| | When I lived in Columbia, S. Carolina, from '71 thru early '76, around '75 I tried to get some libertarian or objectivist books into the local public libraries. I was told smugly on the phone by the librarian I reached that she and her friends would not only block any such books, but were themselves systematically stocking the shelves with books sympathetic to their own Communist Party positions, while recycling any they considered dangerous. And, of course, nobody would believe me if I tried to expose them. Ha, ha...
Ha, ha, yourself.
I note, however, that today the local OC library system does not own a single copy of Valtin's near best seller and dynamite expose of the international communist conspiracy and how it created the conditions for Hitler's rise - Out of the Night, available, somewhat surprisingly, at http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/outofthenight.
This book is an absolutely dynamite read, and was very popular when it was published in 1941, in spite of attempts by the Roosevelt adminstration to block its release, I believe, on the grounds that it undercut their growing relationship with Stalin by making the commies look bad.
The Communist Party of America (CPA) went a step further, not only denouncing Valtin as a fraud, but also releasing the real name of his lover who had been imprisoned by the NAZIs, who themselves had no idea who she really was and what rank she held in the Comminterm. Of course, the CPA could only have gotten her real name from the Russian handlers. Consequently, the NAZIs tortured her to death, and Valtin himself ultimately committed suicide, I believe, in despair over America's alliance with Stalin as well as his own role in killing the person he valued most in the world.
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