Talk:Bella Dodd

education and other biographical information

I notice that the article once described her educational credentials (Hunter College and NYU) and leadership role in the New York State Teachers Union (see edit by Highground79 at 01:04, 12 April 2007 Highground79. I think this information is important and can imagine who removed it and why. As such, it's going back into the article.

• Addressed; reinstated; corrected; cited with references.--Aboudaqn (talk) 09:49, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

previous talk

Bella Dodd was born Maria Asunta Isabella Visono in Italy about 1904. a Brilliant and dedicated women, she graduated from Hunter College and NYU Law School. She became head of the New York State Teachers Union and was a member of the Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA) National Council until 1949. In Her Book " School of Darkness" published in 1954, disillusioned...., Dodd described Communism as "a strange secret cult" whose goal is the destruction of Western i.e. Christian Civilization. The Communist party operated by infiltrating and subverting social institutions like the churches, schools, mass media and government. it's aim was "to create new types of human beings who would conform to the blueprint of the world they confidently expected to control" (p.162) For example, Dodd reveals that the CPUSA Bold texthad 1100 members become Catholic priests in the 1930's. It also subverted the American education system by taking over the teacher's unions and learned societies.Bold text only people who accepted the "materialistic, collectivist international class struggle approach' advanced. (P.98) The party did all it could to induce women to go into industry. Its fashion designers created special styles for them and its songwriters wrote special songs to spur them....war-Period conditions, were to become a permanent part of future programs. The bourgeois (middle class) family as a social unit was to be made obsolete.Bold text There was to be no family but the party and the state. Dodd helped organized "The Congress of American women", a forerunner of the femenist movement.Bold text "since it was supposedly a movement for peace, it attracted many women. But it was really only a renewed offensive to control American women.....like youth and minority groups, they are regarded as a reserve force of the revolution because they are more easily moved by emotional appeals.(p.194-195)

the above was appended to the bottom of the article. Frencheigh 20:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Sources?

I found the follow quotes in this article but have been unable to find reliable sources for them (and YouTube is not considered an acceptable source):

1. After her defection from the Communist Party in 1949, she testified that one of her jobs, as a Communist agent, was to encourage young radicals to enter Roman Catholic seminaries.
2. Dodd once said: "In the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within. The idea was for these men to be ordained, and then climb the ladder of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops."
3. Dodd told Alice von Hildebrand that: "When she was an active party member, she had dealt with no fewer than four cardinals within the Vatican who were working for us, [i.e. the Communist Party]|Christian Order magazine, "The Church in Crisis", reprinted from The Latin Mass magazine.
4. Dodd made a public affidavit which was witnessed by a number of people, including Paul and Johnine Leininger. She stated: "In the late 1920’s and 1930’s, directives were sent from Moscow to all Communist Party organizations. In order to destroy the [Roman] Catholic Church from within, party members were to be planted in seminaries and within diocesan organizations... I, myself, put some 1,200 men in [Roman] Catholic seminaries." von Hildebrand confirmed that Dodd had publicly stated the same things to which she attested in her public affidavit.

I do not find these quotes in either her SISS or HUAC testimony or in her memoir. I have added citation from all three of those major sources about her (so anyone else can check, too). Does anyone know the sources? If so, please add citations. Until then, I'm removing them.--Aboudaqn (talk) 09:51, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

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