OPINION: Know Your Enemy

Up before a Rotary International Club luncheon in Manhattan last week stood the nation's top labor leader, President George Meany of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. His message for U.S. businessmen: don't go soft on Communism. If it seemed upside down for a labor leader to be telling business to beware of Reds, George Meany soon explained his point.

"Somehow or other, many in our American business community are not sufficiently alert to the danger of world Communism," he said. Their most serious error, in his view, is that they believe that Communists at home are the main Communist threat. "Since these businessmen...

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