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GERMANY'S RADIO BLUNDERBUSS: HIT-&-MISS METHOD OF NAZI PROPAGANDA

London, October 13. streets.

Since the outbreak of war I have German public opinion, insulated for almost daily spent several hours six years from free contact with the listening to Nazi radio propaganda outside world, may be fortified in its

German and patriotism by such a picture. programmes in both foreign languages.

experience what conviction can it carry

than anyone rather

who has followed has been depressing irritating.

events or who knows England?

The

But

with

recent Its

of the

At the moment Hitler's Reichstag very exaggeration must surely in-

front place in sinuate doubt into the mind speech occupies the every programme, in every language. most confirmed Anglophobe. Few in any land can have had the good fortune to escape the molancho-appear in the broadcasts directed to ly repetition.

Propaganda, essentially a weapon .to be used with finesse, becomes in German hands a blunderbuss. The report is loud, the charge diffused, the effect incalculable, but certainly not lethal. Indeed, the ineptitude of Nazi propaganda must in many quar- ters recoil to the advantage of Allies.

the

Still more perfidious does

Albion

France. The solemn Berlin voice which daily delivers "warnings" and "advice" to the French still gives the impression that they are not yet in- volved in the war. But in the back- ground lurks a wicked Englishman, prodding them on with his umbrella to attack their hereditary friends across the Rhine.

Then numerous broadcasts aim at BRITAIN "THE VILLAIN". arousing neutral opinion against the against Britain. in Allies--or, rather, From the babel of broadcasts |German, English, French, Dutch and These take the form of daily reports

other

Nazi languages three

aims declaring that the contraband control is strangling the economic life of Hol- emerge:

(1) To magnify Germany's mili-land, Belgium and 'the scandinavian

tary and diplomatic ments;

achieve countries.

(2) To blacken Britain's name in

the eyes of the world; (3) To shake France out of alliance with Britain. What effect is this daily and nightly out-pouring likely to have, especially

In in neutral countries?

Americans-but never America- come in for attacks which are the more bitter because they are person- heral. The most violent attack I have heard the Nazis make on any indivi- dual since the war began was launch- ed against Mr. H. R. Knickerbocker, correspon- estimating the American newspaper the degree of success with which dent, following his revelations about

Nazi

fortunes Germany, is pursuing her aims over the

party leaders' the ether I make a clear distinction | abroad (quoted in THE DAILY TELE- between the news bulletins and the | GRAPH of Sept. 21). The epithets Churchill frankly propagandist broadcasts. For applied to him made Mr. the news bulletins still preserve an appear by comparison a model of un- apparent objectivity.. In particular, stained integrity. Yet Mr. Knicker- the daily communique of the High bocker was not attacked as an Ameri- Command is presented in the form can, but as a hireling of the British of unvarnished statements not sus- "Ministry of Lies." ceptible to immediate disproof.

Unless experience teaches listeners not to place reliance on official Ger- man news, these bulletins will con- tinue to exert an effect far more powerful than that of any other form of Nazi propaganda. They have so far been concerned almost en- tirely with trumpeting Germany's military successes in Poland, and her peaceful intentions everywhere else.

The Nazis' other two objectives of black-guarding Britain and shaking the Anglo-French Alliance are pur- sued with the noisy exaggerations and the worst mis-statements of pure propaganda. The effect is too ludicrous to be dangerous.

Britain holds the world stage in a 24-hours' non-stop melodrama en- titled "The Villain." Britain forced the unwilling Poles to resist just German demands which they were elamouring to concede, Britain is dragging France to equally certain disaster in the West. The war Britain's sole responsibility,

MR. CHURCHILL'S ROLE When the scene shifts from the world stage to Britain itself, all is ruin and despair. Mr. Churchill heads a clique of Jewish financiers who are leading the nation to its doom. Business life, crippled (already) by next year's taxes, is collapsing. The whole population is in the grip of fear. Crime stalks the blacked-out

HONEY- I LOVE YOU SO MUCH-

VE GOT THE

HIVES-

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Such is the substance of the German is worth broadcasts. Their method closer analysis; for amusement at the clumsy excesses of much Nazi pro- paganda should not blind Britain to the real skill with which some of it is "put over."

TEMPTING. THE ALLIES

Take again the news broadcasts. The effectiveness of the High Com- mand's daily communique is enhanced because it is issued early in the day, and because it gives precise detalis of the fighting, the numbers of enemy casualties and places where aircraft are claimed to have been shot down. This communique is usually twice re- peated by the announcer at slow dic- tation speed, so that foreign newspa- pers and radio stations which may not have received the bulletin through the news agencies may take down and reproduce it.

Thus the German version of any action has achieved a world-wide cir- culation several hours before British and French communiques provide a corrective. Moreover, the latter are frequently vague.

Doubtless there are sound reasons for this lack of informativeness on the Allied side. The German High Com- mand must be as disappointed as are newspaper readers and radio listeners. One cannot put aside the suspicion that some of the German claims made (Continued on Page 11)

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