd expect, this being the time of George "segregation now, segregation forever" Wallace and so on, but he will speculate on cannibalism in Africa and whitewash the racist motivations of various actors and policies. That's bad!
1.5 stars rounded down. Mildly important "paranoid style" literature of the burgeoning conservative movement, but skip it unless you're very interested.
Okay, but for all that, the book is interesting as a historical and critical-thinking exercise.
Stormer manages to hit on some fair points, in the sense that hitting a broad side of an aircraft hangar counts as accuracy. It is maybe not fully acknowledged how many Western intellectuals really wanted the Soviet Union to be a new and improved society, to the point where they would rationalize the blatant early failures of the Soviet system. The earlier Fabian socialists in Britain, too, had quite a few "big oof" notions, though Stormer myopically fails to quote any of them. The Russians did try to subvert Westerners and Western organizations. The VENONA cables (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_...), declassified in the Nineties, showed that some people really were working for the Russians, when previous evidence had been on the scanty side. He also makes a fair, if not very specific, critique of the news media favoring "access" over telling hard truths, which is better than whining about "liberal bias" or whatever (though he does that too).
But Stormer's research methods of taking J. Edgar Hoover's word as Gospel and agreeing with the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations whenever they accused someone of being a Communist agent, is not the way to do it. And in some ways he cedes ground to the Soviets by blindly asserting that any point of agreement with the Soviets means Soviet capture - way too much power for a system that allegedly can't work and can't sustain itself. And ultimately, if you take notes, Stormer seems to focus mainly on a small handful of alleged Communist agents, which weakens his wilder claims about broad and sustained acquiescence to the Communist menace. He also has a laughable view of history, as if the United States could have unilaterally prevented the loss of China, Korea, Cuba, the Warsaw Pact countries, various African states, etc. to Communism. Even in the wildest imperial-power fever dream that's like a pick-one scenario.
Oh, and if you're looking for some right-wing bigotry in the guise of anti-communism, it's here! Stormer isn't exactly the obvious racist you'd expect, this being the time of George "segregation now, segregation forever" Wallace and so on, but he will speculate on cannibalism in Africa and whitewash the racist motivations of various actors and policies. That's bad!
1.5 stars rounded down. Mildly important "paranoid style" literature of the burgeoning conservative movement, but skip it unless you're very interested.
December 23, 2019
This book, an anti-communist jeremiad by John Birch Society luminary John A. Stormer, is interesting because of what it doesn’t tell the reader. I’ll cite examples below.
Stormer is intent throughout the work in making a case that communists had infiltrated the U.S. government at the highest levels and were being facilitated by various politicians, bureaucrats and military personnel.
One of his complaints is that an anti-communist Yugoslav general, Andrija Artuković, was challenged and investigated when he applied for asylum to the U.S. He doesn’t tell his readers why.
Artuković was a member of Croatia’s Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Movement. The Ustaša (pronounced “Ustashe”) were Nazi allies and collaborators in World War II, and were directly responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of Jews, Serbs, and Roma in Yugoslavia. They were horrendously sadistic and vicious in their executions, resorting to torture and dismemberment of their victims. Artuković was alleged to be a war criminal.
So what happened to Artuković? 26 years after this book was published he was arrested by Ronald Reagan’s Department of Justice and eventually deported to Yugoslavia. There he was tried and found guilty for war crimes during the war. Such as ordering the deaths of a lawyer as well former member of the Yugoslav National Assembly, Dr. Ješa Vidiće. Artuković ordered that 450 men, women and children to be machine gunned. He issued orders that the entire population of the town of Vrginmost and the villages nearby be wiped out. Artuković ordered the execution of hundreds of prisoners held at Samobor Castle. He had them driven into an open field and machine-gunned. They were then crushed by tanks.
As a congressman Stormer had to know of the war crimes allegations against Artuković. He’s dishonest in merely saying Artuković was an “anti-communist”. Either that or Stormer favored fascist war criminals coming to live in America.
Stormer also went after Irving Peress, an Army Major during the Korean War who served stateside. It was discovered Peress had once voted for the American Labor Party. Stormer doesn’t mention this, saying rather that Peress was a member of the Communist Party.
What he also doesn’t tell the reader is that Peress was nothing more than a dentist. A simple military dentist.
Even though Peress’s Chief Dental Surgeon reported that Peress had no access to classified information and had been monitored without finding anything suspicious about him, Senator Joe McCarthy targeted him and his camp commander, Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker. At one point McCarthy told Zwicker he had the intelligence of “a 5-year-old child“ and that he was "not fit to wear that uniform”.
The backlash was immense at this abuse of a decorated war hero. Zwicker had won the Silver Star, three Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, the Croix De Guerre with Palm, the Légion Of Honor. Four nations allied to the United States had decorated him for valor. It was a terrible mistake among many, and contributed to McCarthy’s downfall.
McCarthy died of alcoholism a few years later. His crusade was so vitriolic and unjust that some conservatives said he’d hurt the anti-communist cause.
Stormer doesn’t mention that, either. To use his own words, this is “distortion by omission”.
But what stood out for me was that Stormer actually crafted this sentence:
“[McCarthy] drew unprovable, although logical conclusions from accumulations of damning and uncontested facts.”
To the reader I’d suggest that if his conclusions were unprovable, his “uncontested facts” were anything but true and uncontested. A statement of fact can indeed be false. Note that it was once a fact that the sun circled the Earth. That is now an amply refuted fringe view held only by conspiracy theorists.
But that is what Stormer and the Birchers were—conspiracy theorists whose “Grand Theory Of Monolithic Communism” (my title for it) is demonstrably silly and was outrageously harmful. They ruined lives with their unfounded smear tactics.
In the book Stormer correctly cites the huge casualty rates in the Hellish Chinese and North Korean prison camps in which American troops were interred during the Korean War. He then blames the troops, essentially saying they were weak, selfish and immoral.
Note that Stormer held a desk job during the war. He didn’t serve in combat arms.
Stormer warns of the decline of American morality on page 131. The cause, of course, is communism’s alleged infiltration of the Christian Church.
He wrote this about twelve years before two highly placed John Birch Society members fell from grace. General Edwin Walker-one of Stormer’s heroes- was arrested and charged twice for lewd behavior after he propositioned undercover officers in men’s public restrooms. Pastor Billy James Hargis was scandalized when it was revealed he’d been seducing male students at the institution he founded and of which he was president, American Christian College. David Noebel, the college’s Vice President and himself a John Birch Society member, confirmed that three men had reported their trysts with Hargis. The college closed soon after.
The irony drips. Stormer’s hero, Joe McCarthy, ruined the lives of gay men and women during the “Lavender Scare”, a moral panic that paralleled and intersected McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade. McCarthy linked gays and communism. He told reporters once, “If you want to be against McCarthy, boys, you've got to be either a Communist or a ****sucker.”
Note that Roy Cohn, McCarthy’s Chief Counsel of his subcommittee and fellow commie hunter, was gay. He died of AIDS in 1986.
Stormer’s racism comes out on page 158 when he refers to Africans as “cannibals”.
On page 170 he takes an anti-communist quote by author Arthur Schlesinger and frames it as if it were pro-communist.
On page 171 he describes a political tactic used by unions. Using italics he suggests its sneaky and underhanded. The tactic: Getting voters to the polls.
How dare they?
Yet he advocates this very thing on page 233-234 along with a quote from Abraham Lincoln, “...on election days see that every Whig is brought to the polls.”
The first chapter of Stormer’s book is titled “Have we gone crazy?” The answer is “yes”. Stormer and his ilk went crazy.
This is a silly propaganda piece, dripping with conspiracies that didn’t exist, all disproven by subsequent events. It is intellectually and morally indefensible.
Stormer is intent throughout the work in making a case that communists had infiltrated the U.S. government at the highest levels and were being facilitated by various politicians, bureaucrats and military personnel.
One of his complaints is that an anti-communist Yugoslav general, Andrija Artuković, was challenged and investigated when he applied for asylum to the U.S. He doesn’t tell his readers why.
Artuković was a member of Croatia’s Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Movement. The Ustaša (pronounced “Ustashe”) were Nazi allies and collaborators in World War II, and were directly responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of Jews, Serbs, and Roma in Yugoslavia. They were horrendously sadistic and vicious in their executions, resorting to torture and dismemberment of their victims. Artuković was alleged to be a war criminal.
So what happened to Artuković? 26 years after this book was published he was arrested by Ronald Reagan’s Department of Justice and eventually deported to Yugoslavia. There he was tried and found guilty for war crimes during the war. Such as ordering the deaths of a lawyer as well former member of the Yugoslav National Assembly, Dr. Ješa Vidiće. Artuković ordered that 450 men, women and children to be machine gunned. He issued orders that the entire population of the town of Vrginmost and the villages nearby be wiped out. Artuković ordered the execution of hundreds of prisoners held at Samobor Castle. He had them driven into an open field and machine-gunned. They were then crushed by tanks.
As a congressman Stormer had to know of the war crimes allegations against Artuković. He’s dishonest in merely saying Artuković was an “anti-communist”. Either that or Stormer favored fascist war criminals coming to live in America.
Stormer also went after Irving Peress, an Army Major during the Korean War who served stateside. It was discovered Peress had once voted for the American Labor Party. Stormer doesn’t mention this, saying rather that Peress was a member of the Communist Party.
What he also doesn’t tell the reader is that Peress was nothing more than a dentist. A simple military dentist.
Even though Peress’s Chief Dental Surgeon reported that Peress had no access to classified information and had been monitored without finding anything suspicious about him, Senator Joe McCarthy targeted him and his camp commander, Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker. At one point McCarthy told Zwicker he had the intelligence of “a 5-year-old child“ and that he was "not fit to wear that uniform”.
The backlash was immense at this abuse of a decorated war hero. Zwicker had won the Silver Star, three Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, the Croix De Guerre with Palm, the Légion Of Honor. Four nations allied to the United States had decorated him for valor. It was a terrible mistake among many, and contributed to McCarthy’s downfall.
McCarthy died of alcoholism a few years later. His crusade was so vitriolic and unjust that some conservatives said he’d hurt the anti-communist cause.
Stormer doesn’t mention that, either. To use his own words, this is “distortion by omission”.
But what stood out for me was that Stormer actually crafted this sentence:
“[McCarthy] drew unprovable, although logical conclusions from accumulations of damning and uncontested facts.”
To the reader I’d suggest that if his conclusions were unprovable, his “uncontested facts” were anything but true and uncontested. A statement of fact can indeed be false. Note that it was once a fact that the sun circled the Earth. That is now an amply refuted fringe view held only by conspiracy theorists.
But that is what Stormer and the Birchers were—conspiracy theorists whose “Grand Theory Of Monolithic Communism” (my title for it) is demonstrably silly and was outrageously harmful. They ruined lives with their unfounded smear tactics.
In the book Stormer correctly cites the huge casualty rates in the Hellish Chinese and North Korean prison camps in which American troops were interred during the Korean War. He then blames the troops, essentially saying they were weak, selfish and immoral.
Note that Stormer held a desk job during the war. He didn’t serve in combat arms.
Stormer warns of the decline of American morality on page 131. The cause, of course, is communism’s alleged infiltration of the Christian Church.
He wrote this about twelve years before two highly placed John Birch Society members fell from grace. General Edwin Walker-one of Stormer’s heroes- was arrested and charged twice for lewd behavior after he propositioned undercover officers in men’s public restrooms. Pastor Billy James Hargis was scandalized when it was revealed he’d been seducing male students at the institution he founded and of which he was president, American Christian College. David Noebel, the college’s Vice President and himself a John Birch Society member, confirmed that three men had reported their trysts with Hargis. The college closed soon after.
The irony drips. Stormer’s hero, Joe McCarthy, ruined the lives of gay men and women during the “Lavender Scare”, a moral panic that paralleled and intersected McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade. McCarthy linked gays and communism. He told reporters once, “If you want to be against McCarthy, boys, you've got to be either a Communist or a ****sucker.”
Note that Roy Cohn, McCarthy’s Chief Counsel of his subcommittee and fellow commie hunter, was gay. He died of AIDS in 1986.
Stormer’s racism comes out on page 158 when he refers to Africans as “cannibals”.
On page 170 he takes an anti-communist quote by author Arthur Schlesinger and frames it as if it were pro-communist.
On page 171 he describes a political tactic used by unions. Using italics he suggests its sneaky and underhanded. The tactic: Getting voters to the polls.
How dare they?
Yet he advocates this very thing on page 233-234 along with a quote from Abraham Lincoln, “...on election days see that every Whig is brought to the polls.”
The first chapter of Stormer’s book is titled “Have we gone crazy?” The answer is “yes”. Stormer and his ilk went crazy.
This is a silly propaganda piece, dripping with conspiracies that didn’t exist, all disproven by subsequent events. It is intellectually and morally indefensible.
November 20, 2016
You want to believe that the United States of America is solidly what it was founded to be: A Representative Republic, with a constitution and Bill of Rights.
Men and women have died for what we all believe this nation stands for. So I say with heavy heart that reading this book, that is over 50 years old, is dead in with what is happening that it makes you almost ill.
All you can do is have complete faith in Jesus Christ because you cannot have faith in anything else.
Men and women have died for what we all believe this nation stands for. So I say with heavy heart that reading this book, that is over 50 years old, is dead in with what is happening that it makes you almost ill.
All you can do is have complete faith in Jesus Christ because you cannot have faith in anything else.
August 15, 2020
This book written 1964 was a clear warning to where America was headed. Now 50 yrs later we are living what the author warned. Every American should read this book. Fascinating to read. A true history book that gives insight into the days we are currently living. Just as he states in the book often, we need to do our out research & reading to gain knowledge and then act on that knowledge or it’s just wasted.
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February 20, 2021I read this book in 1964 - I was 14 years old, and lived in a traditional Republican family, in a very Republican area. I was a Goldwater Girl, and, as you can tell from this book, a very right-wing person, as were my parents. When I went to college and met the first Democrats in my life, it took about a year of debating with my liberal roommate for me to change my mind. At that point, my parents told me I had been brainwashed!
November 27, 2021
I highly recommend None Dare Call it Treason!
This was an incredible read and opened my eyes to much of the evil hidden in plane sight caused and funded by many of the people in the United States government. You won’t finish reading this book without concluding that America is in serious trouble.
“The battle will be lost, not when freedom of speech is finally taken away, but when Americans become so “adjusted” or “conditioned” to “getting along with the group” that when they finally see the threatX they say “I can’t afford to be controversial”.
Time will run out for free men, when individuals read facts like those in this book, shrug their shoulders, and say “what can one person do?”” - None Dare Call It Treason
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth…is this the Kerr of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and o provide for it.” - Patrick Henry.
This book is a careful compilation of facts from hundreds of congressional investigations of communism and dozens of authoritative books on the progress of communist-social enslavement of America.
“It dissects the failures of the Eisenhower Administration just as effectively as it details the blinders of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson. It documents the concurrent decay in America’s schools, churches and press which has conditioned the American people to accept years of retreat in the face of the communist enemy.” - Back of the book
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight where there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.” - Winston Churchill
This was an incredible read and opened my eyes to much of the evil hidden in plane sight caused and funded by many of the people in the United States government. You won’t finish reading this book without concluding that America is in serious trouble.
“The battle will be lost, not when freedom of speech is finally taken away, but when Americans become so “adjusted” or “conditioned” to “getting along with the group” that when they finally see the threatX they say “I can’t afford to be controversial”.
Time will run out for free men, when individuals read facts like those in this book, shrug their shoulders, and say “what can one person do?”” - None Dare Call It Treason
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth…is this the Kerr of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and o provide for it.” - Patrick Henry.
This book is a careful compilation of facts from hundreds of congressional investigations of communism and dozens of authoritative books on the progress of communist-social enslavement of America.
“It dissects the failures of the Eisenhower Administration just as effectively as it details the blinders of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson. It documents the concurrent decay in America’s schools, churches and press which has conditioned the American people to accept years of retreat in the face of the communist enemy.” - Back of the book
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight where there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.” - Winston Churchill
June 1, 2019
Treason doth never prosper? What's the Reason?
For if it prosper none dare call it treason.
16th century quote from John Harrington, credited with inventing the flush toilet. Some say that "John" (for toilet) is he.
The book is primarily of historical interest now as documenting cold war right-wing anti-communist, but not necessarily extremist, worries in the early 1960s. Some of those worries resonate again (2019).
There were Communist spies in the State Department; see Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss, for example, and Communist spy defectors Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, for example, in Wikipedia.
Chambers's book "Witness" is on everyone's Top Nonfiction list and an easy five stars. The CIA web site has a review of a biography of Bentley: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-fo...
And there is the singular Morris Childs.
For if it prosper none dare call it treason.
16th century quote from John Harrington, credited with inventing the flush toilet. Some say that "John" (for toilet) is he.
The book is primarily of historical interest now as documenting cold war right-wing anti-communist, but not necessarily extremist, worries in the early 1960s. Some of those worries resonate again (2019).
There were Communist spies in the State Department; see Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss, for example, and Communist spy defectors Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, for example, in Wikipedia.
Chambers's book "Witness" is on everyone's Top Nonfiction list and an easy five stars. The CIA web site has a review of a biography of Bentley: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-fo...
And there is the singular Morris Childs.
February 22, 2021
In clearing out our bookshelves I found this gem that I guess my husband's ex might have had for a class back in the 60s; neither of us knew why we had it. I thought I'd read it to try to understand how the ultra-right thinks, but I couldn't. Did you know that communists "have infiltrated every conceivable sphere of activity: youth groups; radio, television, and motion picture industries; church, school..."? Churches? Really? At least the author's name is about right for it: Stormer. I can see him as a storm trooper in Nazi uniform. If you're able to get through this nasty diatribe you're a stronger person than I am.
December 2, 2022
Very unique historical perspective
January 7, 2024
This book is full of references and very illuminating.
March 21, 2017
Good to shake up your world view every once in a while.
August 2, 2008
Read right after None Dare Call it Conspiracay, 'cuz my mother had both books.
July 15, 2014
It seems to me that all the info in this book was put together to down grade the US. I do agree with some of the things concerning education though.
January 28, 2018
A John Birch Society publication. Long on footnotes. Interesting, but likely politically slanted.
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