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- 22 - VIENNA'S AMERICAN-SPONSORED NETWORK BUILDS UP ANTI-COMMIMIST NEWS TEAM Austria's American-sponsored German-language network, Red-White-Red, with studios in Linz, Salzburg and Vienna, has built up a news team whose goal is to counter commun¬ ist propaganda on both sides of the Iron Curtain. RWR is one of the most listened-t< radio networks in Central Europe, heard by an overwhelming majority of Austrians, anc increasingly respected by all freedom-loving people within the sphere of the former Austrian Empire over most of which broadcasts can be received. The importance of this cannot be underestimated as nearly all owners of radio sets in this area under¬ stand the German language. Furthermore, RWR is the only radio station whose broad¬ casts many of them can receive with their antiquated pre-war sets. Propaganda Plan RWR's Austrian and American chiefs have worked out a propaganda scheme, carried it out in the past year, and proved its efficiency. The first thing they did was to hire a tough and tight trade-union man who knows how the workers feel about the Russians. In a daily broadcast, early in the morning, he tells his fellow-workers ii their own language what's going on and what's going wrong, and explains what would happen if they had to work under red bosses. This broadcast, widely listened to, ha? proved successful time and again. A recent example was when communist-dominated factories voted overwhelmingly for anti-communist delegates at this year's union elections following RWR's broadcasts on the subject. The next move of RWR's chief was to hire a multilingual Czechoslovakia-borh com¬ mentator, who reads all iron curtain newspapers (available in Vienna's Russian sec¬ tor) and translates them for Austrians. RWR’s 100 kw transmitters are only a few miles from the borders of several of the Iron Curtain countries. The "World News Roundup" is a program for those who cannot or.do not read foreign dailies and magazines. This roundup of direct reports by coi*respondents all over the free world is the first of its kind in Europe. It emphasizes the unity of the West and stresses the theme of growing Western economic and military strength. Former NAEBer Skornia On Staff RWR needed not only fighters but thinkers too. The former chief of the official Austrian press agency was hired to be coordinator of all of RWR's news and commentary broadcasting. Professor Ostry, the head of the section, gives political shape to the network's newscasts. His daily analysis of the world situation expresses not only his personal view on poIitics--it represents the will and wish of the free world, tries to give hope to the suffering and enslaved, and tells the others, who do not believe in freedom, that they cannot win. After RWR network and program directors, advised by State Department officials (headed by Dr. H. J, Skornia, on leave as chairman of Indiana University's Department of Radio, and former consultant for RIAS and other German stations, as Radio Officer), has established this set-up, other political broadcasts were originated, broadcasts to show the communist world that criticism is essential to nations where there is freedom and truth. >