Evening star., 1940-07-21
German Propaganda
Guns Aimed al British
In Latin America
U. S. Continues Efforts
To Expound Views
Of Democracy
BY EWARD STUNT.


organized propaganda advance into
the hcnes and minds of the Span
ish and Portuguese speaking citi-
Eens.
The war has been conducted from
four general MISUNDERSTANDING,
London, Paris and Washington.
Presumably the propaganda ac-
tivities of Paris news agencies and
newspapers now are curtailed.
Washington continues efforts to
show Latin Americans the North
American way of life through the
Division of Cultural Affairs at the
State Department. London ex-
pounds its views through radio
broadcasts and services to South
American newspapers. But Ger
many is thrusting much of its
genius for method into the battle
for thinking" influence in Ameri-
can countries under the southern
cross.
France Called British Dupe.
This story will deal with the
German method.
The writer has before him more
than so books, pamphlets, maga-
zines. leaflets, posters and post cards
obtained from a German Legation
IN a northern republic of South
America.
The documentary evidence of the
German method is unused in a
clever appreciation of Latin Ameri-
can sentimental attachment to
France. Nowhere in the literature,
circulated before Paris fell, is there
allusion to France as anything more
than the innocent" dupe of an
empire-voracious Britain.
In hatred for England the litera-
ture reaches Wagnerian crescen-
does.
There is one book, for example,
written by Pedro Gonzalez Blanco
and published in Mexico, 1910. 1t
purports to show that Great Britain
since 1873 consistently has been
treacherous to her oldest ally
Portugal.
The book. England and Her
Oldest and Most Faithful Ally" is an
annotated history of British-Portu-
guese relations. 1t relates allegations
Of British "perfidy," treaty viola
ton assault" "rapaciousness" and
"lust."
Gonzalez asserts his book was
written in 1888 with "all possible
objectivity," and adds:
IF it came out as terrible requisi-
tory against England, blame it on
historical documents not on me-"
From his book a reader would
gather that England throughout
modern history has been unspeak-
ably brutal to Portugal, Spain
France and other continental powers
The divorce of Brazil from Portugal
IS attributed to the Vaccinations OF
British power lust.
AS to France-posters and post.
cards picture her as a nation mort
gagged to the whim of a combined
British upper class and Jewish
banking entente.
La Liberte' Ridiculed.
One poster entitled LA Liberte''
pictures variously:
/. For the French soldier-"Lib-
erty to die"
2. For the French family-"Liberty
to starve."
3. For the French profiteer-"Lib.
erty to profiteer."
All OF these show caricatures o1
the French poilu, the French wife
and family, the French workman a.
the victims Of wars cruelty.
Most of the pamphlets are Of
Berlin edition, translated into ex.
cellent Spanish. Others, however
are in German, and a number art
IN English. Adolf Hitler's more
recent Reichstag speeches are there
In form for easy distribution.
Booklets on the "brutalities" O,
the British Regime in Palestine
and on British Tyranny in Ireland
are well bound in black and white
covers. So also is the German
white Book" entitled THE Polish
Atrocities Against the German Mi.
nority in Poland"
This book carries more than 2O(
pages of military and police reports
and allege personal dispositions con.
cerning the gamut of claimed atroci.
ties suffered by the German mi.
norlty. The pages abound in storie!
Of eye-gouging, emasculation, viola.
ton, garroting and virtually every
known form of personal indignity
or torture.
Sixty pages are devoted to photo.
graphs of corpses-many apparently
in advanced stages of decomposition
The German captions ascribe such
things as crushed skulls. shrapnel
perforated backs and torsos, mutt
lated fingers, arms, legs and breast
to Polish flendishness.
(To the writer these pictures ar,
reminiscent. Not so long ago, in /,
warning country, he saw the sam,
photograph of the cadaver of Span
ish peasant woman uSeo to illustrat,
the cruelty of enemy on three diff
ferent fronts. A garter clasp ant
shreds of stocking on a remainin,
leg were easily identified in eacl
successive appearance of the photo.
Britain continues to bear tn,
brunt of German accusation as tn
reader pores through page afte
page of the sample collection.
Pictures identified as war-starve,
babies of the German World Wa
period are shown in photograph
contrast to Sturdier children iden
titled as Nazi youngsters of toda.
with the warning to Winston
Churchill, in Spanish: This will
never happen again"
Another pamphlet, bearing n,
publishing house identification
shows pictures If British possessions
with footnotes as to how they cam
under the English crown.
Gibraltar Declared "a Steal"
This booklet attributes to tn
English an out-and-out "steal" 0
Gibraltar. Canada went to Britain