Red Rule v. Chief Rule

The Communist Daily Worker told a story last week on William Randolph Hearst, who mortally hates and fears Communism and Russia. The story broke while Moscow, increasingly ready to speak its mind U.S.-ward, was delivering a blast at Hearst.

The Daily Worker claimed to have spied out a message to Hearst editors, reproduced it with the Hearst story that assertedly resulted. The message: "Chief-says exclusive INS story of Russia's ultimatum to Finland should have had better play. . . . Chief instructs to follow up with big spread story'on it in issue of Feb. 18. . . . Chief says: 'Russia is going to occupy all Europe . . . transfer Europe from Socialism to Communism.' "

On Feb. 18, Hearst's New York Journal-American carried a Page One crimson banner line: "Red Rule of Europe Feared." Its Washington-dated lead: "Soviet Russia in her ruthless peace terms flung at little Finland ... has brazenly revealed her postwar policy. It is the opening move in the painting of the map of Europe Communist Red. . . ."

Cried the Daily Worker: ". . . What appears to be a bona fide story . . . actually represents a Hearst-dictated fable . . . Hearst's lying thesis that the U.S.S.R. intends to dominate all of Europe. . . ."

In Moscow Pravda was howling at the Hearst press: "If these newspapers are not published in the clinical section of a lunatic asylum, then in what German city do they appear?"

* To his top men, 80-year-old Hearst is always the "Chief."

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