The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Malicious misrepresentations

MALICIOUS MISREPRESENTATION.

 

The Hearst papers were never friendly to the aspirations of the Czechoslovaks. They never would publish news that tended to set this people in a favorable light, and on innumerable occasions they jibed at their efforts to smash Austria. Judging by their record, we are compelled to believe that a heading published in the New York American on September 4, reflecting on the Czechoslovaks, was not a mere accident, but a malicious slur cast on this brave people.

Immediately below the account of the American recognition of the National Council the New York American displays a headline “Wounded Tell Story of Czech Treachery.” The story speaks of a cavalry officer who ordered his forces to charge Bolsheviki near Harbin, but was deserted by them and killed by the enemy. The context makes it plain that the soldiers were Russians of Semenoff’s force, but the Hearst paper makes Czechs out of them, and creates the impression that the men whom our government has just recognized as Allies are cowards and traitors.

Comment is unecessary. It is what one would expect from Mr. Hearsts’s publications.

 

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