PROPAGANDA: Winds of Freedom

The guardians of the Iron Curtain suppress news and ideas from the free world, keep out visitors, jam broadcasts. But they cannot turn back the wind, which in Central Europe blows from West to East. The thought of using this wind to talk to the people in Red Europe has long fascinated Westerners. One night last week, thought became action.

In a Bavarian stubble field stood leaders of the Crusade for Freedom, a private international organization pledged to keep the free world in contact with the peoples isolated by Communist rule.

The Crusade's...

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