He felt America was at great risk to succumbing to outside forces. He strongly believed that a Communist Conspiracy would take over this great land and enslave the American populous into slavery of socialism. “Our immediate and most and most urgent anxiety of course, is the threat of the Communist Conspiracy. And well it should be, for both internationally, and within the United States, the Communists are much further advanced and more deeply entrenched than is realized by even most of the serious students of the danger among the Anti-Communists” (Welch, 5).

Citing his faith and his patriotism in that two day conference in Indianapolis, Welch and the John Birch Society set forth on a crusade to enlighten America about the a very real Conspiracy

Welch went on to discuss ten ways to fight communism. He believed that 95% of people under the fist of communism do not want communism. “If just one fifth of the people who bitterly oppose Communism and actively oppose it, in such a coordinated manner and under such unified direction that their efforst have full cumulative weight, the Communists will not have even a chance of success” (Welch 179).

struck out with intense savagery against God and civilization and resulted in the murder of roughly a million human beings. Clearly, the upheavals and atrocities of 1789 served as a model for revolutions to come, especially the Bolshevik Revolution” (Thorton The New American).

In addition to the reading rooms and spread of literature, the Society needed to strategically organize fronts against Communism. If they were to spread their resources across America, they could stop the spread of Communism that goes under the radar since, no Communist would publicly promote Communism (Welch 87).

Welch also succeeded in his first goal to fight Communism, to establish reading rooms. The “reading rooms that sell books,” which were also known as American Opinion Libraries. The libraries served as headquarters of local JBS chapters and a place where potential members could come to learn more about anti-Communism. In the mid 1960’s the American Opinion Libraries went mobile. Using a Volkswagen bus, the Birchers would set up shop on the streets where there was not a permanent library (Epstein 96-97).

First he told his listeners they needed to establish nationwide reading rooms manned by John Birch Society members. With these reading rooms they could distribute conservative literature about the recent past into as many hands as possible so the populous understands what the Communists are trying to do (Welch 77).

The John Birch Society was not interested in keeping their message within the United States. Welch spoke of a need to go international with their message to stop the worldwide spread of Communism. Communism was an outside threat in other countries, not just on the domestic front. By stopping the spread abroad, it might just save the United States (Welch 103).

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