Karl
Mundt was born
in Humboldt, South Dakota, on 3rd June, 1900. After graduating from
Columbia University he became a high school teacher in Bryant (1923-27)
before moving to the General Beadle State Teachers College (1927-36).
Mundt was also involved in real estate and the insurance business.
A member of the Republican Party,
Mundt was elected to Congress in January 1939. Mundt was a member
of House of Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC) and remained in Congress until 1973. Karl Mundt died on 16th
August, 1974.
(1)
Karl
Mundt, speech (30th April, 1948)
The need for legislation to Control Communist activities in the United
States cannot be questioned. Ten years of investigation by the Committee
on Un-American Activities and by its predecessors have established:
(1) that
the Communist movement in the United States is foreign-controlled;
(2) that its ultimate objective with respect to the United States
is to overthrow our free American institutions in favor of a Communist
totalitarian dictatorship to be controlled from abroad; (3) that its
activities are carried on by secret and conspiratorial methods; and
(4) that its activities, both because of the alarming march of Communist
forces abroad and
because of the scope and nature
of Communist activities here in the United States, constitute an immediate
and powerful threat to the security of the United States and to the
American way of life. The conclusion that the Communist movement constitutes
a threat to the security of the United States and to the American
way of life is not the cry of alarmists.
The Communist program of
conquest through treachery, deceit, infiltration, espionage, sabotage,
corruption, and terrorism has been carried out in country after country
and is an ever growing threat in other countries. There is ample evidence
that one of the primary objectives of the world Communist movement,
directed from within the most powerful existing Communist totalitarian
dictatorship, is to repeat this pattern in the United States.
There is incontrovertible
evidence of the fact that the Communist Party of the United States
is dominated by such totalitarian dictatorship and that it is one
of the principal instrumentalities used by the world
Communist movement, directed from within that totalitarian dictatorship,
in its ruthless and tireless endeavor to advance the world march of
communism.
The findings, which support
these conclusions, and the vast quantity of evidence on which they
are based, are set forth in detail in the numerous reports which this
committee and its predecessors have printed and circulated. Corroboration
has been supplied by independent and exhaustive research by other
committees of Congress.
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