This campaign is directed by the Kremlin which all clear thinking people recognize to be the one and only cause of the world tensions which now stand as a threat to peace. A significant article on the subject appeared in the Baltimore Sun today under a Washington dateline. I include this article as a part of my remarks: CZECHS OPEN Up AD DRIVE To LumE REFUGEES HOME WASHINGTON. June 22Communist Czechoslovakia has opened an advertising campaign in the United States to try to persuade Czechs who are refugees from communism to go home. This is part of a determined drive by the whole Soviet bloc. United States officials said. to try to get refugees to return home where their skills and labor power will be available for agricultural and industrial production. At the same time authorities said it is also aimed at discouraging persons inside the Communist countries from fleeing. The advertising campaign took the form of display ads In Washington. New York and other newspapers addressed to "Czechoslovak citizens." The ad points out that an amnesty decree was laid down by the Czech Government May 9 and that it provides that "criminal acts of desertion of the Republic are pardoned for persons. who. under the influence of hostile propaganda. left the territory of the Republic without permission if they return to the territory of the Republic within 6 months from the date of proclamation of the amnesty." The soberly worded advertisement does not attempt to ballyhoo life behind the Iron Curtain nor hold out enticements for refugees to go home. State Department officials said that for months the Reds have been propagandizing refugees in camps in Germany to the same end. They said they thought the effect had been limited. H.
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