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"HOTTING UP" THE COLD WAR.

HOTTING UP THE COLD WAR OF THE ETHER

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in

"Govorit London, Govorit | satellites, the mast powerful short-wave transmitter the London," the cry goes

world from Bush House, London, three times daily, out into the More Wave-Lengths upper atmosphere. high over Western Europe and plomp This station, established on down into the great Russian 650 neres of farmland, maintains cities of Moscow, Leningrad, a non-stop service in 24 langus and Kiev, and into the towns ages, and is Britain's operational and villages of the. Ukraine headquarters in the cold war over and the Urals.

"London Calling"-calling all Soviet workers to tell them the truth about world affairs, the truth about Stalin, about Com- munism, about Western Europe, and about you and me.

And all over the vast USSR at 3.15 ans., 2.15 pm and 9.15 pun, GMT inquiring, determined, courageous citizens fiddle, with

little short the knobs of their wave sets, curse the ever-increas ing jamming, and try to tune-in to "Govorit London."

Kremlin's Orders

the air.

The war started mildly enough by our telling Russia the truth on

By RHONA CHURCHILL

To and its yo their voices, Vali reads are sentence Nina reads the next. Back to Val. Over to Nina. So it goes on

Sanchow it is more impressive to hear two voices-Arst à man's, then a gal's. Goebbels discovered that and perfected the system we now use.

Deadly Replies

Good Fle

run

A Philippines election seems to a typhoon pretty close, as national disaster, except you get longer warning.

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To quirmo à laure? wreath, To. Laurel wreath, period.

Five globe-trotting Congress.. You'd be surprised how down-men have arrived in Persia's to-earth these broadcasts have capital. become. In them we attack Stálin. quoting chapter prove him a liar.

and verse

Always Teheran about...Bey, to it's iranical!

We take pains to contradict the Chungking is full of Nation- Kremlin's own propaganda coa-alist "high ranting officials," we

read. cerning ourselves. We discuss at

length the tricky problems of Out of the typographical error" Tito, Greek guerillas, Berlin, and cometh forth truth. Have been known to

prake our Communist Harry) own No. 1

three wave-lengths. Last May these were easily blotted out by

Pollitt for the purpose of con- Berlin broadcaster fred for in- | Russian jammers,

French. These noises effectively stifledtrasting his honesty and fore sulting the voice of "Geverit London" sight, with the dishonesty and in- Saarcastic........ before it could reach the people's sincerity of their Stalin-whom.

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"The ship's bottom is one of its

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The hull you say!"

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generally incidentally, we Our Foreign Office and Ameri- Generalissimo, just to make it Overheard on the praya. We know this not from the ca's State Department inmediclear we do not consider him one

decided or combited at the proletariat, patient men and women who lis- ately

Both countries

Our propaganda is deadly be. ten but have no means of telling counter-action, us. We know it direct from the now broadcast simultaneously,cause we use Stalin's own voice Kremlin, where orders

were using all available wave lengths to condemn him. For example, issued last April that "Govorit which amount to from 45 to 50,all summer Stalin's controlled Press has been telling his sub- bletted out from the Russian air vastly more. difficult.

jects that Russia, alone and vir- fually unaided, defeated Hitlerite types by janning

ermany.

Londan must at all costs be and make the job of jamming

The cost has been phenomenal is roubles, man-power and misuse

transmuters. BBC techn cians, who have listening posts in Sweden, Berlin, and the Middle East, reckon that

Russia now

The problem row facing Rus- sian technicians is how to blot out the remaining 20 per cent of our broadcasts without blotting own programmes to cut their their own people.

Signs are accumulating that Russia has started an-lef other phase of "hotting up" the cold war. This was to be

Is it worth a Russian's while to expected by all but the cre-

uses 300 powerful transmitters to listen? What do we tell him? dulous. because the world bot out "Gevorit London" from Sitting in a tiny underground has had all too much evidence the air over Moscow, Leningrad, studio in Bush House, London mid-afternoons · are two since 1945 that whichever and the Ukraine, and that jam- most

un and a girl- reading scripts they have them- way the pendulum. of Soviet ming is 80 per cent effective, and Russianya

likely to be increased shortly.

and possibly policy swings at any given

Our counter-measure is not re selves translated

of Russia's prepared. moment, the policy itself is, eiprocal jamming

TCE-

Valis inan "Call me in principle, unalterably equally frequent broadcasts to us, unco-operative. No surprise which nobody troubles to listen the 24-year-old son of Russia

from their should therefore be felt that to, but a considerable increase in aristocrats who fled

the number of wave-lengths used. country in 1922 The girl, Mrs. the apparent relaxation of We now have installed at Skelma. Dimitrievitch, was born in tension secured by the Forton, Gear Penrith, and beamed Russia and went into exile as a eign Ministers' meeting last 9 hours a day on Russia and her child. June has proved to be un- substantial.

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Pakistan Still

Friend Looks For A

By A Special Correspondent

exer for

A working agreement for Berlin was then supposed to be put in hand. That has broken down and the Rus- sian authorities have not even honoured their promise to refrain from the victimi- sation which was a condition of ending the railway strike. There is not yet any agree- Among his Majesty's Do (Hindu people, Moslem ruler), ruler of ment on the Austrian Treaty, minions the name Pakistan Though the Moslem

Junagadh ceded: to Pakistan, which was supposed to have still sounds strange and far-Indian troops marched in. Simi- been reached a month ago.eign.

larly, the Indians felt it correct. to become It is likely Russia

them to take Kasknir, in has formally acknowledged the Commun- stranger if the Pakistanis carry spite of the fact that the major

the inhabitants of

were ist regime in China and out their sullers threat to cut their ty

thinning Les with the British Moslemn set the

ап seal on

Commonwealth.

Of these three disputes, each of achievement which offers Today the 72,000,000 Pakistanis which might have led to an inter

war, the Kashinir ample compensation to the are feeling very sorry for them Dominion Kremlin for any disappoint-selves. Not only to they feel that quarrel was the most dangerous ments in the West. She and as "sold" India to Britain as a the help of tribesman "raiders." her satellites have torn up progressive democratic State, Pakistan fomented. arevoit Pakistan as against the Maharajah, Sir Hari their "treaties of friendship" while labelling

order to

annex the with Marshal Tito, and are reactionary, but they are living Singh, in

in mortal terror of invasion not State. subjecting his country to every form of economic and political pressure. Last, but not least, she has just pre- sented a note of protest to

"We would rather submit to the Western democracies Russian Communism than Indian

The Pakistanis, on the other against the setting up of the Hinduism," say the Pakistanis West German Government, And they mean it. The Indian hand, say that the revolt, was containing all those distor-indus, they charge, are getting originally staged by a group of tions of history and slanders restless after 1,000 years of Mos- Sir Hari's own Moslem subjects lém domination and about 200

and that "some time later" tribes- of motives with which both years of British rale, and nomen came to their aid.

up, the

They then say that India. "in- M. Molotov and his successor, see their chance to sec

Hindu Empire described in their vaded" Kashmir and occupied it, M. Vyshinsky, have made us

rient legends. disgustedly familiar.

Seems there was the Nationalist grass.

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there are two Myrtle says

of sweater girl-the that asema and the sort knits 'em.

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sort that

We retaliate by dipping into the speeches and books of Stalin and

Once men used faith to move quoting verbatim, telling Russian listeners to look up these quota- mountains. Now nuclear energy tions in their own libraries and saves the mental strain. Judge for themselves.

One reply to Russia's current A petty officer writes to say true the Navy charge that Britain played no that it is not cftective part in the Nazi war is Wrens are sometimes served with quotation from Stalin's book, rum. You have to make do with The Great Patriotic War of the just the rum. Soviet Union."

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U.S. efforts to use a Clubb an

out.

Australia diklat.

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Referring to decisions taken at a then recent bioscow conferenc with beaverbrook and Harriman Chou Enlai seem to have missed Stall writes: We are already} receiving tanks and aircraft in This putting the Southern Cross recordance with this decision in the corner of China's new flat Even before that Great Britain is regarded a reply to the White made, sale for our country the upply of materials we lacked, such

as aluminium, lead, tin,

"Defendant claimed that nickel, and rubber.

this the US. and his wife lived together and you add to

were as happy as sndbags."" decision to lend us 1,003,000,000! dollars, you can say with icer-1 tainty that the coalition of the USA Great Britain, and the Soviet Union is a reality which is increasing to the benefit of our common work of liberation

We ran this home with further examples, always giving chapter and verse for our quotations.

in

Of Britain Today

Currently we are busy giving Russia the full text of Tito's

Stalin's aggressive | replies to Notes, Stalin complains that Prussian minorities are ill-treated Yugoslavia We tell the Russians of Tito's offer to send to Russia any Russian in Yugo- return to his fatherland.

We tell them, too, of. Britain

seen by their today, os people; as seen, for instance, by their own-Lieut.-Colonel Tokaev, fbrmer lerturer at the Zhukovski Mintar Academy, who recently escaped to Britain.

slavis willing to the Westernised Pandit Kebru The Indian version is that, with

from Russia, their- Norther They claim that Indian troops neighbour, but from their partner, were only sent into Kashmir when Sir Hart ceded his country india

to India and asked Lord Louis Mountbatten for armed help.

Still Unsettled

They Mean It

in spite of the fact that Pakistan The Mostems fear that if had undertaken to run that coun- Pakistan were absorbed India they would have to

Jato take

It should be said at once,

try's defences, foreign relations, that none of these gestures

and cormmunications. They also is necessarily the prelude to their places at the bottom of this point out that Kashmir is tied more serious troubles. Like Hindu (caste system, and word economically, culturally, and geo-

all

strong hand

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two

therefore virtually become a slave

to Pakistan. its political ancestors race.

Even now the situation remains from. Xerxes to Hitler, the Though these fears are prob- unsettled Kashmir itself is.oc- Communist distatorship pre- ably exaggerated, the Pakistanis cupied by the Indian Army, which fers to get its way without have some cause for alarma. Three faces both Pakistani furces and times since the gory partition the so called Free Kashmir Army. war, particularly when the days of 1947 the Indian Army Both sides agree that a plebiscite odds are not strongly in as taken a

should be held, but neither can Meanwhile, Kashmir remains India, by force of arms, has sia gives no such guarantee taken to herself three hitherto an explosive harpoon plunged in

the heart of the Empire. so long as her dictators are semi-independent States, Juna- In such a quarrel both parties not convinced that they have adh (Hinda people Moslem should have the equal attention technical and material superi ruler Kashmir (Moslem people of Britain. The Pakistanis now is cold- ority. The deliberately re- Hindu ruler), and Hyderabad charge that Britain

shouldering them in favour of newed tautening of tension. can therefore evoke only one are likely to repeat that mis India

And so, acting on Indian answer from the Western take. We know that, like threats to invade Pakistan in the

and Powers, namely, every posHitler, Lenin

Stalin event of another tribal uprising. sible revision and extension have writen out their gospel, the Pakistanis are spending more of the joint measures for de- and we are not tempted to their armed forces than did the whole Indian Empire before fence which they have al disbelieve them. Again, open the war ready begun. In the field of to serious criticism though India, in turn, is earmarking the cold war, however, some our defence measures are, we half her Budget for the Army.

Strategic Value unpleasant consequences are have not sunk into any nadir likely. Nobody quite knows of unpreparedness, and none Pakistan is an undeveloped what will be the next step of us wears the blinkers of country, needing trade with Bri- against Marshal Tito:

isolationism. It is, moreover,tain. She is also strategically. The picture is thus of an quite unlikely that all those important, for the Khyber Pass, odious and familiar pattern. shrouded by the Iron Curtain thrush which Cossacks have [been expected"◄ charge for 50 The Western Powers,, though are straining at the leashes, les into her North West they suffer from some of the which withholds them from Frontier Province... old weaknesses, have certain aggression, or that the Com: Why don't you go out of your new advantages. The mis-munist Empire is free from way to be equally friendly to takes of British foreign weaknesses of its own. To be both India and Pakistan," asks a Pakistani, "because you could policy, at least, in the past compelled to make an assess not defend. Pakistan against Rus have too often been due to ment of the factors in a new sin. without our ep-operation? the natural but dangerous balance of power is, of course, Even new, we are strengthening idea that other peoples Have a tragedy, but in the cir our ties with Russia. You see, the same processes of thought, cumstances created by Com- we are lonely for friends."

Meanwhile in the mountains and Kashmir Indian the same innate tendency to munist policy there is noth round toleration, the same dislike ofing else to be done, and if it Pakistan troops, both under fusing mailee and mendacity is done with-resolution-but- British officers, stapp. their feet as instruments of policy as without panic, the cold war in the cold and wish their rulers we have Only our Com- may be "hotted up, but it could sink their differences and munists and fellow travellers will not boil over.

favour of victory. The fact negotiations between the agree to terms. of "atomic explosions" in Rus-countries,

leave the mountains to the snow

and ice.

own

We plan to go on telling them. and telling Poland, Eastern Ger- many, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria; Yugoslavia, and even little Abania.

The cost is high (probably more than £500,000), but reckoned good value.

Asked if it is worth while, the planners will remind you that it) is far cheaper to keep this cold war in the air than to let it loose on land.

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