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Show PROPAGANDA IS VERY EFFECTIVE Germans Keep at Work Creating Creat-ing Complete Organization in Swedish Towns. STOCKHOLM, March 31. (Corre-I (Corre-I spondence of Tho Associated Press ) German propaganda in Sweden and other Scandinavian nations no longer is ill -directed or inefficient, in the opinion of the statesmen of the coun-j tries in which it operate. On the contrary, it challenges even unwilling ad Miration in Sweden for its completeness com-pleteness and effectiveness. In the early days of the war the- en-t( en-t( ate powers and America extracted considerable amusement from German methods of propaganda for the reason that they seemed to be based on an almost absolute failure to understand the psychology of the non-Germanic peoples. Undeterred by earlier failures the Germane have kept at work bere and have organized a system of propaganda which Ifi regarded as tireless, intelligent intel-ligent and. without doubt, effective. Three Big Undertakings. Tho organization centers around three Undertaking!, all organized by; Germans but, in accordance with' Swedish law directed by Swedes.! These are the magazine Jorden Rundt. (The World Around), the "Picture' central." and the "Polar Star Bio graph." All three undertakings are housed in the same quarters. Tho exploits of the German army are graphically illustrated illus-trated by word, by picture ;md cinema I nuns i.isjanur maps, with events kepi I up almost to the hour, showing prog-i prog-i ress of the German armies The new-) new-) est bulletins are displayed. Visitors are leaded with pamphlets and books, some of them of such character that they form permanent additions to a reference library. Whenever a German Ger-man soldier does some individual act of kindness a cinema operator is there to record it and the Swedish patrons of the Polar Star have opportunity to admire it Two large printing firms turn out vast quantities of pamphlets, with which the Swedes are inundated. Trained Journalists Busy. The German legation has trained journalists on its staff, and Baron Lucius, the minister, is bimsolf a keen, wide-awake individual, fully-alive fully-alive to the value of printer's ink and alert to seize every opportunity to make propaganda or to explain anything any-thing that needs explanation. As an j instance of this may be cited the fact that, some weeks ago, when the morning papers published Trotzky's expose of Germany's attitude toward t!i Aland Islands, the noon papers of the same day contained a column-long article by Baron Lucius, full of clever casuistry and forming, for the uncritical uncriti-cal reader, a complete answer to Trotzky. This is but one of scores of similar instances. Lucius' rolations to the press and not merely to the pro-German press are most friendly, and he Is always sure or a sympathetic hearing, hear-ing, whether the other narty (a in agreement with him or not. To dam this flood of propaganda the allied powers offer comparatively lit -tle. Since America entered the war an effort has been made from Washington Wash-ington to secure adequate publication in Sweden of important p. . ehes by r-esident Wilson and other leaders, nd r. ports of important decisions of different bodies, progress or recruit ing. etc. These efforts and partlcu-larlj partlcu-larlj u regardi speeches, are foredoomed fore-doomed to failure by the fact thai the speeches are cabled too late. President Wilson's speeches have reached Sweden from two to four days after summaries of them had been re- ceived bere No Swedish editor, after having used a 500 -word sum man will, half a week later, devote much space to tho text of the same speech |