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Show THE PROPAGANDA OPPORTUNITY From the start of the war, the anti-Axis nations have made large use of propaganda aimed to tell the deluded German people the truth about the bloody struggle into which they were rushed by misguided men. Enormous numbers of pamphlets were dropped over German towns, and the radio listeners of that unfortunate un-fortunate land were bombarded with presentations of true facts. So far as can be seen this propaganda had 110 great effect. It was said that the Germans would read and hear this propaganda. But on being told by their own government gov-ernment that these things were all lies, they would utterly refuse to believe them. How a nation supposed to be intelligent and educated can continue to swallow swal-low bunk the way an infant will suck milk out of a nursing bottle, is one of the marvels of this century. Renewed efforts are now made to give those benighted be-nighted Germans some better idea of the truth. One would think the presentation of the fact that the "United States has gone into the war with scarcely any opposition, would have some effect, and would manage to pierce the thick hide of German consciousness. They at least know what the Americans did to them in the World war. Also they have discovered that the things their leaders lea-ders tell them do not always turn out to be true. They were told o couple of months ago that the Russian army was broken; Now they see the Russian army chasing their own soldiers. In some way the Amrican people have to persuade them that they will gain nothing by indefinite fight-mg. fight-mg. The Germans have allowed themselves to be led around by the nose like a dumb animal, and it is up to American ingenuity to get the idea to them that to have any share in the future progress of the world, they have to show some independent judgment. |
