1 UR nation 1x a fortress of liberty,
¥ fighting a vicious, implacable
& army of foreign isms. Never be-
fore has there been a greater need
for unity, for calm appraisal of the forces
which work against us, for co-ordination of
thought and effort, so that we may consider
every maneuver by which to outwit a re-
ourceful and ruthless foe. 1 refer, of
course, to the sinister foreign-ism advocate.
Protected by sentimentalists and by inno-
cents, these termites have succeeded in
boring nto every phase of American life,
masquerading behind “front” organiza-
tions. Nothing 1x so dangerous as these
foreign sms which are working their way
into the very lifeblood of our country with
their lies, their deceit, and their suave pres-
entation of their cause,
I insist that in approaching the job of
protecting America we must consider the
problem of separating true liberty from
license. We must set apart freedom, as
defined by our Constitution, from the pur-
loining of privileges bv enemies within our
gates, who would fit our country to the
patterns of the dictators they serve. It is
one of the paradoxes of democracy that the
guarantees of freedom of speech, assembly,
and the press are the shields behind which
the foes of democracy conduct their vicious
campaigns to destroy the system which
permits them to exist.
Ours 1= a land of freedom, but that free-
dom does not include the privilege to set off
bombs. It does not guarantee freedom to
those who undermine our efforts at national
defense by smoke screens which pretend
patriotism but, in reality, seek to weaken
our defenses so that bloody dictatorships
may find no resistance in their wav. It
does not mean freedom to put emery dust
im the cylinders of airplane engines, to
place destructive pieces of metal in the
motive power of naval vessels. It does not
mean the freedom to falsify the motives of
those who would carry on our Government
to the best of their ability.
Yet we find that every one of these
heinous things has been done, and 1s being
done, bv persons shielded by nnocent-
appearing but subversive forces, under that
portion of our Constitution which guaran-
tees tree speech and liberty of normal en-
deavors. America 1s proud of her Bill of
Rights, but this sacred heritage will not be
preserved by its enemies who invoke 1t to
undermine and weaken the world’s last
great bulwark of democracy. Our democ-
racy was ordained to insure the welfare of
our people. The time i= rapidly approach-
ing when as a nation we must choose
between the welfare of the great masses of
AUGUST, 1942
HE FOURTH
Loo UF LIBERTY
By J. Edgar Hoover. Director. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Americans and a few interlopers who hide
behind the Bill of Right= while they under-
mine our nation. If any effort 1s made to
hamper these subverters, their defenders
immediately proclaim that their liberties
are being trampled upon, that America has
adopted the methods of the OGPU or the
(restapo.
[ submit that these persons, and not our-
selves, are the ones who know best what the
OGPU ix and how the Gestapo operates,
because they espouse the causes which have
brought these agencies into existence. They
seek to carry on, in our free America, the
very OGPU and Gestapo methods which
they decry, by breaking down our resist-
ance, by spreading fear and false rumors,
by attempting to weaken our means of na-
tional defense.
Let me give you an example:
In a certain large factory, engaged in the
production of defense materials, every pos-
sible effort is being made by an ism-
controlled labor group to foment a strike.
In that factory are many, many loval,
if necessary. But their voices have been
<mothered by the control of the kind of men
who hate Americans and American ways,
and who would supplant them with a
tyrannical reign of terror.
The Chief Executive of the United
States foresaw in 1939 the dangers which
would confront us ax a result of the war in
Furope. He immediately gave orders to co-
ordinate on a nation-wide basis the fight
against espionage, =subotage, and subversive
activities by designating the FBI to act asa
clearinghouse to handle these matters, with
the ad of all law-enforcement men of
America.
Acting under the mstructions of the
President and Attorney General Jackson,
the IFBL quietly set in motion its ma-
chinery of co-ordination of state, county,
and local law-enforcing officers to enlist
their co-operation and aid in this important,
work. As a result, IT am pleased to report
that today all law enforcement presents a
united front against so-called “fifth col-
umn activity in every state, county, and
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honest American men, devoted to this municipality throughout our land. There
country, willing to work tor it, to die for it, (Continued on page 19)
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* United States Marines at Santa Lucia, B. W. L., trying their hand at a machine gun. As our
Army and Navy protect America frome foes without, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal
Bureaw of Treestigation, calls America to be on the alert against foes within who are looking for an
opportunity “to set off bombs.”
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