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United States. Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany. Information Services Division / RIAS, Berlin
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What people say about RIAS: the Western press, pp. 6-8
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- 5 - What people say about-- RIAS The Western Press Berlin "Der Ta "RIAS servres the truth. All who are familiar with the tense situation of Berlin will know at once what that means. RIAS's steadily increasing success in doing justice to its mission is proved by the many vicious libels and shouts of rage from the enemy camp.... RIAS registers every political shock with the precision of a seismograph." "Teleg'f..Illustriertetl: "RIAS penetrates the Iron Curtain. The people of Central Germany - otherwise almost entirely delivered over to the Communist propaganda roller - are enthusiastic RIAS listeners. As in the Nazi period, listening to a station of the free world is veiry dangerous for them." Dr sie t "Berlin' s radio towers are-actually lighthouses, beaming political warnings and directions so that people can find the right way even in heavy fog and against strong opposing winds. Let it be said here with all emphasis that RIAS fully recognizes its mission as a beacon." "fler Sozialdemokrat": "tRIAS hag made itself the spokesman Qf the Soviet Zone population .... Every day many visitors give RIAS their thanks for the work of enlightenment which it accomplishes in their-interest." Hamburg 1 c2aM'r:er Echo": "These broadcasts" (to the Soviet Zone) "created com- plete chaos in the NIKVD's spy service." Dusseldorf "Das Freie Wort": .tIn spite of all efforts at intimidation the people in the Zone ... listen to RIAS ... in the knowledge that the voice of truth is brought to them.... ZUrich Neue Zuercher Zeitung": "RIAS is the main support of Western propaganda in the Russian-occupied area." - 6 -
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