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Behind Hate's Mists

It is pleasant to learn that re- latively few schools have drop. ped the

of German, study Unreasoned and wholesale con- demnation of all things "Ger- man" occurred in many parts of the world during the World War. After 1918 when travellers again began to visit Germany, they were surprised to find the Germans, as a whole, to be an enlightened, peace-loving, and lovable people.

The world should make posi tive distinctions between the rich German-contributions_to_the treasuries of music, world's painting, and poetry, of scholar- ship, natural sciences, and in-

and ventions,

the political devices of Hitlerism.

discover We may easily whether our thought has been left sufficiently unguarded to be- come mesmerised concepts. A single illustration Are we looking upon suffices.

of "Munich"

symbol 18 betrayal or do we see through the mist that has risen round this name since pence promises were made there?

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by hateful

If the latter, we continue to envisage one of the most beauti- fut and inspiring cities in the world. We continue to appre hend the ancient Bavarian capi- tal, with its atmosphere of culture, friendliness, and endur- ing beauty, where Mozart first produced his "Don Giovanni" in the quaint little opera house of the Residenz, and where the Englischen Garten is a vast aren of loveliness.

What's in a name? A great deal of evil at times may appear to be. But this aggressive sug-

gestion is never defeated by permitting it to impinge upon our thluking. We may hold: strong opinions on the political concepts suggested by Munich or by prosent expressions of Hitlerism, without letting them apoll for us the beauty and good which familiarity with things German may have provided.-- Christian Science Monitor,

B. B. C. WAR "NEWS"-

An American journalist says

Too much fuss and

nonsense!

"H

*ITLER'S

war # has its entered

second month. From the point of view of the Stales it has United

been Hitler's war; not only because the American people believe Hitler started it, but because from the point of view of the has Hitler American Press "stolen the front page."

He has done that partly be- cause the war in the East has been the big news in the first month, also because the United States correspondents and at the out- break London was full of them have not been able to do what their colleagues in Germany have done.

That is to say, while American correspondents have been in the front lines in Poland and watched the

war themselves American correspondents in London have not been able to send eye-witness accounts of the British effort "of their own knowledge."

The Ministry of Information has ⚫two functions. The first is to sup- ply official news: the second is to see that no information of aid to the enemy is sprend.

As far as American correspon- dents are concerned, its work dur- Ing the first month of the war in both these fields has been unsatis- factory. There are exceptions and notable ones and there are dennite signs of improvement, but on the whole the United States Press corps in London has had nothing but headaches from this huge organisation.

In the first field of action the clamped immediately Ministry down on the possibility of Amerl- can correspondents getting the news as they like to get it-at first hand.

It has always been difficult for American newspapermen in Lon- don to go, as they are accustomed to go at home, straight to the source, The Ministry came along and passed a departmental order barring newspapermen from every Government buliding own, and barring cannotation Government with eye the cept under Ministry'a cgts.

beginning the Ministry At

official

It's

took to passing out information it- self. Take the case of the British raid on the Kiel Canal. It was one of the best stories of the war. But it was put out nine days late and then put out in the form of a

King's Christmas Day Message To Empire

London,

THE KING will broadcast to his people on Christmas Day, at the con- clusion of a round-the-Empire pro- gramme.

It is hoped that, despite the ulicuities of radio communication In wartime, I will be possible to lake all the Dominion and colonial, con- tributions to the programme direct,

without using recordings.

On this special occasioni i Mesingo from our ally, France, may be cluded.

The writer of this article is a leading member of the

· London staff of a famous

U.S. newspaper.

tinned interview, obtained by the Ministry, mimeographed and dis- Instead tributed by the Ministry. of acting as a channel between the Press and the proper Government Department-in this RAF the Ministry neted as an

instrumentality itself.

C080

the

The story was ignored in New

York

XOTE.

True, there are signs that the Ministry is reversing this proce- dure. It is becoming under Lord Macmillan more of a post offco and less of a department in itself. But it will require long and careful work before the reform is fully complete.

"American" and "English"-corre- spondents are atuli, after boing told that their preparations were urgent, waiting to go to the front, waiting to see the British effort in the war at first hand.

In many cases, of course, notably that of the Foreign Omee, the Ministry has functioned splendidly. But it has done so only because the experienced Foreign Ofee FreeS officers have moved there and they work

as they always did with the affection and confidence of most

the American Press. of

On the censorship side, the pic- ture is even worse,

One day last week the Ministry, in pursuit of its new policy of trying to let correspondents see for themselves, took a group on a tour of an R.AF, station. One American

correspondent

wrote a careful story based on in- formation given him by R.A.F. officers during the tour.

Early in the morning the censor rang up to say that great chunks of it must come out. It was pointed out that all the information had been gathered under the Ministry's supervision, but the censor was adamant.

At six o'clock the following afternoon the Chief Censor's office called up and said that they had reconsidered and the deleted para- graphs could now be sent. They were told somewhat heatedly that the correspondent in question was working for a daily, not a weekly

paper.

*

This is typical of the manner in which the subordinate censors continually cut or delay stories to the despair of the correspondent. He takes the case to the top, to find, as he suspected, that he was.

ht and right

censor was

was wrong.

the

But it is usually too late.

All the careful writing and pruning so as not to give away secrets is useless. And there is no redress. The correspondent can- not see the censor face to face. He must remain a voice on the tele- phone.

The American correspondents do not want to violate military rules or give away cucrets. They want no lives on their consciences. Their plea is in reality a simple enc. Bubject to overriding con- siderations of human safety. let them do the job for which they are hired and trained. Let them cover one of the greatest stories of modern times-Britain at war. They do not want to take sides. Britain is leaving her cause to the judgment of the world. But she is needlessly hindering the distribu- tion of the facts on which the world must base its judgment.

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By Lichty

THREE GERMANS

E three Germans I am thinking. of all fived in South America, but they were all true Germans. And I think that on a small scale of the Germany they represent to-day.

The first I met when I was taken seriously ill in the interior of Brazil. The first house I reached was the home of the Simple German. Hans, he was called, took me in and gave me the only decent bed in the log and mud cubin. He gave me some strong spirits to drink, and then set. off, on foot, to get the doctor from the nearest village. The village was twenty miles distant.

When the doctor came and sug- gested that I might have to stay in bed for some time Hons showed nothing but goodwill. He and his wife gave me every possible atten- tlon-and any attention at all was not so easy in that primitive home in the backwoods. When water was. required he had to curry it half a mile. He had to get his supplies from the village twenty miles away, and usually there was no means of transport. But he supplied me with all reasonable needs, and soon I was: eating Sauerkraut and drinking beer from an old-fashioned beer mug.

When I was better he refused all payment, and said he had done ro- thing. He was a great big, red- Inced, bolsterously cheerful Simple German. And as good a man us any, The Mystic.

The second was an artist. He had a studio in Buenos Aires, and pointed commercial posters for a living. But the pictures he painted in his spare time were a bit incomprehensible to me. For he was the Mystle German, He painted great convases of most. fantastic designs. The colours were beautiful, but usually I could make nothing of the pattern. I remember one however, which he called "Metro- polis," and I saw something in that. There was a suggestion of the noise and bustle

and ruthlessness and wealth and poverty which somehow or other meant something to me. No doubt his other pictures, too, meant something.

But the Mystic German is hard to understand. He had a kind heart, and in hia more human moments had a quaint sense of humour. He drew the first caricature of Hitler I over

ond the main feature was whitewash brush. The Mystic Ger-- man at that time did not approve of the Austrian "Dummkopf."

saw

The Great German

many

Д

I met the third German limes. He visited a house where I also called often. He was the Great. German, and was forever boasting of the German superiority. I remember one day a number of us were having: lunch together, and some of the party were eating froge. I inquired, in all Innocence, if frogs were eaten in Germany, To my amazement the Great German turned on me in is tury

"I have you understand," he shouted, "that Germany is a great. country, respected by all. Of course we eat frogs!"

I did manage to say that I hardly saw the connection between frog- eating and greatness, but the man's tremendous aggressiveness and his complete lack of humour staggered mc.

"I have another memory of the Great Germen, He owned a shop in Brazil, and his stock in frado was firearms. Ho took a great pride in...... his beautiful array of rifles, revolvers, pistols, and whatnot. Then one day there was a riot in the 'town," ani. the mob broko into his shop and tools

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