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Date Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 06:00:58pm
Author: SPC78
Subject: Re: Thanks Nikki
In reply to: John T Cella 's message, "Thanks Nikki" on Wednesday, October 29, 10:51:34am

Morris K. Udall -- Selected Articles:
Khrushchev Could have Said It
by Morris K. Udall
Copyright 1962 by The New Republic. Reprinted with permission from The New Republic, May 7, 1962, pp.
14-15. Also reprinted in the Congressional Record Appendix, May 10, 1962, pp. A3490-3491.
"The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and
confuse the American people until they have lost faith in their Government, their nation has
ceased to be a major world power, and their country is ripe for revolution." - Nikita
Khrushchev, 3-1/2 years after his visit to the US.
Now there is a quotation for you. It would go well on postcards, envelope stickers and, in abbreviated form, on
bumper strips and airplane streamers.
Of course, Khrushchev never said it, but apparently that doesn't matter, judging by some of the mail I have been
receiving. The Russian premier is becoming one of this country's favorite authors. And a favorite in Congress
too. It has become standard practice, whenever a legislative proposal nears decision, for someone to drop the
"ultimate weapon" -- the hundred megaton argument: first, a charge that the measure is "socialism" and, second,
a quotation "proving" that an affirmative vote will actually be a vote for ultimate Soviet domination. One of the
most popular blockbusters is the following: "We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to
Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism, until they
suddenly awake to find they have Communism."
Those citing this remarkable statement invariably inform us that Khrushchev made it "three and a half months
before his visit to the United States." They are, strangely enough, the same people who are always reminding us
that Communists are devious and not to be trusted (who can deny it?), that Communists say one thing when
they really intend the opposite (how true), and that anyone who believes what Khrushchev says about anything
is a dupe or a fool, "or worse." Well, consistency, as we all know, is the hobgoblin of brittle minds, and so in
this instance we are to accept Khrushchev's words as true gospel.

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