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Show Red School of Sabotage Exposed Soviet Trains Foreigners To Wreck Own Countries By BAUKHAGE Sews Analyst and Commentator. tt'NU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. It was one at those strange, foggy nights that sometimes descend over the eastern east-ern part of America not like a London smoky fog, nor the clean white stuff that rolls in like giant breakers so artistically against Yer-ba Yer-ba Buena in San Francisco bay, nor yet like the mists on the rice-fields, rice-fields, nor the clammy North Atlantic Atlan-tic "weather" that drips over crow's-nest and quarterdeck, turning turn-ing ship and sky into cold, wet drizzling steel. J The point is that I was stranded in York, Pa., (mentioned recently in these columns for its hospitality S to veterans). It was simply hope-I hope-I less to try to inch I along through the condensed milk that enveloped us. I knew there was a genial hostelry hos-telry there, so we edged up to it. were decanted and. sure enough, met no less a I person than Jun- Baukhage us "0Q' lomne in the lounge. Of course, you are likely to meet Junius Wood anywhere, on an atoll in the Pacific, tapping his pipe into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, fording ford-ing a fjord in a borrowed car. lost in Grand Central or sipping vodka in the Kremlin So it wasn't strange to nnd him in York, Pa. As I write these lines, I have just left Mr. Wood (at the National Press club this time). He informed me that some of the former "students" about whom he writes in the article quoted below testified recently before be-fore a congressional committee. Rep. Karl Mundt of South Dakota read Wood's article into the Congressional Con-gressional Record, thus making it a "public document." (Today a lady who signs herself "Just Mary" writes me saying that I should pretend I'm a "nice ole Beagle hound" and "keep that Deezer" of mine "pointed down the middle of the road." She claims 1 have the "darndest habit of "schroochin over to the right " 1 hope the following won't hurt her feelings.) Here are the quotes from the Wocd story, which originally appeared ap-peared in the April issue of "Nation's "Na-tion's Business" under the title of 'Trained to Raise Hell in America." Background I know was gathered by Wood while he was reporting from Russia and I was bending over a copy desk in the old Chicago Daily News office whither Junius directed his daily dispatches: "Attention, ambitious yonng men and women," says Wood. "A well-established and liberal-ally liberal-ally endowed university offers you free courses in factory sabotage, sab-otage, bomb making, kidnaping, train wrecking, bank robbery, fomenting armed mutiny and other techniques of violence and treason. Scholarships cover all expenses, including recreation and annual vacations at summer resorts. This university is the West Point of world revolution the International Lenin sr hool in Moscow. This university teaches the youth of other lands to go back home and wreck their countries. Over the years it has trained and returned to the United States an estimated 800 disloyal Americans. They are the leaven of some 50,000 Communists Com-munists and 100,000 pinkos in our land; they are the high officers of-ficers of a secret army now being be-ing drilled to overthrow our government gov-ernment and social order." Wood describes the super-secret surroundings of the school, and what happens to Russians who get curious about it (Siberia or the firing squad) and goes on to describe the hush-hush hush-hush atmosphere into which a student stu-dent is inducted: "With matriculation, each student takes a revolutionary or party name by which he will be known in Communist Com-munist circles and outside activities. Mark Aldanov in 'The Fifth Seal' tells of a party worker who had so many aliases he forgot his baptismal bap-tismal name." According to Wood, the school has a three-year course devoted primarily pri-marily to intensive indoctrination. But there are also courses in labor activities, party organization and propaganda, as well as military tactics tac-tics and weapons. When the student returns to his own country, says Wood, "he must Join trade unions or liberal societies attend all meetings, pay dues promptly, be eager for work, unite others by party discipline until the organization is blindly following the party line in which he (the student) is so well grounded." Wood points out that Moscow does not consider revolution imminent in this country. But he claims they are preparing for the psychological moment . . . "and these peaceful preparations go on for years through capable party members burrowed into trade unions, un-ions, public offices, the police force, liberal clubs and other sources of information." When the time comes to attack a city, "the needed knowledge knowl-edge of where to attack to paralyze it will be at hand even such facts as the knowledge that a watchman has a dog will have been recorded." "According to the time schedule of the Communists." says Wood, "a city like Chicago could be captured in less than 48 hours." Despite these frightening words. Wood says this in conclusion: con-clusion: "The Soviet schools for foreigners are not too alarming when they are stripped of mystery. mys-tery. It would be well to know their 800-odd American alumni, also their instructors and what secret plotting is behind the formal for-mal handshakes over a conference confer-ence table or the clink of cocktail cock-tail glasses at a banquet board. It also will help when they know that we know an interesting long-range job for our state department de-partment and FBI." End of quotation. These words are the author's and the views expressed ex-pressed not necessarily those of your columnist. But Junius Wood is a source "hitherto reliable" and I offer of-fer him for what his report is worth He assured me today that his sources are "old grads." not necessarily nec-essarily Leningrad and Stalingrad, but real alumni of this somewhat-too-progressive school. |