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What about the personnel of the propaganda service? While Germany was yet at peace with America, Dr. Even should the German navy remain inactive, the occupation of Belgium and Northern France by German troops would strike a crushing blow at British security.
She is held more or less personally responsible for the Boer War. What agencies should carry on the work, and to what degree is unity of command practicable? In short, the active propagandist is certain to have willing.
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One thing that would have exerted a tremendous influence in America, if its publicity had been handled with only average skill, was the suffering of our children, women and old people, as a result of the British hunger blockade — that they have made no attempt to bring to the notice of the world.
In the trenches he is confident that the men on either side of him are doing the same, and that the divisions on the flanks of his own divisions are co-operating for the common end.
When he took over the Enemy Propaganda work, he quickly became aware of the crucial importance of forcing a decision upon 1 See Meine Kriegserinner ungen, pp.
Stress can always be laid upon the wounding of women, children, old people, priests and nuns, and upon sexual enormities, mutilated prisoners and mutilated non-com- batants. She is pestered by all sorts of irritating rules and regulations, for she is not allowed to practise on the Sabbath.
Under these circumstances there was no time to consult the Allies as to the terms of the statement agreed upon by the Prime Minister and the above-mentioned persons. If a less conspicuous man is selected, he is, however, liable to snubs, as a mere second-rater.
Friend and his Government will never stand clear in the estimation of the public, and will never have the authority which they ought to have, and which I desire them to have, until they make things quite clear, open and plain to all the world and sever this connection with the newspapers. In December,the bare announcement that Germany was making overtures of peace sent stocks hurtling down. It is often an object of vituperation, and therefore, of interest, discussion and, finally, of study.
Originality, while often advantageous, is far from 1 This may be read now with a certain amusement, for the Russian documents have revealed the extent to which the Russian government bought a large percentage of the French Press support which it enjoyed in pre-war days.
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I do not see why we should permit men like Mr. This, like the Press telegrams, showed a complete lack of understanding of American national psychology. The foreign policy of the country was made by President Wilson, and it happened to have great propaganda value. But lsswell propagandist must never permit himself to forget that in the complex communities of our time there are j minds who find worlc peace in war.
He scans the horizon for new material as the War evolves, as did the Germans when they scrutinized the cap- tured Belgium archives for material, which might incriminate the Entente, and broadcasted everything which seemed to do so.
When the public is warmed up to fight, the clerical who treats the matter coldly is committing suicide, just as is the writer or the promoter. In his earlier writings he had exclaimed, ” If there is in the world a peaceful, well-behaved, pious people, laszwell is the Germans.
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In both countries there was a period of hesitation before battle. The stars in the propaganda firmament during the world war were mostly journalists, though there were a few literary men, like H. If the control of foreign and domestic propaganda were inte- grated too tightly in the hands of one man, the one or the other might suffer from the preconceptions of the responsible head.
He is a director of nine companies, and chiefly interested in rubber.
Propaganda Technique in the World War
The out- standing characteristic of the average American is rather a great, even though superficial, sentimentality. He calls attention to the book of an Alsatian, which had exposed the German system before the War. The Germans will never be conquered by this damning taint of commercialism, and their spirit will stamp it from the world.
In the midst of the crisis in the financial editor of that paper, Mr. A German advance through Belgium to the north of France might enable Germany acquire possession of Antwerp, Flushing, and even of Dunkirk and Calais, which might then become German naval bases against England. One sets out to kill, one shoots to kill, one leaps at the throat of the enemy but to kill, and one kills until there is nothing left to kill.
Univer- sities have begun to offer courses of lectures upon the new technique, and vast collections of War propaganda have been assembled at Stuttgart, Paris, London and Stariford.
The United States Committee on Public Information was undoubtedly correct in notifying neutral governments of what they wanted to do inside neutral borders. Why not postpone the theory of method until wrld history is finished? The professors and the graduate students and the publicists have swollen the flood of systematic speculation about, and systematic examination of, the subject.
If the propagandist is to mobilize the hate of the people, he must see to it that everything is circulated which establishes the sole responsibility of the enemy.