They Didn't Know They Lived In Paradise!

Chronicle (Levin), 17 December 1949, Page 5

They Didn't Know They Lived In Paradise!

Received Friday, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 16. The ehildren's magazine "Little Sun" has been attacked by the Siovak Cornmunist daily, Pravda,' for telling animal tales and fairy stories instead of tales about the Soviets, says a report from Prague. "Does not the board of editors realise that their paper is supposed to acquaint youth in its youngest years with the full, manysided and thrilling life of the Soviet State?" it demanded. "Little Sun" still published "unreal stories of the old type — animal stories and fairy tales, little verses about mischievous children. It is isolated from life." Pravda said "Little Sun" must realise that "Slovakia is building and ehanging itself, and that the fathers and mothers of those to whom it speaks are the builders of a new happy era of Socialism and the children will continue their parents' work for Socialism and Communism. "How removed from reality 'Little Sun' is can be seen from the fact that 'Little Sun' forgot the birthday of Generalissimo Stalin in 1948, and in January 1949 when the entire progressive world remembered the 25th anniversary of Lenin's death 'Little Sun' did not." It added that the "Little Sun" editors "don't realise that the world is divided into two fronts — the front of peace and democracy and the front of imperialism and war. It does not give its readers a feeling of pride that they belong to the great family of the freedomloving democracies and does not show its readers the crimes of the eamp of war instigators and the decay of capitalist society. It does not speak of the difficult life for youth in capitalist and colonial countries. And it does not give them a knowledge of what it means that our youth are able to live in a people's democratic State." V.VAV.V.'.'.V.V.VA'.'.VJ'W