>>10435540
"Despite the suggestion that the Communists, Nazis and Fascists were conspiring to bring down America, the fundamental thrust of the map is anti-Communist. That was the core mission of the Constitutional Education League, founded in 1919 during the original Red Scare. And the text on the verso is principally devoted to attacking the Communists, the “heart and brain of the Red Fifth Column in America,” “a foreign conspiracy masked as a political party . . . whose intrigues stagger the imagination and whose power and influence has made itself felt in almost every phase of our national life.” On the other hand, “Hitler’s Nazis” are described simply as “Brown Bolsheviks” (a characterization that both Hitler and the Soviets would certainly have disputed), and the Fascists are said to be concerned primarily not with imposing their will on this country, but on securing aid for their causes abroad. Those on the “Roll of Dishonor” share a “collective goal . . . they would undermine our Government, destroy it, and set up in its place a new system of society based upon the collective concepts of Karl Marx.”"
"Joseph P. Kamp was a long-time officer of the Constitutional Education League and author of numerous pamphlets associating the American labor movement with Communism. (One of these, “Join the CIO and Help Build a Soviet America,” is advertised on the verso.) Apart from this map, he had a well-known record of pro-Nazi activities before the U.S. entered World War II, as well as anti-Semitic views. After the war, he attempted to link President Eisenhower to the “communist conspiracy.” In July 1942 the Constitutional Education League was indicted, along with 28 individuals and a number of other organizations and publications, on charges of sedition, specifically, of seeking to undermine the morale and foster mutiny among U.S. armed forces. In 1944 it was subpoenaed for information about its donors, but Kamp refused to comply. For this he was convicted of contempt in 1950 and sentenced to four months in prison."