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...Americans do more than just parry Russian thrusts in the war of words? When the Russians use the Big Lie technique on germ warfare, it seems that we merely counter their charges with denials. Instead we should thrust back with a countercharge
Waking up at last to an opportunity that had been knocking loudly for weeks, the U.S. responded to Soviet Russia's vitriolic germ-warfare propaganda. The U.N. Security Council took up a U.S. resolution proposing an on-the-spot International Red Cross investigation of Communist charges that the U.N. forces had waged germ warfare in Korea. U.S. Delegate Ernest Gross challenged: "If what we say about the campaign of hate is not true, the Soviet government can show us up [with] ... an impartial investigation...
...respect the American people," cooed Ehrenburg, suppressing the other Russian line about the germ-spreading American cannibals (TIME, June 30). "We respect their genius, their achievements in science, their inventiveness, their industry." As for the "happy-go-lucky American character," Ehrenburg admitted that it does have a "certain charm." "It is time the plain American should understand that Russians are not massing to deprive him of his little Ford, that the Chinese have no intention of meddling with his television programs, that Koreans do not lust after Mr. Smith's refrigerator...
...important propaganda weapon. Yet the fate of the 2,500,000 missing men is a topic of high concern to Germans, Italians, Rumanians and Hungarians. It should be sounded loudly and endlessly before the U.N., in propaganda broadcasts and in notes to Russia. As a counteroffensive to the Russian germ warfare charge, it has the special merit of being true...
...from Collier's, Steinbeck heard a haunting voice from his past. In an open letter published in the Communist L'Unità (circ. 800,000), Italy's largest daily, a contributor named Ezio Taddei asked what Steinbeck thought of 1) the wickedness of American soldiers, 2) germ warfare in Korea, and 3) General Ridgway. Cried Taddei: "Let your voice be heard, John Steinbeck, and it will be welcome as it was in the past...