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ANTI -DEFAMATION LEAGUE

N A T I O N ,- C H ... I R M N

H E N R Y E D W A R D S C H U L T Z

N W YORK 1 7 , N y, October 4, 1955

Lieutenant-General George E. stratemeyerP. o Box 424Winte Pa rk, FloridaDear General Stratemeyer:

t is never a pleasant duty to impose distressingproblems upon public personalities such as yourself, andfor some t ~ e it had been our hope that this le t ter toyou might become unnecessary.Just a year ago, the publishers of Iron CurtainOver American began distr ibuting, as part of a sales cam-paign, copies 0: what purported to be a le t ter from you to

John O Beaty, the author, endorsing this volume and recommending i t to Americans in general.At that time we withheld wri.ting you because we fel t

that inevitably the facts about Mr. Beaty and his book wouldbe brought to your attention and that you would then takeappropriate action. A year has gone by and we now find thatThe General stratemeyer Letter Written to Col. Beaty is thesubject of a f lyer beine distr ibuted by Gerald L.K. Smith'sChristian Nationalist Crusade. Enclosed is a photostaticcopy of that leaf le t , which you wil l note acknowledges unashamedly that Iron Curtain Over America i s nti-Jewish-:- -This leaflet is being distr ibuted in large quantitiesand thus l inks your n a ~ e widely and publicly with the ant i -

Semitism of Gerald Smith ~ ~ d John Beaty. We take it forgranted that you are familiar with Smith's long and notoriousrecord as an anti-Jewish hatemonger. Perhaps you are not asaware of Mr. Beaty ' s record.

Professor Beaty is no newcomer to the field of anti-Jewishpropaganda. As lonr a00 as 1948 he was delivering anti-Semiticlectures in the Southwest. Until December 1951 his activi t ieswere confined to desul tory speaking engagements whose effects

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1t.-General George E. Stratemeyer October 4 1955appear to be i r r i t a t ing only in a local sense. Then he made his debut as anational anti-Semitic propagandist with the publication of Iron Curtain OverAmerica .

We do not propose to burden you a t this point with our detailed analysisof the bookj suffice i t to say that i t is a compilation of anti-Jewish liesand distort ions which have caused i t to become a kind of primer for lunaticfringe groups throughout the nation.Lest you feel that ours i s a partisan Jewish view of this book, we wouldpoint out that Iron Curtain Over America has been denounced by the Hethodistpublication Zions Herald. Others who have condemned i t are Father J . J . Mulloyof the Jesu i t Higb School of Da l las; Dr. 0rval Wat ts in the publication FaithAnd Freedom; and William Henry Chamberlain in the Chicago Tribune. (Photosta t ic copies of these condemnations are enclosed.)Finally , you should know that , as a result of his act ivi t ies ProfessorBea ty wa s censured in May, 1954 y the Board of Trustees of Southern MethodistUnivers i ty .n v iew of the foregoing, t i s our f eeling that you may want to considerthe advisabi l i ty of some public action which can aSbure the American people,who hold you in such high regard, that you repudiate religious hatred, as wekn ow you do, and the use of your name by Professor Beaty and Gerald 1.K. Smith.

We would appreciate your response which we hope wil l relieve the concernthat has been expressed to us y the many people who have seen G ~ i t h Snewest leafle t .

~ r e ~ k: J ~ - -

HES:jg .Enc . Henry/ Edward Schultz

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G E O R G E E . S T R A T E M E Y E RU . G E N . U . S . A . F . R E T .

P . O . B O X 4 4W I N T E R P A R K , F L O R I D A

12 October, 1955.Mr. Henry E. Schultz.National ChairmanAnti-Def&mation Le&gueof B'nai B' r i th205 Eaet 42nd StreetNew York 17, N.Y.Dear Mr. Schultz: Your l e t t e r of 4 October, 1955 with encloeureereceived and I want you and your organization to know that Ifo r cefUlly resent what you have eaid or implied.

Fire t , I want to make i t clear that I am not, norhaTe I ever been, anti-Jewish. I have m ny Jewieh f r iends throughoutth ie country, who are lo : ra l honeet Americans.

As for your use' of the meaningleee expreeeion ant i -Semi t ic i t makee no senee. According to the dict ionary, the wordSemitic pertaine to the decendante of Shem which includee Aesvrians,Hebrews, P h e n i c i a n ~ Arabe, Abyeeiniane, etc. I t a l e o pertains tothe Semitic languagee col lect iTely. Therefore, how anyone pereon orgroup of pereone could be anti-Semitic is beyond my understanding.~ o are you and your organizat ion to t e l l me whatI e ~ o u l read and what I ehould recommend other loyal Americanci t izene to read? And, by the way, ~ t what ie the purpoee of yourorganization? Not unt i l I read John Beaty' 3 book The Iron CurtainOTer America." did I learn what wae going on back in The UnitedStatee of America while I W S overseae f ighting for my country.I think every loyal ci t izen of our countrywh -e-th-e-r-h e--Pr-t>-t-ee-t -e.-n , -ew,- -Ga--tb-ol4.e-G-P-Mohamm-edan-e-h-G-Ul d-- '--ead

The Iro n Curtain Over Amer ica . I do not consider tha t bookantl-Jewieh in a ny sense of the word. In fact , I co ns i der i t adef ense of a l l l oyal Ameri can Jews and every Jew tha t lovee theeeUnited Statee of ours ehould read i t .Wha t c onn ection exiets between Mr . John Beat y andMr. ~ e r a l d K. Smi th I haTe no knowledge as I do not know ei thergentlemen. I di d auth or ize Mr. Beaty to use my l e t t e r to him andt ha t ie no one 's b ~ l n e e but my own.When The United States of America reachee the pointwhere a c i t iz en cannot read what he dee i ree to read and torecommend euch r ead ing to ot here then we will haTe reached thes ta t ue tha t exiets in Sov i et Russia. But, TH NK GOD, we are s t i l lfree men i n Ameri ca . Ae I in te rpre t your l e t t e r your or gani za t ionwoul d h ~ T e t he people r ~ a d only w h ~ t you th i nk ehould be read andrecommended to otr ere. Th ie I reeent ae a f r e e Ameri can ci t izen.

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2 12 October, 1955.Mr Henry Schultz.

I do not underetand what you mean by youretatement We do not propoee to burden you a t thie point , etc.Ie thie a Teiled threat to y free ~ r i o n and thoughte? I f eo,thie I aleo reeent.

Your l e t t e r ie the moet outrageous communicationI have ever received in y l i f e and I intend to give i t the wideetpoeeible publici ty, including my many Jewish friends.Sinoerely,

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OFFICE OF

JOHI\I G CROMMELINRE AR ADMIRAL. U. S . N . CRETIREDI

WETUMPKA ALA

May 16, 1956

Fellow Americans:

We the people of this great nation are being taken for the mostfantastic and horrible buggy ride in al l history. f you are afraidto learn the truth, stop reading this right here o f Qnafraid, and Iam one who believes that the great majority of citizens of the UnitedStates are g h l y intell igent, ~ o u r g e o u s men and women, then read thisle t fer and read i t carefully.

Most of us are confused though vaguely conscious of the acceleratedtrend of the federal government to arrogate power to i t sel f and to denythe constitutional right of the several.. states to govern in accordancewith the will of the people. Specifically, I refer to such unconstitut ional acts as the recent federal Supreme Court edict of ~ a y 17, 1954,concerning the internal administration of state owned and state operatedpublic schools.

What is this crushing dictatorial po'Wer , hich We al l feel but fe,v ofus understand? Do our United States Senators and Representatives blatherabout communism but carefully avoid identifying the financial and pla.nninggroups spreading this contagion? v uo controls the great mass of communica-t ion media so vi tal to the l i f e of a constitutional republic? s the socalled free press free? Are you apathetic or uninformed? Can an uninformed. or misinformed citizen act intel l igently to safeguard his constitut ional guarantees of freedom? Certainly notl

Therefore, le t me strongly recommend that as a public and personalservice you obtain and read The Iron Curtain Over America by John O. Beaty.This book is the best-documented and most comprehensive analysis available ofthe cause of the national rot now d e s t r o ~ i n g free America.Let every American whether he be white, brown or black, whether he beChristian, Je'W or Mohammedan read The Iron Curtain Over America , the BlueBack Speller for patriotso

Sincerely,. o ~P.S.

and pro bono publico only. _. . ' C.

CC: Honorable J o Edg r HooverDirector of Federal Bureau of Invest igation