TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST BY FULTON LEWIS, JR.

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• Document Release Date: October 19, 2004
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• Publication Date: February 4, 1958
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TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST
By
Fulton Lewis, Jr.,
Station WGMS at 7-7:15 P. M.
4 February 1958
Now I have here an interesting letter from a listener
in Houston, Texas. He informs me that he is an owner in
Chrysler automobile stock and he wrote in asking, to the
Chrysler Company, asking whether Chrysler is contributing
anything to the Crusade for Freedom. He received a reply
telling him that Chrysler has been contributing $50,000
each year from the Chrysler Fund, but the Chrysler Company
did not stop at this point. Subsequent to the receipt of
the letter, the gentleman informs me that he received a per-
sonal long-distance telephone call from an official of the Chrys-
ler Corporation in Detroit, which he describes as follows;
and I quote from his letter; "It seems that they have been
contributing $50,000 a year, but they say that Ford con-
tributes $250,000. They promised to obtain the informa-
tion which you have on Crusade for Freedom before contrib-
uting further. At least they show some concern. I am a
stockholder in Chrysler and I have asked them to assign
someone to listen to your newscasts so that they would know
what your charges are against Crusade for Freedom."
I shall certainly cooperate with the Chrysler Company
in every way and shall be delighted to make available to
them my files and documentation on the Crusade and the Radio
Free Europe,which it supports, because the very purpose of
these broadcasts is to force a house-cleaning on the whole
Free Europe operation by public exposure and pinching their
pocketbook, and there are some indications that campaign is
having some effect. There are reports around the White House
today, for example, that the president of the Free Europe op-
eration, retired Lieutenant General Willis B. Crittenberger,
made a hasty trip to Washington today to confer with White
House assistant General Jerry Persons, because of a general
upheaval of protests and demands for a clean-up within the
Free Europe organization itself in New York. I've been try-
ing all afternoon to get General Persons on the phone, but he
is reported tied up in constant conferences, so I have not
been able to reach him.
I would like to take this occasion, however, to answer
the many hundreds of thousands, if not thousands, not hun-
dreds of thousands, (sic) hundreds if not thousands of you
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good listeners who have written in asking that the material
in this series of broadcasts be incorporated into a single
book or pamphlet. Just as soon as the series is completed,
I assure you we will do so. Now as against the interest
shown by the Chrysler Corporation, which seems to me very
admirable, I have here a letter signed by Mr. Gwilym Price,
chairman of the board, of the Westinghouse Corporation,
and head of the Crusade for Freedom, who has been touring
the country as the guest of honor at luncheons of big cor-
poration executives on which the Crusade plans to put the
bite. This is an answer to a letter to him from a stock-
holder asking whether Westinghouse is contributing anything
to the Crusade, and in reply Mr. Gwilym Price writes back as
follows:
"On the 12th of November last, at a meeting at the
White House, the President of the United States and his prin-
cipal advisers on foreign affairs assured a group of corpo-
rate executives that Radio Free Europe plays a vital, neces-
sary, and effective part in the American policy in the struggle
against the Soviet, and for the ultimate freedom of the Satel-
lite states from Soviet rule. The group was further assured
that in the minds of these authorities, it is essential to
have the Free Europe committee which operates Radio Free Europe
managed by private citizens, with as wide public support both
personal and corporate as possible. As the struggle for free-
dom is vitally very important to every American and as the
people in the government are fully informed and have the re-
sponsibility for the methods to be used in this struggle for
men's minds, the company was glad to accept their recommen-
dation and contribute to the Crusade for Freedom for the sup-
port of Radio Free Europe. Sincerely yours, Gwilym A. Price."
Please note there is a maximum of flag-waving and fancy
phrases, and a minimum of information--nothing at all as to
the amount or why anything is given to an outfit that refuses
to make a public financial statement and is specifically
disapproved by the leading clearinghouse of the nation for
fund-raising drives.
By way of further pursuing these reports on Radio Free
Europe and the Crusade and the affiliated operations, I am
working currently on a story which I hope to have in the im-
mediate future about a cigarette blackmarket scandal involv-
ing some of the top Free Europe officials in Munich, which
the leaders both in New York and Munich have tried to cover
up unsuccessfully. I hope to have the details for you within
a few days.
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