The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21


 Like one, that on lonesome road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round
 walks on:
 And turns no more his head: Because he knows Q frlghtful iiend Doth close behind him tread.
 -Colerklge's Ancient Mariner.
 Not long ago an individual who had Q funny twist in his makeup scared the country with Q radio hoax that an army from the planet Mars was coming to attack the earth. Scores of people Swal- lowed the yarn, hook, bait and sinker, 50 many took to their beds and others with weak hearts and simple minds almost passed out. This Is now ancient history, and was fully reported in the daily press and magazines.
 GA New Factor in War)
 In 1898 when war had been de- clared against Spain, news reports said the Spanish fleet under Ad- miral Cervera was on the way to- lombard our Atlantic seaboard and fear ruled the population along the Atlantic coast from Bos- ton to Miami, many prominent people deserting their homes to move farther inland, so that they would be out of range of spanish shells, when the Spanish fleet got busy. Here again fear ruled the majority of the people. It is now an accepted ethic in wars that be- fore war can be declared that the population must be terrorized, or scared SO badly that they will not offer opposition to the powers that seek to Involve the country In war. Sometime ago alarming news from Washington, D. O., was flashed over the country that NaA bomb- CTS could reach our land over g. 1000 miles of ocean In six hours, and like the incident of the army from Mars that was to attack the U. s. the yarn met with universal belief. The scare worked, even some newspapers fell for It, al- though war experts and aviators on both sides of the Atlantic said 1t couldn't be done. Then came another scare that the Nazis were to open a base somewhere on the south of us, and that scare called for @ speedy mobilization Of troops in that section of our hemisphere. This was rank propaganda With q vengeance, each phase intended to scare the population, and to pave the way for the first phase of an undeclared war by the manipula- tors of the war to come. These scares worked as all such scares do, and there was great reJoiclng here and in a country overseas that the first seeds of war were planted in the mentality or the American people. ~
 Soon after the visit to Canaua and to this country, the White House In particular, Of the king and queen of England, tniS country became 9 Paradise for all kinds of propaganda, until any Independence that might have been the inheritance Of the na- tive borns has gone with the wlnd' Truly has this country been in- vaded by propagandists Of all kinds of 'isms, whose avowed pur- nose is to frighten the people oi these United States that they are to be attacked, enslaved and de- stroyed by a foreign enemy, un- less we give all we have to another nation, until we have nothing leIt for our own defense.
 IL has become so bad that as in 1898 many people are afraid to go to bed at night, for fear of being bombed during the night
 Truth Like Murder Will Out
 That this is no pipe dream IS proven by the fact that the threat to our very existence as an lnde- pendent nation. has caused the forming of "The Institute For Propaganda Analysis" because It has come to pass that propa- ganda in the public press, on the radio. and the movie screen, is so subtle that only skilled newspaper men, can untangle the truth from the fabricated lies, sent out by all the overseas belligerents. The intent is pure and simple to con fuse the American people so that they are at the mercy Of the propagandist in this country as well as abroad. Two newspaper men, Harold Lavine and James Weschsler, after long and ln- tensive research have given their findings in a book of 364 pages under the title of War Propa- ganda and the United States. These two writers have spared no one in this unbelievable expose, and the hideous conspiracy matched against this country is for the first time exposed in black and white. As before stated the unveiling of the conspiracy against the people by the war traffickers is Well-nigh unbelievable. The