Look Familiar? 1934 Cartoon forewarns the TOTUS reader

Chicago Tribune | 4/12/1934 | Carey Orr(?)

[hinckley buzzard]

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Nope. And it rolls right down in to the same cesspool.

[hinckley buzzard]

Liberty is an unending battle — and we are on the downside right now (but we have home in 2010 and 2012)

Exacy. As Ronaldus Magnus taught us years ago, "freedom is one generation away from extinction." The battle against the evil of collectivism, Satan's prized deception, lodged in the hearts of failed men, will not end until the second coming.

[Bernard Marx]

Double irony: didn’t it finally emerge that Henry Wallace was a communist agent, and that was why FDR dropped him from the ticket?

He was definitely a Communist sympathizer and "useful idiot" but I don't think he was a formal Soviet agent per se. He served as Roosevelt's VP for a term but the Democrat Party named Harry Truman to replace him in the next election. Wallace later was the 1948 Presidential candidate for -- guess what -- the Progressive Party.

[La Lydia]

According to Wiki, which I know isn't infallible, Wallace was endorsed by the Communist Party (USA), and his subsequent refusal to publicly disavow any Communist support cost him the backing of many anti-Communist liberals and socialists, such as Norman Thomas. Christopher Andrew, a University of Cambridge historian working with evidence in the famed Mitrokhin Archive, has stated publicly that he believed Wallace was a confirmed KGB agent.

[Painesright]

The communists have made an enormous amount of progress in America... and we have sat passively by for the last 60 years and let them take over our country.

Here is exactly how it was done:

Video of ex-KGB agent in 1983-1985 explaining exactly how communism would infiltrate America... this will sound extremely familiar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHgYPDvQFU8

Recent article from American Thinker blog about that same ex-KGB guy and “Ideological Subversion”:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/from_russia_with_no_love.html

Bill O’Reilly saying that “communism is not a threat to us anymore” the other night is about as naive as any statement ever made.

They have been here all these years... patiently destroying our country.

What we are witnessing is a culmination of their persistence and planning.

They have stayed true to their cause... we have not.

Sad, sad, sad.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Yes his Father, Harold Jr. came late in Dad’s life.

[Bernard Marx]

Christopher Andrew, a University of Cambridge historian working with evidence in the famed Mitrokhin Archive, has stated publicly that he believed Wallace was a confirmed KGB agent.

Thanks for that -- I thought I'd researched Wallace pretty well. I just finished Weinstein's "The Haunted Wood" (among many books I've read on Soviet spying) and while Wallace's Soviet sympathies were clearly evident Weinstein stopped short of calling him an agent. (I confess I feel Weinstein's sympathies often seem to be more aligned with the Russian spies he writes about than with the Americans whose safety they endangered, but that's just an impression).

There's no question in my mind that Wallace was a full-bore Communist and I give FDR a point or two for booting him out in favor of Truman even though he probably did it for crass political reasons. Can you imagine what would have happened had Wallace become President after Roosevelt's death instead of Truman?

[diji]

Those who do not remember History are condemned to repeat it!