Letters from Robert N. Golding to Edwin L. Weisl, Roy J. Bullock, and Arthur M. Cox

offer April 28, 1960 Dear Ed, It's been a long time since we've had any contact but you know (I hope) that I'm not a screwball who goes off half-cocked, so I can get down to business without the customary preliminary palaver and apology for what may be a long letter. The enclosed book is loaned, not given, to you since it is my last available copy and I'll appreciate its return after you have read it. The Foreword (9 pages) will, I'm sure, convince you that a "theory of the case" which has produced correct predictions over a twenty year period must be right - mere good luck would not have lasted that long. There are other predictions, in later chapters, which have come true since the book was written, and these buttress that belief. Our national trouble has been that American basic thinking has been wrong and needs to be changed. The reason for losses is not the incompetence of individuals who have had charge of this or that, so we cannot hope for better things if men only be changed. A wrong "theory of the case" will result in failure no matter who operates it. As a former trial lawyer you know that. For years we have been fighting mere agents - *international communism". fanatics, dogmatists, groups of American punks *conspiring" in cellars, and the like. Our enemy is none of that, which is new - only forty years old - and hence a strange and mysterious something which frightens too many. The enemy is the Great Khanate which periodically has come to life over 1,500 years with devastating effect. Why? The reason is that Western Civilization has always refused to learn the enemy's principles of war and operating methods, insisting on devotedly following our ovn "heads bloody but unbowed" ideas which we have inherited from the noble knights. They never even won a battle - and our record is not much better. This can be changed. If, however, the next President is to be anything but the American Romulus Augustulus we must cease thinking defensively in terms of heroic patriots dying bravely while repelling the invader and we must learn to attack with non-shooting weapons in the present phase, which is not peace at all but the non-shooting phase of World War III. This has been going on for over ten years already, but most Americans do not even know that there is such a thing as non-shooting warfare - to them it's peace. How much more time do you think we have before some Congressional Committee gets interested in learning what must be done besides "remaining strong" and giving away money? Only a few changes need be made if we are to win, but they must be