THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 19, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
AMERICA AND THE SEA WAR
Hitler so regularly uses words to mask his real purposes that it would not
be safe to draw the con- clusion, from his recent speeches, that the greal German offensive of this Spring is to be primarily a sea and pula hund war But of one thing we may be certain. Whether 01 not he tries to invade Eng land, whether or not. he launches a campaign in the Mediterranean, even if he embarks upon both these adventures simul taneously, he will in any case enormously intensify his war against Britain on the sea. He will do this! because the whole British effort to resist him and defeat him is dependent upon keeping open the lines of communication for indispensable supplies. There 15 no reason to doubt Hitler's assurance that this has been a busy Winter in the German
that shipyards;
"new
R.A.F
MOONSTRUCK !
Propaganda Pattern
Imagine that finest flower modern propaganda
of like a priest from the outer dark- when the Naziness; the last ecstasy
types" of submarines have been developed; that effi- cient crews have been trained to man them. With the whole coast of Europe from Narvik to Bordeaux in Germ a 11 hands, with French ports far out in the Atlantic it- self available as bases for operations, we are sure to see this Spring the great-hysteria by a couple of hours of est mass attack on British martial muste and community- shipping that Germany singing; the bands of uniformed, has ever undertaken.
to
ments, to actions that speak louder than words, and which seem endorse his claims. He can point to the successful rearmament of remilitarisation of
mass-meeting, held any time be-receptive mass is swept away by fore the outbreak of the present his fierce oratory into an orgy of war. The vast hall, impressively hatred against all who have "be-Germany, the draped and lit; the expectant trayed Germany." crowds, worked
try.
into a state of
Analyse this performance into be its ingredients, and it will found that success as due to three conditions. The speaker succeeds, first, because his audience wants to
By Dr. David ThomsonTM
hear the
things he tells
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