Show ECONOMIC highlights should the united states go in for an aggressive marshall plan of ideas to implement its material assistance to the western world senator benton of connecticut who has been urging this move in congress thinks so and his belief is shared by a great many people who are grave disturbed by the success of rus sias high powered propaganda the masters of the kremlin are thorough they have pressed ahead in the cold war with weapons with what amounts to blackmail on a high international level they have been clever and efficient in using their satellites as instruments of conquest they have developed well trained un der grounds everywhere including the united states whose duty is to advance the cause of communism by every conceivable means including in the event of all out war sabotage saba tage and destruction on a far broader scale than most americans seems able to realize the evidence in this regard which the FBI has painstakingly gathered over the years some of which was recently made public shows that the politburo leaves no stone unturned and in addition the russians regard propaganda as one of the most important of all weapons in one of his late columns marquis childs described the pattern of soviet propaganda in germany he wrote basic elements in this pattern are the petitions for peace and against the atomic bobb being circulated by the mili lons in both zones of germany these same petitions were signed by several million north koreans beginning in 1947 when they were first on orders from moscow the me objective is clear it is to identify communism with peace and put the united states in the role of aggressor holding the terror weapon of the atomic bomb over the heads of peace loving peoples every where if and when the united states should resort to the atomic weapon then the base would be prepared to foment a world wide hatred of america and americans it may seem absurd to americans that the russians can succeed with this propaganda line but according to men who are in the best position to know they are succeeding the western nations it is true have beaten the communists in all postwar post war elections but in many the communist vote has been heavy and the communist minority is undoubtedly far better organized and forms a more cohesive whole than its opposition in a recent speech william C bullitt who was an ambassador to russia under Frankiln roosevelt said in italy more than 20 percent of the workmen are unemployed and the communists who gathered one third of the votes at the last elections are gaining in strength in france the government is far weaker than any french government before the second world war and its entire apparatus is riddled with communists even the head of french atomic research is a a communist situations such as this are not of course the result of soviet propaganda alone but that propaganda has been and is a powerful factor hence the growing interest irl in a marshall plan of ideas through which we would tell the world the truth as we see it the national congress is a great body and I 1 can count in its membership scores of warm personal friends and fine patriots but I 1 sincerely feel that there ought to be much more of a spirit orf of national security rather than of local urgency in its activities tivi ties james A parley farley former postmaster stir general |