The 1951 national campaign started on Labor Day, September 3, 1951, with a nationwide radio broadcast carried by the CBS network, which featured General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade National Chairman Lucius D. Clay, 1951 Crusade Chairman Harold E. Stassen, and others. The broadcast, narrated by famed television and radio journalist Edward R. Murrow, was also carried by Radio Free Europe. Eisenhower from Paris, France, said, "They (citizens of iron curtain countries) hunger also for the truth, to sustain them under the crushing weight of a godless dictatorship. You can help bring them the truth through the Crusade for Freedom. I trust every American will support whole-heartedly its campaign to use truth as a weapon against Communistic domination of the world."
General Clay gave a nationwide radio address that was broadcast by radio station WNBC at 10:15 P.M., September 8, 1951. The New York Times headlined the speech on September 9, 1951: “CLAY OPENS APPEAL TO AID RED ‘SLAVES.’”
There was also a Call to Action newspaper appeal, in the best Cold-war rhetoric, to the women of the United States to support the Crusade:
There was also a Call to Action newspaper appeal, in the best Cold-war rhetoric, to the women of the United States to support the Crusade:
The CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM is our means, as private citizens, of insuring that the voice of liberty will be heard. Radio Free Europe is out personal instrument for adding our voice to the voices of truth penetrating the Iron Curtain.
This struggle (against Communism) reaches into every American home. It involves you and me. It affects the way of life of our children and our grandchildren.
This struggle (against Communism) reaches into every American home. It involves you and me. It affects the way of life of our children and our grandchildren.
The Crusade for Freedom and Radio Free Europe are one of the means, one of the powerful weapons that can be brought into play against the forces of tyranny— powerful because through them American citizens can dispel the chill blackness of evil ideas with the clear warmth and light of truth.
That is the primary reason why it is urgent for every woman to enroll in the Crusade for Freedom.
If we truly want a free world, then each and every one of us must be willing to play a part in bringing it about. It is not our way to leave our problems entirely resolved by the government. It is our way as a people to join together in doing those things, which we believe worthwhile. The Crusade for Freedom presents the opportunity to each American to take a personal part in the struggle for freedom.
Therefore I call upon the women of America to join in the CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM. I ask you to take this positive action now.
By helping to win the battle for men's minds, we thereby help to keep this cold war from developing into a hot war. That is the primary reason why it is urgent for every woman in this nation to enroll in the CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM.
Therefore I call upon the women of America to join in the CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM. I ask you to take this positive action now.
By helping to win the battle for men's minds, we thereby help to keep this cold war from developing into a hot war. That is the primary reason why it is urgent for every woman in this nation to enroll in the CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM.
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