How to Burn a Book

How does a secret Front actually operate? A former editor of the Saturday Evening Post and the Freeman offers documented illumination

The gathering, misnamed a forum, only one side being presented, occurred under the auspices of the Religious Freedom Committee in league with the Communist-fronting Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. It had one exigent objective: to defend Communist fronts and hide the light of Communist guile under a bushel by burning a book. Or, more precisely but no less truly, to suppress, to keep from public perusal, a United States Senate document: The Communist Party of the United States; What It Is, How It Works—A Hand book For Americans, hereinafter to be called the Handbook.

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How does a secret Front actually operate? A former editor of the Saturday Evening Post and the Freeman offers documented illumination

The gathering, misnamed a forum, only one side being presented, occurred under the auspices of the Religious Freedom Committee in league with the Communist-fronting Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. It had one exigent objective: to defend Communist fronts and hide the light of Communist guile under a bushel by burning a book. Or, more precisely but no less truly, to suppress, to keep from public perusal, a United States Senate document: The Communist Party of the United States; What It Is, How It Works—A Hand book For Americans, hereinafter to be called the Handbook.