The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-18
Gold Wor
| In Europe
by WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Foreign News Analyst

LUNDON M-lnc towers OF the
Kremlin throw long shadows.
Tight-lmit party organizations,
all cast in a single mold, all tied
to the strings of the master pup
peteers in Moscow, work inces-
sanity and unquestioningly to glori-
fly Stain.
From the jungles Of Malaga to
the streets of London; from the
desert sands of Africa to the sun
Lit boulevards Of Paris, Commu-
nists are tied together by a single
goal and a common discipline. The
goal: To reshape civilization in the
image of the Soviet Union. The
discipline: Everything for Moscow.
This is what the West faces.
More and more, diplomats in this
part of the world are expressing
the opinion that the people of the
West must recognize as fact that
the Stalinists are strong, that they
are organized, that they constitute
a powerful menace to Western
ways of life.
Realizing this, say these diplo-
mats, the West will make itself
that much stronger, will know
,, where and how to counter Stains
maneuvers.
In the military field, much has
been done already, and there is
much more to be done. But even
now there is a noticeable rise in
confidence in Western Europe. If
the showdown should come, say
military men, the West could give
a good account of itself along the
Rhine while its air power raced
into action.
But how about the propaganda
field?
Communist propaganda every
where has been on the offensive.
1t has been successful in many
instances. The technique of the big
lie, learned from Joseph Goebbels,
is being used to an extent Goeb-
bells never dreamed of.
Appeals to sef-interest are care
fully launched and have brought
results. The International Econom-
ic Conference in Moscow, just
ended, served the Kremlin well.
Moscow's bait of profits has been
a strong lure. Moscow has looked
| at all the sore points in the West
and promised relief. Is there a
slump in Britain's textile industry?
Moscow indicates she will buy tex
tiles. is there unemployment in
Italy? Moscow indicates full-scaIe
trade with the East win ease that.
1 Moscow's performance never
matches her propaganda. But the
propaganda is aggressive. Wher-
ever there is discomfort, wherever
there is human misery, wherever
there is fear or suffering or hunger,
the agents of Moscow are active.
They are schooled in capitalizing
on human ills, trained to turn de-
| spair into a bloody political weap-
on, intent on answering prayers
for deliverance with the shackles
of dictatorship.
| Can the West seize and hold the
propaganda offensive?
| There are some conceret pro,
posals at hand, and some concrete
action designed to snatch the ini-
tiative from the Communists.
| The International Confederation
Of Free Trade Unions lICFTU),
the Western workers answer to
| the Communist World Federation
| Of Trade Unions (WFTU), is ready
ing a full-blast campaign which
will take the issue of freedom or
slavery directly into the factories
and to mass groups throughout
Europe and the Middle East.
| An international organization OF
contemporaries has grown up
| from the efforts of one French
man, JeanPaul David, to catch
Moscow off base.
| Radio Free Europe and Rias,
the American radio in Berlin, have
highly effective programs.
| Responsible British sources are
suggesting a general Allied eoun.
ell to counter the Cominform, to
anticipate its moves and TO bring
Cominfom operations clearly into
the light Of day.
| Some officials insist that the Rus.
/, SLAMS are in reality poor propa.
| gandists, and that il is only by
the sheer number of words and the
constant repetition that some d
the propaganda sinks in.
However, the influx into Vienna
Of Western specialists with Com
munist views is giving some West
ern knowhorR to the Moscow prop
uganda efforts. and permitting the
kremlin to make hay in its long
range campaign.
One high British source Insists
that what the Western Allies neec
Is . massive counter offensive
This is his view: The West shouls
50 into Vienna determined to ex
pose the Cansnform ard the WITT
at every turn, 10 fight every stsy
az the way, to take full advants q
OF every kremIIn flipflop, II ever,