Page 8 University Daily Kansan Wednesday. October 4,1961
Reds Make Play for Iran
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — U.S. officials are keeping a close watch on a massive Communist radio campaign in Iran, which may surpass Red propaganda efforts in any other country.
Almost daily a clandestine station just across the border in Russia, and another in East Berlin, call upon the people of Iran to revolt and give unabashed instructions to local Communist parties to stir up trouble.
DURING 1960 Communist Radio broadcasts to Iran from all sources expanded from 76 hours a week to 96 hours, one of the sharpest increases anywhere in the world.
MEANWHILE, THE main propaganda networks of Russia and Red China stand back and take a broader swing. They denounce Shah Reza Fahlavi as an agent of the United States, demand Iran's withdrawal from the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) and warn that Iran would vanish in nuclear holocaust if the Berlin crisis erupted in war.
The campaign has been going on, in ups and downs, since 1959, and apparently has had little effect on Iran except to heighten local political conflict. But it is seen as a softening-up operation for possible Red moves in that country if the opportunity ever presents itself.
The campaign operates through three main channels which perform different roles:
- Soviet journals and Radio Moscow which speak in global terms.
- The National Voice of Iran, a secret station which pretends to broadcast from Iran itself, but which officials say obviously is in nearby Russia. It concentrates on rousing discontent among farmers and tribesmen.
- Peyk-e Iran (Messenger of Iran), a radio operated in East Berlin by exiled members of Iran's Communist Party. It speaks mainly to the Communists in Iran.
A RECENT PEYK-E broadcast
Watson Book Sale Tomorrow
The new Kansas laws on censorship will not affect the annual Watson Library book sale to be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow in front of the library.
Carl Deal, head of acquisitions,
said Watson Library's book sale of
4,000 items will not suffer from any
ban on obscene content.
The books are surplus duplicates, donation and exchange items—things the library can no longer use.
BUT EVEN IF K.U. students do not find any inticing numbers in the selection, they will still have a variety of books to choose from.
"Some of these things are real bargains," Mr. Deal said, "The prices are much better than what a book store would ask for them."
A NUMBER OF the books will make fine additions to student libraries. Hulme's "Middle Ages," Greene's "History of England" and Mark Twain's "Autobiography" are priced at $4 and $3. A large number of scholarly journals will sell for 2c and some paperbacks are going for 25c.
The Kansas Union is running a print sale in conjunction with the book sale. The Union will occupy 30 tables in front of the library as well as run a concession stand.
The sale will be controlled so that all interested people on the campus will have an opportunity to buy books." These books are up for grabs on a first-come, first-served basis," Mr. Deal said.
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began, "The regime's crisis, which has already begun, should be intensified from all directions . . . initially one must direct one's attention toward villages.
"The town's masses must be directed toward a more serious struggle. The participation of the farmers and the people of the provinces in the struggle will expand."
THE BROADCAST gave a fivepoint program for local propaganda work to win over farmers, army officers and other groups and ended with this advice:
"In this battle one must be completely accurate and alert. Avoid emotional attitudes and hasty conclusions. The events must not be over simplified and the struggle must not be taken lightly."
"YOU ARE POOR and hungry. You make the landlords rich with your toil and get nothing for it . . . you should take your revenge on these feudal lords."
Programs of the National Voice of Iran aimed at farmers and tribesmen sound like this:
Earlier this year Moscow propaganda organs claimed to have uncovered secret CENTO battle plans
Peyk-e elaborated on this for weeks afterward in messages to the Kurdish people in this area.
calling for a nuclear attack to create a buffer zone of devastated waste-land in Northern Iran.
"DEAR KURDS: As you are aware, CENTO's secret military document calls for atomic bombardment of the northern part of Iran if war breaks out. . .."
Experts differ on the meaning of the campaign. Some see it as preparation for a Soviet "second front" in Iran after Berlin. But the State Department has seen little evidence of explicit Russian plans for this.
The broadcasts contain bitter personal denunciations of the Shah. They charge for example that "His majesty has thousands of fiances all over the world."
THE U.S. INFORMATION Agency also is active in Iran, but instead of broadcasting directly from outside it distributes taped radio programs to Iranian stations. For this reason, officials say, it is impossible to compare the number of broadcasting hours of U.S.I.A. and the Communists in Iran.
Emery M. Bontrager, who graduated from K.U. last year, is one of a group of 128 men and women selected to go to the Philippines as a teachers' aide under the Peace Corps program.
KU Graduate To Peace Corps
Bontrager received a B.S. in education here in July. He will leave for the Philippines from San Francisco on Oct. 10. He trained for the program from July 29 to Sept. 14 at Pennsylvania State University.
Bontrager is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Emery Bontrager of Scott City. His major field was social studies education.
Announce Civil Service Exams
Kansas civil service examinations for Accountant I and II and Post Auditor I will be given during the early part of November, the State Personnel Division announced today.
There are approximately 100 Accountant I and II positions and 10 Post Auditor I positions in state agencies. There are a number of vacancies every year.
Examinations also will be given in October or November for Cottage Parent I and II, Dormitory Director I and II, and Home Supervisor I and II.
KU Wants Soviet Exchange
Dr. Oswald P. Backus, professor of history at the University of Kansas, will be in Washington, D.C., Thursday and Friday to discuss possibilities of a K.U. exchange of lecturers and researchers with similar personnel from the Soviet Union.
Dr. Backus will negotiate with members of the State Department, the Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants (composed of about 25 U.S. universities) and the American Council of Learned Societies.
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