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    "ocrText": "-5-\nINFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE\nReport of Commission on Information. -According to the first semi-\nannual report to Congress by the US Advisory Commission on Informa-\ntion, the Voice of America is reaching more than one-tenth of the people\nin Poland and Czechoslovakia and millions of Russians. \"In general,\nthe Voice and Amerika are achieving an involuable result in that they\nare diminishing the effectiveness of Soviet internal propaganda, \" the\nreport stated. It noted that the program is more important than the\nCommission or Congress thought when the Smith-Mundt Act was passed\nand work was begun, and that it is effective as far as it goes, with\navailable funds, but is not adequate.\n12\nReport of Commission on Educational Exchange. The first semiannual\nreport by the US Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange, covering\nJuly 1-December 31, 1948, recommended that the door be kept open to\nunofficial exchanges with the sountries of Eastern Europe where free-\ndom of communication is denied, for \"to cut off contacts with the\ntotalitarian nations of the world because of fears as to what might\nhappen to democratic institutions would imply a weakness which has no\njustification in fact. \" While some difficulties have been encountered\nin these exchanges, the report stated, those that have been arranged\nsucceeded in bringing about among foreign visitors the correction of\nerroneous beliefs about this country, an appreciation of its institutions,\nand a more critical outlook toward totalitarian regimes. 13\nUS Reaction to Blockade of Voice of America. -Assistant Secretary\nof State George V, Allen announded on May 2 that the Department of State\nhad protested to the International Telecommunications Union, of which\nthe USSR is a member, against the Soviet jamming of the VOA as a\nARCHIVES SERVICET \"NATIONAL REGORDS\nAND\nviolation of the Madrid and Atlantic City Telecommunication Conventions\nand the Cairo and Atlantic City Radio Regulations.\nThe VOA and the British Broadcasting Corporation on May 7 began a\njoint and concerted effort to break through the Soviet jamming blockade.\nMr. Allen announced that each would broadcast two new Russian-longuage\nprograms daily. He added that the Voice had succeeded in partially\nbreaking through the jamming curtain and would continue for a time its\n24-hour-a-day broadcasts in Russian, 14\nUS Condemns Soviet Aim to Suppress News Freedom.- the UN Assembly\ndebate preceding the adoption (May 14) of the Draft Convention on Inter-\nnational Transmission of News and Right of Correction, Alternate US\n12\nUnited States Advisory Commission on Information: Semiannual\nReport to the Congress, Mar. 1949 (Department of State pub. 3485a, released\nMay 1949).\n13\"First Semiannual Report of All Educational Exchange Activities\nCarried On from July 1 to December 31, 1948\", Documents and State Papers,\nVol. I, Nos. 12 and 13, Mar. and Apr. (released in May), pp. 576-684,\n14Bulletin, May 15, p. 638."
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