The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-27

EuSOu SdUlO1 dCUO1lIy plained oy Moscow. Retiring Attor- ney General Riddle. n making a re- port to Congress on foreign govern ,nent propaganda activities in the United States, declared that while the British Information Services spent two million dollars in the U. s. in 1944, Russia did not report any such expenditures because she con- ducted this work through the Wash ington embassy and other agencies not subject to registration. What ever 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 tremendous job through Moscow radio, operat- ing much as the British Broadcast ing Corporation does in beaming programs in all known languages to all parts of the world.
 The day after the Red Armies moved into Berlin they seized 8 the German radio network. Radio Ber- lin, with the most powerful trans mitter in Europe, blankets western Europe. Moscow has given the man. ufacture of radio receivers a high priority and the formation of radio listening groups has been promoted in all the Russian occupied areas, of eastern Europe.
 MncoOuy itco1f hos apnnIlnpe1 there are over five million of these radio listening posts - loud speak CTS in cente.s where there is no other means of spreading informa- ton and where the people meet to hear the news that Moscow wants them to hear.
 An analysis of monI.v.-4 rtuSslan radio programs since VIE Day gives pretty good line on what the So- viet has been trying to put over. Briefly, the dominant note is anti faScism. That's what they fought the war for. Russian radio socks facist tendencies wherever they raise their head. Positively, it plugs the need for future interna tional cooperation and a postwar world based on more democracy in politi- cal, economic and social fields - an end to armed conflicts, economic rivalry and colonial expansion.
 This line is carried so far as to declare that if present efforts to create a world peace organization fail, another world security organ ization will eventually be created. But in general there has been an expression of confidence that the San Francisco conference of the United Nations would succeed.
 As line, there is little in this to criticize What has apparently caused drop in Soviet popularity in the United States is the incl dent of the 16 Polish leaders now on trial, which still doesn't make CTS, any way they look at it or hear it. Hence the need for a new Rus sian public relations policy.
 U. s. WANTS TO
 UNDERSTAND USSR
 There is unquestionably strong American desire to understand the Russians better, and there is no de- sire on the part of the American armed forces to fight Russia. Even Senator Wheeler and party found that out in Rome.
 But if the Soviet government wants to be understood and sympa- thized with by the majority of the American people it has lot of propaganda explaining to do. That doesn't mean by Earl Browder and the apologist left wing press, either. AS new public relations policy it means first, perhaps, the admission of competent American reporters with full freedom to move about and find out what goes on for them- selves and in their own inimitable manner