About this ebook
“This book is not an autobiography. This book generally will be concerned with the response, as I saw it, of free men to the pressure of Communism, that twentieth century revolutionary movement which first captured power in Russia and has since extended that power to the Elbe River and the China Sea, that revolutionary movement whose ultimate aim is world dominion. I shall be concerned not only with Communism’s territorial expansion but also with its efforts—sometimes overt, sometimes covert, but unceasing—to undermine the foundations of moral and political authority in every land that has not yet fallen under its domination.” (Robert Morris)
About the author
Robert John Morris (September 30, 1914 - December 29, 1996) was an American anti-Communist activist who served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security from 1951 to 1953 and from 1956 to 1958, was President of the University of Dallas and founded the now-defunct University of Plano.
Morris grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey and graduated from Saint Peter’s College and the Fordham University School of Law. In 1940, he served on a committee of the New York State Assembly investigating allegations of Communist activities in schools and colleges in New York State.
He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII as a commander of counterintelligence and psychological warfare. His duties included writing propaganda items that were dropped over Japanese cities and interrogating captured prisoners.
Between 1958-1984, Morris ran unsuccessfully for the Republican Party’s U.S. Senate nomination from New Jersey Texas, and for the conservative American Independent Party’s presidential nomination in 1976.
He became president of the University of Dallas in 1960; however, his outspokenness on anti-Communism and other issues created conflict within the school, and he left in 1962.
He formed the Defenders of American Liberties in the summer of 1962, intended to serves as a counterbalance to the American Civil Liberties Union. He founded the University of Plano in Plano, Texas in 1964 with a focus on the education of mildly disabled college-age students using techniques from the Doman-Delacato Method. He remained at the school until 1977 and it closed its doors shortly thereafter.
From 1960 Morris’ column Around the World was published for more than two decades, appearing in newspapers including the Manchester Union Leader and The New York Tribune. He was also the author of four books, including Disarmament: Weapon of Conquest (1963).
He passed away in Point Pleasant, New Jersey in 1996, aged 82.
