DOCSLIB.ORG

Our HART SCHAFFNER & MARX Collection

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Our HART SCHAFFNER & MARX Collection station show when, 4Unk that BTSr, *• tha earth passed through Washington, D. C. the wgPwitPAT. ocTostft. issr A-7 Pravda Sees Satellite orbit of the Oiacobini-Zinner Come! Poser microscopes. paint although they comet in 1046 1052, denied and the Japanese toy makers last earth was bombarded with vast their toys were dangerous to week agreed to use , Cracking Space Secret 1 amounts of debris, the London lead-free children. | Times said. At other times, MOSCOW. Oct. 9 MP).— live cona—will fall Into the at- Peril to• however, Satellite.#•*-¦ there was no debris, said today the man- mosphere up. may I Pravda and be burned LONDON. Oct, 0 oP)._The , *o there be none tonight. tWM B< made moon now circling the With the account waa a None of this debris actually L mrto stans 00 » globe Soviet earth satellite may J is the first step toward photograph of the aatelllte. be 1 hlte the earth * suiface. The five fabulous days to “¦ "winning cosmic space." shown on a small support. It smashed out of existence to- . tiny particles, about the site of | The Communist Party news- looked like a silvery globs with night by debris from a grains of sand or smaller, hum long comet, up paper said in a account of four trailing antennae. a leading British ; from friction in the tarth’a the satellite’s construction and Pravda repeated astronomer atmosphere. These are the that the today. launching, that it has been diameter of the aatelllte la 1 ¦aid meteors, the so-called shooting transmitting reports on tem- foot 11 inches and its weight The danger to the earth’* 1 stars. EUROPE \ peratures and other outer space pounds. first man-made moon lies in (stellite, whirling I IHA« fC*"*?* iJ 7SJ** 184 It waa described The around '•«“ the path of comet The great a. STATES, * . u conditions by coded radio mes- this way: the Oiaeo- above the denser atmosphere, a. UNITED world’s fastest mu sages which presumably only The outer shell is polished btnl-Zlnner. The earth crosses has no eueh protection as the ¦hip, arrives at Havre morning sth day, South- Soviet its path p.m. (0 p observers can decipher. spe- about 10 m . , ampton aame aluminum covered with a EOT) earth. afternoon. SATELLITE'S TIMETABLE—-Based on data an- Pravda gave no indication cial protective tonight. material. Nitro- For extra hours of leisure at wee—the popvtar nounced by Radio Moscow last night, this map indi- that the information from the gen gas la sealed Inside. Debris scattered by the comet satellite will be given on 1U journey through apace AMERICA. b /i days to Cobh, to Havre, cates where the Soviet satellite will be today and other 4 Antennae Carried Tokyo Toys to Got 7 to Southampton,l 6>4 tomorrow—AP Wirephoto Map. nations participating in the could hit the aatelllte. Prof. 8 to Bremerhaven. International Oeophyslcal Two antennae are about 7 A. C. LOvell aaid. This Year. feet debris Chemical The nations previously had 9 inches long and two are could deflect the aatelllte. dam- Tests agreed to share such data. about 9 feet 5 Inches. The four age It or wreck it entirely, he TOKYO, Oct. 9 (>P).—Made- The satellite story, which together apparently carry the added. In-Japan metal toys will have pages, transmissions of two separate He urged all covered two did not men- observers of the to pass a chemical examination Soviet tion that the baby radios operating on different artificial moon to watch it Trying moon might SAIIINOS to Build MOM wavelength*. from now on before they NIW YOSK losing British closely this evening. radio can be be altitude. Its •a. Unit*® -Oct. 18,31*; scientists have reported that Pravda aaid the successful signals might tell something of exported, the Ministry of In- States Nov. 19*;.Dee. 6*: Jan. 16*: launching Feb. 4*,and regularly thereafter, *aiao it is. was a result of the the effect# of such a cosmic ternational Trade and Indus- arrivea Rrnmer haven stit lay Manned Space Station "high constructive perfection" collision. aa. Signals Due to End try announced today. America— Oct. 11; Nov. 2; Dec. 12; Jan. 3, 23; Feb. 13; LONDON, Oct. 0 (JP). —The Soviet Union is working toward achieved by Soviet science. The Prof. Lowelle is Mar. 6, and regularly said head of the The ruling charge thereafter. creation of a manned space station for launching space ships, Pravda radio transmis- moon was sent up by "power- Jodrell Radio Astronomy followed a a Bovtet sions from the Bank scientist told the Russian people last night. satellite are like- ful rocket engines." the news- Btation, the world's im- from the To? Outdance Council lOWIt Yury ly to end soon because most OM-SIASON SATIJ All NOW IN I*MCT Prof. A. Pobedonostsev described this as the ultimate its bat- paper said, but tt gave no de- portant center of its kind. in New York that some Japa- •im—“the accomplishment tery power will be gone. But the riMT CIAM CABIN of which is not far off" in a tails of the actual launching. telescope exploration toys CLAW TOIKUT CLAW newspaper said optical Radio nese were coated with po- sa. United up |225 •Moscow Radio broadcast to home service listeners. and ra- of the sky tentially States 1355 up $177 up “Apparently dar observations will at Jodrell Bank has poisonous high-lead- sa. the first satellite will be followed by others." be con-: produced the theory America S3OO up $205 up $l7O up —— paint. Prof. Pobedonostsev “larg- j tinued “for a long time.” Typhoon Japan that debris content said, —11 Leaves may be left in patches along er in siae and carrying knowl-, all The new regulation goes into CONSUir OUS AUTHORIZED TSAVII AGfNTS O* more ¦ may be nearing the end of its The story said lack of TOKYO. Oct. 9 OP).—Ty-i the comet a orbit. This work , complex equipment and in- edge of outer space phoon effect tomorrow, the ministry run. Radio Moscow said signals makes it Hester, its center winds has not been publicised, end struments to study the prob- impossible to predict to said. The first batch to be may stop due to exhaustion of when the down >0 miles an hour, was Prof. Lovell said the Russians examined< UNITED STATES LINES lems. be the batteries, but satellite and its two fellow reported 400 miles northeast may not will shipped Oc- observations of realise the threat to 1 tober 15. 91* 15th St. N.W.. Washington 5, “The next stage will appar- will go travelers—part of the rocket Tokyo tonight moving, their D. C. Tel. NAtianal 9-2854 ently be on "with the aid of and aluminum moon. Exempt the ruling 1# Light Bt., Baltimore 3 Tel. SAratoga the launching of satel- optical which took it up and a protec- at 50 miles an hour. from will 'j 7-526# Instruments and radio northeast 1 The records of the Jodrell be! toy telescopes, and lites carrying animals for the locating stations." It reported cameras purpose of studying their be- check the up a on orbit has been RALEIGH HARIRPASHIR. WASHINGTON amp rutvv ruacr havior in the orbit. completed. • “And finally, stage the last "Valuable information has would probably be a manned been it satellite. Prom assembled.” said. a manned satel- Moscow did not announce lite it will be much easier and these findings, but some figures * lo 9; simpler to dispatch ’ 12 9*30 to 9 rockets to were disclosed by Dr. Msrtin "from from | other planets, since a space Ryle of the Mullard radio lab- ship to a attached satellite will oratory at Cambridge. England. / already have a speed of about He said measurements show 8 kilometers <5 miles > per sec- the earth satellite, which the ond and will require only an Russians said they had fired to additional 3 or 4 kilometers to an altitude of 560 miles, seemed overcome the gravitation field to be only 250 miles high in one with stocks at their and fly to the moon, to Mars. part peak, now’s of its orbit and the about 400 Venus or Ather planets." miles high in another While a suspicion formed Visual sightings of the abroad that the Russian moon satellite were reported last night in Italy. Australia and to Red China. Twenty passen- time select your Fall from gers clothing Thieves Get sl9, on a Sardinian bus made the Italian claim. They aaid Victim Saves $5 they saw it as a bright red A streetcar operator, robbed , light for 90 seconds. Radio of sl9 90 in dimes, nickels and Peiping said Nanking observers tokens last night, managed ! saw the little moon with both to glasses hold onto the other half of his 1 and naked eyes. change carrier containing $5 Thousands of Australians re- & in quarters, he told police ported seeing it and scientists Our 1 HART The the Australian Common- SCHAFFNER tugging at MARX contest took Collection place after three youths reached wealth' Observatory. Canberra., through a rear window and took1 photographs. pulled the trolley pole away ' from an overhead power line With the Fall just police said. r inhow jTT season beginning, and our stocks at The three, all neatly dressed, ( TO MAKE A their peak, got on the car at Georgia ave- j you couldn't pick a better time to select nue and W street N.W. and pulled the trolley pole down at your clothing for the coming months of cold weather. Barry place N W —three blocks (Atm* away.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Micro-Broadcasting: License-Free Campus Radio in This Issue: • Carey Junior High School ARC • WEFAX Reception on an Ipad • MT Reviews: MFJ Mini-Frequency Counter
    www.monitoringtimes.com Scanning - Shortwave - Ham Radio - Equipment Internet Streaming - Computers - Antique Radio ® Volume 30, No. 9 September 2011 U.S. $6.95 Can. $6.95 Printed in the United States A Publication of Grove Enterprises Micro-Broadcasting: License-Free Campus Radio In this issue: • Carey Junior High School ARC • WEFAX Reception on an iPad • MT Reviews: MFJ Mini-Frequency Counter CONTENTS Vol. 30 No. 9 September 2011 CQ DX from KC7OEK .................................................... 12 www.monitoringtimes.com By Nick Casner K7CAS, Cole Smith KF7FXW and Rayann Brown KF7KEZ Scanning - Shortwave - Ham Radio - Equipment Internet Streaming - Computers - Antique Radio Eighteen years ago Paul Crips KI7TS and Bob Mathews K7FDL wrote a grant ® Volume 30, No. 9 September 2011 U.S. $6.95 through the Wyoming Department of Education that resulted in the establishment Can. $6.95 Printed in the United States A Publication of Grove Enterprises of an amateur radio club station at Carey Junior High School in Cheyenne, Wyoming, known on the air as KC7OEK. Since then some 5,000 students have been introduced to amateur radio; nearly 40 students have been licensed, and last year there were 24 students in the club, seven of whom were ready to test for their own amateur radio licenses. In this article, Carey Junior High School students Nick, Cole and Rayann, all three of whom have received their licenses, relate their experiences with amateur radio both on and off the air. While older hams many times their ages are discouraged Micro-Broadcasting: about the direction of the hobby, these students let us all know that the future of License-Free Campus Radio amateur radio is already in good hands.
    [Show full text]
  • Open Society Archives
    OSA book OSA / Publications OPEN SOCIETY ARCHIVES Open Society Archives Edited by Leszek Pudlowski and Iván Székely Published by the Open Society Archives at Central European University Budapest 1999 Copyright ©1999 by the Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest English Text Editor: Andy Haupert ISBN 963 85230 5 0 Design by Tamás Harsányi Printed by Gábor Rózsa Printing House, Budapest on Niveus acid-free offset printing paper of 90g/m2 produced by Neusiedler Szolnok Paper Mill, Hungary. This paper meets the requirements of ISO9706 standard. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. The coordinates of the Archives The enemy-archives (István Rév) 14 Archival parasailing (Trudy Huskamp Peterson) 20 Access to archives: a political issue (Charles Kecskeméti) 24 The Open Society Archives: a brief history (András Mink) 30 CHAPTER II. The holdings Introduction 38 http://www.osaarchivum.org/files/1999/osabook/BookText.htm[31-Jul-2009 08:07:32] OSA book COMMUNISM AND COLD WAR 39 Records of the Research Institute of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 39 • The Archives in Munich (András Mink) 39 • Archival arrangement and structure of the records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (Leszek Pud½owski) 46 • The Information Resources Department 49 The East European Archives 49 Records of the Bulgarian Unit (Olga Zaslavskaya) 49 Records of the Czechoslovak Unit (Pavol Salamon) 51 Records of the Hungarian Unit (Csaba Szilágyi) 55 Records of the Polish Unit (Leszek Pud½owski) 58 Records of the Polish Underground Publications Unit
    [Show full text]
  • Communism's Jewish Question
    Communism’s Jewish Question Europäisch-jüdische Studien Editionen European-Jewish Studies Editions Edited by the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam, in cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg Editorial Manager: Werner Treß Volume 3 Communism’s Jewish Question Jewish Issues in Communist Archives Edited and introduced by András Kovács An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libra- ries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License, as of February 23, 2017. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. ISBN 978-3-11-041152-2 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-041159-1 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-041163-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Cover illustration: Presidium, Israelite National Assembly on February 20-21, 1950, Budapest (pho- tographer unknown), Archive “Az Izraelita Országos Gyűlés fényképalbuma” Typesetting:
    [Show full text]
  • The Tragicomedy of Romanian Communism
    RESEARCH REPORT T O NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN RESEARC H TITLE : THE TRAGICOMEDY OF ROMANIAN COMMUNIS M AUTHOR : Vladimir Tismanean u CONTRACTOR : Foreign Policy Researc h Institute PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR : Vladimir Tismanean u COUNCIL CONTRACT NUMBER : 903-0 4 DATE : September, 198 9 The work leading to this report was supported by funds provided b y the National Council for Soviet and East European Research . Th e analysis and interpretations contained in the report are those o f the author . a NOTE This report, based on an article to be published i n Eastern EuropeanPolitics andSocieties, is an inciden- tal product of the Council Contract identified on the title page . It is not the Final Report, which wa s distributed in August, 1989 . TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction 1 Stalin's Romanian Disciples 1 1 The Comintern and the RCP 1 6 Stalinism for All Seasons 3 4 The Anti-De-Stalinization Platform 3 9 The Road to Absolute Power 43 The Manipulated Manipulator 47 Assault on the Party Apparatus 5 2 Notes 57 The Tragicomedy of Romanian Communis m Vladimir Tismanean u Un monde sans tyrans serait aussi ennuyeux qu'un jardi n zoologique sans hyenes . E . M . Cioran, Histoire et utopi e Now, despite eternal cabals in the inner clique and unendin g shifts of personnel, with their tremendous accumulation o f hatred, bitterness, and personal resentment, the Leader' s position can remain secure against chaotic palace revolution s not because of his superior gifts, about which the men in hi s intimate surroundings frequently have no great illusions, bu t because of these men's sincere and sensible conviction tha t without him everything would be immediately lost .
    [Show full text]
  • SOVIET ADVOCACY and the U.S
    SOVIET ADVOCACY AND THE u.S. MEDIA A Report of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy TO THE CONGRESS AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES In accordance with Section 8, Reorganization Plan No.2 of 1977 and Public Law 96-60, the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy submits herewith a report on Soviet Advocacy and the U.S. Media. Respectfully submitted, :tiJ4rf Edwin J. Feulner, jr., Chairman President, The Heritage Foundation Virginia (R) e. robert (bob) wallach Tom C. Korologos Vice Chairman President Lawyer-Counselor Timmons and Company, Inc. Dean, Hastings Law School Virginia (R) Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy California (D) \d~ \'(\~ Priscilla L. Buckley Richard M. Scaife Senior Editor Publisher, The Tribune Review National Review Publishing Co. New York (R) Pennsylvania (R) /~~~ Hershey Gold Herbert Schmertz Chairman of the Board Vice President, Public Affairs Super Yarn Mart Mobil Oil Corporation California (D) New York (D) TABLE OF CONTENTS Transmittal Letter 1 Message from the Chairman 3 Summary of Recommendations 4 Introduction 5 Soviet Journalists and Officials as Advocates 5 The Nature of Soviet Journalism and lnformation 6 Soviet Journalists in the u.S ,; 8 u.S. Journalists in the USSR 9 Voice of America (VOA) Reporters in the USSR 10 Appendix A: CSeE Final Act, 1975 (Excerpts) 12 Appendix B: Table 1: Total Significant U.S.-Soviet Official Appearances in Opposite-Country Print Media 13 Table 2: Survey of Significant Soviet Official Appearances on U.S. Networks, 1983-85 14 A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN emocracies are built on the principle of the free flow of information, and we have come to enjoy the benefits D generated: the free exchange of ideas, technological achievement, full enfranchisement of the citizenry, and intellectual excellence, to name just a few.
    [Show full text]
  • Esi Manual the Russian Debate on the South Caucasus
    ESI MANUAL THE RUSSIAN DEBATE ON THE SOUTH CAUCASUS: WHO IS WHO? Part 3: Russian Audiovisual Media Berlin – Istanbul, April 2010 2 Russian audiovisual media Table of Contents 1. TELEVISION ................................................................................................................................ 3 Channel One ............................................................................................................................... 4 Russia TV ................................................................................................................................... 7 NTV Television ........................................................................................................................ 10 REN TV ................................................................................................................................... 12 TV Center ................................................................................................................................. 14 RT............................................................................................................................................. 16 Channel 5 (5-tv) ....................................................................................................................... 17 2. RADIO ......................................................................................................................................... 20 Echo of Moscow (Ekho Moskvy) ...........................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Radio Moscow and the Early Cold War Mark D
    Comparative Humanities Review Volume 3 Translation: Comparative Perspectives Article 9 (Spring 2009) 2009 Radio as a Tool of the State: Radio Moscow and the Early Cold War Mark D. Winek American University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/chr Recommended Citation Winek, Mark D. (2009) "Radio as a Tool of the State: Radio Moscow and the Early Cold War ," Comparative Humanities Review: Vol. 3, Article 9. Available at: http://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/chr/vol3/iss1/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Bucknell Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Comparative Humanities Review by an authorized administrator of Bucknell Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Radio as a Tool of the State: Radio Moscow and the Early Cold War Mark D. Winek American University Scanning the airwaves, all that could be found was static. And then, one minute before the hour, through the disturbance came the notes of “Moscow Nights”. Perhaps elsewhere the Cold War was frigid and stale, but here, over high frequency radio, the Cold War was hot. Radio Moscow played a leading role in that hot war over the airwaves – just as much as the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Liberty. Yet, very little has surfaced in the West regarding the role of Radio Moscow in the Cold War. My paper works to analyze this significant player in the battle between the United States and the Soviet Union. I explore the organization and programming of Radio Moscow and its connection to the Soviet Government.
    [Show full text]
  • Stalin's Grandchildren
    VOL. V11 SHANGHAI. JULY 19 •• No.1 STALIN'S GRANDCHILDREN By KLAUS ?tIEHNERT Since tile publitalion. of Qu·r C1rticle "Sh(mlJer Strapa-Afld Then'" (February 1944). which deall 1/'ilh Ihe co"r811 Bolllllevi8m has take,. durit.g the la8t jetlJ year8. t111,,:I. IW8 happe/le,l Illat ullo'/J/I the "-A Ild Thul?" tu be 8un ir. a clearer light. Jr. IAe foUowilly, we have aingled oul one problllm-lhal oj the youngM' SOfJid genaation -to ...." it for Ihe nllalY8i8 oj 1I0llle oj Ihe P8Ychologi«Jl corMeqtUncu oj lhe war in Ihe USSR. The aut/lor has 81ltdied thll problem" oj Soviu youlh' Jor fifteen flcar. and written u book ,md rWIIIUOl/8 urlielM 'Woul il. .48 a Joreign corrupondent he 8pIlTit .everul moniliA in tile ycar8 betweCTI /929 atld 1936 in 8tudctll dormitunu and youth cumps in Ihe Sot·iet Utlion, and he wall ucqtUJinUd wilh mallY yotmg RtultWn8. Since lemnl/.Y Ihl1 USSR he hU8 kept ,fp urith developmenl8 among Soviet yott/h by jollowing i'" lilern/ure, (/8 i/ i8 reprullnied by book8, f1eW8papcr8 8UCh. cu the "Kom. 80molskaya Prcwdu" alld "Piollerlll.:aya Pravda," a"d magu:;lIu 8lJch aoB "Smeno," .. Vojaly;' alld ..Ogollyo{·... II oflen /wPl>a18 ill political liJe Ihat real.ily changu more rapidly ,/1(". our idea" abou' it. The 'ror/d a8 a whole 81il1 hall tdea8 oj SOlriu floWh whteA held good jor 1M Ihirliu. Our llI/IIuy ill an ulle1llp' 10 bri"g thulS ideail up.lo.dale. T the outbreak of ·wa.r in 1941 there and to produce-must be carried out chiefly lived in the Soviet Union, within t.he by the younger generation.
    [Show full text]
  • Stalinism Revisited Stalinism Revisited
    CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK Stalinism Revisited Stalinism Revisited Stalinism Revisited brings together representatives of multiple generations to create a rich examination The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe of the study and practice of Stalinism. While the articles are uniformly excellent, the book’s signal contribution is to bring recent research from Eastern European scholars to an English-speaking audience. Thus the volume is not just a “state of the discipline” collection, in which articles are collected to reflect that current situation of scholarship in a given field; instead, this one includes cutting edge scholarship that will prompt more of the same from other scholars in other fields/subfields. I would recommend this book highly to anyone interested in understanding the technology of Stalinism in both StalinismStalinism thought and practice. Nick Miller Boise State University The Sovietization of post-1945 East-Central Europe—marked by the forceful imposition of the Soviet- type society in the region—was a process of massive socio-political and cultural transformation. Despite its paramount importance for understanding the nature of the communist regime and its RevisitedRevisited legacy, the communist take-over in East Central European countries has remained largely under- researched. Two decades after the collapse of the communist system,Stalinism Revisited brings together a remarkable international team of established and younger scholars, engaging them in a critical re-evaluation of the institutionalization of communist regimes in East-Central Europe and of the period of “high Stalinism.” Sovietization is approached not as a fully pre-determined, homogeneous, and monolithic transformation, but as a set of trans-national, multifaceted, and inter-related processes of large-scale institutional and ideological transfers, made up of multiple “takeovers” in various fields.
    [Show full text]
  • The Berlin Radio War: Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin and the Shaping of Political Culture in Divided Germany, 1945- 1961
    ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: THE BERLIN RADIO WAR: BROADCASTING IN COLD WAR BERLIN AND THE SHAPING OF POLITICAL CULTURE IN DIVIDED GERMANY, 1945- 1961 Nicholas J. Schlosser, Ph.D. 2008 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Jeffrey Herf, Department of History This dissertation explores how German radio journalists shaped political culture in the two postwar Germanys. Specifically, it examines the development of broadcast news reporting in Berlin during the first sixteen years of the Cold War, focusing on the reporters attached to the American sponsored station RIAS 1 Berlin and the radio stations of the German Democratic Republic. During this period, radio stations on both sides of the Iron Curtain waged a media war in which they fought to define the major events of the early Cold War. The tension between objectivity and partisanship in both East and West Berlin came to define this radio war. Radio stations constantly negotiated this tension in an attempt to encourage listeners to adopt a specific political worldview and forge a bond between broadcaster and listener. Whereas East German broadcasters ultimately eschewed objectivity in favor of partisan news reporting defined by Marxist- Leninist ideology, RIAS attempted to combine factual reporting with concerted efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the German Democratic Republic. The study contributes to a number of fields of study. First, I contribute to scholarship that has examined the nature, development, and influence of political culture. 1 Radio in the American Sector Related to this, the study considers how political ideas were received and understood by listeners. This work also adds to a growing field of scholarship that goes beyond examining the institutional histories of Germany’s broadcasters and analyzes how German broadcasters influenced society itself.
    [Show full text]
  • Defying De-Stalinization Albania's 1956
    MëDefhyingilli De-Stalinization: Albania’s 1956 Defying De-Stalinization Albania’s 1956 ✣ Elidor Mëhilli In Beijing in 1956 the leaders of two Communist countries got to- gether in a corner and commiserated. The background was a glorious gather- ing: the Eighth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The older of the two, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej of Romania, did most of the talking as he complained that party colleagues had taken him to task over his “cult of personality.” As evidence, they had pointed to his image adorning buildings everywhere and countless factories named after him. But Gheorghiu-Dej told his interlocutor, Enver Hoxha, the First Secretary of the Party of Labor of Albania (PPSh), that in fact no such cult had existed in Ro- mania. How could it have? He had been the ªrst to criticize exaggerations about himself. Hoxha knew what his counterpart was talking about. He, too, had occasionally objected in PPSh Politburo meetings to all kinds of excesses: plans to name factories and schools after him; party ofªcials’ eagerness to con- vert his childhood home into a Communist shrine; and the engrained habit of showering him with gifts at birthdays and anniversaries. On the other hand, Tirana, like Bucharest, was teeming with oversize silk portraits of the middle-aged leader, whose name, etched in solid red and gold, abounded on rooftops and façades. Moreover, Hoxha, like Gheorghiu-Dej, was busy grum- bling in Beijing about the onerous challenges they were forced to confront in 1956.1 1. Hoxha recounted the conversation with Gheorghiu-Dej at a Politburo meeting and at a party ple- num on 22 October.
    [Show full text]
  • Communities of Journalists and Journalism Practice at Radio Free Europe During the Cold War (1950-1995)
    University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2013 Communities of Journalists and Journalism Practice at Radio Free Europe during the Cold War (1950-1995) Susan D. Haas University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the History Commons, and the Journalism Studies Commons Recommended Citation Haas, Susan D., "Communities of Journalists and Journalism Practice at Radio Free Europe during the Cold War (1950-1995)" (2013). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 869. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/869 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/869 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Communities of Journalists and Journalism Practice at Radio Free Europe during the Cold War (1950-1995) Abstract Susan D. Haas Dissertation Chair: Dr. Carolyn Marvin This study describes the construction, maintenance and defense of news practices by journalists at Radio Free Europe (RFE), an experimental U.S. government-sponsored organization whose mission was to act as a "surrogate free press", in effect, to disrupt state media-controlled public spheres of totalitarian states during the West's Cold War with communism. At RFE from 1950-1995, two groups of journalists cooperated to produce content: politically activist, exiled citizens - self-trained journalists -- from East- Central Europe working in semi-autonomous language services (radios) broadcasting through the Iron Curtain to the people of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, and, experienced journalists from Western democracies working in the Central Newsroom, an internal news agency serving the broadcast desks. This study outlines aspects of RFE and its Cold War context -- including journalists' knowledge of the human rights and informational deficits of audiences -- critical ot understanding these groups of journalists.
    [Show full text]