Question

1: what did palmer consider “the real menace of communism”? what did he propose to do to “clean up the country”?

Answer 1

1. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer believed that communists were attempting to overthrow the American government. He proposed to arrest and promptly deport them.

2. He believed that Congress had ignored it because it had not passed any law that could have assisted in the arrest and deportation of communists. He believed that "the Reds" were criminals because of the way they thought, because of their theoretical ideals (robbery and not war), as, according to Palmer, it had been demonstrated in Russia, Germany and in the United States.