The Game of Death: Effects of the Cold War on Our Children

260 Pages·1953·7.29 MB·English

by  Albert Eugene Kahn

The Game of Death
EFFECTS OF THE COLO WAR ON OUR CHILDREN
E. Kahn
This book describes the profound impact of the
Cold War upon every phase of the lives of American
children. The story it tells is as frightening as it is
important. It is a warning to the nation.
Substantiating its disclosures with careful docu-
mentation, The Game of Death presents an inside
account of the atomic bomb drills for school children,
their causes and emotional effects. It discusses the
shocking and dangerous conditions prevalent in the
schools as a result of the armament program, and
exposes a nationwide plan to indoctrinate children
and convert schools into “instruments of national
policy." It warns of the acclimatization of children
— through comic books, TV, radio and motion pic-
tures — to concepts of violence, horror and sudden
death. It reports the beginnings of “loyalty oaths"
for parents. Finally, it projects action Americans
must take to protect the welfare and happiness of
their children from the dangers that beset them on
every side as a consequence of the Cold War.
Mr. Kahn’s previous bestsellers, High Treason,
Sabotage! and The Great Conspiracy alerted hun-
dreds of thousands of Americans to grave issues.
But none of these books had a more urgent message
to convey than The Game of Death. It is a story of
immense concern to every American; it deals not
only with the present but with the future of our
nation.
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T H E GAME OF DEATH
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By ALBERT E. KAHN
SABOTAGE!—The Secret War Against America*
T H E PLO T AGAINST T H E PEACE*
T H E GREAT CONSPIRACY: The Secret War Against
Soviet Russia*
HIGH TREASON: The Plot Against the People
T H E GAME OF DEATH
Pamphlets
Treason in Congress
Dangerous Americans
Agents of Peace
Vengeance on the Young
The Crime Against Jean Field
The People’s Case
* With Michael Sayers
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T H E GAME OF DEATH
Effects o f the Cold W ar
on Our Children
ALBERT E. KAHN
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Cameron &. Kahn: New York
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TO MY SONS
Steven, Timothy and Brian
COPYRIGH T 1953, BY ALBERT E. KAHN
All rights reserved, including the
right to reproduce this book or
portions thereof in any form.
FIRST EDITIO N
Published June 1953
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CONTENTS
I. THE SHADOW OF THE BOMB
1. Strange Lessons 9
2. Climate of Horror 14
3. The Matter of Fear 23
4. Duck and Cover 26
5. The Threat of Peace 31
II. SCANDAL OF THE SCHOOLS
1. In the Richest City 35
2. Havoc for the Young 40
3. “The most important business" 44
III. WAR ON THE MIND
1. Shape of Things to Come 49
2. Process of Indoctrination 52
3. Freedom to Conform 62
IV. NEED FOR KILLERS
1. Warning to the Nation 75
2. "Raise Your Boy to be a Soldier" 78
V. NIAGARA OF HORROR
1. "Kill, kill, kill, kill!" 92
2. Blood and Thunder 104
3. The Lore of Hollywood 110
VI. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
1. "The Nation's Nightmare” 117
2. Ways of the Jungle 128
3. Jungvolk in America 135
4. "How to Mangle a Soul" 143
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VII. VENGEANCE ON THE YOUNG
1. Grim Fact 151
2. Ways of the FBI 153
3. Operation Nursery School 157
4. Strategy of Sadism 160
VIII. LOYALTY PROGRAM FOR PARENTS
1. At Home and Abroad 168
2. Sins of a Mother 174
IX. INFAMY OF THE NATION
1. The Way in Washington 188
2. Shadow Over the Land 195
3. Justice in Americus 201
4. Words versus Deeds 211
X. WAY OF LIFE
1. Peak Prosperity 220
2. “Get healthier by eating less” 226
3. The Forgotten Children 230
4. Scales of Values 237
5. Issues at Stake 241
TO THE READER 247
INDEX 250
PHOTO CREDITS 256
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FOREW ORD
these last tension-ridden years, much has been said
D uring
about the prodigious cost of the Cold War. It has become a
truism that the huge expenditures of our Government go over-
whelmingly for military purposes, and that our industries are
increasingly engaged in producing implements not to enhance
life but to engender death. In the words of President Dwight
D. Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship
launched, every rocket fired signifies—in the final sense—a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are
cold and are not clothed.”
And yet, paradoxically enough, scant note has been taken of
the dire impact of the Cold War upon the nation's greatest
wealth—the children of our land.
The harsh and tragic fact is that of the whole population,
children are paying the most heavily for the Cold War. So
heavy, indeed, is the price being exacted of them that this
question must inevitably arise: is our nation, in the name of
defending its children, actually ravaging their security, de-
forming their characters and imperiling their lives?
This book seeks the answer to that question.
I make no claim to approach the question dispassionately.
I am the father of three sons. I do not want them to grow up
blighted by the miasma of the Cold War. I do not want them
to die amid the measureless havoc of a third world war. I
want my sons to live—to live and mature in a world at peace,
a world in which their talents and those of all other children
may fully flower, a world made worthy of children.
Albert E. Kahn
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Woe unto him through whom offences come! It
were better for him that a millstone were hanged
about his neck and he cast into the sea than that
he should offend one of these little ones.
JESUS OF NAZARETH
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