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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27, 1952

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

UNCLE SAM: SUPERMAN ABROAD . . . NO. 3

We ‘Slap Our Own Face’ In Europe

PARIS, Aug. 27—UNESCO recently announced that 1437 American books

were translated into European languages in 1951. That pounded like a lot of literature. It indicated that our writers were making a deep impact on the Old World. But a close look at the list of titles sent across the ocean is rather disillusioning. More than half the translations were the cheapest type of pocket books. When I say ‘cheap” I'm not referring to the price. In fact, American sex and horror stories are conquering the European market fast, In Paris, for instance, an otherwise highly respected publishing house launched “La Serie Noire” (The Black Series) which now bring out three sadistic U. 8. thrillers per month. Each of these volumes sells several hundred thousand copies. Each of them contains the prescribed number of murders, whippings, kidnapings, embezzlings, briberies and rapes. Now when Americans read this type of fiction, little harm is done. They know the real United States living and working around them. But Europeans have no way of comparing. They form their ideas about our country from the things they read about it. As reading remains one of their principal pastimes, the cumulative effect of our “literary” export is quite devastating. A Dutch lady who seemed to have taken an overdose of our crime stories lately, quite candidly asked me in Amsterdam the other day: “I don’t understand why you people held your party conventions in Chicago of all places. Weren't you afraid the gangsters would hold up your meetings?” 3 ” ” » THE TROUBLE is that our legitimate works of art don’t do much to correct such misconceptions. In London, a young businessman who was all ready to take a job in America, cancelled his trip in the last minute after he had seen a theater performance of *Death of a Salesman.” This was not an isolated case. U, S. consular officials in Western Europe report that demands for immigration visas

have dropped 30 per cent the .|

past two years.

This is, of course, due to many factors including the Marshall Plan that .restored

better conditions in most countries. But veteran observers insist that it must be at least partly ascribed to the incessant barrage of self-deprecating books, plays, movies and press reports we have been shooting across the ocean. Our news services consistently carry stories of labor conflicts, anti-Negro trials, pantyraids, police-graft, narcotic traffic and all the sides of the American scene. RS » 2 PLAYS, such as “The Glass Menagerie” or “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which have been shown on

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every European stage, depict an America steeped in poverty and gloom. Books, such as “The Naked and the Mead,” “From Here to Eternity,” “USA Confidential,” “Murder Inc.”-—all best-sellers in Europe—only add to the general disenchantment. Hollywood's new “realistic” products such as “The Well,” “The Champion,” “The Window,” “The Naked City,” “Detective Story,” “All the King’s Men” and again “A Streetcar Named Desire” seem to go out of their way to show our coun-

many Europeans have come to the conclusion that America no longer is the place their forefathers dreamed about? What could Communist propaganda add to all this? n ” » THE SANER, everyday aspects of American living are

rarely put before the European public, Millions of families residing peacefully in small

towns all dver the States don't |

make exciting copy.

Little is known about the role the unions play in Amer-

democratic spirit in our round-the-clock life. One of the few mediums giving Europeans an idea of these blessings is the ‘Reader's Digest,” but its circulation is necessarily limited. The official U. 8S. information agencies are making valiant efforts to put our country into a better light. Yet all qualified observers agree that they cannot do the job. These agencies are needed to spread accurate news and refute Soviet lies about America. But their positive efforts — booklets, posters, movies, magazines, however beautifully done — are immediately discarded as propaganda. Europeans have’ been so overfed with this sort of material that its effect on them is negligible. u on ~ WHAT THEN, can be done about that situation?

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advocate any sort of censorship over outgoing American literature. This is a free country and, if we want to wash our dirty linen abroad, it is

difficult to see who can stop us. |

But perhaps our editors, publishers and film distributors can pay a bit more attention to the possible impact their products may have overseas. For, as Swiss publisher Kurt van Schumacher, one of our sincere friends in Europe, put it the other day: “There is no sorrier spectacle than that of Uncle Sam slapping himself in the face in front of his allies and enemies."

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