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) FO Tet YOR KNOW e's: Every®time you play “Mack the: . Knife” you're: sending jmoney~ behind ‘the Iron Curtain. a e aS “aes os : Ww * * f i we #t BY JOHN LEWIS CARVER Thousonds of good Americon green- docks ore sow being shipped ov! of Curtein to a man who once perjured himself before a Congressional com- mittee and is today one of the Reda’ most celebrated propogondists inoch- ing Uncle Som. He's waxing richer every day, with the Yankee dotlars flowing his woy, wet becouse you hoppened to take « fency fo an old German tune in which the Communist onies hes @ vested interest. : , r sung or whistled of ployed by alt, rapidly becoming « top favorite. I's crowding the Hit Porode and popularity polls, ond is among the records most frequently cooxed from the juke boxes. There are already an even deosen secordings of the song on the market, with more coming ovt as fast os the pressers can do the job. If ever a song swept this country by the sheer im- poets of its heunting appeal, this ic #4 — something variously called “Mack the Knife" and “Morita,” the theme Gert Erocht, current pest iavreate of the Reds in G once betere a Congressional Committes, when he denied § keows os first-head, Whee the bh | he produces @ hit show, o vehicle of drove him out of Germany, efter o violent Communist propegonde. Aad ftiaguished carser_os « hit ploywr he’s speerheeding the propogesda he dida't ge const to jele his comre dsive to moke Evrope tafe for the Com- He come went and waved up in United States, Gut dn Mew York