Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-13

OF Germans
Is Personal
BY CHARLES T.. STEWART
Central prcss COlumniSt

Washington. Sept. l3.-Germany
has hit on u new form of propaganda.
It's very PERSONAL Letters, especially
directed to individuals, are FLOODING
the country Apparently the reich's
publicists take = icS of telephone
directories, for instance. and deliver
their dope to them personally, under
postage stamps.
Herr Hitler has attended (lve seen
his appeals) to American doctors,
dentists and lawyers. Wherever ne
can solidate on any other group, evil
IDENTIFY he's gone after it.
l know definitely about doctors,
dentists and lawyers suppose be-
cause they're easy to classify.
l can specify a lawyer, addressed
like this:
"Mr. Ralph Hoyt Chase, Lawyers,
Southern Building, Washington, d..
c., U. S. A."
Notice? Not Lawyer" but Law
yers"-plural. They're addressed as
a group.
Something About Danzig.
Inside the envelope is leaflet, as
follows:
Something Must BE Done About
Danzig and the Corridor!
''The thing to do is to give back
to Germany what belongs to her.
"When Poland imposed upon the
good faith OF President Wilson Ill
order to obtain German territory, she
was granted this land only under GER
tain formal conditions which she
never has observed.
above all, she undertook to re-
spect the status. of her minorities.
ut was Clemenceau who made this
stipulation the essential considera-
ton before handing over the ter
ritory.
ut is a fact that Poland has not
fulfilled this condition.
"Quite on the contrary, she has
badly treated the local minorities,
badly administered these provinces,
badly organized social and working
conditions.
"She should have considered DAN
zig, according to her own words, her
natural port as her obvious and only
harbor. Instead she has wilfully neg
lected it and has herself establish
ed a dangerous competitor port of
Gdynia, which latter she has more
over supplemented by a naval base
not specified in the treaty of Yer
sailles and not in accordance with
the disarmament provisions contain
ed therein.
In the parallel case of SalOnika,
YugoslOvia showed that there was no
need for her to Seize the slightest
particle of Greek soil to obtain an
outlet.
What would France have said if
at Versailles. Switzerland had claim
ed corridor down the Rhome val
ley to provide her with access to the
Mediterranean, where the port of
Cette has proved SO useful during
critical times?
"What would Britain say-a ques-
ton put by w. H. Dawson, the we'll
known British authOr-if she were to
be cut in two by strip of land un-
der the sovereignty of foreign pow
er reaching from Hull and Newcastle
to Liverpool and Bristol?"
Maine to Vermont.
This spiel is accompanied by a
map, recalling the. fact that Maine
and Vermont were THE only Repub-
lican states at the last American ma
tiOnal election.
How would Uncle Sam like it, Ger
man prOpagandists inquire, if Maine
and Vermont were to be given extra
American jurisdiction, with corridors
to the Atlantic?
l don't know how he'd like it.
Propaganda in Reverse.
But it seems to me that, the more
this German propaganda is propa-
gandized, the less it's effective as
propaganda.
Pm in favor of advertising it as
much as possible.
Anyway, why, from the German
standpoint, are American doctors,
dentists, lawyers, and maybe other
professions, favored listeners-in on
the Hitleristic story?