EAST EUROPE

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28178, 17 January 1957, Page 11

EAST EUROPE

Sir, —Professor Albig, »f the University of Illinois, has written a book, “World Public Opinion,” in which he defines the part the United States was playing in 1956 in the field of propaganda. On page 317, he states: “Therefore, the propagandist attempts to breach the iron bamboo curtains with believable descriptions of other ways of life. ... Or again, mass appeals may be directed against the exploitation of grievances, the agitation of emotions, and the augmenting of disillusions. . . . Among captive satellite populations, it is desirable to maintain a hope of a change and augment resistance, but they must not be exploited to their own grave injury. In neither case can the populations overthrow modern despotic regimes without armed domestic and i foreign support.” Surely, in a world of scientific methods, we can dispense with propaganda.— Yours, etc., P.J.A. January 14. 1957.

Sir, —The homily of “A.M.” about the buily is a forceful illustration of the way in which sob-looey is taken for the authority of government. “A.M." should write to the British Government to tell it what a “bully” it was to send a battle cruiser to British Guiana tc depose a lawfully elected government and should also write to Mr Costello, telling him what “bullies” successive Irish governments have been. Come ‘o think of it, what a bully Lincoln was to fight the civil war at all. As for the "dear little Hungarians.” they’re as dear as were the Belgians to the Congo natives for rubber —as dear as caustic soda. See the grisly records in museums. See the terrible story in today’s news of “free” election in Poland.— Yours, etc., COLONEL PRIGG. January 15, 1957.