Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-01
By james DevIin
Associated Press Stoff Writer

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-What
is the Voice of America saying
in its radio broadcasts to the
people behind the iron and bam-
boo curtains?
Americans seldom hear the
voice." though they have heard
lot about it since Senator Nc
Carthy, Wisconsin Republican,
began investigating it for pos
sible Subversion and waste.
In the labyrinth of Voice
offices in New York, the employees
outwardly show no sign that
they are aware of the contro-
versy raging around them. They
are turning out briskly anti
Communist copy, in hopes that
this work will not be over
Swallowed by the accusations
against a few of their number.
Show Up Kremlin Rulers.
The Voice" says it's objective
is to play up news straight.
But Its commentaries, similar
to newspaper editorials, blast
and ridieule Stain and other
Kremlin leaders by name in
showing the contrast between
Soviet promises and perform
anceS.
They tell Of Stain selling rot
ten eggs" in the market place
Of ideas and of Vishinsky, his
foreign minister, dancing on the
head Of pin in his speeches.
The Voice" gets it's policy di-
receives from the State Depart
ment in Washington, but its
nerve center is in Offices scat
tered through six buildings near
Columbus Circle in New York.
Its central programing Serv-
ices division, resembling a news
paper city room, originates the
basic report that the Voice"
sends overseas.
Shirt-sleeved men and some
women, about 20 in all on the
day shift. write news, commen-
taries and dramatic programs.
as Language "Desks."
These are sent by teletype to
IS language desks" in nearby
buildings. Each desk translates
the material into a separate
language Russian, Georgian.
Polish or French as the case may
be.
AnnouncerS record the ma
terial in some 20 studios in the
Voice" Offices. It is beamed
overseas from 38 transmitters in
the New York, Boston, Cincin-
natl and West Coast areas to
eight overseas relay stations with
SO transmitters of their own.
The central program office
picks up news from it's Washing
ton and United Nations news
STATS and from newspapers. It
uses newspaper editorial COM
ment and material from popular
radio conn -entators.
The idea is to provide a lit
eral Voice of America and not
just a voice of the State Depart
ment," one spokesman said.
Sure, we make mistakes
sometimes, who doesn't?"
The Voices" own anti-Com-
munlst commentaries are caus-
tic.
Sample Programs.
Here are some samples from
programs beamed overseas re-
Gently:
BY now, all the world knows
about the Is American Com
munists who chose to go to Jail
in the United States rather than
go to the Soviet Union.
But what the world doesn't
know is that yesterday in Italy
the same thing happened all
over again. An Italian Com
munist chose to go to Jail in
Italy rather than live in Soviet
lied CzechoSlovakia.
And this is something the
neutralists of the world-the
'pox on both your houses people
may we'll ponder on. Whv is
it that when the test comes,
there's a pox on only one house,
the house that Stain built"
On last Sundays Austrian
elections in which moderate
forces overwhelmed both Com
muniSts and pro Nazis:
THE Austrian election yester-
day illustrates once more why
Stain is sabotaging any Austrian
peace treaty. He knows that the
people shave shown that in the
free market place of ideas, Stain
is selling rotten eggs. And they
won't buy them"
Strange Coincidence.
Here is another:
1T is indeed strange that the
renewal of the fraudulent charge
Of archaeological warfare should
coincide with the opening today
Of the United Nations General