Fraternity-Testvériség, 1959 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1959-11-01 / 11. szám

FRATERNITY

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HUNGARIAN REF. FEDERATION OF AMERICA

Editor-in-Chief: George E. K. Borshy. — Managing Editor:

Joseph Kecskemethy. — Associate Editors: Emery Király and László L. Eszenyi. — Chief Contributor: Alexander Daroczy. Published monthly. — Subscription for non-members in the U. S. A. and Canada $2.00, elsewhere $3.00 a year.

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Volume XXXVII NOVEMBER 1959 Number 11

LÁSZLÓ L. ESZENYI:

CAMOUFLAGED LIES

During the last shooting war we heard so much about “enemy propaganda” and the technique of the “big lie” that we believe we knew all there is to be known and we would recognize propaganda whenever or wherever we heard it.

In the midst of the recently launched “co-existence craze”, I still find it necessary to remind our members and friends of the highly developed Bolshevik propaganda methods and of the grave danger connected with it.

The most dangerous propaganda is not that based on a complete lie, but that based on a half-truth, whereby the true part serves to camouflage distorted facts and twisted principles. In these ingeniousluy prepared mixtures of valid statements and bidden aims people readily recognize the facts, and jumping to conclusion, usually accept the whole story together with the lies carefully attached to it.

“The Soviet will withdraw its troops” — they generously broadcast from Moscow at the peak of the Berlin crisis — “in the interest of world peace.” Omitting the fact that the Soviet trained and indoctrinated East German troops would stay there.

“The United States must adhere to its pact” ■— echoed the communists and their sympathizers from every corner of the world when the first U. S. marine landed in the Middle East, modestly forgetting to mention that the Soviet government during the four decades of its existence kept only one international treaty, that made with Hitler — which the Nazis abrogated.

“Withdraw from NATO” — Krushchev warns the small nations, neglecting to recall the iron-bound terms of the Warsaw Pact which creates far more unified command than NATO ever dreamed of asking.

“Disengagement would make the United States safe” — suggest our crypto-communists — “and think of the tax money we could save!” But disengagement would mean that never again would any potential ally trust our word; that the red rulers would be left free to enslave country after country in Europe, the Near East and Africa (Red China already