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Show BILLIONS, BLUNDERS AND BALONEY By Eugene W. Ca-ile As Reviewed by ALICE COOK, Milford High School " liilliuDs, lihiiiflcrs and Jlaloiinj" is a book tolling- of tlift fantastic hut Ivue story of o. money given by the Vnifed Stales for propaganda and to other oonntriuf; on so-called "loans." Mr. Castle's purpose in writing Hie story is to loll Ihe American people what is being done with the billions of dollars (hey pay for (axes. Most of the facts in the; book are unknown to the com- mon people of America. While making a tour of Europe Mr. Casile had many interview 3 with people of various var-ious countries, in which he talked about American propaganda propa-ganda in their countries. Approximately Ap-proximately the same comment com-ment came from all of them: "Americans throw their money mon-ey around in our countries, and our poopV; envy their wealth. This is bad for relations rela-tions between America and our country." "Our people :ire jjcrUintf tired of having American propaganda thrown ,nt us, until we're beginning to . hate it . . . and American.', too." "American propagandists propagand-ists live in rich homes and will riot, mix with mr people. If they would act and live as one of us we would like them better, and relations between our countries would improve." Tljse people folt that the Voice of Ameiica and the pamphlets pam-phlets and booklets put out on America are "useless" and that the majority of their people don't pay any attention to them. In loans, alone, since July, 1940, Great Britain has received from the U. S. approximately 70 billion dollars, not mentioning mention-ing the other countries of India, Japan, Indonesia, C a n a d a, South and Central America, which have received pums totaling total-ing in the billions. The men who rule the "political "politi-cal lots" these days, t'10 m(,n of (Continued on I'age Three) i j guests from foreign countries I came to the U. S., including , Prime Minister Mohammed All of Pakistan, President Tubman el Liberia, Hrilain's Queen Mother, Chancellor Adenauer cf West Germany, and (fHiers. I Ni ne went back empty handed: Mi', Mohammed had a pledge of IDS million .dollar.-', and t lie I ( theis had nearly lie same pledges. Thi'- money 's not totally wasted In terms of American security, but it is deeply humiliating that the U. S. has to try to "buy" the allegiance alle-giance of weak-nister countries. (And the American taxpayer has to foot the bill for the mll-I mll-I lions tile "diplomats" give away or "loan.") Mr. Castle's conclusion of the book was that the people's hearts are all sound, and despite the advances of Communism, about three-fourth! of the people peo-ple of the world are against It, and they huve a love for freedom. free-dom. The power und .strength of America can be sold to the world if we will better realize the world situation and use the right advances to get the people to follow Americanism instead of Communism. (Above Is Alice Cook's Impressions Im-pressions of Mr. Castle's book, Billions, Blunders and Baloney." Balon-ey." Following is a footnote Alice wrote to her report. We think her opinion reflects the thinking think-ing of any grats-roots American who" must continue to pay the billions for the blunders and baloney that have made up our foreign approach for too many years. Editor) Much of this book is just one man's opinion, but there is a lot of truth in It. I sincerely hope that more people can read this book, so they can realize the world situation as it effects the United States. I feel that if we are to stop a HE11ES MORE ABOUT BLUNDERS ! Continued from Page One i "psychological warfare," sit at tile clbiiws of the cabinet officers offi-cers ami are behind most of the decisions made in Washington. The "psychological warfare" men and the various propaganda propagan-da program. are taking a big majority of t h e taxpayers' money. Foreigners are amazed at. the lavisli expenditures and over-staffed agencies abroad. These agents live m the most lavish homes in Europe, such a,s the Chateau Rothschild and Hotel Astoria in Paris. The people peo-ple in the other countries woidd ieel mine friendly toward the Americans if they would live in more moderate residences, and mix more with the "average" citizen. The blunders being made by the U. S. in foreign countries are not helping us to gain foreign for-eign friends, either. Recently, the broadcasts over the Voice of America have made so many statements which stir up the anger abroad, that it's very surprising sur-prising it did not cause a war. A great amount of American money is given to propagandists for movies which try to "sell" America to other countries. The people abroad have said that the Hollywood films do more for international relations than t h e s e numerous propaganda films whicll are turning more people away from us. The Voice of America and the V. S. Information Association Associa-tion are just two of the many propaganda agencies which are using up our money for an almost al-most worthless purpose. Our country would be a lot better off financially and relations rela-tions with other countries would be improved if we would discontinue all the propaganda agencies and would spend the money on things in our own country which are needed. The fame year that the propaganda agencies received three billion, three hundred sixty-eight million, mil-lion, eight hundred thousand (S3.368.800.000) dollars for foreign for-eign "a-d," the 83rd Congress turned down a bill for a housing hous-ing administration in the U. S. Also, the money could be used for building more schools, and also to run the schools with, instead in-stead of having only a few overcrowded schools. We could use some of it to clear up the .lums in the larger cities, and putting up housing projects in their places. It could bo used to finance hospitals and health centers, which are badly needed need-ed here. Just recently, distinguished bitter war, we will have to gain better un!ty within the country and we should use better judgment judg-ment and more tact in our method,'! of propaganda. High school student,? should lock into this and better realize what problems they will be ; faced with when they become I the taxpayers of the country. We and our children will be the ones to pay back this tre-men- dous national debt we are ' acquiring. I Is this part of the debt nece.- j ' r.ary, or sensible? i Alice Cook. I |