LITTLE OLD LADIES IN TENNIS SHOES – ANTI-COMMUNIST
- Posted byMASTER VIKRANT ROHIN
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- DateMAY 27, 2023
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The phrase “little old ladies in tennis shoes” refers to female members of the John Birch Society, a group established on Tuesday, December 9, 1958, that promotes anti-communism and limited government.
According to the study, affluent businessmen, retired military officers, and small old ladies wearing tennis shoes make up the majority of the John Birch Society’s cadre.
The expression was invented by Howard Jewel, Assistant Attorney General, Sacramento, California, according to an Associated Press report that appeared for the first time in the Santa Cruz Sentinel (Santa Cruz, California) on Wednesday, August 2, 1961:
- The Birch Society has been deemed “Not Illegal.”
- Sacramento (AP) The right-wing John Birch Society, according to the attorney general of California, is autocratic, paranoid, and frequently ridiculous—but not unlawful.
- Attorney General Stanley Mosk provided his 15-page “personal observations” in response to Governor Edmund G. Brown’s inquiry about the legality of the organization. Actually, Asst. Atty. Gen. Howard Jewel wrote the report.
- He asserted that “such an inquiry or official decision on the merits or demerits of the society” “betokens an unfamiliarity with the United States Constitution.”
- Mosk urged people to learn more about the Birch Society and form their own opinions. He added: “The Birch society has an equal right with the Prohibitionists, the Vegetarians, the Republicans, the Democrats, or, for that matter, with any American, acting singly or in a group, to an expression of its views; and no official, no matter how highly placed, can say them nay.”
- Even though their ideas may diverge even more sharply from those of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Khrushchev, “they are united by an obsessional fear of ‘communism,’ a word they define to include any ideal differing from their own.”
