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.
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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. Flag had been
run up by North Korean Commu
nist troops.
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H arry Gross in the million-dollar payoff for protection to New York
city police, Arthur (Artie) Karp (right), is ushered into county court
after breaking the Brooklyn gambling probe wide open by giving the
grand ju ry names of police whom he allegedly bribed. The prosecutor
refused to reveal whether any of those named by Karp were high offi
cials. Karp surrendered to the district attorney.
G.O.P. W O M EN ’S SPOKESMAN
. . . Mrs. Gilford Mayes, Kellogg,
Idaho, is assistant chairman of the
Republican national committee and
spokesman and leader of more
than two million Republican wom
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