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Communism which are represented by imperialism, aggression,
brutality, etc., really mean in terms of the lives and
futures of entire peoples and nations.
In the Far East I will pose five or six specific
goals that we are striving for. For one thing, we are
trying to drive home to the peoples of the Far East the
fact that there is an immine danger of Communist pene-
tration and of possible conquest; that this does not mean
what they have been led to believe of a Soviet paradise -
the folklore and myth. We tell them what has been found
to be the case in satellite countries in Europe under Com-
munism. Secondly, we have to let people of the Far East
know what constitutes the fertile growing grounds for Com-
munism. I would hope that our policies are so shaped that
we will be prepared to do things which correct those con-
ditions under which Communism can grow and can spread.
Further we are attempting to encourage certain types of
tendencies to separate and divide auong the Chinese Com-
munists and other known Communist parties. In part we
place some emphesis on what has happened in Yugoslavia and
other tendencies in Western Europe. We are hitting at a
myth that is held too widely in the world the belief
that the United States in some ways is really the proponent
of reaction, that we are really the people that want to
perpetuate the system of absentee landlordism or the ex-
ploitation of the masses by a small reactionary clique.
We are very much concerned with convincing the peoples
in the Far East that their ultimate salvation does lie in
close cooperation with the countries of the West; that the
Western countries are in fact in sympathy with their
national aspirations.
Although we can't operate in these areas where the
Communists control, we do have at least one officer of
USIE who is retained. They do handle certain reporting
and caretaking functions, but there is no program of the
kind that you people have known in the past. Our
2
principal effort there at present is radio. We are
SERVICE*
carrying 3-3/4 hours a day in English, beamed both
and
directly by shortwave from Stateside transmitters and
by relays in Honolulu and Manila, which now include
medium-wave relay, which does reach certain areas of
China, Te have, in addition, two hours a day in Mandarin,
we have a half hour a day in Cantonese. Most of those
programs
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