The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-02

American people believe, and they will be based on OFF policy and theory that the best way to offset the fairy stories is to expose them In print and brand them lies. Thls is the "counteS propaganda of truth" for home consumption.
 These new antl-axiS statements are Q followup on OFFS second venture in the pamphlet field througlt It's current thriller, Divide and Conquer" an analysis of the Hitler propaganda technique In waging psychological warfare in Europe, with on explanation of It's application in the United States and Q warning of what's the worst you can look for here.
 A million copies of the i6-page pamphlet have been printed for dis tribution to the press, radio, clergy, schools and similar places where 1t Is hoped they will do the most good. Or If you want copy for your own library and amazement, drop Q postcard to the Ofiice of Facts and Figures, Washington, D. o. It's free,
 Divide and Conquer" is c lot bet- ter pob than OFFS first pamphlet, Report to the Nation," which was pretty generally banned because 1t was too long, had Q kind of superior magazine writer's approach on things and viewed the situation with oh such terrihcally rosy rose- colored glasses. Report to the Na- tion' did serve one useful purpose in that OFF apparently learned about pamphlets from that--leArned what pamphlets should not be ct any rate.
 EASY TO READ
 The question may be raised as to whether the United States is tract-reading nation. The country goes for books, magazines, newSpa- pers, lectures and radio in 0 big way, and everyone Is a sucker for 0 "free-take-one box" That may be the tip-oR that this medium of tracts and pamphlets may be just what's needed to tell the story. At any rate the story must be told and retold by every possible means, from the gossip of gutter and back fence to the shouts from the house top and ivory tower. So more pow- CT to 1t.
 People who keep up on things won't find anything particularly new in OFFS Divide and Conquer" pamphlet, It's e re-hash and con. densation of all the best books on the Hitler technique-Edmund Tay- lor's Strategy of Terror" Hermann Rauschning'S "Voiee of DeStruc- tion," Donovan and Mowers Fifth Column Lessons for Americans" Cardinal Hlond'S Persecution Of the Catholics In Poland" and SO on including the Federal Communi- cations Commission Monitoring Service Digest and the publications of the Dies Committee on un-AlTler. lean affairs.
 But the OFF pamphlet is c good and convenient boil down on all this material. It Is well-written, easy to read In 0 half hour and well-illustrated by some Fitzpatrick cartoons which you will remember in your bad dreams because they were drawn to knock you right out Of your favorite over.stuffed, fire. side complacency.
 WATCH OFF GROW
 Office of Facts and Figures has recently moved from the library of Congress annex to the two top floors of Q brand-new elght-story building, originally intended to be an apartment house, out near the Lincoln Memorial. Watch 1t grow and go now.
 In the five months In which the outfit has been in existence, 1t has done Q tremendous amount of talk ing and 1t has more Ideas up It's sleeve and through the top of It's hat than you could write down in Q hundred bird dogs at Q field trial. Thus far, most of the OFF Ideas are of the record. In their short life the OFF has broken out with announcements and press releases only 12 times. That's remarkable restraint for c government informa. ton agency, but some of the Ideas in It's hopper are as ambitious as Adolf. They run all the way from Q belief that 96 per cent of the gov- ernment's press releases are Q waste that should be taken as that, to an Idea that OFF should start a serv- ice on its own to give war news to the nations ll,000 country weeklies.