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18 THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA Fifth. Political nonsense can only be attributed to naivete if i ia scattered at random among various tendencies, but when it is observed to be highly directional, always favoring the East, it is difficult to avoid an imputation of complicity. It is certainly more charitable to- ascribe to bias, rather then stupidity, the following extracta from the. open letter addressed to “Our Sisters, the Russian Mothers” by Dagmar Wilson, president of Women Strike for Peace: . 1. i . “The Russians,” wrote Mrs, Wilson, “do not want us te:imspect their armaments because they are ashamed to reveal that they-are.so .. weak. Therefore, it is unfair for us to insist that we have to look st them.” How moving is such delicate diffidence on Mr. Khrushchev’s ~ part! And this observation: “How could the Russian women let their Government indulge in war; don’t they have children as we have?” Which implicitly conveys the monumental hoax that the Russian Government listens to its people, as does ours. And: “The Russians are rigid, not because they have aggressive intentions, but _. s| because they have a craving for recognition.” It is now possible to understand the massacre of the Hungarians by Khrushchev’s tanks, The unfortunate man had developed a complex of rigidity because of frustration, brought on by those incorrigible children of Budapest who failed to recognize his respectability. orcas: PARALLEL ORGANIZATIONS Infiltration involves auxiliaries functioning within a a which as a rule is not openly under Communist control. With parallel organizations, on the other hand, the entire group is put, clandestinely, into the Communist wake. This phenomenon is exclusive to Com- munist propaganda tactics. _ Organizations are instituted or colonized in all spheres of national life: political, cultural, technical, sports, etc., resulting in work on behalf of the Communist Party by people who would never have been its adherents if openly solicited. Aye gigantic counterfeit contains everything, from mass organizations whose Communist Party domination is hardly concealed, such as the CGT, Fighters for Peace, People’s Assistance, Union of Frenchwomen, and ce-U.S.S.R. to small groups like the Unitarian Socialist Party and the Union for the Oder-Neisse Border. It includes long-established organizations, which few suspect of being Communist dominated: International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Center of French Thought, French University Union, Association for Municipal Studies and Information, Sport and Gymnastic Federation of Labor, Committee for the Development of International Trade, Association of Scientific Workers, National Union of Intellectuals, French Demo- cratic Youth Committee, Friends of Nature, National Union of Old Workers, Federation of Rentpayers, People's Musical Federation, etc." Some 140 of such crypto-Communist organizations have been identified in France alone, each with its offices, its etaff, and its publications, Comparable numbers of parallel organizations exist in all countries, including those in which the Communist Parties are insignificant. e managing bodies of these satellite organizations include rough} one quarter avowed Communists, one quarter “fellow travelers,” 1E: all French } American the te this ; xacaplen given, are al) ‘organizations; ‘examples are Usted in the appendix " joan f dome i BIN id oll wees Sethe oe . te frok dab Rt brs code ROH MR I 1 a