THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1950.
BBC REVEALS FACTS THE
SOVIETS DO
POCKET CARTOON
from Amorien
by OSBERT LANCASTER
NOT
LIKE
A respect for facts as opposed to dogma is the potent force behind the BBC's daily news broadcasts to Eastern Europe which the Soviet Union is trying so desperately to jam. Tangye Lean, the Corporation's European Services Controller, admits that there are more ingenious and forceful broadcasts. By Western standards, they are innocuous and sometimes flat. But they provide the acid test by which a doctrine stands or falls. And the proof of their attraction lies in the violence of the Russian reaction.
The Russian Service of studio, and showed an amusing] the authority of a counsel for the
minouncers whose the BBC was introduced interest In
voices they had got to know into the schedule on March from wireless rots in Moscow. 21-1946, writes Mr Lean in
pro-to in the Soviet Union an analysis of the
rammes in the latest issue which the majority have short Letters posted direct to of the BBC Quarterly. the BBC from Russia and other evidence singested that there "The Innovation" he says, was a considerable audience. "was known to he unpopular Government, with the Soviet
years after the "Then three
of the Service, a but for some time as good a face introduction
possible was put on it. There jamming system abruptly came was no formal ban on seninto action which wuldid the and when members of the German warlmu Supreme Soviet visted Louton Curly in 1947 they went so far as to attend a transmission la the
BIG BUSINESS IN CORSETS
"There are some 54% million
ot
waves,
extent and intensity.
prosecution who has seen right through the ease for the defence: "Any Soviet citizen who can et to a library can look up, in the files of Pravda, the text of declaration which Was the jointly signed by Hibbentrop Molotov in Moscow len and years ato," he says over the air, took it up for yourselves, Pravda, September 29, 1939."
For it is still possible to verify much of the past even in the Union. libraries, of the Soviet Marx is still there on the de- of working class campaign inpression
The task standards us
Well
n on the evils of censorship; Lenin is on was not only to cuver a con-
and tinent many mes greater than the shelves, as ferocious Hitler's widest
inhibitions as ever; devoid of of control;
is there with it was hoped-no doubt with Statin the help of the jamming network insistence on the one true nim to built up in the war-lo achieve he pursued in spite of all tactical Lonk it up for cans thing more radical than a manoeuvres
yourself."
the says
Russian BICHE.C which
irritate would
Service. manotonoily, steners into switching off,
page number in the Rumian edition is......"
area
"The
abrund message from
blotted But was
of |existence. Some hundreds of
spam-mitters
egation mufer central control the effect on prouts.
The
prit were
Inta
IN January and June each year, New York puts on a The deadly show called National Corset Market Week. sorious audience of 2,000 is 100 percent, female, allStoreow listener as he tuned in clutching notebooks. They are shows the current "ino" was like that of entering a batter works or the engine room and, after much buzzing on styles,priees;-and-manu-ittier - Andled facturers, are guided into ornate cubicles to place their, was reproduced in the extreme orders for America's department stores.
cast.
The industry wishes the all-in-one houses the female MANY FREQUENCIES word "corset" would get torso.
Best. Even
gurment"
"folation!
desn't
Come
to
الت
THE FOLLOWING
re
The BBC does not know in
seale of followin detail the which these commentators have the Soviet Union. But prob- Who bite their colleagues speak to Central Europe have a
DiOTT devoted and numerous mudience. "We know saya Mr Lean, "that Sir Robert Bruce-Lorkhart en count Tittle short of our million listeners for his weekly talks to Czecha- The BBC repled with The indedry is pot ploured atį From Hevity
mouvement of the Jovakia, and if Andrew Martin it: warmutfonkin
has fewer sucers ful in
in Hungary" il They There god venson for mavity, kind which
because there pletely satisfy them.
the German oc- foobably Keep hoping some mitable het gear Andermant women paid | Europe under
tower zelz Tran mis sons were Ave hundred mition upation. brain will come up with a
The keep
13 the themselves romanced to allow a maximumS
speakers satellite have 3 label that will cover their Lounally in bape. Truly the mumber of eat to carry
broadcas! simul- Western
emphasis
thi 10 tinkti armer department they when a singly a
This produced be. ifferent teams the danger? proti por- tance
twenty
thingcripts; they count with absolute entare in any hop. A bigt-vity | 10.initters: 0, etating in half afatiche 4n the friendship of chemical tradition of wartime delfare duren wavebands simultaneous the idener and belong to the
of short-wave
!broadcasters who helped to teemitters equal to anytime stain the morale uf
ccupied that was nited in the war.
Below the surface Europe nationalist mour glows strongly Bruce Lockhart's particular advantage former friend- 4 no doubt his
Walla Benes and Jan hip Masaryk
association and his with the bins Czech Republic,: But he appears to be particu-
well 11:34 agiz
metal attiture of the Czechs a the quality of the resent- tagant their Soviet mag-
AK, ZYZZ,
ORANGES
&
-
Some
LEMONS
Americans
:
with
funny namen are among the 3.600 who are writing {{ the United States
Burean
every
straighten it p family tree.
Clematis
week,
make twenty themsel Nady, un tre destruer wat hy as inatch as twenty the spel
nod
Ety-five parent
CRETAN
BANDAGE
1
140
arry 1
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with the e of the HDC, the total | array was extended by as many trate mitters aran. On Octobe 20, 1919, the Podmeter-Green! could reasure an inquirer at the Met Commons 11.
Chould be Aquate reception chanbest at nearly alt but in Bowel parts of Rus la en thore wavelength',
1lantani For
year.
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to thet a women bandaged from their hip to achieve the 2004 H. et venues of the curve th: t
Catherine de
Thes
are trying to help the Bureau prepare for th, you' 10-yearly population ces, up
Already The Beat les pens from Mr A. Me Puli, and St: Hinnelonie teekly Sop-Lin
Mr Zyra ta al written an So hug Mr Junar Sengo), dr, whe sud: "My fatlar, Junor Sewer, Sr., has the ram natale
as mine, bust n't related."
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Lamily stal
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artem muted have taken time.
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i perhaps a rah tntial part of them
is not a dogma instilled
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Hopped them but magar Bhuj tiurteen-ine : won 1-
Tam by severe leverage. This
three years
the BC began its bandean, H
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propastamala's
but of Pipang worked thirty, the
puanda,
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in cialdhing but an with an allen fare. The pricesty in to keep an exlet- ing forth alive rather than to regation hallerne
anupations hel for theeeit, to that BIVORE
ry, as Mr Verhirdy has thonty to be R 1 explained, to stamp ut waist than is underdled indlanderou fenty-five her. Forty years
The When
Led Yark has contine vogel.
our.elve the. waist truth and that jamminut plays the sand role in the ether as the Ainu: the pale change that vet in the Security Commeil, or a Children Leun 't laken plier in woman navel-ban n exela
is sly be the shoulders, They're
antenational visite." Grove and Bill Pickte.
tame as Cleopatra's. Musi or
Arriva
Today is
10:18! She stands #ve fust three lea
uches tall, weighs nine
Home! bar's
burst camtirement of Milly-five pul
A man caffed
271
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told the Governm: ht te hart had
Wo
Butte ate her marriage to Bon
Likewise, Mass
regarded Skien,
the Census Bureau at turn her daughter into
Mamie Meuse complained that
asked if that would make, any difference?
17.
Deven
the avera
19
DAILY BULLETINS
a half inches, a twenty-me apelamin. But in and Hungary want, and thirty-eight mich hie
VOGUE SHOCKED
For the first time in 1914, Comet wie aufverted as actually
Bootlegging In bring worn instead of
Cigarettes
Prapty hollere
L
to $1
بار
Structures shorked Vonur fund the pen and ink drawing unti
"objectionable" was Bootlegging is back in the mat. d. The
↓ 1:
With United States-not fiquor this adest though confusing. Only time, but cigarettes.
corse! itself,
head and a hand hausting in since and In an ever-widening cearch for new Income, 38 of the two dangling diggered fet con- Ainerican States have put heavy peeled to nothing
sales taxes on cigareties.
ethe
were
f
"Thire bullet a day are bomfeart to Huan ng well as fol
Germany bow Curt Each Pevak'a aut Poland have four.! Altana Evo ant Froland ont
"server", the chief com mentator on the Ruman Service, achinyes, considere Mr Lea
an afimirable sauce of any a tom in his comments:
in gaaks sympathetically, a
Lunde moart fully, as one
whe
TEXTUAL DISPUTES
"Nevertheless, occasiolis even, for textual disatte have pres ented thermsriver, most notably in the trials of Mindszenty and Rajk. Somewhat
the rashly Hungarian radio broadcast live extracts from these proceeding without taking adequate per-
Indeout for
during BBC episodes. trenesans, made at the time frem tem: linn,
eritable to compare with the official Black Boot claiming to gave
evidence of Jouet 3Podszenty in full and with the Meal Blue Book which did the came for Rajk. In both there were small but crucial falsilica- tins of the evidence of the Re- ered.
informaren
were
"Horrible enough in them- the dull brooding one ili selver, with
a witch trial, the "hen opening the de of the fact that if records formed the substance of broadcasts when was deceiving him. His quiet devas
devastating elf-assurance contrasts starply they were later played back in with the tone of Moscow's re- completion of the printed story. plies to the BEC. For. Can you follow the trial?', de- mands the judge in the Black ninitted by
Gur own re-
Hingis And in those pages luctance to indulge in a war of
in Müdszenty words,
delights
simply answers. 'I
Morcow
But eight of the other 10 du The industry agrees that the assaulting particular breadcasts. can'. But from the record his not fax them at all and a chain buggest thing that has happened and it does so in terms out of Vaice rises like a host, plending
'I of miserably.
am exhausted, af operators very busy into it was the invention of elastic relation to the cause
physically and mentails that deed, selling cut-rate smokes by thread in 1930. This made posaitence.... post.
is certain.' Arotch but only back and forth Then there is David Graham,
Earment that would
"New to its lask, uhaware of the
It has become such a big buasi- but up and down. With the "istinguished by his knowledge BBC recording facilities, ness that the 38 Stutes estimate advent of nylom A whole of the texts of Communist Hungarian ministry of Truth itself In these they are losing up to $20,000,000 carrelette can be crumpled info theory and by a more aggressive | over-reached
a year taxer.
handful.
K. O. CANNON
TAY THE WINDOW, STIRRUPS.) WHAT WE NEED IS
QUICKLY! THERE'S
SOMEONE COMING!
A HOVER PLANE-
BUT NOTHING'S
HOVERING!..
STRIKE ME, THERE IS!
NOT A PLANE, BUT
A DINGHY-RIGHT,
BELOW..
attack than 'Observer's.' He has excisions,"
The Riddle of the Red Domino
HAVE A PEEK] IF YOU
LEAVE YOUR ARMFUL
OF BLONDE, WE COULD MAKE IT!..
.OR PERHAPS YOU'D`
MATHER LEAVE YOURS TRULY?,
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