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Dr. Felix Wittmer, Analyst of World Affairs
THE REDS IN EDUCATION
SOVIET BETRAYAL DURING
WORLD WAR 11
THE FAILURE OF OUR
FOREIGN POLICY
DR FELIX WITTMER
ANALYST OF WORLD AFFAIRS
EDUCATOR WHO HAS FOUGHT THE REDS-
In August, 1951, Dr. Wittmer resigned from the New Jersey State Teachers College at Montclair,
where he had taught for seventeen years. "After fighting Reds, Pinks and Progressives on the
faculty for years," he wrote in THE FREEMAN of December 3, 1951, "I finally admitted de-
feat." He is now carrying on his fight for freedom of enterprise (and against Marxism) on a na-
tional scale, from the platform and in articles.
A lifelong opponent of any and all totalitarians, Dr. Wittmer, on leave of absence from Washing-
ton & Jefferson College, in 1932 went to his native Germany to fight the rise of Nazism. He
was injured by Nazis two weeks after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, lived in hiding, es-
caped to France, and was shadowed by Nazispies across half of Europe, for sixteen months.
When it was fashionable in the United States to praise the Bolsheviks, Dr. Wittmer warned a-
gainst them without regard for personal comfort. He clashed with the Soviet agent General Victor
Yakhontoff, as early as March 18, 1943. He challenged Dean Acheson, concerning his pro-
Russian views, right in the State Department, on January 3, 1946. He debated on the platform
against such Soviet apologistsas Anna Louise Strong, Jerome Davis, and James Watterman Wise.
For his article on COMMUNIST TACTICS IN THE LECTURE HALL, which appeared in the NA-
TIONAL REPUBLIC of January, 1950, Dr. Wittmer received Award and Medal from Freedom Foun-
dation, Valley Forge.
After obtaining his Ph.D. (magna cum laude) from the University of Munich at the age of 21, Dr.
Wittmer did three more years of postgraduate work at the Universities of Geneva (Switzerland),
Paris (The Sorbonne), and Florence (Italy.) He has published books in two continents and has
written extensively for free enterprise publications. The PASSIAC-CLIFTON HERALD-NEWS
Of May 5, 1951, printed the following appraisal of Dr. Wittmer: "Years before we realized that
world Communism was even a greater threat to liberty than fascism, Dr. Wittmer, with utter dis-
regard for his personal advantage, warned against the Moscow conspiracy. He warned against
Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam and Communist fronts when all too many professors, throughout the na-
tion, still urged cooperation with the Soviet Union."