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Who Are the New Pro-Communists?

by William F. Buckley Jr.

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Only a few years ago one could hope to identify the pro-Communists by such simple measurements as the number of officially classified Communist-front organizations they belonged to, or better still by observing them be the rational man to reason: Look, if John Jones takes sides time and time again with organizations the single common denominator of whose programs is to back the Communists against the U.S. – well, said reasonable man can infer from such activity pro-Communist ideological inclinations.

Then of course the others – the Fifth Amendment types – are even easier to spot.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

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

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