The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-04

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Anti S. Propaganda
BY ANNE o'RARE MCCORMICK
Between Aug. II and Aug. rs this news
paper published sixteen on Ameri
can policy from Soviet sources. Three were
uttered by Mr.. Gromyko at the Security Coun
Gil, all variations Of the charge that in offer
ing to mediate IN the Observation-Disclosures
dispute the United States was attempting tt
bypass the United Nations and force the In
doneSian Republic to accept arbitration. One
was a Moscow broadcast quoting a letter from
Mr.. Molotov to Secretary Marshall accusing
United States authorities in South Korea OF
subjecting parties supporting the Moscow de-
cision for trusteeship to "the most stringent
retrlcuons and heavy persecution"
With the exception of a prior blast from
General Shtikov, making the Molotov charges
in stronger language, the other comments are
not from official spokesman. But all, Of
course, are official. They come from the Mos
cow radio, the Tass news agency, from So
Wet Army newspapers or other directly in
spired sources.
The inter-American conference in Brazil is
described as a move to impose the military
political supremacy of the United States on
the whole Western Hemisphere" A Tass dis
patch from Rome said Italy is selling out
to Us for the cancellation of 81, 900, 000, 900 war
obligations and getting nothing. Another de-
clared that our military loan to Turkey covers
a desire to appropriate all Turkish industry.
The Soviet Embassy Bulletin in Teheran pub
lished an attack on American Exploitation
Of the Balkans and Iran" Pravda interpreted
General Wedemeyer's mission to China as a
preluce to an American : aided offensive
against the Communists.
In Vienna, the Red Army newspaper OF
Aug. 21 reported that the Viennese are afraid
to walk the streets at night because OF the
robberies and violence of American soldiers.
Four days before the same newspaper &C
cused the United States Of preparing to di'
vide Austria, because delivery Of American
relief shipments to the Russian zone is halted
until the Congressional requirement OF per-
hitting inspection Of delivery is fulfilled. In
Germany, the Communist press continued to
print stories that German youth in the Amerl-
can zone are being recruited to light the
guerrillas in. Greece. Communist papers IN
Ru-nania scored DR.. Manu-. the imprisoned
leaser of the Peasant party, as a tool Of
'his big bosses,' Vandenberg, Dulles, Taft
and Acheson, in an anti-Soviet campaign
This is only a thin skimning OF the daily
stream of anti-American programme being
poured on the world. 1t isn't merely the regu-
lar pabulum of the people in Russia and the
Soviet orbit. BY means Of the radio and an
immense network of Communist newspapers
it IS spread through Western Europe to an
extent beyond the conception OF those who
measure Communist influence by the limited
appeal of the party-line press in this country.
Mo1e, the propaganda takes. The constant
iteration of words like 'imperialist' and dol
lar domination applied to the United States
leaves echoes in the minds OF people VINO
are embittered, anyway, because they are de-
pendent on American help. The American
travelling in Western Europe often finds him
self defending America against Russian ideas
of cur motives, even among those who look
to the United States as the n e bulwark
agains+ the sweep of an aggressive totali-
tarianism.
Some Of the comments on the Marshall plan
in England and France are unconsciously
colcred by MoscoW's denunciation o. it as a
scherae to save America from an imminent
crash. 1--WE always know what Russia is do
ing or trying to do by what she accuses us
OF doing" remarked a member OF the Allied
Control Commission in Berlin. This trick, ex-
emplified in such charges against the United
States as the recruitment of foreign leglons"
to fight in Greece, moves to 'divide' Germa-
nv. Austria, Or Europe. buying or coerclng
governments, etc, may not convince out 1t
adds to the confusion between trutn ana raise
hood and fosters that darkness OF the mind
in which relationships operate.
To be the target of such a campaign is
new end bewildering to Americans. We are
a people expecting and accustomed to be
liked ky other people. Perhaps nothing Rus
sin has done since the war has alienated the
rank and-file American more than the attempt
to hold us up to the world as a greedy
Imperialism, driven only by the profit motive.
To a people accepting international response
bilitv with the utmost reluctance, desiring if
, we could to mind nothing but our own bust
/ ness, this unreal charge is a boomerang. Ex-
ASPIRATION at what is said OF us is intensified
by the fact we cannot anwer back with anv
assurance that the Russian people will hear.
We report their criticism of our policy but
they don't report our criticism of theirs. But
when all is said, propaganda does not pre-
vail over facts. The broadsides that 60 out
Of the Soviet sphere do not draw people in.
the Russian to the American zone that our
! %harshest measures to keep them out. The DIP
problem is mainly a problem of people who
refuse to 60 back to Soviet rule. Observers
; who Rave watched the tide of refugees in
China and Korea say that it moves in one
dircction-away from the Communist areas
Russia hangs on to her satellites onlv bv
setting up minority governments with contro,
of the police force. All the traffic is one
l way ideas move out and cannot move in.
and i. people can move At On hey com. e,,r
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