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 \nNew York  \n[1936]  \nCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISION  \n# BIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \n308ZClark,Fred George,1890-Box 466What makes communism?The 107th broadcast ofthe voice of the Crusaders,delivered …Sep-tember 8,1936 .by Fred G.Clark …  NewrYork,The Crusaders 19361·61 p.76871DNtyA  \nReproductions may not be made without permission trom Columbia University Libraries.                 \n## RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\n# TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:          35mmREDUCTION RATIO:          10:/  \nIB IB  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nDATE FILMED:                    6-18-97INITIALS:9  \n                      \n一、  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                25305  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n# What MakesCommunism?\n\nThe  \n107th Broadcast  \nOf  \n# THE VOICE OFTHE CRUSADERS\n\nDelivered Tuesday Evening  \nSeptember 8,1936  \nAt 7:45 P.M,Eastern Daylight Saving TimeOver the Mutual Broadcasting System  \nBy  \nFRED.G.CLARK  \nNational Commander  \n308ZBe×46  \nTHE CRUSADERS  \n100 East 42nd StreetNew York,New York  \nPermision to uae is hereby rantedit full eredit in given The Crunadert  \n# WHAT MAKES COMMUNISM?\n\nWHAT makes Communism?All of us,themen and women of America,are responsi-ble for the rapid_growth of the Com-munist movement in the United States.In yearsgone by we all laughed at the idea that Commun-ism could ever get a foothold here.More thanninety years ago,several thousand German radi-cals were driven out of Germany,made their wayto this country and tried to graft their Marxianphilosophy on our political and social set-up.Theynever got very far.The sturdy Americans of thatday laughed at them just as we have been laugh-ing ever since at all forms of radical socialism andat stupid European governments which permittedthem to obtain so much power.  \nThere was a time when I did just as much laugh-ing as any other American citizen.Communismseemed just the ranting of the soap box orator orthe political demagogue who would forget his radi-calism as soon as he could get into office and thetaxpayers started paying him a salary.Then,too,we have always had with us the professional dis-contented who raved at the idea of earning an hon-est dollar.It has never seemed to be anything tocause us to lie awake nights.But fellow citizens,if you only realized it,we have been just whistlingin the dark!  \nIT IS DIGGING IN HERE  \nCommunism is here in the United States andhas gone to bed with us just as surely as itspawned in the cellars of Russia before the revolu-tion,eventually to blossom forth into the mostoppressive and depressive dictatorship the worldhas ever seen.It is with us just as surely as itpermeated Germany scores of years ago and islargely responsible for the present political set-upof that country.It is with us just as surely as itplotted in Spain to bring about a form of govern-ment which is now transforming that nation intoa shambles.It is with us just as surely as it men-aces France,China,India and,to a greater orlesser degree,many other countries.  \nBut,people still say,\"It can't happen here!\"Well,it is happening here!  \nUNDER COVER METHODS USED  \nWe have in this country a well-defined Com-munist Party of Ameriea and its influence hasbeen growing by leaps and bounds,partieularlysince the stimulation of class hatreds has been theorder of the day in high government cireles.But  \nthis is only the surface picture.You all know thatonly one-ninth of an iceberg floats above the sur-face of the sea;eight-ninths of its bulk lies invisi-ble beneath the surface in deadly menace to anyship which encounters it.And so it is with theCommunist Party.It masquerades under dozensof high sounding titles which hold out the bait of“peace”or“liberty”or some other noble motive,designed to eatch the unwary and enmesh them inthe Communistic net.  \nAnd to unde","cbCait4gTPiMqT6i","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait4gTPiMqT6i","pdf",293550,"English","# What Makes Communism?\n## Theories Explained\n## Responsibility Traced","[{\"question\":\"Who delivered the \\\"What Makes Communism?\\\" broadcast in 1936?\",\"answer\":\"The broadcast was delivered by Fred G. 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