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THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA 13 warfare, suggested to the Communist Party the maintenance of a battalion of agents in the cafes of Alexanderplatz, journalistic center of Berlin. Their assignment was to insinuate biased news into the ears of the journalists, to propose articles written in advance to the tazy trips to the restless, and women to the carnal. t will be observed that nothing is left to chance in the universe of conspiracy called communism. (ce) Schools and universities Here also the proportion of Moscow's auxiliaries is considerably hiehar than that nf Po nares lIammuniste in tha mnannulatinn af ane bigiic. PEIGlL ULE VL AACR SAFE WLLL UO A Paseo Mk MLL given country. Due to ite crucial importance in the molding of minds, this field is worked by all the instruments of Soviet propa- ganda, from openly Communist to underground cells, through all the adations of embellishers, recruiters, slanderers, sophists, and satel- te organizations, In France, 20,000 schoolteachers hold Commu- nist Party cards. More than 25 percent follow Communist directives in their classroom teaching, which they receive through many channels: professional magazines, such as L'Ecoke etia Nation, bulletins, circulars, and visits by party leaders, The proportion is 40 percent in Italy. These teachers have sometimes gone so far as to secure signatures of pupils on crypto-Communist documents, such as the “Stockholm Appeal.” en the French Government recalled teachers from orocco following an incident, the French Communist Party ordered those under its control to remain at their posts, and placed teachers loyal to it in the vacancies thus created. In India, teachers propagandizing for Moscow use textbooks specially printed by the Indian Communist Party. In England, as in most Kuropean countries, the universities are the principal refuge of “fellow travelers.” European universities are so contaminated that the Asian and African Communist and para~Communist move- ments can be said to have been nurtured in them.® The 7 Chinese secondary schools in Singapore have less than 40 card-carrying Communists each, but solidly organized in political cells these politically dominate thousands of students. They draw the students into “committees of solidarity,” to which each is required to pay a subscription. The money serves to produce far more propa- ganda than solidarity. Students are led to participate actively in the electoral campaigns of the Party of Popular Action, a Communist influenced organization. In certain of the larger schools, the Communist celle organize “corrective sessions’ where the students receive versions, revised in accordance with the party line, of the courses presented by professors who have been denounced as “reactionaries.” The cells also assurea rough handling of adversaries. In brief, they organize to assume a moral, intellectual, and physical jurisdiction in each locality. The professors, molders of student minds, receive their allotment of poison. Many teachers in the free world find in their mailboxes every morning a few drops from the great river of Communist propa- ganda; a newspaper to read, a circular to ponder, a tract to distribute, an appeal to sign, a symbol to exalt. The very powerful Communist-oriented teachers’ unions distribute millions of pedagogic reviews in which instructions are given for << i) Ree nts 1-18 af Internal Gacurite On han ittas's hearings an es bee we Te Arenas in thea Edosationsl tee pee 2 ae 7) AR Ry RRR ey OD nase & ee gs Ct SE Oa Ve aCSeCe et ote EGU