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VOA’s Owen Lattimore’s National Geographic Article on “Greenhouse Vitamins” for Soviet Gulag Prisoners

Curator — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:38:44 +0000

In 1941, President Roosevelt appointed Professor Owen Lattimore, who advocated for a stronger Soviet role in China, to serve as U.S. advisor to Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, a position he held for one and a half years. The 1943 Official Register of the United States listing persons occupying administrative and supervisory positions in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the […]

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Communist Writer And Future Stalin Peace Prize Winner Howard Fast Resigns From Voice of America

Curator — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:48:25 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum On January 12, 1944, Howard Fast, best-selling author, a Communist Party USA activist, and a future recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize, resigned under pressure from his position as the Voice of America (VOA) chief news writer and editor, in effect, the job of VOA’s first news director, and left federal […]

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Broel Plater Resigns In Protest Against Soviet Propaganda On Voice Of America

Curator — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:49:15 +0000

By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum We know of only one Voice of America (VOA) journalist, Konstanty Broel Plater, who during World War II resigned in protest against being forced by the VOA management and editors in the Office of War Information (OWI) in New York to broadcast Soviet propaganda lies. The […]

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