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progroms would be heard in the Far East in the evening
hours between six and ten 'clock at night, but we do
have a couple of morning breakfest-time shows. Now this
is a small program that we are able, to retain in China.
We are doing some things to establish ourselves in Hong
Kong, where in addition to a local program we hope to
have a regional center for distribution of materials to
operate as a production and distribution point not only
to China but to other areas that are near by where very
importent elements to reach will be those Chinese elements
in the local population.
To give you some idea of what 1t means to cut the
China program back, in Korea we still have one of the
most extensive country programs that we are operating any
where in the world. This is a program which, as you know,
we have recently inherited. We have inherited it from the
time of the military occupation, We are spending a little
under two million dollars in the current year in Korea
alone. We operate nine information centers there. We
have special publications, including weekly newsletters,
a world news periodical, a monthly magazine; we carry a
re-broadcast over an 11-station network, the Korean broad-
cast, the Voice of America; we have locally-produced news
commentaries; we have a very large motion picture program,
including mobile units to take it out to local centers of
the population; we have a Fulbright agreement which has
been drawm up but not yet signed, to expand the relatively
small exchange of persons program in Koréa. The current
estimates are that these nine information centers are being
patronized by an average of one million Koreans a month.
Now that's the other end of the scale from China, and I
introduce Korea into our thinking so that you can see how
at the present time we have relatively little ability other
than by radio to offect the Chinese people and the Chinese
thinking.
One problem that we in the Department now face and
one on which this group will have views -- given the con-
a
ditions we now have in China and that we will have in
the foresceable future, is it practical to expect that
the
any major onslaught can be made in ideological campaigns
SERVICE'
is
by purely open overt means? I am not suggesting any
answer one way or the other, but it is a problem broad
in its dimensions. A number of people who have thought
deeply and who have had profound experience in this
field are inclined to believe that the operation must
shift
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