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= Blind on the Left =

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A number of years ago when a concerted, organized effort was made to subvert
the motion picture industry to a communist propaganda tool I asked a question
which is still unanswered. The question was, why is it that the many defectors
from communism, domestic or International make so little impression on those who
had no trouble seeing the menace of Nazism or Fascism? Now--for the record--
I take second to no one in my detestation of Adolph Hitler and everything he
represented. As a matter of fact I'm still mad at the Kaiser. But there are
others in the world today as evil as Hitler and guilty of the same brutal,
inhuman deeds. When a defector -- sometimes one who held a fairly high rank in the
Soviet social order or even a domestic communist party member now disillusioned
wants to tell us the reason for his defection or disillusionment, he is dismissed
by many liberals as no longer a credible source. Yet very often those same
liberals will accept as gospel the complaints of an American who disavows
patriotism and proclaims from podium and printed page -- "What's wrong with America."

I was reminded of all this not long ago when a remarkable women died in
Washington, D.C. just a few days short of her 80th birthday. It would be
impossible to count the lives she touched in England where she was born, in China,
Japan, the Soviet Union and here in her adopted home, the United States.

She once described herself as a "Premature anit-communist. I told the truth
about Communism long before the world was prepared to hear it." And Freda Utley
knew the truth about communism because as an idealistic young woman in the 1920's
she accepted communism. In fact she married a Russian and went to live in Moscow.
After he was taken away by Stalin's secret police she came out of Russia and
wrote a book The Dream We lost in which she said --QUOTE-- "The just and the
unjust enter through the same revolving door and the stream passing in with great
expectations is matched or exceeded by the crowd of the disillusioned getting
out." --UNQUOTE--

But many of the intellectuals didn't want to hear what she had to say. She
had impressive academic credentials when she came to the U.S., but publishers
and the academy closed doors against her. She understood all too well. She
had tried communism and learned its falseness. She said only those --QUOTE-- "who
have never fully committed themselves to the Communist Cause" --UNQUOTE--
can continue to believe in it. Her book The China Story which told of how the
Reds were taking over became a best seller -- after China was lost.

It is bone chilling now to read that Soviet defector Oleg Glagolev (Glogo-Leff)
former consultant to the Kremlin on strategic arms is telling our government
that Russia has the cruise missile already displayed in submarines off our coasts.
Is anyone really listening? 

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>02/20/[[Radio1978|1978]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan:_In_His_Own_Hand|RihoH-136]]</TD></TR>
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<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
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===Added Notes===
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Utley Freda Utley]
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