The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-10
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
in making a report to Congress

IN making report 10 congress
on foreign government propa-
ganda activities in the United
States, declared that while the
British Information S ervic S
spent two million dollars in the
u. S. in 1914, Russia did not re-
port any such expenditures be-
cause she conducted this work
through the Washington embas-
sy and other agencies not subject
to registration. Whatever the
media, the effect seems to have
been negative.
RUSSIAN RADIO
ON THE BEAM
But the Russians are still no
slouches on their public relations
in Europe. They do a tremend-
Gus job through Moscow radio,
operating much as the British
Broadcasting Corporation does
in beaming programs in al!
known languages to all parts Of
the world.
The day after the Red Armies
moved into Berlin they seized
the German radio network. Ra-
do Berlin, with the most pow
erful transmitter in Europe,
blankets western Europe. Mos
cow has given the manufacture
of radio receivers a high priority
and the formation of radio lis
tening groups has been promoted
in all the Russian-occupied areas
of eastern Europe.
Moscow itself has announced
there are over five million of
these radio listening posts-loud
speakers in centers where there
is no other means of spreading
information and where the peo-
pie meet to hear the news that
Moscow wants them to hear.
An analysis of monitored Rus
sian radio programs since We
Day gives a pretty good line on
what the Soviet has been trying
to pat over. Briefly, the domin-
ant note is anti-fascism. That S
what they fought the war for.
Russian radio socks fascist tend
encies wherever they raise their
head. Positively, it plugs the
need for future international CO.
operation and postwar world
based on more democracy in pol
itical, economic and social fields
an end to armed conflicts,
economic rivaly and colorful ex-
pansion.
This line is carried so far as to
declare that II present efforts to
create a world peace organiza-
ton fail, another world security
organization will eventually be
created. But in general there
has been an expression Of conf
dence that the San Francisco
conference of the United Nations
would succeed.
AS a line, there is little in
this to criticize. What has APP
parently caused a drop in Sow
let popularity in the United
States is the incident Of the 16
Polish leaders now on trial,
which still doesn't make sense
to American readers or listeners,
any way they look at it or hear
it. Hence the need for a new
Russian public relations policy.
u. S. WANTS TO
UNDERSTAND USSR
There is unquestionably a
strong American desire to UNI
derstand the Russians better, and
there is no desire on the part Of
the American armed forces 10
fight Russia. Even S e n a o r
Wheeler and party found that
out in Rome.
But if the Soviet government
wants to be understood and
sympathized with by the major
ity Of the American people il
has lot of propaganda explain
ing to do. That doesn't mean by
Earl RrOwder and the apOlOpis ct
left wing press, either. AS a
new public relations policy il
means first, perhaps, the admis-
sion of competent American re-
porters with full freedom to
move about and find out what
goes on for themselves and in
their own inimitable manner.