The Washington times., 1937-10-06

Says
BOake Carter
Propaganda Making
As In the Last War
Will It Mislead U. s.?


lament and a boycott of all Japa-
nese goods. 1t was indicated the
Government was not displeased with
the demands for action and it is
ready to discuss ,boycotts ,cith other
governments. Italics are mine.)
CONSIDER this extract from
~ Behind the Scenes of French
Journalism" by a French
Chief Editor" eighth chapter,
published in 1916:
- If you reduce the lie to
a scientific system, put it on
thick and heavy, with great ef-
fort and sufficient finances scat
ter it all over the world as the
pure truth, you can deceive
whole nations for a long time
and drive them to slaughter for
causes in which they have not
the slightest interest.
"We have not waited for Lord
Northcliffe's procedure. AS early
as three days after the outbreak
Of the World War, Viviani pro-
mulgated a law, which, on the
same day, was passed by the
house and senate and which
provided as the first installment
the trifling amount of Is, 600 900
francs in gold for the establish.
ment of
LIE MASON DE LA PRESSE
a gigantic building, Francois
Street 3, five stories high, with
out the basement, where the
printing presses are located. A
busy, lively going-and-coming, as
in beehive; trucks arriving,
elegant automobiles with pre-
tentious looking persons.
1.-THE 200 rooms contain the
workshops, offices, parlors and
reception rooms. In the base
ment stood the machinery neces-
Sary for printing and reproduc-
ton, under the glass roof oper-
ated the photo-chemigraphic de-
partment.
Its principal work consisted
in making photographs and cuts
Of wooden figures with cutoff
hands, torn-out tongues, gouged-
out eyes, crushed skulls and
brains laid bare. The pictures
thus made were sent as un-
aSsailable evidence of enemy
atrocities to all parts of the
globe, 1Dhere they did not fail
to produce the desired effect.
It1ltcS mine).
I'm the same rooms fictitious
photographs were made of bonn
barded French and Belgian
churches, violated graves, monu-
ments and scenes of ruin and
desolation. The staging and
painting of these scenes we're
done by the best scene-painterS
Of the Paris Grand Opera"
WHIS advertisement ITO
- Teachers" was printed in
lie Matin, November IL, 1915:
"All French schools must
possess a collection of the cards
German crimes" in order to
impress forever upon the chill
dren the atrocities Of the bar
barians." It added, ian artist
of note had created a dozen COM
positions relating to the most
striking episodes among enemy
crimes. " Teachers, subscribe
today and place these pictures in
your schools"
Consider the horror and the
ghastliness wrapped up in just
these two small instances among
tens of thousands in the last
war, which were used to whip
up mass passion and emotion
to drive them to slaughter for
causes in which they have not
the slightest interest"
That happened in the last
war. Signs are at hand that it
is beginning again. Pictures and
stories and accusations are be-
ginning to swell.
September "a. London's Daily
Telegraph cried, of the bomb
ings in China, "promiScuous
murder" The same day the
London Daily Express, Boosting
the largest circulation in the
world, called on the civilized
world to hang its head in
shame"
September 30, the Labor
Party, its passions thus whipped
into frenzy, calls upon the Lon
don government to establish
boycotts, and further calls
upon the British government to
invite the Government of the
United States to join such
action"
Involve America in the Far