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Behind Hate's Mists

It is pleasant to learn that re- latively few schools have drop- German. ped the study of 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 world's treasuries of musie. painting, and poetry, of scholar- ship, natural sciences, and in- ventions, and the political

devices of Hitlerism.

We

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

of "Munich"

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

as

If the latter, we continue to envisage one of the most beauti- ful 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 area of loveliness.

B. B. C. WAR "NEWS"

An American journalist says

Too much fuss and

nonsense!

"H

ITLER'S war" has entered its second From the month. point of view of the United States it haa been Hitler's war, not only because the American people believe Hitler started it, but because from the point of view of the American Press Hitler has "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 donc.

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 offelal news; the second is to see that no information of aid to the enemy is spread.

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 definite signs of improvement, but on the whole the United Statca Press corpa in London has had nothing but headaches from this huge organisation.

In the first fleld of action the Ministry

clamped immediately down on the possibility of Ameri- 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 building except its own, and barring conversation with

every Government official ex- under cent

the Ministry's regis At the beginning the Ministry took to pasaing 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 into and then put out in the form of a

King's Christmas Day Message To Empire

London.

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 thinking. We may hold strong opinions on the political THE KING will broadcast to his people on Christmas Day at the con- concepts suggested by Munich or clusion of a round-the-Empire pro- by present

of gramme. expressiona

It is hoped that, despite Hitlerism, without letting them amiculties of radio communication in apoll for us the beauty and good wartime, it will be possible to take all the Dominion and colonial con- which familiarity with things tributions to the programums direct, German may have provided. without using recordings, a

On this special occasion a message from our ally, France, may be in- Christian Science Monitor,

cluded.

the

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- tributed by the Ministry. Instead of acting as a channel between the Press and the proper Government Department-in

this

caso the

RAF the Ministry acted as an instrumentality itself.

York, story was ignored In New

True, there are signs that, the Ministry is reversing this proce- dure. It is becoming under Lord Macmillan more of a post office 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 still, after being 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 Omce, the Ministry has functioned splendidly. But it has dono so only because the experienced Foreign Office Fress officers have moved there and they work as they always did with the affection

and

confidence of most American Press.

of the Americ

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

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

One

American correspondent

wrote a careful story based on in- formation given him by RAF. offeers 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 adamant.

WGS

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 à dally, 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 And, as he suspected, that he was right and the censor was wrong.. 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.

do

The American correspondents

not want to violate military rules or give away secrets. They want no lives on their consciences. Their plea is in reality a simple one. 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 at war. of modern times--Britain

They do not want to take sides. Britain is leaving her cause to the judgment of the world. But she la needlessly hindering the distribu- tion of the facts on which the world must bąɛe its judgment.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

WHIFFLE VALVE WHISTLE co.

THREE GERMANS

THE three Germans I am thinking of all lived in South America, but they were all trúc Germans. And I thinic that on a small scale

Germany the they

represent to-day.

The first I met when I was taken sciously ill in the interior of Brazil, The first house I reuched was the home of the Simple Germani. Hans, he was called, took me in and gave. me the only decent bed in the log and mud cabin. He gova me some strong spirits to drink, and then set off, on foot, to get the doctor trom 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 ume Hans showed nothing but goodwill He and his wife gave me every possible atton- tion-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 milc. He had to get his supplies from the village twenty miles away. and usually there was no means of transport-But-he-supplied mo-with.. all reasonable needs, and soon I was, eating Souerkraut and drinking beer. from an old-fashioned beer mug.

When I was better he refused all payment, and said he had done no- thing. Ho was a great blg, red- faced, boisterously cheerful Simple. German. And as good a man as eny,.

The Mystic!

The second was an artist. He had in studio in Buenos Aires, and painted. commercial posters for a living. But the pictures he palated in his spare time were a bit incomprehensible to me. For he was the Mystic German, He painted great canvases 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 and bustio ond ruthlessness wealth and poverty which somehow or other meant something to me. No doubt his other pictures, too, moant something.

But the Mystic German is hard to understand. He had a kind heart, and in his more human moments had a

By Lichty quaint sense of humour. Ho drew

the frat caricature of Hitler T ever saw and the main feature was a whitewash brush. The Mystic Cler- man at that time did not approve of the Austrian "Dummkopt"

The Great German

I met the third German many Umes. 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 frogs. 1 Inquired, in [all'innocence, if frogs were eaten in Germany. To my amazement the Great German turned on me in a fury,

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

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

me.

I have another memory of the Great German. He owned a shop'in Brazil, and his stock in irade was. Arearms. He took a great pride in his beautiful array of rifles, ravolvern, pistols, and whatnot. Then one day there was a riot in the town, and the mob broke into his shop and took. PLEASE Turn To Page 5.

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