350 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y.
August 10, 1951
FOR RELEASE AUGUST 11, 1951, or thereafter
RADIO FREE EUROPE EXPANDS SERVICES
Radio Free Europe will add Bulgaria to its list of "target countries" behind the Iron Curtain tomorrow (Aug. 11) as the first of a special series of programs, written, produced, and broadcast by Bulgarian exiles, goes on air from the station's transmitters at an undisclosed location in Europe.
Owned and operated by the National Committee for a Free Europe, Radio Free Europe began broadcasting to Czechoslovakia and Romania on July 14, and to Poland and Hungary on August 4. Hard-hitting commentaries by distinguished political and intellectual exiles, folk and national music "forbidden" behind the iron curtain, and broadcasts of Eastern European news otherwise denied the 80,000,000 enslaved peoples between Germany and Russia, make up its programs broadcast on regular schedules to the five target countries.
Tomorrow's program to Bulgaria will feature an address by Dr. G.M. Dimitrov, President of the Bulgarian National Committee and. editor of its newspaper. Dr. Dimitrov has known persecution from the time Hitler's henchmen sentenced him to death for collaborating with the allies until 1946, when he escaped from the communists. He is the former secretary-general of the Bulgarian Agrarian Union.
In his address tomorrow, he will emphasize to his fellow Bulgarians the fact that the United States is maintaining its contacts with the Bulgarian people, notwithstanding severance of diplomatic relations, and is actively supporting the victims of Communist tyranny until the day they once again are free.
Recalling the birth of the French Republic on Bastille Day, 1789, he will issue a ringing call to his people to remain firm in the face of communist terrorism. "No earthly power has been able to halt the fight of the people against tyranny, injustice, and terror," he will say tomorrow. "The bloodiest terrorists of the past -- Nero, Robespierre and Marat, could not foil it. Hitler failed to stop it. Stalin will not be able to stop it either."
The National Committee for a Free Europe, which owns and operates Radio Free Europe, is a private corporation formed by a group of leading American citizens last year to "halt communism and save freedom for the world." Among its membership of leading Americans are labor leaders, businessmen, scholars, statesmen, and church leaders. Its main offices are located at 350 Fifth Avenue: New York City.
Intensified activities of the National Committee for a Free Europe and of Radio Free Europe will be made possible by funds raised in the forthcoming Crusade For Freedom, headed by General Lucius D. Clay. The campaign will be inaugurated on September 4th by General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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