Show red school of bocage za exposed soviet trains foreigners to wreck own countries by BAUKHAGE neui neu s analyst and commentator service 1616 eye street N W washington D C washington it was one ol 01 those strange foggy nights that sometimes descend fiver dver the east era ern part of america not like a london smoky fog nor the clean white stuff that rolls in like giant breakers so artistically against yer ba buena in san francisco bay nor yet like the mists on the rice fields nor the clammy north atlan tic weather that drips over crow s nest and quarterdeck turn ing ship and sky into cold wet drizzling steel the point is that I 1 was stranded in york pa mentioned recently in these columns i for its hospitality to veterans it j was simply hope less to try to inch along through the condensed milk that enveloped us I 1 knew there was a genial hos delry there so we edged up to it were decanted and sure enough met no less a person than jun lus ius wood lolling baukhage in in the lounge of course you are likely to meet junius wood anywhere on an atoll in the pacific tapping his pipe into the crater of mount vesuvius ford ing a fjord in a borrowed car lost in grand central or sipping vodka in the kremlin so it wasn gasn t strange to find him hirn in york pa As I 1 write these lines I 1 have just left mr wood at the national press club this time he informed me that seme some of the former students about whom he writes in the article quoted below testified recently be tore ore a congressional committee kep rep karl ot of south dakota read wood woods s art cle into the con gressional record thus making it a public document today a lady who s gns agns herself just mary writes me saying that I 1 should pretend I 1 in a n ce ole cle beagle hound and keep that beezer of mine pointed down the middle of the road she cla ms I 1 have the darn dest habit of sch n over to the right I 1 hope the following won t hurt her feel here are the quotes from the wood story which ong nally ap feared in the april issue of iia na tion s business under the title of trained to raise hell in america background I 1 know was gathered by wood while hs he was reporting from russia and I 1 was bending binding over a copy desk in the old chicago daily news office whither jumus junius directed his daily dispatches attention ambitious young men and women says wood A well established and liberal ally endowed university off offers ers you free courses in factory sab otage dotage bomb making train wrecking bank robbery fomenting armed mutiny and other techniques of f violence and treason scholarships cover all expenses including recreation and annual vacations at summer resorts this university is the west point ef of world revolution the international lenin school in moscow this university teaches the youth of other lands to go back home and wreck their heir t countries over the years it has trained and returned to the united states an estimated soo disloyal americans they are the leaven of some 50 50 corn com and pinkos in our land they are the high of 0 fibers of a secret army now be ing drilled to overthrow our gov eminent and social order wood describes the super surroundings of the school and what happens to russians who get curious about it siberia or the firing squad and goes on to describe the hush hush atmosphere into which a stu dent is inducted with matriculation each student takes a revolutionary or party name by which he will be known in corn eunist circles and outside activities mark in the fifth seal tells of a party worker who had so many aliases he forgot his bap bismal name according to wood the school has a three year course devoted p an r i manly marily to intensive indoctrination In doctrin ati 1 1 but there are also courses in la labor bor activities party organization and propaganda as well as military tac tics and weapons when the student returns to his own country says wood he must join trade unions or liberal societies attend all meetings pay dues promptly be eager for work unite others by party discipline until the organization is blindly following the party line tn in which he the student Is so well grounded wood points out that moscow does not consider revolution imminent in this country but he claims they are preparing tor for the psychological moment and these peaceful preparations go on for years through capable party members burrowed into trade un ions public offices the police force I 1 beral clubs and other sources of information when the time comes to attack a city the needed knowl edge of where to attack to paralyze it will be at hand even such facts as the knowledge that a watchman has a dog w 11 hae hate been recorded according to the time schedule of the communists says wood a city like chicago could be captured in less than 48 hours despite these frightening words wood says this in con elusion the soviet schools for foreigners are not too alarming when they are stripped of mys tery it would be well to know their odd american alumni also their instructors and what secret plotting Is behind the for mal handshakes over a confer conic r ence table or the clink of cock tail glasses at a banquet board it also will help when they know that we know an interesting long range job for our state de apartment part ment and FBI end of quotation these words are the author s and the views ex pressed not necessarily those of your columnist but junius wood is a source hitherto reliable and I 1 of fer him for what his report is worth he assured me today that his sources are old grads not nee essa rily leningrad and stalingrad but real alumni of this somewhat too progressive school a ta 1 k TYKO TYRO THESPIANS roanoke island youngsters some of whom have never seen a stage play in their young lives try out for parts in paul green s the lost colony an outdoor spectacle staged annually in a waterside amphitheater on the north carolina island more than 52 persons saw the symphonic drama last year in its postwar 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