Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-17


is to analyze it and expose it to public
view for what it is. We propose to
analyze it."
| Research is carried on by full-time
members of the Institutes staff assisted
by students who clip newspapers and
handle much routine learning mean
while the organizations pathway to truth.
Officers are E. c. Lindeman, New York
School of Social Work; Kirtley Mather,
Harvard University; Prof. Miller and Ned
H. Dearborn, New York University They,
with Robert S. Lynd, Columbia Uni
versity also are the executive committee
directly responsible for activities of the
organization.
| Prominent Educators
The Advisory Board includes names
from the world of education such as
! Historian Charles A. Beard, Leonard
| Doob Yale: Paul Douglas, University of
| Chicago: Frank E. Baker, Milwaukee
State Teachers College, and Is other
distinguished in their respective fields.
| Subjects selected by the institute for
studies in propaganda are invariably
lldlluleu NlJIlUul SIu' % LtSAolOll 10 1Clt
with the reader as to whether the pro-
paganda is favorable or unfavorable,
something to be welcomed or deemed in
| tolerable.
For example, in summarizing the dis
cussion of British propaganda in America
it is asserted that the interests of the
United States may or may not be identi-
will, prito hIt tho fort the
George Washington's family came from
England (as prominently displayed on a
family tree at the British Worlds Fair
Building here, or that Englands Am
bassador is charming doesn't prove it
one way or the other, any more than
the democratic demonstration of royalty
eating hot dogs at Hyde Park has the
remotest connection with the effort of
this country to work out sound for
eign policy
On the other hand" the report con-
cludes, 1T should not be construed that
Britain wants our friendship only to put
something over The United States is
working hard to gain the friendship of
South America. 1t hardly follows that
our Government wants to put something
over. Perhaps it does. Perhaps Brit
tain does, too
Reader Must Know.
That problem is not the concern of the
institute, the reader must know in order
to understand its detectives. The insti-
tute does reserve the right to point out,
among other things, that the tour of
the King and Queen was arranged
shortly after the affair at Munich
evoked adverse criticism here, and that
Mayor Camillien Houde of Montreal had
delivered scathing address in which he
asserted that if Italy and England were
enemies in the next war, the SYM
pathles of the French Canadians in
Quebec will be on the side of Italy,
Indicating the increasing influence of
the institute, the bulletin Britain Woos
America" was used as the basis for an
issue of the March of Time entitled:
War, Peace and Propaganda"
Institute researchers found that 1899
model Communists in the United States
were hackers of the New Deal principally
velts foreign policy reinforces their own
blind support of the Soviet Union. The
investigators last March when the bull
letin was published didn't anticipate the
Stalln-Hltler handclasp, but they came
closer than they knew to indicating that
it was possibility.
They decided that Communists worked
qrHent1v for tbojr !,
moscow gold" that membership lists
were padded with inactive names, and
that the propaganda policy was difficult
to fathom because it depends upon
the. policy, tactics and program of the
Communist party at the particular mo-
ment," subject to change without notice
with every shift in the political weather
not only in the United States but in
Europe and in the Soviet Union as we'll"
Permanent Policy Difficult.
The handicap in perfecting a perma-
nent policy may be we'll grasped by any
one who visited New Yorks Union Square
shortly after the pact between Russia
and Germany was confirmed, and found
that all but few exultant Trotzkyites
had deserted their soap boxes, unable to
muster coherent sentence of explana-
ton that made good sense even to their
most sympathetic listeners.
In discussion of News From Europe"
particularly interesting now that there is
always danger of becoming embroiled in
the European conflict, the institute
scrutinized the sources of many Ameri-
can correspondents in an effort to make
clear that frequently the tone of their
dispatches was colored by the motives of
their informants.
Thus as was recently witnessed, a cor
respondent in London or Paris writes
authoritatively that Germany is ready
for war and an equally authoritative
report from Berlin contains assurances
that the people are ready for the peace
full solution promised by their govern
ment. Likewise, dispatch from Ger
many sets forth that Hitler offered 16-
point compromise for peace that was
spurned by Britain and France; a Lon
don story declares the proffer was never
made and therefore never rejected
One OF the large news services was
"scooped' on the German march to
Munich, because the correspondent there
was German and at the crucial mo-
melt had been ordered IN joi, his wool