The Daily Capital News Jefferson City, Missouri Tuesday, July 11, 1972 - Page 4
Breathless Chess Match
The on-again, off-again, on again international chess match has left us a little breathless awaiting its ultimate outcome.
Throughout the preliminary ballyhoo, the ([protest and boycotting]) of American challenger ([over multiple Soviet offenses, ploys and manipulative off-the-board tactics]), Bobby Fischer, have been making headlines on an almost daily basis.
We suggest that television get “into the act” and carry the matches “live” from Iceland. Like they did during the Peking and Moscow Summit meetings, the TV network cameras could zero in on the people clearing the streets of Iceland or performing other mundane tasks. Sometimes it requires long intervals between moves on the chess board.
It's possible the “excitement” of these matches and the Icelandic scenery might liven up an otherwise dull summer TV season.
Ignoring Grim Fact
Earlier this year, William Randolph Hearst, Jr., editor in chief of the Hearst Newspapers, returned from a fact-finding trip around the world. Here is one of his cogent comments.
“It is a bit disturbing to get home and realize how many Americans fail to face one of the grimmest facts there is — that Communism(TM) ([pseudo-militarist, Industrialist-based pseudo-Socialism]) keeps working day and night to destroy freedom wherever it exists. The next time somebody tells you that Soviet “Socialism” is nothing to worry about, you can be sure of one of two things. Either he hasn't got all his marbles or he is quite far left ([and duped by big industrial propaganda which buried millions of Socialists under the Empires of Lenin/Stalin and Hitler, America tossed them out, and rounded them up in the McCarthy era... even accused civil rights activist Martin Luther King of being a USSR-Bolshevik, Soviet agent... poor man was attacked by a black woman, who jabbed him through with a letter opener, frightened out of her wits over what big industry was calling “Communism”… FAKE communism. Drive the poorest and most helpless people, miles away from a movement whose aim was to lift them out of poverty, that's what the industrialists achieved. FAKE Socialism in Moscow —]) of center politically and ideologically.”
The grave tragedy is that leftists and liberals, ([having it erased from memory what true Socialism was about; human rights, civil rights, minimum wage, standards for worker safety, et cetera… and being indoctrinated “Communism” supposedly is represented by big Empires, with big armies, bulldozing over human lives as they ignite war after war after war]), including some of our largest news media, wittingly or unwittingly, continue to lull Americans to sleep about the dangers of ([Pseudo]) communism.
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