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Schwarz ignores or shrugs off most of these issues. To him, a military program is merely a temporary measure "which may hold back the flood for a short period and give us a little more time to find a permanent solution." Foreign economic and military assistance is hardly worth the bother: "The idea is to give economic aid and military assistance in the expectation that Communism will lose its appeal and freedom will triumph. Materialistic measures do not control the minds and the hearts of the people."
Crusader Fred Schwarz does indeed leave his readers and listeners eager to do something about Communism. The question is: What specifically does he give them to do that can be translated into national policy and action?
*Presbyterian McIntire was expelled by his church in 1936 for "disturbing the peace of the church" by loud and vigorous protests against modernism. He organized his own fundamentalist Presbyterian Church, helped establish the fundamentalist International Council of Christian Churches in opposition to the ecumenical National Council of Churches. Baptist Shields for years, until his death in 1955, carried on a strident campaign against Catholicism and for stricter Bible interpretation.