The Evening Star (August 16, 1947)
Russian Radio Says About Us
The official Soviet radio yesterday broadcast to the world an attack on United States policy in Japan. The broadcast said, in part:
“Just what is the policy of the American occupation forces in Japan, which should see to it that Japan carries out the terms of the Potsdam agreement? The Americans are repeating the errors made after the First World War, as history shows. The American ruling class is not afraid of a revival of Japanese militarism, but they are afraid of the growth of Japanese democracy.
“The American ruling class is afraid that the Japanese people will be able to rule themselves after several years. If the Japanese people are awakened and learn to rule themselves, those who have thus far been the slaves of the Japanese capitalists will not wish to be the slaves of American monopolists.”
The Evening Star (August 18, 1947)
What Soviet Radio is Saying of Us
The official Russian radio yesterday broadcast to the world this choice bit of propaganda on the United States’ activity in Greece:
“The American Government had considerable difficulty in putting through Congress the allocations for the realization for the Greco-Turkish program mapped out by the State Department. The American taxpayer was told time and again that the credits were intended to restore democratic principles in Greece. (Editor’s note: Senate vote 67 to 23. House, 237 to 108.)
“But even Americans who are far removed from the sphere of politics will not fail to note that the schemes of sending SS men and other Fascists to Greece, under the guise of volunteers and dressed in American uniforms, has just about as much in common with the restoration of democracies as did the intervention which Hitler and Mussolini undertook in Spain on behalf of Gen. Franco.”
The Evening Star (August 19, 1947)
What Soviet Radio is Saying of Us
The official Soviet radio yesterday broadcast to the world this piece of propaganda concerning the freedom of the press in the United States:
“American publishing firms supply the market ceaselessly with books which mislead the reader. The American businessmen publishers dispose energetically of the literary heritage of the great classics such as, for instance, Mark Twain. The representatives of the United States press support the imperialists and the reactionaries to maintain millions of ordinary American citizens at the political level of illiteracy.”
The Evening Star (August 20, 1947)
What Soviet Radio is Saying of Us
The official Soviet radio yesterday broadcast to the world:
“Attention is drawn to the suspicious ‘hospitality’ of a number of countries who intend to open their doors to displaced persons. In the American Congress a project has been prepared on the immigration into the United States of 400,000 foreigners.
“This chase for foreign slaves is usually explained by the highest humanitarian motives…
“But behind loud declarations there is quite a different reason. During the last few days, the stories of Poles and Ukrainians who have escaped from Brazilian coal mines where they were forced to work in horrible conditions, have created a scandal. We could quote many more examples like this one… This trade with white slaves is going well, resurrecting scenes from ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’”
The Evening Star (August 21, 1947)
What Soviet Radio is Saying of Us
The Moscow radio broadcasting in the Danish language to Denmark:
“It is no longer any secret that the United States food exports to Europe constitute one of the main items of the American economic mass attack against the European nations, and it is even less likely that the Americans mean to help Denmark to become a competitor against the United States in this sphere either. Uncle Sam will take care not to lend one farthing if it should cross the interests of the United States monopolists and exporters.”
The Evening Star (August 22, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
Broadcast by the official Soviet radio in German in Germany:
“The meaning of the Marshall plan is now perfectly clear. The United States wishes to solve the economic problems of Western Europe in the interests of the United States monopolies… The United States monopolies are out to destroy their potential competitors in the world market.
“Under the camouflage of the European relief scheme they want to end the economic independence of the countries of Europe. The United States monopolies wish to make the countries of Western Europe into markets for United States goods. Hence they force them to do without the production of goods which can be imported from the United States.”
The Evening Star (August 23, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
(Broadcast by the Moscow radio in German to Europe)
“The question arises, is the Ruhr mining industry really dependent on an American loan? As far as their equipment and organization is concerned, the Ruhr mines are among the best in the world.
“For the solution of the real technical problems the American loan is therefore not required. Such a loan would only mean a camouflaged buying up of the Ruhr mines by American monopolies.”
The Evening Star (August 24, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
Moscow broadcasting to the people of Russia:
“United States officers in Belgium are recruiting volunteers among the displaced persons for the struggle against Greek partisans.
“Two United States officers visited a displaced persons’ hostel chatelet. Talking to recruits, the officers said that the United States is forming its own special army in Greece and stressed certain conditions in this army. As there were no volunteers to join the army, the officers turned persuasion into threats. They said frankly that they would find means and ways to force people to join, and that it was for this purpose that displaced persons were brought here from the United States zone of Germany.”
The Evening Star (August 25, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
Moscow broadcast last week in English to Great Britain:
“Needless to say, Britain’s present economic state is not only the upshot of the unfavorable conditions of the United States loan. There is also the direct result of the policy which made Great Britain dependent on the United States. Great Britain has placed herself in such a position that she has to pay through the nose for the illusory help of her rich creditor. It is difficult to say whether the British delegation will succeed in having the terms of the almost spent dollar loan revised, and if so what the real value of this success will be.
“It is clear that the United States will advance terms as harsh if not harsher. Judging by reports in the New York, Washington and London press on the Anglo-United States negotiations on the Ruhr the United States intends to demand that Great Britain should cede control of the Ruhr to America and abandon all plans for socialist Ruhr industry.”
The Evening Star (August 26, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
Moscow broadcast last week in Persian to the Near and Middle East:
“John Dulles in a speech again demanded that the right of veto in the Security Council be limited. This is not the first time that he has asked for the revision of the U.N. Charter, as this charter constitutes a great obstacle on the path of American claimants to world domination.
“The American reaction which Dulles represents is striving to do away with the principle of unanimity of the great powers and the principle of equal rights of nations, thus reducing this international organization to a tool for American politics. Dulles demands that the American monopolists and Senators should interpret the U.N. Charter according to their wishes and pass without hindrance all decisions which are to their advantage in the Security Council and other U.N. organizations.”
The Evening Star (August 27, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
The Moscow Radio broadcasting in Korean to Korea last week said:
“Anglo Saxon newspapers, particularly the American newspapers, are launching a vigorous campaign to create an impression that the British and American delegates within the United Nations, who are energetically protecting the freedom of the press and information, are meeting obstructions from willful delegates of certain countries.
“It is a fact the whole world knows well that in many countries of the world, particularly in Britain, America and China, newspapers, which are powerful instruments, are being utilized on a wide scale, for the purpose of instigating hostilities among people, provoking international conflicts on a large scale, as well as working for new aggressions. It is impossible to deny such an indisputable fact, and it is absurd, indeed, to try to deceive the peoples of the world.”
The Evening Star (August 28, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
The Moscow radio, broadcasting in English to the United Kingdom, last week said:
“It is common knowledge that the USA is today interfering in the domestic affairs of Greece most openly, and that is the reason why the USA tried to put through the Security Council a decision, which had no bearing on the actual causes of the present situation in Greece.
“The USA tried to exonerate the party really guilty for the situation and to lay the blame at the door of Greece’s peaceful neighbors.
“The Soviet Union, through its representatives in the Security Council, prevented these plans from being realized. Of course, this is not to the liking of their sponsors, who are resorting to all kinds of political blackmail.
“Nevertheless, facts remain facts, and it is precisely the discussion on Greece in the Security Council that brought out most strikingly the fact that the USA wants to use the authority of the U.N. as a screen for its interventionist policy aimed at robbing the Greek people of their independence.”
The Evening Star (August 29, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
Moscow radio broadcasting in Russian to Russia this week said:
“United States post-war foreign policy is characterized by the fact that the relatively isolationist phase which prevailed between the two world wars has given place to a policy of open expansion. The roots of this profound change no doubt lie in the economic life of the country…
“It is now already common knowledge that the Marshall plan represents an attempt to create a West European bloc under the aegis of the United States, at the economic base of which must lie Western Germany. The creation in the center of Europe of a powerful United States military and economic base – such are the expansionist aspirations of United States monopolistic circles, striving to subjugate, with the help of the dollar, other countries to their economic and political control.”
The Evening Star (August 30, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
Moscow radio, broadcasting in Russian to Russia last week, said:
“The matter of control over atomic energy is at a dead end because this is just the solution of the atomic problem that suits the intentions of the United States.
“As is known, the United States atomic policy was formulated in the so-called Baruch Plan. The practical aim of it was to preserve at all costs the United States monopoly over the atomic bomb; this is the beginning and the end of atomic diplomacy which has put its seal on the activity of the U.N. Commission for the Control of Atomic Energy.
“It seemed that a clear, definite and urgent task faced the commission: To put into practice in the first place the twofold resolution of the U.N. General Assembly providing for the signing of an international convention on the prohibition of the atomic weapon as a weapon for mass destruction. In fact, however, this basic problem has been excluded from the field of work of the commission; the United States delegates sabotage in essence the carrying out of the most important decision of the U.N.”
The Evening Star (August 31, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
The Moscow radio, broadcasting in Korean to Korea last week, said:
“The insistence for freedom of the press and freedom of information (for democratic public opinion) implies that first of all, the press and information must be utilized for the promotion of peace and good will between the peoples of the world. Yet reactionaries the world over are widely utilizing the newspapers in order to obstruct establishment of everlasting peace and to create antagonism within the United Nations.
“Such is possible because in those countries the majority of the information organs, that is, large-sized newspapers, wire services, radio broadcasting stations, moving-picture companies and the like are held in the hands of monopolists, who desire to publicize reactionary, undemocratic ideologies to the whole world.
“Under such circumstances, overseas newspapers, particularly those of the Anglo-Saxon powers, have no freedom; that is, Anglo-Saxon newspapers cannot achieve high level. In other words, they cannot fight for the democratic political principles, annihilation of fascism, for peace and good will between the people of the world, based on respective independence and equality.”
The Evening Star (September 1, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
The Moscow radio, broadcasting to Russia, said last week:
“United States claims for world domination cannot, of course, be reconciled with the preservation of national sovereignty by other countries. The liquidation, and if not, then at least the reduction and restriction of their national sovereignty, is not only the object but also the condition for the realization of the United States expansionist policy, in the service of which the political, military and economic levers are put.
“In this respect the atomic diplomacy unites the Baruch and the Marshall plans, and reduces free and independent countries to the state of offices with no rights at all, working with the all-powerful United States atomic concern. It is a fact that the business dealers of atomic diplomacy would like to prohibit the independent existence of sovereign states; this, however, does not depend on them.”
The Evening Star (September 2, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
The Moscow radio, broadcasting in Romanian to Europe, last week said:
“The popular governments of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Romania are based on a wide coalition of the democratic parties. Democratic freedoms are much more secure in these countries than they are in Great Britain or in the United States.
“The policy of independence of East European countries, their clearly expressed tendency to preserve their sovereignty and freedom – these are the true causes of the hostile attitude of the leading British and American circles. Hence the never-ending calumnies of the press and radio against the new democracies. Hence the attempts of the Anglo-American bloc to discriminate against these countries in the organizations attached to the United Nations…
“The interference of the United States and Great Britain in this struggle on the side of the fiercest enemies of democracy will undoubtedly not remain without consequences. The result of this interference will be an even stronger unity of the popular masses around democratic governments.”
The Evening Star (September 3, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
Moscow Radio, broadcasting in English to the United Kingdom, said last week:
“Egypt is flooded today with United States goods and this seriously impairs the interests of British exporters. United States banks are pressing upon the Egyptians their services in financing irrigation projects, as, for example, the Aswan Dam. Egypt is swamped, not only by United States salesmen, but by United States military and other experts, and in furtherance of their expansionist schemes, the Americans support and use the services of the most violent Egyptian reactionaries.
“The financial bosses in Wall Street are pressing for control of the economic and political life of the whole Nile Valley. They agree to supply the Egyptian defense ministry with the equipment it wants for the Egyptian Army. There is active talk in Washington of the United States taking the defense of Suez upon itself; and so, it is remarked, the United States is squeezing Britain out of the Nile Valley. Washington means to make of Egypt a strategic stronghold of the dollar empire.”
The Evening Star (September 4, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
The Moscow Radio, broadcasting in Polish to Europe, this week said:
“The British-U.S. financial conference in Washington has concluded its work. The whole conference was limited to the fact that the U.S. side heard the request of their debtors and asked for a detailed report on the economic and financial situation of Britain. After receiving the report, the United States refused any help for their younger partner. The American safes are tightly locked and the U.S. statesmen watch carefully the state treasury, refusing any concessions once the creditor puts his neck in the yoke.
“Such is the U.S. modern foreign policy in the economic field. As long as the agreement was not concluded, the United States proclaimed the doctrine of charity and claimed to be the benefactors. At the moment when the aim is achieved and the consecutive victim falls into the net of U.S. policy, the American philanthropists throw their mask away and become coldblooded businessmen.”
The Evening Star (September 5, 1947)
What the Russians Are Saying of Us
The Moscow Radio broadcasting in French to Europe this week said:
“This orientation toward America (of France) has had so far the most deplorable consequences. France is left with only a fraction of her former gold and foreign currency reserves, while the French people are receiving a bread ration which could best be described as a starvation ration. No one ignores the fact that both wheat and coal are being used to bring pressure to bear upon war-weary countries.
“The Marshall Plan policy, if carried out, will transform France into a market completely controlled by United States monopolists, since owing to obsolete production methods French agriculture cannot compete in the world market. Needless to say, large scale United States exports to France would seriously prejudice French agriculture and cause the ruin of hundreds of thousands of farmers’ families, these are the underlying causes for the paltry bread ration in France.”