Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-03

to the central control. The general
council Of about 500 representatives
meets but once every four years to
pass on broad policies. A smaller. So
called executive committee meets an
nualIy. The actual control OF current
activities Is vested Ia al snail group
a large proportion being appointees of
its president. ia whom the real power
thus lies to speak and act for the vast
organization.
This is the organization which lead
the successful movement through Ma
tton-wide propaganda to defeat the
cruisers and other naval auxiliaries fol-
lowing the breakdown In 1927 of the
Geneva naval conference. That such
propaganda was the principal in
f1uence In the defeat of that program
is the boast of The Federal Council of
Churches of Christ In America and the
considered opinion of nearly all men,
bers of Congress. President Coolidge
himself has emphatically expressed the
same opinion.
Large Sums Spent.
From what has been set forth, it is
clearly indicated that large sums of
money are being spent by many power
full organizations in which foreigners
play an important role, to propaganda
the country through the press, the
church, the stage, the movie. the schools
and colleges the lecture platforms, and
virtually every agency Of communica-
ton. The declared object Is the pro-
motion Of international good will and
world peace by controlling the United
States Government through the con-
troll of American public opinion" Capt.
Knox states.
Graphing with the question of Brit
ish propaganda, Capt. Knox pointed
out:
THE number of Americans familiar
with British psychology who are trained
in the propaganda art must be ex-
tremely small Even If we would, we
could not possibly do In England what
is being done here. The fact that We
are making no parallel effort is con-
clusively shown by the uncomfortable
number of Americans in England who
are on newspaper STATS, in pulpits, IN
PROFESSIONAL chairs, in peace societies
radio broadcasting, etc, compared with
the numerous Englishmen so employed
here.
Moreover, the few Americans en-
gagged In such work In England seem to
be Of a type who feel it necessary to
dDOlOklZG lOi fAluCi n
large reward can safely be offered for
the discovery of a British propaganda
or an American employed in British
propaganda in this country who apollo
eizes for Britain Thu net result of all
that Is being done is extremely one
sided"
Gives Tangible Evidence"
As tangible evidence of the workings
Of propaganda. Capt Knox declared:
'The American public was very sue
cessfully led firmly TO believe
81. That the sacrifices entailed In
our battleship-scrapping program are
paralleled by the battleship scrappine
Of other powers.
20. That the failure to limit auxiliary
tonnage, whereby Great Britain re-
tanned her huge cruiser preponderance
did not involve any unfairness TO this
country and bore no essential relation
to battleship scrapping.
90 That the failure TO limit auXn-
laries did not materially affect the value
Of the treaty in preventing future com.
petitive building and excessive expendi'
ture.
e. That the effort of France to re.
tain suficient submarine force to safe
guard her sea communications agains
overwhelming British naval dominance
was reprehensible in the extreme ant
made it impossible TO limit cruisers ant
other auxiliaries.
The American public was indoctri
mated strongly with these and othel
similarly falacious beliefs. all favorable
to the British. whereas not q single
point even slightly unfavorable to thetl
case, received any attention"