RUSSIAN RADIO ATTACKS ON U.S. BLANKET WORLD WITH SUSPICION

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Itussids Domestic Radio Drive
lulIsOutStops in `Hate' for U. S.
Special Intra-Soviet Union Campaign Attempts to
`Correct' the War-Time Thinking of the People
About Their Former Ally, Now `Foe'
This is the second of..a series of five articles on.Soviet Russia's
world-wide propaganda attack on the United States. It is based on a
study of Soviet world broadcasts during the last ten months as
officially monitored in Washington.
By Robert S. Bird
,,..The Soviet government is en-
gaged today in a powerful ideo-
logical crusade to "correct" the
thinking of the Russian people.
&4vm*ed ten months ago with
Out fanfare inside Russia, but
met outside, its development seems
to ltldicate a deliberate withdrawal
< Soviet culture and science from
*I western world.
The character of this with-
drawal is not that of the "cold
shoulder" to the West; it is ac-
A led by a furious ideological
back at Soviet Russia's
war-time Allies, and particularly
nit the United States.
All. media of propaganda are
helping. The following is a sam-
ple of the "educational" service
being- rendered by the Soviet
radio, as monitored here on Jan.
23 in a Russian domestic broad-
cast :
"Let not our hatred of our foes
grow cold even if he has been
hung. Let it continue to rage with
a ten-fold fury in our hearts to-
ward those for whom there is no
name in human language, toward
those who have not yet satisfied
their lust for profits derived from
the blood of millions; and who,
in their satanic and blind folly,
are preparing a new war for suf-
fering humanity . . .
"Doomed to Perdition"
"These men are doomed to black
perdition, and in spite of all pre-
cautions the time will surely come
for their inevitable death by hang-
ing. But while they live and
'while, like profligates, they spend
billions of dollars in the making
of atom bombs and for the prep-
aration of a monstrous war, let
our indestructible hatred of them
continue. It will come in handy
at the right moment."
These words were written by a
Soviet writer named Mikhail Sho-
lokhov. Their publication in the
official journal, "Pravda," during
the same. week as the broadcast,
some of the backward intelligent-
"The announced objective of the
drive has been broadcast all Or
Russia, time and again; It it to
rout out and destroy every yea-
tige' of bourgeois thinking where-
ever it might lurk.' Militant pride
in Soviet achievements is utilized
to reinforce this aim.
By October, the Soviet radio
rwas able to announce to the home
audiences that 4,500 skilled propa-
gandists had been enlisted to fur-
ther the campaign. Thousands of
lectures held all over Russia were
mentioned.
Secrecy for Russian science is
litanized on the radio. Soviet sci-
entists are told sternly to keep
their secrets within Russia. For
Russians-satd' a typical home
service broadcast on July 22-
there must not be any thought
that "science is international" or
that "a scientific discovery is
bound to become sooner or later
common property of all countries."
Duty of Patriotism
"Such an attitude is oblivious to
the interests of our country," the
radio warned. "Every Soviet
patriot must realize the impor-
tance of keeping secret our scien-
tific discoveries and inventions,
and must stigmatize every viola-
tion of this rule as an anti-patri-
otic sycophancy with regard to
the bourgeois civilization."
The simple people, long been
fed on fantastically exaggerated
tales about this country, are ex-
horted to take their ideology pure
from the fountainhead. A broad-
cast on Dec. 3 to Soviet seamen at
sea, which was monitored here,
even laid down for sailors "instruc-
3f the biography of Comrade
Stalin."
The dispatch directed the
'group leaders" aboard ships to
emphasize specific points in the
chapter, one of them being:
"The policies of non-interven-
tion, neutrality and appeasement
of aggressors carried out by the
leaders of Britain, France, and the
United States were designed to
direct the aggression of German
fascism toward the East, against
the U. S. S. R." .
The Soviet radio is emphasizing,
constantly the "greatness of the
Soviet state under the leadership'
of the party of Lenin-Stalin"; the
gives evidence that Mr. Sholo-
khov's thinking was deemed to be
correct.
This three-way linking of a
"hate" theme to a "foe" who, by
indirection or implication, Is iden-
tified as the United States, is a
new trend in Soviet radio propa-
ganda.
It is an organic development in
the ideological drive, just as the
purge decrees recently directed
against the "incorrect" music of
'Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergi
Prokofieff also stemmed from that
campaign. And it goes much
further than the Soviet propa-
ganda assault upon this country
outside Russian borders.
The present 'ideological cam-
I paign was formalized April 30 un-
der the "sponsorship," according to
the Soviet radio's home broadcasts,
of seventy leading Russian scien-
tists, writers and artists. ?y
formed the All-Union Society for
the Dissemination of Political and
Scientific Knowledge to spearhead
the drive. The following Moscow
'domestic broadcast of Dec. 20 ex-
plains, as well as it has been ex-
plained to the Russian people,
some of the Iactors behind the
t .,paign:
"The agents of the imperialistic
states are increasing their un-
friendly activities against the So-
viet Union. They arts seeking out
among the Soviet People those who
are morally unstable or decadent,
and are trying to pursue abroad
a work of demoTalizati n among
the ex-prisoners \of war aiting
repatriation, and among the bviet
ital -
lam cap
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attempting to seek =d wiitthiin
the Soviet Union
viduals who are still inclined to-
ward the bourgeois and +p
world-wide "historical signifi-
cance" of the victory of socialism
in Russia; the "superiority" of the
Soviet social and state system; the
power of the "moral-political unity
of Soviet society"; the "friendship
of the peoples in the U. S. S. R.,"
and the, "true popular. character"
of Soviet democracy.
Comparing the "Soviet social
democracy of the mind, democracy
of talent, democracy of scientific
achievement" with the American
opposites, the domestic radio said
in December:
"Here (U. S.) you have the fea-
ture of monopolistic capital;
dwelling in the inaccessible heights
of human society are the super-
men; and below, the masses to
whom access to thought, knowl-
edge and science is denied. This
inhuman social order is branded
with the curse of degeneration and
annihilation. Scientific thought
cannot flourish in its midst; It is
foredoomed to stagnation, which-
ever stage of inertia has been
reached in the process."
In this case the Russian radio
made a distinction between the
American masses, who live in a
tihc Aerialist masters. The dis-
new "bate" acasts. nut in tine
inside Russian da evolving
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Soviet Radio Line: Democracy
And Truth Are liedMonopolies
For Russian Listeners, Stalin Is Almost Divine;
Foreign Broadcasts Run From Unctuous (.for
Soviet Russia s world-wide propa-
' gandg attack on the United States.
It Is based on a study o/ Soviet
world broadcasts during the last
ten months as officially monitored
in Washington.
By Eobert S. Bird
Soviet Russia's radio personality,
as it emerges in her world propa-
ganda against this country, is as
many-sided as it is uninhibited.
Whether praising herself, or giv-
ing advice to other countries, or
denouncing the United States, her
mood is as revealing as her mes-
sage.
Whatever her propaganda topic,
everything proceeds from the idea
that Soviet Russia is the paragon
of moral and political virtue.
This she proclaims. In her
foreign broadcasts she says it in
language ranging from matter-of-
fact to glowing. In broadcasts to
her own people, she speaks it in a
Messianic voice and she places an
almost religious aura around men-
tion of the name of Joseph Stalin.
"The Great Hero"
and soviet science," because it has
been ascribing the invention of the
This Is the third of a series on (in a "vile sally against Russian
Satellites) to Tough (for the Hesitant)
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"Great Stalin," "our father and
teacher," and "Stalin's name is
an unextinguishable light in the
struggle for a general peace for
'liberation from bloody wars, from
capitalistic slavery, for the pro-
gram of the peoples, and of all
mankind."
Likewise, the Soviet radio claims
a complete monopoly on "truth."
Everything that deviates a whit
from the Soviet version of truth
is "lies and slander."
"They slander and slander," the
radio said, in a domestic broadcast
Jana 3,0 attacking the American
press, "in accordance with the old
saying that `if you slander and
slander, something will remain of
it.' But the sun of Soviet truth
shines so brilliantly over the
world that it cannot be obscured
by the fog of lies and slander."
Although 'the radio acknowl-
edges that Soviet Russia is ever-
watchful around the globe, it also
proclaims that Russia has no de-
sire or intention to interfere with
the affairs of other nations. In
that respect it is the opposite of
the United States, the world is
told.
Stalin is "the great hero,"
wireless to Marconi, not to Alexan-
der Stepanovich Popov, a Russian
scientist, to whom Russia credits
the invention.
Appeal to Hollywood
The earnest-appeal mood of the
Moscow radio is one she sometiines
exhibits toward this country, On
Dec. S, for example, the radio, in
English, asked Hollywood to give
it its ear.
"We would like to believe that
you too. America's film producers
and actors, are concerned for the
destiny of humanity," the radio
said. "Is it possible that you do not
feel a burning need to show hu-
manity, and especially the Ameri-,
can people, who are its enemies!
and who its friends? . We
call on you to devote your art, that
great and all powerful weapon, to
the struggle against the new men-
ace of fascism; against the war-
mongers, for peace and collabora-
tion among the nations."
As an example of the intimate
mood, the radio calls on a Mos-
cow housewife to straighten out
an alleged canard about Russia.
Replying in an English broadcast
to the United Kingdom Oct. 6 to
a remark by Anthony Eden that
"no one is permitted to look at
anything foreign" in Russia, the
Moscow radio used the housewife
to say that the opposite was the
case.
"Such a book as Elliott Roose-
velt's "As He Saw It" scored a
great success here in Russian;
translation," she reported. "Cer-
tainly it is a stirring indictment
of the American and British reac-
tionaries who are hampering the
post-war reconstruction of the
world along democratic lines.
"But with regard to modern fic- '
tion in England and America, the
Soviet reader does not have a defi-
nite opinion on the subject be-
cause he doesn't find that fiction
reflecting problems of great social
consequence. . . . The decline
of the novel is essentially tied up
with the crisis being experienced
by culture as a whole in the coun-
tries of capitalism."
The "Voice of America"
What does the Soviet radio say
about its American counterpart,
a typical, in Czech to E'ruioeoh
April 7:
"For many years Goebbels mis-
used the German radio to misin-
form the German and other peo-
ple. In order to hear this well-
known stuff again slightly trimmed
to the democratic theme, one needs
only to tune into New York. From
that station we hear instructive
talks on the need to set up Amer-
asforld leadership, on imfrer-
ialist plans for the establishment
of strategic positions in the Midd e
and Far East, and hysterical calls
for a crusade against communion,
socialism, the trade unions: in
fact against any democratic shove-
ment, and libelous inventions
about the countries of the new
democracy."
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Mr. Bird will present examples of;
the propaganda devices used by the,
Soviet radio to misrepresent the'
United States.
cilable systems, the capitalist and
the socialist. In its foreign broad-
casts the radio much prefers to use
the word "Socialist" to "Commu-
nist." But it reserves some of its
worst vituperation for the Right-
Wing Socialists who are also work-
"D ,interested HeIz,"
"Expansionist tendencies do not
exist in the U. S. S. R.", the Soviet
radio's beam to Poland affirmed
on June 2. "No 'honest man in
Poland doubts that the U. S. S. R.
has no intention to interfere in in-
ternal Polish lffairs. At the same
time, every Pole at home is sure
to see the great and disinterested
help given by the U. S. S. R. to
"help" such as Soviet Russia, 'is
giving to Poland and the other
j satellite countries is usually linked
to the struggle by the "democratic"
peoples of the particular nation to
"liberate" themselves from the
"capitalist;" "puppet" or "traitor"
regimes which are-or were-"en-
slaving the country." In most cases
the radio "exposes" the hand' of
American imperialism operating
somewhere within these excoriated
regimes. `
Soviet propaganda proceeds in-
variably from the premise that the
world 1s divided by two irrecon-
"These wolves in sheep's cloth-
ing, working hard as they are to
deceive the masses with their gib-'
berish of democratic socialism, are
in reality the lackeys of Anerican
Imperialism," a Moscow home
service broadcast told an audience
on Feb. 3. "History has shown
that there is no-and neither can
there be any-Other road to So-
cialism except the one outlined in
the great teachings of -Marx, En-
gels, Lenin and Stalin."
Thus viewing the world in the
aspect of all-black or all.wltlte,
the Soviet radio speaks accord-
ingly. To satellite nations which
have already come under the dom-
ination of Communism, its tone
often is touched with unction.
Referring to Romania in a typi-
cal broadcast of this kind on
Feb. 6, it told of "the gallant
Soviet Army" which "put an end
y- eurfering of the Romanian
people, who nad long suffered un-
der the yoke of the Romanian and
foreign capitalists;" and extended
welcome to Romania for having
"joined the ranks of the demo- i
cr
ack
t
ing to overthrow capitalism.
"Lackeys" of America
side c[ her borders, not governed l
by a Costnunist regime, the Moe-
cow radio grows more omilhous.
"There is not, and cannot be
any separate detached policy," the
radio warned Finland in the Fin-
nish language Nov. 25, after a
Finnish minister had suggested,
that his country cease criticli 'of f
the western powers and pursue a
strictly Finnish line of develop-
ment. "There is only the fight be- j
tween the imperialist enslavers of
the peoples and the freedom-lov-
ing democratic peoples."
Soviet pride is deeply sensitive.
The radio is moved to indignation
and scorn when this pride is
pricked. The following is a typi-
cal i stance, broadcast in Czeeh~
and Slovak to Europe Feb. 1:
"The British Encyclopaedia at-
tempts to falsify- history. Its ac-
count of the patriotic war ends
abruptly just before the Stalin-
grad battle. No place could be
found for the Stalingrad battle
in the Enclyclopaedia Britannica."
And a Russian broadcast of
Dec. 10 accused the American
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Soviet Radio Saturates the Ether
With Tears forGermany's Plight
`German Unity' Menaced by Imperialist American
Monster; Mr. Ehrenburg Pays His Respects
to `the Boor From Across the Ocean'
This is the final article of a series on Soviet Russia's propaganda
attack on the United States. It is based on a study of Soviet world
broadcasts during, the last ten months as officially monitored in
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The battle is unceasing
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ena is global. The target
country; its government
,
ivies, its way of life.
Washington.
By Robert S. Bird
One of the neatest tricks turned
by the Soviet radio in its propa-
ganda attack on the United States
was the grabbing for itself of a
new "trade-mark" on Germany's
age-old dream of "German unity."
As a propaganda device, it was
as simple as tying two pieces of
string together. Germany, quite
naturally, desired to be unified.
Soviet Russia and the United
States disagreed as to how this
should be accomplished. Russia,
appraising the stalemate, tied her
piece of propaganda string to the
German hope and gave it a tug;
ergo, the United States was trying
to dismember Germany.
Day and night the Soviet radio
gives righteous voice to German
aspirations for unity, The German
ether is saturated with Soviet
tears for Germany's plight; and
every tear carries a reproach-or
worse-for the imperialist Ameri-
can monster which mutilates the
Fatherland.
"Germany is like a battlefield,
strewn with hands, arms, and
parts of bodies, while the life
blood that was shed gushes in the
sand," said a Soviet broadcast to
Germans,
Wholly apart from the converse
notion which Soviet propagandists
have contrived to attach to their
"unity" theme-that it is the
United States which is solely re-
sponsible for blocking Germany's
unification-is the more subtle
appeal the unity slogan makes to
German nostalgia. Goebbels was
not the first in history to raise a
cry for German unity.
Merge Tunes
The Soviet appeal for "unity" is
made, of course, to the "demo-
cratic" elements within the coun-
try. The "reactionary" Germans'
are depicted as "tools" of the
American imperialism. Arid here
the Soviet propagandists merge
their "unity" motif with another
tune.
To the rest of Europe and to
their own people, they offer this
propaganda theme: that the
United States wants Germany dis-
membered in order to build up
Western Germany's economic po-
tentiality and create there, in the
heart of Europe, a military bastion
of American imperialism from
(which it will "conquer" all Europe.
"The German unity movement'
Is not an accidental phenomenon
caused by Communist schemings,
as Anglo-American propagandists
try to persuade public opinion,"
Moscow broadcast in Polish to
Europe Jan. 28. "The real cause
of the trouble in Bizonia Is the
Anglo-Saxon policy leading to
economic chaos and grave political
consequences, not only in Western
Germany, but throughout West-
ern Europe.
"This policy can be described as
an attempt to adjust German
economy to the needs of the United
States monopolists and to 'turn
Western Germany into a base for
increasing the influence of United
States imperialism in Europe'-as
Molotov has said."
Elaborating upon this theme,
again typically, Moscow broadcast
to the Russian people on Jan. 20,
quoting Pravda:
"Speaking in the Senate Com-
mittee for Foreign Affairs in de-
fense of this (E. R. P.) plan, For-
restal, United States Secretary of
Defense, with the cynical frankness
of a business man addressing a
narrow circle of his friends, ex-
pounded on all the facts which his
colleague Marshall was so far hid-
ing . about aid to Europe,
the reconstruction of European
economy, and the salvation of
Western civilization.
The Will of Wall Street
"This sugary terminology evi-
dently aggravates and irritates the
banker of the Dillon, Read & Co.
firm, who is not used to diplomacy,
and who became United States
Secretary for Defense by the will
of Wall Street. Forrestal prefers
to use simpler language in hie' dis-
course with the Senators. Thus
the grinning snout of the imperial
ist beast of prey, smelling a j ricy
piece, peeps from behind the 'co-
quettishly intertwined olive twigs.
To hell with charity. A busing
man does not make money so that
It should be thrown away! The
acquire vassals for the creation of
new hotbeds of intrigue against the
Soviet Union," Norway was told in
her tongue Jan. 24. "United States
monopolists wish to establish
themselves in Norway in order to
create a military and political
bridgehead against the Soviet
Union."
"This means"-to Denmark Jan.
26 in the Danish language-"that
Sweden will also have to pay by re-
linquishing its sovereignty for the
extremely doubtful United States
assistance . . by allowing
Swedish territory to be used as air-
fields for American superbombers."
France and Italy are to be "con-
quered," "relegated to status of
agrarian nations," or even "made
colonies," they are told.
Ehrenburg'! Attack
"The people have drunk too
much from the cup of sorrow and
infamy offered by affable and gen-
erous troubadours," said a broad-
cast in French Feb. 8 by the propa-
gandist, Ilya Ehrenburg. "Enough.
Not mother drop, not another
gesture, not a word. The people
have understood."
"The British have piped down,"
Ehrenburg said. "It is the boor
from across the ocean who has got
hold of the bludgeon and who
threatens France with a De Gaulle,
with landings, famine and the
atomic bomb.
"He forgets that Frenchmen,
and especially 1948 Frenchmen,
cannot be scared. On this Feb-
ruary day the French people take
the oath that they will know how
to defend France's independence
and save French babies from
American swaddling clothes and
American bombs alike. My heart
is with the French people!"
This French broadcast ended
with the playing from Moscow of
the "Marseillaise."
To Japan, in Japanese language,
Feb. 21:
"In place of Japanese movies,'
the cheap and vulgar Hollywood
pictures have been substituted; in,
place of Japanese literature are
the American gangster novels. The
fox trot has taken the place of
the traditional Japanese folk
dance and the world-renowned
traditional 'Kabuki' Theater has
been replaced with . . , dance
revues. Such is the nature of
American-promoted culture."
For Great Britain, in English
Oct. 21, a sneer at touring Ameri-
can Congressmen:.
"Before the war there used to be
swarms of United States tourists
traveling about Europe. They
would roam with a bored air
through museums and art galleries.
pick up souvenirs and leave dollars
in exchange. But times change,
and now it seems it is United
States Congressmen who are trav-
eling about Europe on tours of in-
vestigation.
"They don't care about souvenirs
and don't leave any dollars. They
only promise, and that very vague-
ly, to hand out dollars at some in-
definite future date. In the mean
time they present perfectly defi-
nite terms to the European coun-
tries, and without any undue
squeamishness, either."
A Truthful Report
And so it goes, around the world
and around the clock. The Soviet
radio pipes softly or pipes shrilly.
Perhaps it never piped more truth-
fully than on Dec. 9, when Soviet
transmitters broadcast for one
hour and fifteen minutes in Rus-
sian, French, Slovak, German and
English a thoroughly frank, ex-
plicit and top-level report on
Georgi M. Malenkov's speech on
the newly organized Comrnform.
Moscow said:
"The whole weight of the class
struggle has, as far as~he U. S. 5.
R. Is concerned, shifed to the in-
ternational arena. Here we are
faced with two codpeting systems,
the capitalist .rd the socialist.
Here our part 'as to make a trial
of its weapor Tin battles with the
unscrupul ;. men of affairs of
b
ourgeo
The
wea
United States are not going to
send their dried, eggs and cigar-
ettes to Europe and never see a
trace of them."
"In the heated brains of For-
restal and his friends," the radio
added, "already a picture of a
restored and appeased Europe was
framing itself, with United States
bases functioning everywhere,
with British, French, Italian, Bel-
gian, and other soldiers marching
at the command of United States
officers, armed with United States
tommy guns, and : singing the
'Yankee Doodle Dandy,' with
United States governors in com-
mand all over the place"
The theme to the Scandinavian
countries is an "American grab for
northern bases."
"The Americans are trying to
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ussw iwists Iven YEatn Words
In Its = Radio War Against U. S.
`Democracy,' for Example, Exists in Pure Form
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Only in the Soviet. Union, While American
People Writhe `Under `Imperialism'
This is the fourth of a series on
Soviet Russia's propaganda attack
on the United States. It is based
on a study of Soviet world broad-
casts during the last ten months
as officially monitored in Wash-
By Robert S. Bird
Soviet Russia's radio propaganda
;agaist the United States ranges
from pure fiction to exact fact. To
make either fictiom on fact serve its
policy, the Soviet radio keeps at
hand a bagful of language tricks.
Many of these are. semantic in
nature; ingenious manipulations of
lord meanings. Every one knows
what has happened to the word
"democracy." In that word, now,
the whole conflict. between the two
bpposing systems of life are
summed up. One man's "democ-
raey"-today may be another man's
"police state," depending on who
is referring to which -area of the
globe.
For Soviet propagandalpurposes,
the U. S. S. R., "land of the free-
dom-loving peoples," is a simon-
pure: "democracy." The Corn
munist-dominated satellite coun-
tries are the "new democracies"
But the United States is not a
democracy, within the present
Soviet propagandist nieaxing of
the word. During the war it was a
demOC;acy of a certain sort. Today
it is an " imperalism," just as it was
1?efore and during the early part
of the war, after the signing of the
German F Soviet non - aggression
pact. ThotI h the United States is
not yet accused of being totally
"fascist," nevertheless "fascist
groups" are said to control the na-
tion, "enslave" its people, and,Con-
coct "fascist" plots to_explolt the
WQr Y suell` Words, ;With_ tilielr,
connotations of familiar infamy,
the United States is linked to the
Germany of Hitler. Preconceptions
are reversed. In fact, which is the
police state? .
Fingerprinting Stressed
"Recently the United States At-
torney General Clark reported that
millions in America were subjected
to the humiliating procedure of
having their fingerprints taken,"
the Moscow radio reported to Rus-
sians Jan. 28.
"To this police procedure, which
is usually applied to criminals, all
employees of the government de-
partment& of the United States'
are at present subjected. By such
methods the imperialists are try-
ing to transform America into a
police camp, organized on the pat-
tern of Hitierite Germany."
When the Soviet radio accuses
the United States government of
"warmongering," the radio is
doing some excellent wordmonger-
i - e ccellent for Soviet propa-
ganda purposes. The word "war-
monger" is much utter in English'
than in the Russian-translated
equivalent. It is translated (in
English alphabet) as "podzhigatel
voini." That means, literally, "set-
ters of the fires of war." But
"monger," according to Webster's
International Dictionary, means "a
trader . . . usually implying a
petty or discreditable dealing,"
That is a better propaganda con-
notation than the arsonist one be-
cause it meshes perfectly with
Russia's propaganda charge that
this country's mercenary imperial-
ists are plunging the world into a
third war in a grab for profits.
The "warmongering" speach of
Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet Foreign
Minister, in the United Nations
General Assembly on Sept. 18
flashed the green light 'to the
Soviet radio for a greatly stepped-
up global drum-beating on the
warmonger theme. By the device
of repetition--endless repetitiob--
"warmonger" has become a s mbo1.1 > btu
tightly wrapping up a whole
ful of anathemati7-ed~
policies
~,..~y' c ry, of Cesv!rs
The resolution against war-
mongering adopted by the V. N..
political committee was proc] med
around the world' by.. the. Soviet
radio as a great victory for Soviet
great defeat for the
gfates. First of all, this
was in comformity with the Mos-
cow propaganda pripdiple that in
any compromise the other side is
"forced to retreat" and Russia
scores a "victory." Next, the radio
omitted all references to amend-
ments and modifications, so as to'.
represent the resolution as em-
bodying the original Soviet pro-
posals. Finally, by linking the
resolution to Soviet and satellite
delegates' speeches, it attempted
to suggest that the United States
had been named in the resolutiou,l
as the guilty party.
In Italian, Serb, Croat and 1 e-'
lash, on Oct. 3, and in Hun *fl
Oct. 29, the radio explained ittlilid
way:
"The American delegates were
compelled' to vote together with
the other delegations for a resolu-
tion which does condemn war
propaganda and incitement to
war.., . The political committee's
decision first of all corroborates
that war propaganda and inoit9
ment to war exists and the nations
have now been warned of this'
to the countries in which these in-
citers ... are more active.
The Criminals Unmasked
"They were named quite deft-
tritely in the speeches of the dele-
gates of tine U.S.S.R., the Ukraine,
Poland and other countries. Hence,
every one who reads the political
committee's resolution will know
to whom it refers, who it con-
demns, and where those at whom it
is aimed are to be found. They are
to be found primarily in the United
States, Turkey and Greece,"
"This is the moral victory of the
Soviet Union," it added, "and with
it of all the peace-loving nations
of the world. And that is also the
defeat of those who support un-
limited freedom of war propa-
ganda." I
Other ' ommon propaganda de-
vices of the radio include simple
and gross exaggeration, out-
right misquotation of important
speeches, merging of quoted matter
with the narrator's own opinions
without indicating the transition,
and use of quoted matter out of
context to make it mean some- i
thing altogether different.
Less frequently does the radio,
resort to outright falsehood in
dealing with matters-of recorded
fact. Usually it achieves its dis-
tortion by omission of facts, or
by use of half-truths linked to
other half-truths.
Facts Used, Too
On the other hand, the Soviet
radio is deadly accurate often
enough; particularly so in report-
ing such matters as lyne~tlpp and
the crimes of juvenile duets.
Some of its most effe*e yeoP-
aganda is achieved in t faetusl
reporting-always to prove its 44n
point--4t utterances s4.: lt(t1/r
of important `Americaxl o us
ii hI C
vocngere-nongr~I*e
ample--criticism of A
ides, either actual or
The Soviet radio smeared tiss t7ba-
gressional Committee on Un-Amaer-
ican Activities hearings areuad the
world in the verbatim worms ee its
critics in this country.
Henry A. Wallace is a name
particularly favored by the radio
to prove its points.
"As Wallace stated a few days
ago, more than 170 Army and
Naval officers are now holding
high civilian posts," the radio
reported in Russian Jan. 16. Then
it went to the point it was making:
"In this connection, the specific
peculiarity of the American body
of generals _ should be borne in
-mind. Just as the-old-feudal lords
of Europe recruited their com-
mand1ng officer personnel from
the aristocracy, so in contempo-
rary America they are recruited
from the men of business. . . .
'Under the present government,
Wall Street is preparing to rule
the world,' said Wallace at a meet-
ing in September last year."
The Moscow radio is usually
rather careful in propaganda re-
ports on Vatican affairs, but oc-
casionally the Moscow-controlled
Berlin radio is used to evade di-
reet responsibility for attacks on
Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Spellman Attacked
Speculating on the possibility
that Francis Cardinal Spellman
was being considered for the post
of Cardinal Secretary' of State,
the Soviet-controlled Berlin sta-
tion said on Oct. 24:
"This Cardinal, distinguished by
close connections with Wall Street,
had made sure of a growing hard-
currency income for the church,
ad aeted' as intermediary for in- I
vestment of the substantial cash
holdings of the Church by the
Morgan group."
Though Moscow's radio strate-
$$ems are myriad, yet Russia does
trot want this country to be hood-
winked by other foreigners.
"Sober-thinking Americans," the
radio said to North America in
English Nov. 13, "should not let
themselves be taken in by the
honeyewords of gratitude to
Uncle Sam's unselfishness and
pure altruism which are being
uttered by some sections of the
press in Great Britain and certain
other countries. These are just as
insincere and pitiful as the words
of thanks a poor fellow expresses
when he has just received a dry
crust. . No one in America
should be taken in by the humble
bows ,.that are being made today
by certain hack writers in Europe,
-
t l
who sold their self-respecong
for filthy lucre."
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