Evening star., 1939-10-29
By CLYDE r. MILLER,

Director, Institute for Propaganda Analysis.
written for the Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Oct. $3.50 far,
German war propaganda has been
much better than the British or
French.
This is due to the nature of the
war itself. The Germans. amazing
II successful in their military cam
paign in Poland, could afford to send
out photographs, and to let news
papermen 60 right along behind
their armies.
The British and the French. on
the other hand, have had very little
news to give out. There has been
little action on the western front.
And a long, colorless campaign to
strangle Germany by economic
blockade will not produce many
news stories.
One factor Of enormous impor-
Sance Is the difference between 1914
communications and today's.
In 1914. the British cut the Ger
man cables. The result was that
the allies controlled most of the
news. Today-thanks to radio and
monograms-all the countries in
Europe can reach us and our news
papers.
Results?
Despite the work done by German
propagandists to date, there is no
sign that Nazi propagandists are
beginning to win even mild United
States approval of Hitler's alliance
with Stain or of Hitler's conquests.
The very efficacy of German
propaganda has boomerang posi-
bilities.
This is because Hitler is so gener-
ally distrusted. The better the dis
semination of his propaganda, the
more are the American people re-
minded of a conquest they don t
like and of leader they like still
less.
Britain's Eight-Bal.
Pronounced as United States SEN
timent is in favor of the allies, the
French and British still have a
great deal to overcome as a result
of their previous concessions
notably at Munich-to Hitler.
The British propagandists are well
aware that the memory of Czecho-
Slovakia presents, in the case of
many Americans, an extraordinary
difficult hurdle for the British.
Taking Winston Churchill, bitter
opponent of the Munich pact. into
the British cabinet, tended to make
some Americans forget the appease-
ment policy.
Hence Churchill's appointment
was effective propaganda in Amer
Tea for England.
Iroquios Incident.
On the other side, recent Ger
man propaganda act was the warn
ing issued by Admiral Raeder that
the S. S. 1roquois, an American ship,
was to be sunk.
The Germans were clearly endeav-
oring to plant, in American minds,
q suspicion of the allies.
The Nazis are. I think, past mas
ters at sowing suspicion at home
Their anti-Semitic campaign fur
nishes the proof.
Radio Waves.
Another propaganda act, from an
unknown source, was the broadcast
In Berlin announcing an armistice.
This may have been perpetrated by
Hitler's opponents operating a secret
radio station. Or it may have been
q calculated act of the British, as
the official German version had it.
Either way the result is the same
In terms of loss of morale in Ger
many. The German people were
apparently delighted the war was
over. and that delight, to Judge from
news dispatches, turned into despair.
When you consider the potentiali-
ties of radio, this incident is not sur
prising. The Germans themselves
recently used the radio to spread re-
ports Of an important British naval
loss, in an attempt to break down
morale in England by making the
British believe their navy is vulner-
able.