Peals of a Gigantic Tocsin

Of all the strange occupations that have sprung up in this Age of Specialization, surely one of the strangest is the exposure of treason. Individual traitors are no novelty in history; every century and every nation has had its share. But only since the growth of the deadly notion that a man’s mind is a tribunal superior to any law derived from governments or God, have large numbers of men joined hands to betray, in conscious stealth, the lands of their birth. And only in the United States, thus far, has this tremendous fact encountered even a handful of men prepared to face it and cope with it.

Most of the knowledgeable anti-Communists among us are themselves ex-Communists. They know what Communism intends to accomplish, because they themselves once intended to accomplish it. They understand how a Communist thinks and acts, because they too once thought and acted that way. The rest of us, however militantly anti-Communist we may be, find the Communist mind hard to conceive, and even harder to credit. Our moral distance from it blurs our vision.

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Of all the strange occupations that have sprung up in this Age of Specialization, surely one of the strangest is the exposure of treason. Individual traitors are no novelty in history; every century and every nation has had its share. But only since the growth of the deadly notion that a man’s mind is a tribunal superior to any law derived from governments or God, have large numbers of men joined hands to betray, in conscious stealth, the lands of their birth. And only in the United States, thus far, has this tremendous fact encountered even a handful of men prepared to face it and cope with it.

Most of the knowledgeable anti-Communists among us are themselves ex-Communists. They know what Communism intends to accomplish, because they themselves once intended to accomplish it. They understand how a Communist thinks and acts, because they too once thought and acted that way. The rest of us, however militantly anti-Communist we may be, find the Communist mind hard to conceive, and even harder to credit. Our moral distance from it blurs our vision.