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From THE BILLBOARD September 2D, 195>2 PEOPLE UNDER COMMUNISM (The Music and the Dream) HADiO—Reviewed at a' special pre-broadcast hearing at WNYC, New York. Produced by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters under the supervis¬ ion of Dr. Harold H. Fisher, chairman of the Hoover Institute and Library, Stanford, Oalif., Russian Research Center, Harvard and Columbia University. Writer, Milton Geiger. Narrator, Arnold Moss. Music, Wladimir Selinsky.. This hour-long documentary series is one of the most ambitious projects on NAEB’s new programming agenda. It is also a program that the NAEB may well take pride in, both for its excellent production values, and the fact that it shuns flashy appeals to the emotions in favor of an intellectual approach to its subject. Latter road is certainly more difficult to travel# However, once its destination is reached, the impact on the senses is even more shattering than that produced by melodrama alone, since it reacts on both the mind and the emotions. On the show reviewed, ’‘The Music and the Dream ," the intellectual approach was particularly effective, because it was applied to a field of Communist activity that is still something of an enigma even to our own State Department, the mystery of the Asiatic and Middle Eastern mind and why the Communists have been more successful in those countries, propaganda-wise, than America. The pattern of political seduction followed by the Soviet in these lands was set forth in realistic detail (via dramatization), beginning with Russia 1 s calcu¬ lated generosity to the poor, and ending with the people’s complete subjugation- bound by bread to Stalin and split apart in their own ranks by the Communists’ effec¬ tive divide-and-conquer technique of cold warfare. This drama was played out against Wladimir Selinsky’s compelling musical score, and underscored by some prominent Americans’ fearless analysis of exactly where and how we failed to reach the Oriental mind, and what we can do to avert sim¬ ilar disasters in countries still wavering between us and the Red Army. “Go to the East with humility,* said Justice Jackson, “and help them plant ’rice roots’ like our ’grass roots#’" Tragic Account The most forceful argument for America to take stock of its methods in the East was made during the last half hour of the program, when the citizen of a Commun¬ ist-controlled Chinese village told the story of his gradual disillusionment with the party. This restrained tragic account of how a village was betrayed was more power¬ ful than 100 fiery, breast-beating narrations. Commentator Arnold Moss handled a difficult job with commendable ease, and scripter Milton Geiger captured an authentic feeling of the East in his descriptive narratives. Credit for the program's unusually frank and honest appraisal of the situation belongs to the astute supervisory committees of Harvard, Stanford and Columbia.