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None Dare Call It Treason - 25 Years Later
25th Anniversary Edition of the 7 million copy bestseller.... Should America raise taxes to rebuild the collapsed Soviet economy, ignore Red advances ..... Russia ? ?
625 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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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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November 6, 2023
Overall a pretty good book with plenty of documentation about treason in high places of America. However, the author stands behind America's interventionist policies as if they are right, and to oppose them is being unpatriotic and standing with communists. That is a foolish and wrongheaded idea. The author also assumes the FBI and CIA are legitimate organizations, dedicated to protecting America. He needs to do some more research, as even by 1989 when this book was published, the nefarious activities of both organizations were well known.
July 10, 2016
One of the best books I have ever read (non-fiction-wise). So well researched, and so much information, that you really have to read it a few times to truly absorb it all.
March 12, 2025
A REPUBLICATION AND AN UPDATING OF THE ORIGINAL 1964 BOOK
John Stormer (1928-2018) wrote in the Preface to the 1992 paperback edition of this book (originally published in 1964), “Since writing the introduction … in 1989, much of the world has appeared to turn upside down. Experts say communism is dead. The media has declared that the Cold War is over. Thousands of Bibles and hundreds of Christian missionaries are flooding into Eastern Europe and Russia… Christian broadcasts are heard on government radio and TV stations. These dramatic and unprecedented changes are all reasons for hope and rejoining. At the same time, there are reasons for caution.
“As 1991 ended, communism, while appearing to wither in the Soviet Union, is alive and on the march in much of the rest of the world… freedom-loving conservatives in America still face major challenges. The leftists … who have dominated America’s schools, churches, press, labor unions, State Department, etc. for over 70 years are still in power… these American ‘liberals’ will cling to the dream of a one-world socialist state…” (Pg. v-vi) “Obviously, the warnings of [the original book]… are still relevant. This new edition has the same purpose as the original. It is not intended to forecast the future. It simply presents and documents some of the factual history of this century.” (Pg. viii)
Chapters 1-14 are a reprint of the original 1964 book. The Introduction, ‘Did Communism Die?’ is from 1992, and chapters 15-27 are added material from 1989.
He wrote in the 1992 Introduction, “If the changes in the Soviet Union are part of a cleverly planned and executed deception, what might be expected in the months and years ahead? If the ploy succeeds in getting enough of U.S. and western aid and investment to ease some of the tension and defuse citizen unrest, the ‘reformed’ communists can be expected to consolidate their forces and power and snuggle up close to western Europe and the United States as they move to the left. The leftward move in Europe and the U.S. could be accelerated by a recession or total economic collapse in the West. The Red goal?---gradual step-by-step economic and political merger of east and west into the one-world socialist system envisaged by Karl Marx 150 years ago… It the communists don’t succeed (or if the reformers are real), expect on-going ethnic violence, lots of turmoil and ultimate bloodshed and civil war.” (Pg. 27)
In Chapter 7 of the original book, he says, “The weapons of hate and fear by which the collectivists have moved a generation of Americans to sell their freedom and integrity for security would never have worked had American roots in basic Judaic-Christian traditions not first been severed. God could not be replaced by Government as the source of all blessings until moral concepts were first blurred.” (Pg. 183)
He notes, “The editors of Time selected the March 10, 1961 issue, to launch an attack on the anti-Communist John Birch Society. The charges of Robert Welch, the society’s founder, that [President] Dwight Eisenhower was a tool or a dupe of the Communists had first been published … eight months before during the 1960 Republican National Convention. Scattered left-wing organs reprinted the ‘expose.’ However, it was not until the charges against Welch and the John Birch Society were published in the February 25, 1961 issue of ‘People’s World,’ the official west coast Communist newspaper, that Time and hundreds of other newspapers and magazines picked the story up.” (Pg. 202-203)
He asks, “What is Keynesian economics? As collectivists have grabbed for control of the federal government they have skillfully used the ‘economic’ theories of John Maynard Keynes, a British Fabian economist, as the vehicle for BUYING the votes and support of the masses with THEIR OWN MONEY.” (Pg. 254)
He says of the Council on Foreign Relations, “its 1400 members control newspapers, magazines, and radio and TV networks, most of the large tax-exempt foundations, a host of other opinion molding groups and organizations, and the nation’s largest companies including U.S. Steel, AT&T, General Motors, du Pont, IBM and others. Despite its influence, the CFR is relatively unknown.” (Pg. 287)
In Chapter 15 (written in 1989), he notes, “[The original book] was read by 7 million Americans. The book and its warnings didn’t elect Barry Goldwater in the presidency in 1964 [he lost by a landslide]. But it did have an impact on people---and through them to the nation. Millions were awakened to the threat of communism. They became an important addition to the conservative revolution which elected Ronald Reagan and a Republican Senate sixteen years later.” (Pg. 319)
He asserts, “No one awakens to the communist threat and the consistent failures of American policy without asking, ‘Who or what is behind it all?’ Could some of those who make the tragic decisions and implement the wrong programs consistently be communists? Could decision makers be influenced by key advisers who are communists or communist sympathizers? Have high levels of government and positions of public influence and trust been infiltrated again as they were in the 1930s and 1940s? The answer to these vitally important questions is: We don’t know and we can’t know… because the internal security system which once gave the United States a semblance of a defense against communist infiltration and influence has been totally dismantled.” (Pg. 380)
He asks, “Why do so many American leaders, diplomats, legislators, educators, clergy and media people cling to the ‘evolving’ and ‘mellowing’ theories when the Communists’ own words and actions disprove their validity?... It is the result of a gigantic ‘conspiracy’---but it is a ‘conspiracy of shared values.’ … The foundational concepts from which these teachings stemmed permeated American universities from early in this Century. Millions of Americans were exposed to the teachings. The concepts were formalized into ‘The Humanist Manifesto’ in 1933. Its 15 affirmations or principles were produced by liberal intellectuals led by John Dewey, father of modern American education. They were amplified and expanded in ‘Humanist Manitesto II’ in 1973…” (Pg. 412-413)
He asserts, “For the last 140 years the battle has largely stemmed from a conflict between the two most widely distributed books of all history. One was completed 1900 years ago. The other is 140 years old. The on-going, world-wide, age-old battle for the hearts and minds and souls of men stems today from the conflict between the Holy Bible---the Word of God---and Karl Marx’s ‘Communist Manifesto.’” (Pg. 537)
The original book was published in 1964, when Goldwater ran for President. But its perceived ‘conspiracies’ now seem to have been unfulfilled ‘prophecies.’ Even the 1989 updates (with, for example, a gross exaggeration of the influence of the American Humanist Association) seem rather ‘dated.’ But Stormer was sincere in his concerns (he was ‘born again’ in 1965, and became a Baptist pastor), and the book’s 7 million readers attest to its influence, at the time it was written.
John Stormer (1928-2018) wrote in the Preface to the 1992 paperback edition of this book (originally published in 1964), “Since writing the introduction … in 1989, much of the world has appeared to turn upside down. Experts say communism is dead. The media has declared that the Cold War is over. Thousands of Bibles and hundreds of Christian missionaries are flooding into Eastern Europe and Russia… Christian broadcasts are heard on government radio and TV stations. These dramatic and unprecedented changes are all reasons for hope and rejoining. At the same time, there are reasons for caution.
“As 1991 ended, communism, while appearing to wither in the Soviet Union, is alive and on the march in much of the rest of the world… freedom-loving conservatives in America still face major challenges. The leftists … who have dominated America’s schools, churches, press, labor unions, State Department, etc. for over 70 years are still in power… these American ‘liberals’ will cling to the dream of a one-world socialist state…” (Pg. v-vi) “Obviously, the warnings of [the original book]… are still relevant. This new edition has the same purpose as the original. It is not intended to forecast the future. It simply presents and documents some of the factual history of this century.” (Pg. viii)
Chapters 1-14 are a reprint of the original 1964 book. The Introduction, ‘Did Communism Die?’ is from 1992, and chapters 15-27 are added material from 1989.
He wrote in the 1992 Introduction, “If the changes in the Soviet Union are part of a cleverly planned and executed deception, what might be expected in the months and years ahead? If the ploy succeeds in getting enough of U.S. and western aid and investment to ease some of the tension and defuse citizen unrest, the ‘reformed’ communists can be expected to consolidate their forces and power and snuggle up close to western Europe and the United States as they move to the left. The leftward move in Europe and the U.S. could be accelerated by a recession or total economic collapse in the West. The Red goal?---gradual step-by-step economic and political merger of east and west into the one-world socialist system envisaged by Karl Marx 150 years ago… It the communists don’t succeed (or if the reformers are real), expect on-going ethnic violence, lots of turmoil and ultimate bloodshed and civil war.” (Pg. 27)
In Chapter 7 of the original book, he says, “The weapons of hate and fear by which the collectivists have moved a generation of Americans to sell their freedom and integrity for security would never have worked had American roots in basic Judaic-Christian traditions not first been severed. God could not be replaced by Government as the source of all blessings until moral concepts were first blurred.” (Pg. 183)
He notes, “The editors of Time selected the March 10, 1961 issue, to launch an attack on the anti-Communist John Birch Society. The charges of Robert Welch, the society’s founder, that [President] Dwight Eisenhower was a tool or a dupe of the Communists had first been published … eight months before during the 1960 Republican National Convention. Scattered left-wing organs reprinted the ‘expose.’ However, it was not until the charges against Welch and the John Birch Society were published in the February 25, 1961 issue of ‘People’s World,’ the official west coast Communist newspaper, that Time and hundreds of other newspapers and magazines picked the story up.” (Pg. 202-203)
He asks, “What is Keynesian economics? As collectivists have grabbed for control of the federal government they have skillfully used the ‘economic’ theories of John Maynard Keynes, a British Fabian economist, as the vehicle for BUYING the votes and support of the masses with THEIR OWN MONEY.” (Pg. 254)
He says of the Council on Foreign Relations, “its 1400 members control newspapers, magazines, and radio and TV networks, most of the large tax-exempt foundations, a host of other opinion molding groups and organizations, and the nation’s largest companies including U.S. Steel, AT&T, General Motors, du Pont, IBM and others. Despite its influence, the CFR is relatively unknown.” (Pg. 287)
In Chapter 15 (written in 1989), he notes, “[The original book] was read by 7 million Americans. The book and its warnings didn’t elect Barry Goldwater in the presidency in 1964 [he lost by a landslide]. But it did have an impact on people---and through them to the nation. Millions were awakened to the threat of communism. They became an important addition to the conservative revolution which elected Ronald Reagan and a Republican Senate sixteen years later.” (Pg. 319)
He asserts, “No one awakens to the communist threat and the consistent failures of American policy without asking, ‘Who or what is behind it all?’ Could some of those who make the tragic decisions and implement the wrong programs consistently be communists? Could decision makers be influenced by key advisers who are communists or communist sympathizers? Have high levels of government and positions of public influence and trust been infiltrated again as they were in the 1930s and 1940s? The answer to these vitally important questions is: We don’t know and we can’t know… because the internal security system which once gave the United States a semblance of a defense against communist infiltration and influence has been totally dismantled.” (Pg. 380)
He asks, “Why do so many American leaders, diplomats, legislators, educators, clergy and media people cling to the ‘evolving’ and ‘mellowing’ theories when the Communists’ own words and actions disprove their validity?... It is the result of a gigantic ‘conspiracy’---but it is a ‘conspiracy of shared values.’ … The foundational concepts from which these teachings stemmed permeated American universities from early in this Century. Millions of Americans were exposed to the teachings. The concepts were formalized into ‘The Humanist Manifesto’ in 1933. Its 15 affirmations or principles were produced by liberal intellectuals led by John Dewey, father of modern American education. They were amplified and expanded in ‘Humanist Manitesto II’ in 1973…” (Pg. 412-413)
He asserts, “For the last 140 years the battle has largely stemmed from a conflict between the two most widely distributed books of all history. One was completed 1900 years ago. The other is 140 years old. The on-going, world-wide, age-old battle for the hearts and minds and souls of men stems today from the conflict between the Holy Bible---the Word of God---and Karl Marx’s ‘Communist Manifesto.’” (Pg. 537)
The original book was published in 1964, when Goldwater ran for President. But its perceived ‘conspiracies’ now seem to have been unfulfilled ‘prophecies.’ Even the 1989 updates (with, for example, a gross exaggeration of the influence of the American Humanist Association) seem rather ‘dated.’ But Stormer was sincere in his concerns (he was ‘born again’ in 1965, and became a Baptist pastor), and the book’s 7 million readers attest to its influence, at the time it was written.
October 5, 2018
A must read if you want to understand how our country has fallen.
February 8, 2021
Excellent book, rings as true then and more so now, highly recommend reading for any fellow patriot or concerned citizen.
January 12, 2026
An excellent survey of communist active measures. Very clearly written and describes events normally misrepresented to the modern public.
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May 1, 2009Political commentary,rightwing crackpot
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December 2, 2017A rare follow up to his 1964 book,
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