Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-06-13
PEACE PROPAGANDA.

peace propaganda in this country may
be cleaned from recent statement
\ by DIR. Frank Bohn, former socialist
writer and lecturer and secretary OF
the Friends of Germany Democracy
who declares that Germany has an
even chance" of obt'rin8 victorious
peace b7 means of her ra IFS: prop
uganda.
DR.. Bohn has just returned to the
United States from an extended visit
in France and Switzerland, where he
had first hand opportunity to observe
the effects of German propagandists
in those country, and much signifi
canoe attaches to his utterances. A
part of this propaganda, he assetrs,
consists in the circulation of reports
l in America and other countries that
the German people will end the war
by revolt again the military rulers,
but that this is merely an illusion
| set before the peoples of the world
| to delude them into belief that full
/ force is not to be employed in the
crush Prussianism.
"If there are any Americans who
| still depend on the people of Germany
to. win victory for US" says DR..
Bohn, they had better disillusion
themselves / have discussed this
matter intimately with the numerous
Ferman exi1es in Switzerland, and
there is absolute unity in their con-
illusions. A Germany unwhipped is a.
Germany untouched by democratic
thinking or social revolutions, or
even political reform"
The German pacifst propaganda
takes hundred forms 1t permeates
every nook and Granny not only OF
America, but of Europe as well,
reacing into every phase of life on
the continent And, if through some
terrible catastrophe Germany should
win this war, history will report that
it is not the Germany army, but the
German propaganda which will be the
decisive factor
Germany is spending $5,OO0,OOO a
year in Switzerland alone, and there
is no way of estimating the total sum
being extended in the United States
through various agencies in further
ance of German propaganda in this
country, Carefully trained specialists,
men who received their training over
a score of years, are directing the
expenditure of Germany's peace prop
uganda funds, and every one of these
men is a specialist in his particular
line of work
In Switzerland, DR.. Bohn says, all
of the submerged races of Austria are
represented by fake committees, and
many of these publish papers contain
ing the German propaganda. The
German intriguers realize the import
ance of newspapers in their work and
wherever possible they have subsidiz
ed the press and daily lay their nau
seating proposals before the people.
In all of the countries of Europe,
and in this contry as WE'LL Germany
uses not only the ablest agents that
can be secured, but they are always
men and women of the highest char
acter and splendid education. Ger
many does not use fake pacifists in
! peace propa ganda work in Europe.
The necessity for this does not exist.
Genuine, high minded, whole souled
pacifsts, men and women who have
been deluded into the idea that an
honorable peace can be negotiated
| before Prussia is crushed are stfll
to be found and these are used as the
:, unwilling agents, in many instances,
of Germany's peace efforts.
:. In America. it appears 70 be little
more difficult for the German propa
gandists to delude pacifsts into acting
as their tools, and there IS a general
and well defined notion that all of
the pro Germans in this country are