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Show U. S. Allies Behind Iron Curtain Top 150 Million, Balkan Expert Reports ! "Americans have 130.CmO.fKM) allies al-lies behind the Iron Curtain who j would be strengthened and reassured re-assured if our words could reach them." I Imre Kovacs, who addressed jthp Kscalante Knife and Kmk clul) at its regular meeting Saturday Sat-urday at Kl Kscalante hotel, pointed out that while the enemies of Communism now trapped behind the Iron Curtain do receive some broadcasts and leaflets from the West, the flow of information is pitifully in-adequate. in-adequate. Mr. Kovac's address was titled "Red Runs the Danube." Dan-ube." As head of "Bombs of Freedom," Free-dom," an organization devoted to furthering the fight to get i across to the peoples of the Soviet Union and the satellite countries j the fails about America and the present international situation,! Mr. Kovacs declared that the only way to pierce the Curtain is j to deliver so many leaflets and j booklets by air that the secret I police could not possibly locate, or confiscate them all. "Bombs j for Freedom" is campaigning for j messages from the people of j thousands of small cities and towns throughout America, writ - j ten and printed by each com- munity, expressing friendship j and sympathy for the oppressed j peoples of t he USSR. Poland, I Hungary. Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria Bul-garia and Rumania, he said. Mr. Kovacs, now an American citizen, was born in Hungary and was a Yugoslavian before taking out his U. S. papers. Ho is a specialist spe-cialist on the Balkan area and has appeared widely as lecturer on Balkan and Slavic affairs. Under the "Bombs for Freedom" Free-dom" program, communications prepared by local groups may be delivered to the State department for delivery by balloon to eastern Europe. Mr. Kovacs stated. Prevailing Pre-vailing winds blow in an easterly direction, so that leaflets released releas-ed in special balloons may drift for hundreds of miles into Red I territory before being scattered, j Discussing the blood soaked I Balkans, where differences over 'political beliefs, economic status land questions of nationalism jhave led to the death of millions i of people for centuries, Mr. Ko-! Ko-! vacs indicated that the people of 'southeast Europe have long Inspired to the kind of life Amer-! Amer-! icans enjoy. Mr. Kovacs expressed pessimism pessim-ism about the chances of an In-1 In-1 definite co-existence of American ' free enterprise and Marxian communism com-munism as interpreted by Lenin and Stalin. Edwin L. Peterson, secretary of the Knife and Fork club, assisted Mr. Kovacs during the latter's t stay in Cedar City. |