The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-25
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright 1s45, by King Features Syndicate

network, believes these dispatches have in
correctly represented the attitude Of this large
radio chain toward the use of its facilities by
clients who may intend to promote political
interests in the guise Of legitimate commercial
advertising.
ITO this end,' he says, I'VE are actively |
investigating the allegations relating to Mr..
Gailnor and the Electronic Corporation of
America program. Mr.. Gailrnor's misconduct
five years ago was the result of a nervous
breakdown The extenuating circumstances
convince us that he should not be punished
further for this mistake. Thousands of soldiers,
suffering from nervous disorders, are trying
to rehabilitate themselves and took into
account the repercussion on them IT the Blue
network announces in effect that such break
downs cannot be completely cured
Before going further, I should like to say
that have had no intention to suggest that
either La Roche or Ed Noble, the president
of the Blue, is a Communist or sympathetic
with the Communist conspiracy in the United
States.
That point disposed OF, let me point out that
the news commentaries broadcast oy Will
liam Gailmor for ten minutes five nights a
week over WIZ, the key station of the Blue,
usually are not related to h e flve-mnute
broadcast of news bulletins which precedes
them. They are political propaganda consistent
with the Communist line and they have BEEN
critical of the policies of this country and
Great Britain when they disagreed with Mos
COW, but never similarly unfriendly to Mos
cow When Churchill opposed the Communist
attempt to seize Greece after the British and
Americans had provided the means and the
punch for deliverance, Gailmor denounced
Churchill and said Britain suffering from
political neurosis. In the case OF Poland, he
attacked, with oratorical ferocity, the Polish
government in exile and praised true
neop1e'S of Poland the COmn1l-
nistic Lublin group of Quislings who embraced
the Russian invader from the east when Hit
Ter struck from the west and the two great
allies of that time met at an agreed line.
The employer of Galmor, whose original
name Margols, is engaged in secret cleo
trcal production for the American government
and the money to pay for his propaganda thus
would appear to come from the taxes of
Americans who are in the war not to promote
Communism but to protect the American form
OF government and American freedom. The
president of the Electronic Corporation is Sam
uel j. Novick, native of Russia but a natur-
allied American citizen, who also has radio
interests in Mexico, the center OF Communistic
activity in Latin America Novick is director
Of a new radio corporation whose other d.
rectors include several men who have been
conspicuous among pro-Communist groups for
years. For his publicity director, Novick hired
a man who, like Gailnor, uses an alias, and
who formerly was business manager Of a
Communist party magazine.
Some Of this information was presented to
La Roche and Noble before Gailmor started
his program and more of it after his propagan-
da had been under way a short time.
Following the denuncation OF Gail1nor as
an imposter and a thief convicted of first
degree grand larceny in New York in the
theft of an automobile, his fifth offense the
official publication OF the Office and Profess
sional Workers union, of the CLIO, which also
adheres to the Communist line, praised him
as anti-Fascist and friend OF labor. 1t
also exhorted its members to listen to his
propaganda.
Like Gailmor and Novick's Communist
press-agent, Lewis Merrill, the president of
the Office Workers union, also goes under an
assumed name. Also, in common with many
Communist and pro-Communist CLIO bosses
and politicians, he has been gratuitously hon
ored and encouraged by the Roosevelts and
Henry Wallace. Merrill as he calls him
self, is of eligible age for military service
but, like Gailmor, age "a, remains a civilian
although he joined Charlie Chaplin and Joseph
Curran, the president Of the CIO Maritime
union, in demanding the second front IN
France to be manned, however, by somebody
else, not them.
The dismissal of Gailmor a news COM
mentator will require courage even though ~
mas been demonstrated that the client III lIllS
case is using its facilities to promote political
interests, practice which La Roche says the
Blue will not permit. In that case, the entire
Communist propaganda system Will attack
them. But if the Blue does not take stand
then there will be no excuse to exclude from
the air such clever and dangerous exhorters
of the other extreme as Gerald smith ana
Father Coughlin. Even avoWed Fasc1sts and
believers in the Nazi system have as much
right to the air.
There are at least three other pro-Com-
munist news commentators preaching the
line over New York stations, at least one
of whom is known to use a false name.
La Roche's comments on Gallmor herV-
Gus troubles of soldiers and other service men
is hardly a compliment to these men,
Gailmors ''neurosis'' was attributed by MN
to the mental strain of quarrels with his hrst
wife over their household bills. Thus, ne not
onlv blamed woman and his wife, at that,
whose father was giving them an allowance
to augment his income for his criminal acts,
bit now presunaes to compare this olstress
Of mind with that of fighting men VINO nave
been bombed and shelled. By La Roche rea-
sonng in this respect, case might ne mace
for contention that only rehablHtateo neuro-
tics should be employed as news analysis lest
thousands of soldiers suffering from nervous
disorders he discouraged.
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