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Show PKf W PEARSON Europe Needs New Hope WHAT most of us here at home don't realize is that tiie Russians have put over an amazing job of propaganda. While we, the greatest advertising nation in the world, have been both asleep at the switch and hamstrung by the nickel-nursing nickel-nursing policy of certain congressmen, Russia has been hammering ham-mering tway constantly against the U. S. until a lot of people abroad-even abroad-even the non-Communists-believe this propaganda. ... . Many have been led to believe, for instance, that the United States bis no social security, no old-age pensions, no unemployment insurance, Is completely controlled by Wall Street, keeps labor in virtual enslavement, and is helping Europe only as a bribe to keep it from going Communist. In order to win back our lost ground In Europe, the United States has to do more than merely cram food down people's throats. It also has to engage In friendly missionary and propaganda work. Equally, If not more important, It has to give Europe new hope, new ideals, new goals to work for. That is where the Communists have been so much smarter than we. Phony as their propaganda is, it holds out alleged hope for the future. And many of the people of Europe innocently have fallen for it, as a drowning man grasps at the last straw. |