Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
WHERE the NEWS ENDS By William Henry Chamberlin Radio Liberation Carries On Munich Shortly before the death of Joseph Stalin, Russians who could penetrate Soviet jamming heard a new voice on the...
...Besides Russians, Ukrainians, Central Asians and Caucasians, one could find here many Poles and people from the Baltic States...
...there is no attempt to disparage Soviet accomplishments in education, invention and industrialization...
...An Arabic publication is being planned and is certainly badly needed...
...bead of the Russian desk, if the broadcasts suppose that the listeners are enemies or lukewarm supporters of the Soviet regime...
...Oliver Frederickson...
...I asked Vladimir Weidle...
...Radio Liberation functions with a staff of 160, of whom about 80 per cent are Russians, Ukrainians, Caucasians, Central Asians and members of other Soviet nationalities...
...while every inconsistency between Communist theory and practice is taken up...
...The library has amassed some 25.000 books and 6,000 publications, including complete sets of lzvestia, Pravda and other Soviet newspapers and many copies of pre-Revolutionary Russian magazines...
...Americans on the stall, including secretaries, number 25...
...The Institute's studies of many phases of Soviet politics, economics, culture and general living conditions are published in many languages...
...diplomat Robert Kelley is political adviser, while supervision of the broadcasting program is in charge of Richard Bertrandias, who had previous experience on the "Free Asia" broadcasting station in the Far East...
...Weidle said that some scripts are calculated for each group and that care is taken not to offend such "Soviet patriotism" as may exist even among critics of the dictatorship...
...Representatives of the Committee recently went to Spain to interview some of the 3,000 Spaniards who were taken away to the Soviet Union during the time of the civil war in Spain but who recently opted for return to their native country...
...One result of the interviewing was to establish that more Soviet citizens possess shortwave receiving sets than had previously been realized...
...The general aim of Radio Liberation is to give Soviet listeners, including Soviet troops in Germany, news which the Soviet press finds unfit to print...
...Now this situation has changed as a result of the intensive efforts of various welfare organizations to find new homes overseas for the refugees...
...This proved impossible because of irreconcilable differences on such issues as the political future of non-Russian parts of the Soviet Union...
...Out of 165 interviewed, 30 had listened to Radio Liberation...
...There are some 80 staff members, of whom 35 are Russians, 35 members of other Soviet nationalities, and 10 Germans and others...
...have gained maturity and give the impression of carrying on with a solid determination to promote enlightenment as to Communist realities both behind and outside the Iron Curtain...
...The veteran U.S...
...a Turkish publication, Dergi, is the principal source of information for Turkish students, because of strict Turkish regulations against importation of Communist printed material...
...At first, it had been hoped that a group of representatives of Russian and non-Russian political organizations could lako over the station...
...Every attempt is made to keep in touch with the reactions of those who have actually heard the broadcasts of Radio Liberation...
...Meanwhile, the Institute for the Study of the Soviet Union is steadily expanding its program of studies and publications...
...Immediately after the war, Munich was the DP capital of Europe...
...Moreover, during these last few years a good deal of vitality has gone out of refugee political life because of widespread emigration and resettlement...
...In the first postwar years, the number of former Soviet citizens ran into hundreds of thousands...
...I have been in touch with Radio Liberation since it began operations, and also with the activities which preceded its establishment...
...Radio Liberation, with its sister institution, the Institute for the Study of the Soviet Union, is one of the two principal achievements of the American Committee for Liberation...
...WHERE the NEWS ENDS By William Henry Chamberlin Radio Liberation Carries On Munich Shortly before the death of Joseph Stalin, Russians who could penetrate Soviet jamming heard a new voice on the air, the voice of Radio Liberation, with headquarters here and broadcasting facilities in Lampertsheim, near Frank-furt...
...A major problem at Radio Liberation is the right psychological approach to the presumptive audience...
...Both the Radio and the Institute, the latter now enjoying the services as consultant of an American historian, Dr...
...Two major projects at this time are the broadcasting of the UN Report on Hungary and of Milovan Djilas's The Neiv Class...
...it is estimated that there are now only about 25-30,000 former Soviet citizens in the Federal Republic, with another 11,000 in Belgium and 5,500 in Austria...
Vol. 40 • September 1957 • No. 37
