1932

For some time, I have been reading articles in the press regarding Howie Sargent, who is president of the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism. Feeling that this was an important organization in the fight against Communism I delayed this article until I had obtained many sources of information. So thanks to a June column by David Lawrence in the New York Herald-Tribune; Herbert Philbrick's syndicated column of December 27; and excerpts from the Congressional Record of April 25, I feel prepared to give you a brief but complete idea of what Howie and his committee are doing.

The principal function of the Committee is the operation of Radio Liberation, which beams broadcasts directly to the Soviet peoples in seventeen different languages and dialects. The speakers are all refugees who speak directly to the people of their homeland. They speak not as outsiders, but use such terms as "we Russians" or "we Ukrainians" and when they criticize the Soviet system, they do it as members of the family — as citizens.

Radio Liberation is not to be confused with the Voice of America, which is government supported and beams programs to all over the world with heavy coverage on strictly American affairs. Nor is it to be confused with Radio Free Europe which is supported by the Crusade for Freedom and directs its programs to the Soviet-occupied countries of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Roumania. Support for Radio Liberation comes from private foundations and from the contributions of free peoples everywhere, and beams its broadcasts only to the Soviet Union itself.

The Communist dictators consider these short-wave broadcasts such a threat that they have as many as 900 stations jamming them. But it is clear that the impact of truth is getting through to the oppressed peoples, and passive resistance and noncooperation with the masters is being fostered. Radio Liberation personnel have been threatened, kidnapped and murdered. Despite the dangers, the round-the-clock broadcasts have not been curtailed, because, says Howie, "our committee is the most tangible expression of friendship of the American people for the peoples of the Soviet Union.... It is dedicated to the liberation of all mankind from the scourge of Soviet power."

Without being presumptuous, this column joins Senators Potter of Michigan and Douglas of Illinois, both of whom hailed the work of the committee and Radio Liberation from the floor of the Senate. Congratulations and Godspeed to Howie for heading such a fine organization!

John C. Van Buskirk has been named fieldman for the southern section of the New Hampshire-Vermont Breeding Association. Following his graduation from Dartmouth, Van took a two-year course at the Harvard School of Business Administration and then went with Lord & Taylor Department Store in N.Y.C. Leaving business, he got into teaching and during the war taught chemistry in the V-12 program at Dartmouth. While he had considerable experience in the business world from the standpoint of supervision, teaching and management, he showed an intense interest in the dairy business.

Several years ago, he approached the Breeders Association for work in the dairy cattle insemination field and worked on several farms to gain practical dairy farm knowledge. He subsequently developed one of the largest DHIA testing units in Vermont, centered around Corinth, and operated it for eighteen months when a technician's position became vacant. During this time, Van has taken a course in insemination at Cornell School of Agriculture, and has set a record for efficiency, personal relations with farmers, and cooperation with headquarters. Good luck, Van, you are a fine example of a man successfully doing the work he really wants to do - from New York's Lord & Taylor to a New England Breeders Association is quite a jump!

Bill Lieson has recently been named executive vice president of the Union Trust Company of Springfield, Mass. Bill has been with Union Trust since his graduation from Tuck School and has served as investment statistician and various administrative positions in the bank's commercial department. He is also president of the Wesson Maternity Hospital; treasurer of the Child and Family Service Association and immediate past-president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Bill also serves as a trustee of American International College and director of the Mutual Fire Assurance Co. He lives with his wife and three children at 137 Canterbury Road. Our congratulations go to Bill on his promotion!

You will recall that during November, a Congressional party was held at gunpoint by East German police during the party's visit to the Russian sector of Berlin. Chuck Owsley, chief of political affairs of the U. S. Mission to Berlin, figured prominently in the investigation of this incident, as he has in so many, since serving in his present capacity.

Bob Ryan has just completed a tour plugging his latest picture, The Tall Men, in which he is co-starred with Clark Gable and Jane Russell. Since he made a hit in GoldenGloves in 1940, Bob has appeared in nearly forty pictures, among them being About Mrs.Leslie, Bad Day at Black Rock, Clash byNight, Flying Leathernecks, Berlin Express,Crossfire, The Iron Major and Behind the

Rising Sun. Via this column's private wire, we have heard rumors that he may play the lead in the life story of Jack Dempsey. In my April 1955 column, I wrote about the success being enjoyed by Architect RogBenezet in Honolulu.' Bits of information continue to reach me however, until Rog's record becomes overwhelming. He has been on his own for about five or six years, and during that time has done six churches, two big schools, a branch bank, a branch postoffice, the Pacific-Polynesian Hotel, a supermarket, and three huge jobs for the U. S. Navy, including the complete rehabilitation of the Asia Hospital. This, added to some thirty private residences and the Diamond Head Terminal, which is about a quartermile long and 100 yards wide (the largest building in the Pacific), seems to make for the overwhelming record Rog has made. Congratulations are certainly in order!

Word has just been received from PrexyJohn Sheldon that Red Drake has agreed to be our Class Agent for the next two years. Red has worked on many campaigns and is well aware of the problems confronting colleges in general and Dartmouth in particular. He lives with his family in Newark, N. J., and is engaged in the paper-box business. We wish him well in his new post, a most important one at this time.

Named advertising manager of the hardware division, The Stanley Works, Morton T. Brown '32 was formerly a newspaper editor and publisher.

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