California betrayed! The factual story about Communist spies and how to free them...
Tujunga, CA: The Factfinder, [1951]. Pamphlet. 31p. staplebound pamphlet, paper toned, otherwise very good. Interior of rear cover notes that as it was going to press, the Glendale City Council voted to stop "communist infiltration" of civic organizations. OCLC lists two different editions from 1951 with different pagination; the same essay was also published in the January 1951 issue of The Factfinder.
Paquita Louise de Shishmareff (born in Paris to US citizens as Louise A. Chandor) spent much of her youth in St. Petersburg. She married an officer in the Russian Imperial Army, who was killed during the revolution in 1917. Moving to the United States, the author spent much of the 1920s and 1930s in fascist circles, using her family wealth to support right-wing organizations. In this pamphlet she discusses various cases of Communist espionage. When referring to Jews she is careful to use the term "Internationalists," as in the following sample of text: "With a national resurgence of the people's healthy aspirations toward the simple and sound principles of the American Constitution, all such international utopias must be swept aside. It will not be easy because the materialistic power of the purse, the establishment of a corrupt, financial and economic system, and the complete control of the national and industrial resources of the country are in the hands of the Internationalists. Even the lives of young Americans are in their hands, lives which have been jeopardized through the activities of traitors whose paths were strewn with high honors, brilliant careers and easy money."
Cat.No: 288342
Price: $150.00