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=John Birch Societies=

By:Umair Naseer
The John Birch society was a conservative anti communist organization in the U.S. named after captain John M.Birch, he was a Baptist missionary who became an army air officer in World War II. John Birch was killed by Chinese communist in 1945. (He was an officer for 6 years.) The society would best describe itself as an educational group that aims to promote "less government, more responsibility, and with gods help...a better world." Their goals were to include the elimination of the federal income tax,welfare and social security programs,and federal regulatory agencies. It has called for publicizing the voting records of members of Congress in such areas like federal spending and assistance to communist governments. It would make an effort to impeach Earl Warren when he was chief justice of the United States. It also tried sever U.S trade with communist countries and wanted to end U.S. membership in the United Nation. In 1958 the society was found. It was founded by a retired Boston industrialist named Robert Welch = = =Robert H.W Welch=

Robert H.W Welch. Robert Welch was a very smart person he was born in Boston, he would simply impress people with his knowledge, he learned to read a 2 years old, was an expert at algebra at 6 years old, entered college at 12.

In college he was ranked 4th out of a class of 1,000 at the U.S Naval Academy. He also went to Harvard University where he debated his professors. he got success in industry, and launched a movement that became the largest force against communism and collectivism in the world. Robert Welch was extremely smart for his age. = = =A little bit more on the society....=

In the 1960's the society got about 100,000 members. members of the society were on many school and library boards or they held other local offices. The society operations included. Youth camps, a book distribution chain, and an audio visual production department. It's head quarters are in Appleton, Wisconsin.

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