"The Repulsive Faces"

P:The purpose of sports in the U.S., said Radio Moscow, is to put the public in a fine frenzy for World War III. "Let the people become used to seeing death--after this training it will be easier to send them to the shambles!" cried Moscow's voice. At the University of Michigan, said Moscow, "football players are often carried from the field straight to the cemetery." (Next day the Voice of America offered, in 25 languages, to buy a season ticket for any accredited Soviet correspondent who would like to see Michigan play).

P: Soviet broadcasts quoted the army newspaper Red Star on G.I.s: they are imbued "with beastlike ideology," as can be seen in "the repulsive faces of the American warrior-marauders in Korea."

P: A Soviet broadcast in Swedish reported that U.S. troops in Sweden have been issued a Swedish phrase book to teach G.I.s how to steal and plunder. "We cite some of the sentences which the American soldiers in Sweden will have to know," said the broadcaster. " 'Draw a map for me.' As the authors of the dictionary obviously can envisage the surprised face of the Swede they add: 'I am an American.' As they can take it for granted that in spite of this, the Swede refuses to comply, the following sentence is recommended: 'Hand over your papers'; and then the threat 'No nonsense'; and finally follows the most convincing argument of all: 'Obey, otherwise I shoot!'"*

P: German Reds were plugging if I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake--and explaining the lyrics to mean that the U.S. had resorted to food rationing.

*Twisted excerpts from standard World War II phrase books issued to G.I.s in the language of the country to which they were sent--friendly or enemy. The phrases in the books covered combat duty as well as friendly phrases (which the Russians carefully omitted), such as, "How are you?" "Which way to the movie theater?" The only U.S. military personnel now in Sweden are embassy attaches.

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