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Show Crusade For Freedom Opens Across Nation 1 Utah and the nation this week officially opened the Crusade for Freedom, an anti-communist campaign, cam-paign, when Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisen-hower made a stirrine- rarii cast from Denver on Labor Day. Here in Utah, no campaign since World War II has captured the imagination of the people or received re-ceived such wholehearted support as this movement to counteract communist propaganda with truth, said Charles C. Bintz, Utah chairman. chair-man. At the opening" Utah meeting Friday night ,the state school system, sys-tem, the American Legion, the Utah Ut-ah State Junior Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, military installation, women's wom-en's clubs, public officials and num erous other organizations pledged their support. Other organizations were rapidly rapid-ly making preparations to assist the drive. First campaign object will be to obtain the signatures of every resident re-sident of Utah on scrolls to signify their belief in American ideals of freedom. Secondary object is to ob tain small contributions needed to defray costs of a huge Freedom Bell and to build and maintain short wave radio stations around I the perimeter and beamed at the I Iron Curtain. The 10-ton bell, of bronze and bearing 'five figures representing the five races of mankind passing the torch of freedom, is to be installed in-stalled in the Western zones of Berlin late in October. Signatures obtained from from the scrolls will be enshrined in the bell tower, said Mr. Bintz. Crusade for Freedom, headed nationally by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, former military governor of Germany, Ger-many, is sponsored by the National Nation-al Committee for a Free Europe. . The committe already operates one radio station which daily from Western Europe pierces the Iron Curtain, pitting the truth of Freedom Free-dom against communist lies. |