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PAGE TWO THURSDAY, OCT. 19, 1950 SOUTHERN OREGON NEWS REVIEW BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN Soviet Satellites Use Propaganda To Discredit West's Democracies The often ridiculous propaganda charges made by Russian satellites from behind the Iron Curtain have provided the American people with a number of chuckles In this time of world crisis. But there are other Items of news that are not so amusing and give a true indication of how the people are fed a constant diet of propaganda. An organisation which calls itself the National Committee for a Free Europe has compiled a few. Letters from Poland, for instance, smuggled into this country via Austria, report the growing prestige and popularity of Gen. Douglas MacArthur am onj the Poles. Many still remember the general’s visit available only to a group of to Poland prior to World W ar II. 'chosen' people who form the His role in the Korean w ar has ruling class. The large masses aroused a wave of enthusiasm and of working men and women have admiration which the Communist to live without any of these press tries to counteract by denun goods. ciations of the famous American. "Theirs is a democracy of a Among the methods used to dis credit him is to charge him with minority. The workers live in de reactionary and fascist tendencies, pendency on this minority, they cowardly behavior, and a policy of earn so little that they can never personal enrichment in the P h ilip provide for even the essentials; pines. He has also been accused of or they are jobless and unable to leniency toward Japanese war assert democratic rights. The west criminals and especially Emperor ern countries are good for the rich ’upper-class' only, the working Hirohito. masses of the people exist merely Solidarity Preached to produce and supply wealth and In Hungary the press is preach prosperity for a few.” That doesn't sound like a friend ing solidarity with North Korea. The Szabad Nep, published in Buda to western democracy. According to the propaganda pest, said in July that there was no special, made-to-order peace for handed out by countries behind the that country. The newspaper said: Iron Curtain their industries are “ I f houses are ablaze in Korea, then models of efficiency. A recent re our homes are endangered, too. port on conditions in the Iron and And if a neighbor's house is on fire, Steel Works at Jesenice in Yugo slavia would indicate otherwise. it is our duty to help him. “ The Korean people have Industry Has Problems shown that the eastern border of our peace camp can with The report said the chief problem stand any onslaught victorious of “ this industry is the accumula ly. A solidarity which has burst tion of finished goods in the ware houses and the resulting immobil Into flames In the fire of battle is sweeping all strata of our ization of the working capital of the people. We w ill and shall take enterprise. Furthermore there is up our stand on the western too much top-level personnel in re border of the peace camp. , . .” lation to too few workers.” The report continued: "The prob Another article in the same news paper reported “the name of the lem of accumulated finished prod F B I creates a feeling of fear and ucts existed in 1947, but the situa horror in every average A m eri tion has worsened since. Whole sec can.” tions of the plant were at times The “No one is sure,” the article stuffed with finished goods. continued, “ when he might be consequent disorder and waste are seized by the secret police at his incredible. work, in his home, or even in the “ Another cause of the present street. There is no protection against plight is shortage of manpower the F B I. Its charges are based on which stems mostly from in secret information, anonymous let adequate housing provided for ters and denunciations. workers. The discipline among “In the American ‘democracy’ a the workers leaves much to be man has only to utter a careless desired, too. The workers come rem ark, some criticism of the M a r late and leave early, thus shall Plan to his neighbor, and creating a loss of at least one he will be pounced upon by the work hour per day per m an.” F B I, his colleagues and his boss In the state owned mines at questioned; he w ill be smeared, ac cused, fired from his job and only Velenje, miners had to perform 60 per cent of overtime work to too often ruined. , . .“ make up for unjustified absentee The Hungarian press also re ism among the rest of the mining ported: “ Pope Pius X I I has crews. acquired the agency for Coca And of the state owned farms, cola in Italy. This beverage is figures are just as disappointing harmful but yields gl-eat profit in agricultural production. to those who sell it. It seems indeed that it has been especial Romania Prepares for W ar ly invented for the Vatican." Private reports from Greece, by Another of the ridiculous items reliable Romanians who recently of Communist propaganda orig left their country, convey the im inates in Czechoslovakia. On June pression that Romania is getting 28, 1950,. the Czech government pub ready for armed emergencies. lished a proclamation announcing One report said: “All summer that vast parts of Bohemia had leaves for officers in the forces been infested with Colorado beetles have been cancelled. Many re dropped by American airplanes. serve officers were recently called On July 11, 1950, the ministry of up. Allocation of freight cars for foreign affairs presented two notes railway transportation of goods and to the U. S. embassy, one protest agricultural products is subject to ing against alleged flights of Am er authorization of the general staff.” ican aircraft over Czechoslovak Romania is also concentrating territory, the other reading: on propaganda telling of alleged “It has been irrefutably ascer preparations for bacteriolog tained . . . that American planes ical warfare in the United have dropped large amounts of States. One recent broadcast Colorado beetles on territories of gave a good many details of the German democratic republic. names and places supposed to An increasing number of the au be engaged in preparing bac thorized flights of U. S. airplanes teriological weapons. from the U. S. zone of Germany into Czechoslovakia shows clearly The broadcast announced that a that the spreading of the Colorado central bacteriological station was beetles in this country is due to situated at Camp Letwich in M a ry the same cause.” land where the arm y maintained gigantic laboratories for testing Tito Scorns West typhus, plague and cholera germs. A great many Americans seem Other laboratories were asserted to believe that because Soviet and to be situated in Mississippi, Utah Yugoslavia relations are some and Indiana. what strained we have a friend in One of the m ajor dislikes of Com Marshal Tito. But this is what Tito munist countries is the Marshall believes and preaches about west Plan. The Polish press said recent ern democracy: ly: “Where do we find true democ "The Marshall Plan will expire racy? In Yugoslavia or in western countries? In Yugoslavia, democ in the spring of 1952, and Washington racy serves the large masses of is looking for new ways of keeping the working people. The west is the western European countries in state of dependency. The plan accusing us of not having true democracy, of being a police state, itself has fallen so fa r into disre pute that it cannot be continued in of living in misery. “Indeed, we live in need of many its present /orm . Therefore it will goods and materials. Yet the es be succeeded by the so-called “plan sential difference between our dem X X of integral defense” for the ocracy and the western way of life Atlantic treaty countries.” is that we aim at creating a high The Polish press is also down X X economic standard of living for on the labor government of Great everybody, not for a small minority Britain. A recent article stated: as is the case in the west. "The labor government has now “ What good is it to the man definitely proved to be no different in the western countries that from the warmongering policies of the warehouses are buldging Winston Churchill.” with goods? All he gets is de These are but a few of the propa sire for their possession. But ganda themes and methods of the they are not for him. They are countries behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of ty in g the tw o ends of When shoe polish gets hard and a broken shoelace together to d ry , you can soften it up by pour ! m ake it do u n til you can get u ing u few drops of tu rp en tin e in it. new one, take a little e x tra tim e to lap the broken ends o ve r each o th e r and sew them together. A fix '* lik e th a t w ill lust longer and look b etter thun a knot. To dye w hite shoes b la ck, tr y ! using q u ic k -d ry in g black enam el | paint. I t often w ears b e tte r than I liq u id o r paste dyes und doesn't rub o ff so easily. You cun brush out the cu ffs on m en 's trousers easily if you take out the stitches holding the cu ff and replace th em w ith m eta l snaps. F ro m then on, unsnap the snaps, brush, then snap the snaps. SO VIET D ELE G A TIO N TAKES IT ON THE I.A M . Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky (right) leads chief soviet delegate to security council, Jacob M alik (second front right), and other members of the Russian delegation front the banquet hall of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel after New York's governor blasted Russia for keeping 10 to 15 million people living under imperialist slavery. The city of New York was giving a dinner honoring the incoming and outgoing presidents of the United Nations general assembly. As Dewey’s bias! began, Vishinsky arose, looked around the room and headed for the door. “ E asier to u s e " says " F a s te r d is s o lv in g ” " F a s te r risin g " SOUTH KOREAN W ELCOME . . . Towns and townspeople everywhere in liberated South Korea have wel comed the victorious U.S. marines and the rest of the United Nations forces as they drove the Reds north ward or bottled them up in bayonet-lined m ilitary traps. One town, as soon as It heard of the U.S. and South Korean beachhead being established at Inchon, voiced its welcome by hanging a sign across the main street leading into the village. Mrs. W. O. Widdows. Salem, Oregon, winner of over 30 prizes at the State la ir . "There’s no time wasted, no special direc tions to follow. I've never used any yeast that I liked better.” says Muss Marie Dick man. Penrose, Colorado, 1949 State 4-11 Champion in Food. "You just can’t beat it for speed. All you do is combine it with water, stir well and it's ready to use!” says Mrs. Gertrude Quigley, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Kootenai County F a ir prize winner. "It's nwis active than ever. New Im proved Fleischm ann's cuts down riving time and gives me pcrfoct results.” PRIZE COOKS PREFER FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST I AUTO-UTE STA-FUL BATTERY G E N TL E R IB AT C O M M A N D E R -IN -C H IE F . . . The United States marines have proved on many occasions that they can take it, and they also have proved they can dish it out. This marine am track on the Seoul front displays various signs Including: “ Machine, Just Propaganda” and “ Truman Police Force,” all good, clean fun and a tongue-in-cheek attitude toward President Truman for his letter labelling the marines a police force of the navy and claiming they have a propaganda machine equal to Stalin's. WAR TRO PH Y . . . P.F.C . Luther R. Leguire, Tam pa. F la., shows North Korean flag he found flying from flagpole at former residence of John J. Muccio, ambassador to Korea, at Seoul. 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