New Voice of Truth

For ten months, Radio Free Europe's first station, in Frankfurt, has been prodding Iron Curtain listeners by broadcasting the truth. Sponsored by the National Committee for a Free Europe, a private U.S. organization, RFE was uninhibited by diplomatic niceties which often muffle the State Department's Voice of America.

But RFE was on the air only 7 1/2 hours daily and transmitted a comparatively weak, 7,500-watt signal. Last week RFE began to speak with a more powerful voice, nearly three times stronger than any medium-wave transmitter in the U.S.: a new, 135,000-watt station near Munich. The station, paid for by contributions of 16,000,000 Americans, will broadcast to Czechoslovakia for 11 1/2 hours a day. In its first broadcast, Ferdinand Peroutka, exiled Czech parliamentarian and writer who will run the station, told his countrymen: "We know how much effort the Communists stake on reforming your souls . . , But we also know that in the evening when you return home from the daily drudgery . . . between your four walls you say to yourself: "They are telling lies.'"

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