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Show 1 Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) POOR LEAD TO OBTAIN SPLIT Attempt to Arouse Indignation Over "Horror on the Rhine" Proves Dismal Failure. "The Oennanophlle attempt to arouse American indignation ovej 'the horror on the Rhine' and thereby to lead to a split, spiritual rather than diplomatic, between America and her recent allies litis failed of its purpose in precisely the same way that German Ger-man propaganda in this country failed in every one of the years between 1914 and 1918," says an editorial in the American Legion Weekly. "The truth Is merely that the Germans Ger-mans do not know how to go about it. 'Kultur' obvjously does not include any knowledge of the fine art of getting get-ting someething over, a fact amply attested at-tested by the reflex action which has accompanied the present attempt. The Von Mach style of persuasiveness is no more subtle than the efforts of a St. Bernard puppy to stand up on a hardwood floor. It Is flattering the Von Mach type of 'boring from within' to call its insidious. Insidious it is, however, in Its Intent if not in its application. ur. von macn nas provea nimseii a poor servant of his country, whether wheth-er he regards his country as America or Germany. He is a poor American for having tried to win America over to the point of view of the unrepentant unrepen-tant nation to defeat whose government govern-ment 100,000 Americans gave their lives, for attemping to resurrect a hyphen that was theoretically buried just three years ago. He is a poor German because his clumsiness has served only to arouse America to the fact that she is still at war with Germany." |