The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-22

1 lganizations either Communist con- trolled, directed or at least influ- enced, very often unsuspectingly by many of their members, we have 1 in America the unbelievable, as- founding total estimated at twenty million people. Not twenty million Communists. Nol The vast majority of them would heartily curse Com munists. But twenty million people belonging to organizations which if not controlled are at least strongly influenced by the Communist party. The party brags that they have entre to eighty per- cent of our press, and boast of con- trol one of our great labor organiza- tions.
 How do the new tactics work in the front" organizations? We take the most recent and most blatant example. At the beginning of the civil war in Spain the sym- pathy of the majority of Ameri- cans was with the Nationalists. This is on the statement of MT. de los Rios of propaganda fame, re- puted to be the Spanish ambassador in Washington. (N. Y. Times, July g, 193D. And yet that sympathy orleans heartily despise. Perhaps at no other time in history did the world see the widespread and lying propaganda spread abroad by the Communists in favor of the Reds of Spain. How nearly that propaganda came to defeating the cause of God in Spain we are only now beginning to learn. So enormous and viscious was it that Intellectually honest men succumbed to it. In Washington a propaganda factory camouflaged as an embassy violated fundamental principle of diplomatic etheticS. The Spanish ambassador was publicly charged with keeping a propaganda factory. He indignantly denied the charge. But challenged to bring the charge into a regularly constituted court of justice he kept a discrete silence. He could not risk a court of law or congressional investi- gating committee.
 Propaganda
 To what depths did this propa- ganda sink? It utilized the most horrible and heartless propagand& in history, when 1t tore fifty thou sand children from home and fam- fly as the world now knows for the purpose of propaganda. As the Ma tionalist armies approached the city of Bilbao thousands of these little ones were herded on unknown ships for unknown destinations. Ir most cases their identifications were 6e- liberately destroyed and today hun- dreds, thousand, of mothers and fathers are begging of the National ist authorities and the church au- thorities for news of their children only to be told that there is no news of them in England France or Belgium.
 It is now known that there was no danger of starvation in Bilbao, nor were any children slaughtered by the cruSading armies of General Franco. But mothers tell how they were terrorized by repeated warn ings that their children would be slaughtered. Where are these chil- dren today God alone knows. Five hundred of them were slated for this country and would have arrived here if the true nature of their ex- odus was not unmasked. They were sent to Mexico and not long ago we read in the press of two of them in Hollywood being used to stir up sympathy for the red cause in Spain. Captain John Eoghan Kelley, a non- Catholic, reported ten thou sand of them in Moscow on Nov. 2, 1887. There they will be educated our Catholic children-in atheism and Communism and later they will be turned loose in Spanish-Speak- ing countries to spread the deadly virus of Communism. And as Cap- tain Kelley says: Cut off from God and family, they may yet prove the most deadly weapon in the devils arsenal of Moscow"
 Propaganda and arms are the two fists of Stalin-and today ne seems to be winning very handily while using but one of those fists. Am erica is literally blanketed with false lying and misleading propaganda. Sympathetic studies of Russian life, sketches, travelogues are widespread and true to their policy toward the young the propaganda is directed chiefly toward our American teach CTS, university, college and high school students.
 Trained Guides
 Americans are invited to spend their vacations and money in Rus sia as they say with the services of trained guides and interpreters. In- deed! The trained guides to show you what you are supposed to see and make sure you do not see what you are not supposed to see. And the trained interpreters to tell you what you are supposed to hear and make sure you hear only what you are supposed to hear. They will show you the peasants who approve of collective farming. To show you those who do not they would have to use shovels.
 About this time each year the boAiCVAAA boll No VI Ou4 1AlAAC1 ASoAl WI leges and universities blossom out with posters depicting the beauty of the Steppes and the delights of study and travel in Russian Rus- sia where the Goddess instruction of their pink American professors can be dyed a true red by the undilut- ed doctrines of Marx and Lenin We see no Russian teachers and stu- dents taking advantage of the de- lights of travel and study in Am erica. No they must be kept at home safely duped as we read in last Mon- days New York Times with the Communist propaganda that the American people are starving. that they are the slaves of the capital ists and the country about to col lapse.
 In his little book, T Was Com- munist," Alexi Liberov says: Here ill America you have been told so many lies about Russia. Soviet