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Show ABOVE THE By LVXXE HULL ttITLER successfully practiced the age-old strategy of sway-lng sway-lng the minds of the masses by constant con-stant repetition. Stalin la finding the same practice very useful, as Is exemplified by . recent occurrences occur-rences such as the Red demonstrations demonstra-tions In Paris against "Rldgway the Poisoner". Why don't we use the same technique in a more constructive con-structive and honorable way? From all reports the Voice of America broadcasts to the Iron Curtain countries have changed considerably in the last year or two. At one time these broadcasts appeared to be doing more harm than good to our cause. The reasons still provide a fertile fields for partisan discussion. Then later they seemed to go through an innocuous in-nocuous period which conveyed nothing to the listeners. But of late these broadcasts are reportedly much improved. Now If the constant repetition of a lie can influence Russians, Germans, Ger-mans, French, etc., why could not the same effect be obtained by the constant repetition of the truth? Why might it not bear fruit to drum into the minds of the Slav masses the truth that the only way they can liberate themselves from the misery of constant fear is to destroy the brutes who hold them in bondage. Why not point out to them constantly that no government has evitr been ro strong that it can resist re-sist the determined masses for long. Why not hammer, hammer, hammer ham-mer "revolt" until the Slavs do revolt. re-volt. A successful revolt is not an impossibility if the people can be made to realize that it is possible. Today the Iron Curtain peoples live in perpetual fear of the "knock on the door". Before, it was only certain elements which had to fear the' terrible sound of the midnight mid-night footsteps: Today, it Is everyone. every-one. The slave quotas must be kept filled or the Russian economy would collapse. If a mechanic dies, his place must be filled: A stenographer, stenog-rapher, a laborer, a teacher, a cook it is all the same. There are no more political "enemies" to fill those places they muiit come from all the people. How long can human nature stand It? If we constantly con-stantly encourage them, we may save them and ourselves from the deluge. |