He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Texas Institute of Letters, the American Legion, and was president of the Conference of College Teachers of English.
Some of them today, he said, may be part of “the Jewish force on the Iranian frontier.” Others, he asserts, “form the hard core of the new ruling bureaucracy in satellite countries.”[6] He also alleged that Israel's 1948 war of independence was Soviet-backed and displaced 880,000 Palestinians.
[7] How to Capture a University asked, "Are the minds of our students to be guided by B'nai B'rith... or by Soviet Moscow... or by assorted devotees of the little world power which usurps the name of 'Israel'?
[8] Beaty published fourteen books, including Race and Population, Their Relation to World Peace (1928), Swords in the Dawn (1937), Image of Life (1940), The Iron Curtain over America (1951) and Crossroads.
He co-edited Facts and Ideas and Famous Editions of English Poets and worked with the Modern Language Association of America and the Dictionary of American Biography.
[1] Russel B. Nye reviewed Image of Life favorably, describing its thesis that Anglo-Saxon ideals were under threat from "decadent sentimentalism" as "controversial".