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C If- If k You WASHINGTON You hear more I and more talk in Washington these t days about total defense with the accent on the r Another way to say it would be out all since that is the popular phrase of the da day r borrowed from the English who usually borrow their slang from us A better way to say what officials are now calling for foris foris is everybody out It If there is to tobe be a final test between this democracy democracy rc racy and totalitarianism it will be bet t everybody out with a vengeance Already the ramifications of the defense effort are reaching into all corners of national activity While our factories are filling the air with iT bombers and fighters for England i the government is planning a little peaceful offensive air-offensive of our o own y l against Germany T When you feel around on dial of 01 t your radio set some day you may suddenly pick up a voice in German broadcasting from Washington Do not worry That will not mean that the fifth columnists have arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived on the Potomac The voice will be coming forth not in spite of but because of the department of justice The words may be as persuasive persuasive persuasive per per- as those of Propagandist Goebbels s or as pleasing as those of t. t the Poet Goethe but they will be boosting democracy If you can understand what the broadcaster is saying you can learn some good things about your country country country coun coun- try and its customs that you may have forgotten even if the message is not meant for you It is meant I as a matter of fact for the German- German speaking foreign-born foreign of this country coun- coun j try and the broadcast has been planned for two purposes The first is to remind these more recent arrivals on our shores who I may have been listening to the short wave broadcasts from Berlin that there are a lot of good points about the country of their adoption which they may have overlooked The second is to try to unite the newcomers and their offspring in an effort to use their influence if they have any to pass on some of these points to the people in the old country country country coun coun- try with whom they may still be in J touch directly or indirectly The idea has the support of Attorney Attorney At At- 4 torney General Jackson but he would carry it still further He believes in infighting r fighting fire with fire and shooting propaganda counter-propaganda right at the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans in Germany Of course news reports from the United States are being beamed at Germany and France and other European countries as well as South America right now We know how difficult it is for the Germans and people in the occupied countries to listen to foreign broadcasts It may mean a life sentence But we have ample evidence that the American American American Amer Amer- ican stations have listeners listeners-a a great many more than would be expected under the circumstances The people peo pee people pie in those countries are starved for the news They know that tha t the newspapers they get are simply rubber rubber rubber rub rub- ber stamps from the censors censor's office They know our news is authentic unbiased accurate But some people think that we i ought to go much further in this battle of of the ether than merely broadcasting news They think thinks s that in addition to the newscasts I there should be interesting feature broadcasts which would contain material planned to counteract the propaganda which the Germans are 1 sending out to their own people and to others abroad There are those of course outside outside outside out out- side the government who are openly openly openly open open- ly demanding that we go even further further fur fur- ther than this They say that we should not limit our efforts to defeating defeating defeating de de- de- de German propaganda by a counter attack on the air waves but that we must take over some of the Goebbels methods in foreign countries countries coun coup tries where his fifth-columnists fifth are busy now that now that we should match dollars against marks where they will do the most good organize secret secret secret se se- cret agents of our own especially in inI h. h I 4 South America Right now American business businessmen f r I men in South America on their own initiative have bought time on the theair air for programs of news and other material concerning the United States What further steps the department i of justice or whatever government agency might undertake the work may do or may be doing now for that matter is not officially re reo re- re But this we do know the stations of the National Broadcasting Broadcast Broadcast- ing company Columbia Westinghouse Westinghouse house General Electric and the privately privately privately owned station in Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton expect greatly to increase the number of newscasts they are sending sending sending send send- ing out to foreign countries in foreign foreign foreign for for- eign languages Soviet D Diplomats Hold an At Home Many a Washington official who speaks of Russia's dictator with a curl of the lip has a secret admiration admiration admira admira- tion for the wiley Comrade Stalin Some call can him the Volga Goat- Goat because manu man because he gets so many diplomatic goats Recently it was the policy of the state department following the British British British Brit Brit- ish lead to make up to the czar of the Soviets Russia wanted machines machines ma ma- chines and tools We wanted Russia to growl at the Japanese And so the proletarian but Sumner Welles our undersecretary of state was forced to let his chin down at least one hitch and converse pleasantly pleasantly pleasantly pleas pleas- antly with the but anything-but- aristocratic charge of the Soviets Then came the sudden announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment of the Russo-Japanese Russo neutrality neutrality neutrality neu neu- pact It broke upon the dignified dignified dignified dig dig- diplomatic world with all the indignity of an over-age over egg exploding exploding exploding ing on an immaculate shirt front About that time of the month there occurred an home at at one of the Sixteenth streets street's most prominent prominent prominent nent residences to quote the official guide book This mansion built originally by the widow of the thc Pullman Pullman Pullman Pull Pull- man palace car millions and later palace of the perfumed and be- be emissaries of the Roman Roman- offs is now the Soviet embassy The at home was a great suc suc- cess The great and the near-great near from belligerent and peaceful nations nations nations na na- na- na were there In fact it was quite a job keeping the Canadian diplomats out of one salon while swastika and hammer and sickle tete a over the tall tea Earlier that day the state department department department depart depart- ment had minimized to inquiring reporters reporters reporters re re- re- re porters the importance of the Russo- Russo Japanese pact But diplomats as you know use words to conceal cOI their thoughts Their actions speak much louder than their official state state- ments At the Soviet at home state department officials were exceedingly exceedingly exceedingly ex ex- ex- ex conspicuous by their ab ab- ab- ab sence Germans Prepare To Invade England Will the Nazis try to invade the British Isles Most experts say yes The question is when Recently some information has come to my ears which touches on this point It comes from two sources which are sound and reli reli- able One is a story which was told to me by a French newspaper woman woman woman wom wom- an who is Hitler's Private Enemy Number One She is Madame Genevieve Genevieve Genevieve Gene- Gene vieve and she escaped France ahead of the hungry Gestapo and is here in the United States She told me that the Germans had held a practice maneuver in France which consisted of pouring oil on a certain river They then ignited the oil and hundreds of German soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers dressed in specially prepared fireproof clothing jumped in The next day the river was full fun of corpses and the hospitals full of frightfully burned soldiers The experiment did not work Spreading burning oil at invasion points is said to be one of the methods methods methods meth meth- of defense the British are planning planning planning plan plan- ning against invasion Now the thc second story comes comes cornes from froma a man whom I cannot name but who has recently been in Germany He says that the Germans have ave been working a long time on perfecting amphibian tanks tanks tanks-tanks tanks which will actually float He believes that there will be no invasion until these tanks are ready He also says that a psychological moment will be chosen One when British morale is at a low point For instance if both the Suez and Gibraltar were captured the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans might feel that this was the moment |