WE CAN GET THROUGH THE IRON CURTAIN

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• Publication Date: June 24, 1951
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'We Can
WASHINGTON.
9 HERE is only one real way to
end the threat of aggression.
i' That is by creating a world =-^-
which everyday people will refuse to
carry out an aggressor's designs. Men,
not planes or bombs, represent the
heart problem of war and peace. Ntili-
tary and economic strength become
meaningful only when translated into
human strength. Not all the weapons
in our arsenals will suffice to defend
our liberties unless our soldiers diare
e.
necessary,
and
willing to fight
, By the same token a dictator needs
the help ' of vast numbers of followers
willing to abet plans for conquest,
There would be no problem of Soviet
I aggression if the men of Russia's
..ea to fight in an un-
ustst - ------- imagine such a -r-.,
just war. tion of world history. But is 'his
In other words, men are the real rising' The Russian
stakes of diplomacy. The only POs- really very surf people
sible way to secure a world of true and Chinese. and Hungarian peace and justice is by taking men hear that we devote billions to arma-
ments. And because of the Iron that
IBRIEN Democratic Senator tan they are kept from learning
ic ut, is Cur-
we harbor no Many of the Corn-
from from Connect ut, is ehairman of the joint aggressive designs
Congressional any nation.
Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy.
Get Through the JLron
Senator McMahon says that we have at hand
Senthe means for an effective 'truth campaign'
-By ERIN MCMAHW
away from Stalin and the Cominform
leaders and winning them over to our
side.
'fundamental
jHR
this struggle for the hearts and 3'
ties of men. Iron
Fact one is that behind aetualln
Curtain untold millions now
believe the monstrous calumnies the
actually think that
politburo; they
Stalin stands for peace and we stand
Americans to
for
Ape __1.
Vull"AALS
pire into actual or potential allies.
modest infor-
nt very
Even our presemation program is reaching millions in
the Soviet union and its satellite
states. The Kremlin's all-out jamming
campaign against voice of America
f of t}1P. in-
broadcasts is in itseu Yr~c_
fectiousness of our idea of liberty-and
Stalin's mortal fear of the truth.
IT is paradoxical that those who have
spoken most loudly about the world's
misunderstanding of American motives
are frequently the same people who
effort to make
have obstructed every
the truth about ourselves. known-
Truth, Truth, we should. know by now, is not
la-
self-prOPagating' The Kremlin is lies;
lies;
boring around the clock to spread
we cannot counteract this campaign
with part-time and half-hearted meas-
Annually this country spends
ures? th sale of
monist solders now fighting in Korea actually believe themselves to be war- riors in a fight against American izn peFact t Curtain act two is that the Iron Profound discontent among
conceals p the ordinary s u the Soviet
empire. The massive purges that Pe-
ranks through party unrest
ri?dically F
give evidence of widespread even among
those Ma who have accepted
the tenets of Marx and Lenin. fourteen million Russians now inare g Proof of slave labor camps which goes on the struggle for liberty
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oCosmetics. But in --
even in the very heart of the
buro's domain. Communist aggression
ea and
dly sue-
Fact three is that we have in Korea and
Cur-
the spurious but unprecedente spent
in our power to pierce the Iron Cur- cessful Stockholm Petition, we
tain with a bold and constructive pro- hardly more on the Voice of America
gram for peace-a program that can than on ad (Continued on Page 23)
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vertising lipstick or face
r? -- ---
It will take large outlays of
money to run a campaign of
truth comparable in magni-
tude to the Soviet's campaign
of lies. The $115,000,000 that
the State Department has re-
cently requested for its infor-
mation program is by no
means excessive. I think, in
fact, that this sum is far too
small. -
for misunderstanding. Those
American soldiers who met
the Soviet armies on the Elbe
in 1945 will remember how
continuing association gradu-
ally turned the distrust of
many of the Russian soldiers
into friendship. The Red
Army troops could not believe
their eyes when they found
that even war-ravaged Eu-
rope was more prosperous
than their motherland. Great
numbers were so exhilarated
by this first taste of the heady
wine of liberty that they
moved heaven and earth to
keep from returning to the
thought control and secret
police of the Soviet empire.
Acquaintance with free men
was so corrupting, in fact,
that the Kremlin prevented
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pect. Testimony before the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee--a large part of it
necessarily classified-has re-
vealed that the coming months
will see a far higher propor-
tion tion of our programs - getting
through the Soviet's jamming
apparatus.
Yet I do not believe we can
be content with this. I think
we should immediately ask the
United Nations to assert its
right to operate its oven radio
station within the Soviet Un-
ion. I am not naive enough
to suppose that Stalin will
rush to accept such a proposal.
However, it is eminently just,
and fair-minded men will real-
ize this. If it is rejected, it will
glaringly expose the sham and
duplicity of Vishinsky's utter-
ances.
A relaying transmitter for the
"Voice of America" at Munich.
mass desertions only by hur-
riedly rotating its occupation
troops home.
I BELIEVE that the men of
our veterans' organizations
should now formally-and re-
peatedly-ask Stalin to let
them again meet face to face
with Soviet veterans-with
the rank and file Russians
who -fought so valiantly
against the legions of nazism.
Let us see if Stalin will allow
these men to visit in our cities
and towns, and if he will
allow our veterans in Russian
homes. So, also, might our
trade unions now request that
the Kremlin allow American
machinists and carpenters to
visit the mills and homes of
Stalingrad and Kiev, and that,
in turn, Soviet workers be per-
mitted to see at first hand the
automobiles and gardens of
the typical American workers
in Detroit or Omaha. Our
teachers' associations might
issue a similar requesterim-
agine what would happ
Soviet educators could witness
our democratic school system
in action.
I am not at all sure that
Stalin would comply with such
requests--but I am sure that
people cannot be fooled for=
ever. If Stalin ignores such
patently reasonable propos-
als, if he refuses to let our
people speak directly with the
Russian people, Soviet citi-
zens will eventually learn the
GETTING our radio signals
into the Communist heartland
is of little use if our potential
audience does not have the
means of receiving them. The
great majority of the Iron
Curtain peoples do not now
own radios. But experts say
that simple portable radios
capable of picking up Voice
programs can be made for as
little as $2-
If this can be done, I would
propose manufacturing such
sets by the million and ship-
ping them to distribution de-
pots in hundreds of cities
around the border of Stalin's
empire. The Russian and satel-
lite people are irresistibly at-
tracted by American consumer
goods and I am sure that they
would find ways of bringing
these radios into their homes.
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getting our message through
the Iron Curtain is as chal-
lengiiig as any ever faced by
experts in mass communica-
tion. We are dealing with an
noth-
enemy who will stop
ing to keep the truth from the
Russian and satellite .peoples.
Should; we, for instance, at-
tempt to send leaflet-carrying
balloons behind the Iron Cur-
tain the Kremlin might em-
ploy hideous techniques to
turn this campaign to its own
advantage. It might have
trusted party members booby-
trap captured balloons and
th turn these loose on an un-
n
e
suspecting populace. It might
balloons and impregnate these
imitations with toxic agents.
Much, however, can be done.
Major improvements in our
Voice of America transmission
facilities are already in pros-
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seems novel.. I understand it is eCT a cumulath into the So. et
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quite feasible to compile the j eat-
f alarge body politic will be far gr
meaning of these refusals. s d sat-
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names and addresses o of us imagine.
number of Soviet citizens. I er than many
wonder whether our fraternal Lacking official and overt
and professional organizations, channels for disseminating the
our labor unions, our church truth, the Russian people have
groups and even our school developed the world'sgrapevine. most
children might not see fit to elaborate news goP A
secure such lists and embark rumor first heard i peMoscow
in
on a massive letter-writing in the coo the same evening; a
men of the men and wO- few days later the same stdry
men V Odessa ladivostok. and The Soviet vie Smolensk is known in Vladivostok. Only
and Vo one person on a collective farm
censors, of course, would do
their best to confiscate these may see a resistance pam-
letters. But such a spontane phlet, or hear a Voice of Amer-
ous outpouring of sentiment ica program, but the truth he
from everyday Americans learns may eventually become
might well corrupt even the known to hundreds, or even
censors themselves. thousands of Russians. how
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The prob
"IIERE are many ways of to get the ear oe the Rshould
making a censor's lot an un- and satellite p P
happy one. It is well known not be minimized. the
is that of
that the Soviet. Government primary point of the that of
makes strenuous efforts to se- ends- we hope t get the me
cure almost all important sage to across.
American scientific journals.ant
Soviet scientists and engi- WHAT r~rHAT is it that we
neers are omnivorous read- to tell the world? Certain
Our t as-
ers of these publications. Our things seem clear.
scientific and technical. socie- sage must be based on the i'S
ties might be well advised to hard rock of truth.. Thefor
interlard their journals with no place in our program
discussions of topics such as half-truths, for clever verbal
academic freedom. forays intended merely to
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Nor should we ignore the score some e st
possibility of mailing millions propaganda victory again
ap-
of mail-order catalogues to the the Kremlin. It is likewise st
iron Curtain countries. Noth- parent that our efforts must
ing can more tellingly refute not be negative or defensive.
lies about America's impover- Vital as it is to expose Stalin's
ishment than the consumers' falsehoods, we must guard
against endless "'tis-'taint"
the pages wonderland of a Sears-Roebuck refutations of Moscow's fabri-
or a Montgomery Ward cata- cations, Nor should we dissi-
log. pate our energies through an
In many cases we can best ever-changing "shotgun" type
reach the Russian People of. appeal that 'does not really.
through Soviet nationals now acquaint the world with the
living outside the U. 5. S. R. basic principles for which we
Hundreds of thousands of Rus- stand.
sian soldiers are stationed in Our campaign of truth must
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Eastern Europe. These
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can still be reached withi. the motive force that e s ca not
printed word. There is a- real fail to gain supp eating to
opportunity to take advantage theme must be app
of the extraordinary desertion :men of all walks of life aond
rate among them.. At the very all nations; it to be
least, we can make sure that genial equally to the oCh nese
those men .who reluctantly re- Russians,. the average
rank and file Poles.
turn to the Soviet Union car. and the men
ry with them the germ of the All decent hate war
and long for peace with jus-
idea of freedom. the want freedom from
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tice-
# IB OVE all, we should sup- the fear of mass annihilation.
port those: brave political ex- All men want relief from poV-want
iles who have risked their lives erty and disease-theYburden
d and an end to the crushing''+ures;
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to flee their homelan of armaments expen
continue the fight against the would rejoice if mKremlin from the West. These they
cold instead join in a c men
men and women are publish- aglust human
ing information bulletins, men fight The everyday
maintaining underground liai- wretchedness.
eoples behind the iron
let liveCur;-
son with their home countries np ot to kill and be killed.
and actively aiding additional tarn wish to live and
liberty-lovers to escape. -
They constitute the poten
tial "cadres of liberation.", mlin has brilliantly
Many of them are willing to recognized exploited-these Pu-and risk torture and death by clan- lously hit
destinely returning to Russia. mentary meths. tltihoug alit
It ht been suggested that solely C peace, the
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N.'W YORK TINS - Editorial 214 June 19.51
MR. MALIK PROPOSES
Speaking with the voice of Deputy
Foreign Minister Jacob A. Malik, Rus-
sia has seized the approaching first
anniversary of the Korean War to
broadcast to the world what she de-
scribes as a peace proposal. Since the
Soviets have so long used words in a
sense exactly opposite to their real
meaning it is natural that this utter-
ance should be received with caution.
Russian Communist words have proved!
poor currency. If Russia were willing
to bring forth deeds for peace--and
this has been within her power every
day during the past bitter year-they
would be welcomed.
To What extent does Mr. Malik's
statement indicate a change of heart?
It opens with the familiar attack on
'the ruling circles in the United States
of America, the United Kingdom and
France." It cites the declarations of
the Government of the Soviet Union
that the policy of mutual defense
adopted by the Western Powers "io
profoundly vicious, will inevitably lead
to fresh international conflicts, and
contains within itself the seeds of a
new world war." It condemns the
deputy foreign ministers of the United
States, Britain and France for their
refusal to place the question of the
Atlantic Pact on the proposed Four-
Power Agenda. Defense, in short, re-
mains, in Soviet eyes, a species of ag-
gression.
Mr. Malik's statement alters in no
particular the official Soviet line as to
wh-.t happened in Korea. This line is
that it was the South Koreans, egged
on by the United States and its friends,
who committed an aggression a year
ago; that the present defense of Korea
is being carried on. by ourselvgs "and
a number of other countries," not by
the United Nations; that the Soviet
Union and other states have made
peace proposals but that "the United
States has prevented" their adoption.
The Soviet line still is that we have
"seized" Formosa. And Mr. Malik adds
another lie, a somewhat startling one
in view of the testimony recently
brought out at great length during the
Senate committee hearings in Wash-
ington. He states that "the seizure of
Formosa and the bombing of Chinese
territory provide irrefutable evidence
of the United States endeavor to extend
the war in the Far East." Moscow
'may pot know better than this, but Mr.
Malik certainly does.
Fr i these points Mr. Mat,, n~~ses
to a discussion of tb.e "peaceful tool:
cies of Russia and her friends. "The
Soviet Union," he says, "threatens no
one; it has not and cannot have any
aggressive plans whatsoever." Because
Russia has refused to follow "a policy
of competition in armaments and armed '
forces," Mr. Malik would have us be-
lieve, she has been able to achieve "a
considerable rise yin her population's
standard of living."
With this basis and background Mr.
Malik goes on to assure us that "the
Soviet Union bases its policy on the
possibility of the peaceful co-existence
of the two systems, socialism and cap-
italism." Nobody in the Western World
would quarrel with this doctrine, if only
We could believe that Russia meant it.
The trouble is that the authentic Com-
munist voice has always said just the
contrary and Russian and other Com-
munist countries have acted as though
just the contrary were true.
Then Mr. Malik comes to the heart
of the matter-to the things Russia
wants to say to the world at this mo-
ment. In his :final few hundred words
he declares- that "the United Nations
is being transformed more and more
into an instrument of war" and pro-
poses t "a peaceful settlement of the
Korean question." He would hav,
cease-fire agreement and "an armi- .. e
providing for the mutual withdrawal
of forces from the Thirty-eighth
Parallel."
The next few days-perhaps even
the next few hours-may provide us
with some guide as to the real mean-
ing of this speech at this time. And
the real meaning must lie not in any
strained interpretation of words but in
what Moscow intends to do, or not to
do, or-above all-to stop doing. The
democratic nations of the Western
World long for peace. They are not,
and cannot become, aggressive. But
i having set their hands to halt the
aggressor, having pledged their aid to:
the victims of aggression, having stat-
ed their principles, they must insist on
a true and honorable peace. Anything
less would be merely a breeder of new
and worse wars.
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