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None Dare Call It Treason

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You'd be hard-pressed to find a better book on how the Communists influenced the West and how our leaders like Ike, Kennedy and especially FDR sold us out to their goals. Stormer gives detail after detail. This is NOT speculation. These issues are a matter of public record which Stormer references continually. His research is thorough.

He covers a variety of approaches instead of pointing to some shady conspiracy, effectively showing how some choose to fight this battle of totalitarianism v. liberty in different ways. From the political manuevering of our troops, financial and military backing of socialist governments, concepts of containment, development of the CFR (which now even the mainstream media has been forced to acknowledge!!), to the numerous traitors (Alger Hiss, John Stewart Service, Lauchlin Curry), Earl Warren's anti-Constitution, power usurping Supreme Ct.

There are many details here that you are probably not aware of. That doesn't mean thesethings didn't happen. It tends to mean only that you were misled. I personally don't think it's an accident. It sounds cynical to view it this way, but everyone knows the adage that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton was right, and when we accept this we can change the situation. I can't say enough good about this book. The only issue I have with it involves somewhat insulting treatment of the actions of the POW's in the Korean War.

After reading Ann Coulters bestseller Treason, I happened to run into this old book by accident. It seemed intriguing so I plowed through it. Now part of the reason I gave it just an average rating wasn't so much because I think the author was some kind of nut, the impression one may get by reading some of the other reviews, but simply because I'm used to excellent writing and more concise topics. This little book just jumps all over the place, tries to cover too much ground.

Now, as to the accuracy of his words, well, much of what he claimed to be happening has indeed been proven true. The soviets did intent to keep taking as much as they could and the fact that they failed doesn't in anyway prove those worried about it were wrong.

American politicians betrayed countless peoples to the insipid and cruel system of communism, and the only people that try and act like that isn't true are either leftists or those ignorant of history. Our own government was infiltrated by soviet spies, of that fact there's little argument, it's just how many and what they were trying to accomplish and what they did accomplish that brings up two arguing camps.

If you're the type that thinks Coulter is a fascist, you'll obviously gain nothing by reading this book. For others, you have to have an interest in the history of the time to really enjoy this book which reads much like a text book at times. Part of the reason I gave it only three stars was because of the age of the work and the period it covers, being outdated meant I wasn't able to pick up on a lot of the flavor of the work.
If you're doing research on the topic, however, I'd say the book probably would rate a four or five star rating as it gives details and footnotes and covers a lot of ground.

An interesting footnote to 1950's cold war politics, "None Dare Call It Treason" tries to send a wake up call to a supposedly sleeping America.

Like his hero, the unlamented Senator Joseph McCarthy, John Stormer sees the 'Communist Conspiracy' lurking behind every facade. Teachers, clergy, politicians, and labor unions form a ring of socialist spies and conspirators that will strip us of the Constitution and shackle us to the Soviet machine. From the United Nations to the White House no one was exempted from getting tarred with the Red paintbrush (if I may mix my metaphors).

The "careful documentation" heralded on the cover consists of copious footnotes taken from Un-American Activities committee minutes and the like, the majority of which are fragmentary sentences without context. Several times he classifies an individual as a "Communist supporter" and then cites himself as a reference "as previously stated". The only people quoted at any length are the vaunted McCarthy, and former FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, both of whom had known agendas.

I will not dismiss his work as paranoid - it is a fact that the times in question were full of uncertainty and well-reasoned fear. The cloud of nuclear war hung over everyone, and espionage on both sides was part and parcel of the times. However the answer is not in purging our infrastructure of dissenters and spying on our neighbors. These were the methods of Hoover ... and Stalin.

This book proves that conspiracy theories are always popular, especially when varnished with a thin veneer of research. And if you word it vaguely enough, there will be those who will come back years later and say, "See, he was RIGHT!" It worked for Nostradamus.

"None Dare Call It Treason" was written just before the presidential election when Sen. Barry Goldwater ran on the Republican ticket. This book was circulated by the hundreds of thousands
before the election, and although Goldwater lost, the message of the book had a profound impact in helping to shape the conservative movement in America. Consequently many eyes
were opened.

At the time it was SO popular because of its message (it was never intended to be a literary masterpiece), I was working at a large CPA firm where a few of the staff would occasionally
discuss political subjects at lunchtime. A couple of us were trying to persuade one of the CPA's as to what was taking place in our country. He inasmuch as said that he would rather
be Red than dead, which revealed he knew little of the communist infiltration that had taken place in government. He consented to read this book, and it changed his thinking 180 degrees.
This was written to INFORM Americans as to what had been taking place in the preceding decades.

About a year ago I reread my well worn copy and was amazed at how history has proved John Stormer correct in his assessment fifty years ago. His closing challenge to Americans remains
as viable as it was the day he wrote it. That is why one should read this book!

I read this book back in the sixties. It was a sick anti-
American tirade then and it has not gotten any better with age. Historians will find this book fascinating for documenting the depths to which America can fall. I am appalled that any reviewers think this is anything except a sick joke from an unfortunate phase of history when American principles were under attack by right wing crazies with no sense of American values. God help us if anyone buying this evil, sick, piece of anti-American propaganda takes it seriously.

My Dad picked up a softcover copy of this at a garage sale and gave it to me to read. I read it through and then bought 2 copies and gave them to my Dad and Brother. I plan to get more as soon as money allows.

I recommend this book to anyone I engage in conversation with. If you want a detailed explanation of the systematic unraveling of our Constitution and our Nation this is the book for you. Don't get caught up in the political smoke screen the politicians put up. There is NO difference between the Democrats and Republicans, this is abundantly clear to anyone with half a brain today, however this book just goes to show how long the raping and pillaging of America has gone on by our politicians. It is very eery to read the warnings that were written half a century ago and to see how precisely the schemes are being put into place today. The facts layed out in None Dare Call It Treason all have footnotes and cite the original source of information, no hearsay in this book.

The bottom line is if you want to understand the big picture, read this book!

It has been years since I read this book but as it inspired my undergraduate paper, it made an impression.

I think the author, Stormer, was sensationalizing. I remember an episode where Nelson Rockefeller supposedly met on a Soviet submarine in Long Island Sound with some nefarious characters to plot the takeover of America by the USSR. In the real world, Nelson was actually quite a bit more hawkish than Nixon and was pro-defense spending. Then there was State Department Plan 7277 which was a plan to surrender to either the Soviets or the U.N. Stormer was always a bit ambiguous about Communists and the One World Socialist Conspiracy. It sounded as though they were alternative enemies at times at then at other times one would assume they were the same.

There certainly are consipiracies, including obviously a Communist one to destroy our freedom, but Stormer connected too much: politicians, educators, modern art, water floridation. To acknowledge that conspiracies exist is not to credit all history to a grand conspiracy theory. When the conspiracy theory gets too complicated it starts to break down. No single group has such magical powers to control so many events over decades or even centuries.

If what he said was true, then how did we win the Cold War???

Stormer first wrote this book in 1964, which shows just how prescient he was. This edition was revised in 1990. I just found out about it, but have not read it yet. Judging from the other reviews, he has added a LOT to it; and he might not have arranged this much expanded material as carefully as he organized the less ambitious scope of the first edition. The first one was very tightly reasoned.

As I understand it, State Department Document 7277 was a plan for total global disarmament. President Kennedy presented this global vision in his speech to the United Nations in 1963. All the nations of the world will be gradually disarmed until no state will be able to challenge the progressively strengthened UN Peace Force. Whenever any Congressman expressed concern about this, his colleagues insisted, "They're just talking." In other words, just ignore the frighteneing rhetoric that was written into the founding document of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

To understand some of Stormer's new material better, read "The Naked Capitalist", by W. Cleon Skousen. Read with especial care the section about John Ruskin and the philosophy of Plato. What ties all these disparate movements together is that they all are basically working towards a New World Order based on Plato's Republic. I don't know about Rockefeller being an anti-communist hawk; but Skousen shows that from the beginning, the global communist revolution has been financed by wealthy western capitalists. They are following the dictum of Plato: use any means available to destablize the existing world order, to prepare the way for the new world order. Abraham Lincoln began to understand some of this when he discovered that all the international bankers were financing both sides in the Civil War.

The Bible predicts all of this, and prophesies that it will result in the Battle of Armageddon. It is an irony of world history that those who work towards world peace are driving the world towards its final war. When men refuse to submit to the enlightened rule of the new peace-makers, the rulers will in their self-righteousness resort to extreme repression. The sinful natures of the rulers, unchecked by political accountablity- for all men are sinners- will drive them into all sorts of bloody lusts against the people and against each other. The Bible says it will be the worst tyranny in all of world history- a title which, considering the competition, deserves a lot of respect.

If you are interested at all in the "real truth" in history, you MUST purchase this book. Find out how our history shapes our nation today.

None Dare Call It Treason is pulp propaganda hacked out, but it does serve an important purpose. It deftly (and inadvertently) makes a case for exactly why NOT to oversimplify arguements into good vs. evil. Besides, most of the information is simply made up.

This book should be admitted into a class about the effects of propaganda when taken out of context - the ravings of someone who might've drank too much coffee at the typewriter.