Insult Count

Arms and men can defend a nation's borders, but they are no defense against the insults an angry neighbor shouts across the back fence. If the neighbor owns radio stations, the insults carry farther. In May, Czechoslovak statisticians brought out their adding machines, settled down to 42 days of listening to German broadcasts which carried across the republic's borders, calmly, methodically counted the insults.

Tabulated last week, the figures for the period from May 21 to July 1 showed that Berlin's Central Broadcasting Station of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (German Broadcasting Co.) put on the air 922 attacks on the Czechoslovak republic, 194 criticisms of President Eduard Benes or the Prague government, attacked Czechoslovak officials and law courts 172 times, insulted the honor of the Czechoslovak Army 106 times. Henlein party-propaganda broadcasts from German stations during the same period were clocked at 336, the declaration that Communists rule Czechoslovakia at 31.

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