clear weapons. When we
"strengthen our conventional forces for participation in limited wars,"
we are leaving the Soviets with the initiative to say when and where
those wars will be fought; and we are committing ourselves to fight with
the kind of forces in which the Soviets will inevitably have
superiority. More than that, we are consuming so much of our economic
resources that we do not have enough left for weaponry of the kind that
would defend our homeland.

AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION

The ADA was founded in April, 1947, at a meeting in the old Willard
Hotel, Washington, D. C. Members of the Council on Foreign Relations
dominated this meeting--and have dominated the ADA ever since.

Here are members of the Council on Foreign Relations who are, or were,
top officials in Americans For Democratic Action: Francis Biddle,
Chester Bowles, Marquis Childs, Elmer Davis, William H. Davis, David
Dubinsky, Thomas K. Finletter, John Kenneth Galbraith, Palmer Hoyt,
Hubert H. Humphrey, Jacob K. Javits, Herbert H. Lehman, Reinhold
Niebuhr, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Here are some of the policies which the ADA openly and vigorously
advocated in 1961:

Abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities

Congressional investigation of the John Birch Society

Total Disarmament under United Nations control

U. S. recognition of red China

Admission of red China to the United Nations, in place of
nationalist China

Federal aid to all public schools

Drastic overhaul of our immigration laws, to permit a more
"liberal" admission of immigrants

Urban renewal and planning for all cities

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Here is a good, brief characterization of the ADA, from a _Los Angeles
Times_ editorial, September 18, 1961:

"The ADA members ... are as an organization strikingly like the
British Fabian Socialists.... The Fabians stood for non-Marxian
evolutionary socialism, to be achieved not by class war but by
ballot....

"ADA is not an organization for subversive violence like
Marxist-Lenin communism.... The socialism they want to bring about
would be quite as total, industrially, as that in Russia, but they
would accomplish it by legislation, not by shooting, and, of
course, by infiltrating the executive branch of the government...."

SANE NUCLEAR POLICY, INC.

In 1955, Bertrand Russell (Briti