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New York, July 26—Do you feel threatened? I mean, by the Right Wing? If not, you should be, or such in any case is the judgment of my favorite lost cause, Mr. Steve Allen. I have here a communication from him (“Dear Friend”) asking for money for a little bureaucracy (tax exempt) called the Institute for American Democracy, whose literature is testimony to the neuroses of some very distinguished American liberals.

Mr. Allen’s letter describes the threat from the Reactionary Right, and the need to expose it. The accompanying brochure has on page one a great big picture of Adolf Hitler addressing the storm troopers, and the legend: “It Can’t Happen Here!—Or Can It?” It is truly strange, is it not, that American liberals should be talking about the possibility of Hitlerism in this country, inasmuch as they have always accused the right wing of harboring altogether fanciful fears concerning an Internal Menace.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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New York, July 26—Do you feel threatened? I mean, by the Right Wing? If not, you should be, or such in any case is the judgment of my favorite lost cause, Mr. Steve Allen. I have here a communication from him (“Dear Friend”) asking for money for a little bureaucracy (tax exempt) called the Institute for American Democracy, whose literature is testimony to the neuroses of some very distinguished American liberals.

Mr. Allen’s letter describes the threat from the Reactionary Right, and the need to expose it. The accompanying brochure has on page one a great big picture of Adolf Hitler addressing the storm troopers, and the legend: “It Can’t Happen Here!—Or Can It?” It is truly strange, is it not, that American liberals should be talking about the possibility of Hitlerism in this country, inasmuch as they have always accused the right wing of harboring altogether fanciful fears concerning an Internal Menace.