The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-02-23
Inside the Axis
Continued from page One)

During previous Ndll ATTEMPTS 10
write off Allied conferences in ad-
vance, they put out their propaganda
dispatches for foreign consumption
only, shielding the German people
from a "war of nerves" to which the
Nazis themselves would be contribut-
ing by commenting on the conferences
domestically This time DR.. Goebbels
made no attempt to shield the Ger
man people Nazi agencies put out
the same propaganda for home con-
sumption that they disseminated to
the rest of the world. The new tao
tic was in keeping with the recent
overall Nazi policy of giving the Ger
mans their pills without sugar coat
ing.
Now that the Allies have invaded
Germany from both the East and
West, it is more difficult for the Nazis
to keep news from the German people
and attempts to shield them from the
impact of political events might easily
prove propaganda boomerangs. More
over the Nazis have apparently de-
cided that a propaganda Gotterdam-
merung is the best psychological goad
at the present time for continued re-
sistance,
While telling the Germans what the
Allies are doing on the political front,
the Nazis have stepped up their do
nestle arguments that the German
people have just as much to fear from
the British and Americans as from
the Russians-that their industry will
be taken over, their wealth confis-
Gated and their workers and soldiers
conscripted for labor In the devas-
tated countries.
Along with these arguments has
gone blunt threat AS evidenced in |
propaganda output for the home front
and front-line troops, the Nazis have
told the Germans plainly that they
would never escape Nazi retribution
if they yield without fighting to the
end.
PRESS COMPLAINTS
When Taketora Ogata, a former |
newspaperman, became head of jap
ans Board of Information last July, |
he promised the Japanese a more
would get factual reports conditioned |
only by considerations of military |
security"
Six months have passed since Ogata
took office, and the Tokyo press has
been complaining anew against the
governments handling of information
policy. The Tokyo Mainichi has urged
the lifting of press restrictions, while
the magazine Koron-as quoted by
the Yenan radio in China = has in
Weighed both against the newspapers
and the radio
The Koron complained that the
newspapers were dull, written like
government reports" and merely the
vehicles of cabinet views Meanwhile,
the Tokyo newspaper Asahi has called
on the Board of Information to think
up some original ideas" to make the
radio more amusing.
at can be said of the radio" the
asserted. that the people
are tired of listening to sermons and {
A few days after this comment was |
published the Japanese Newspaper
Association was abolished and it's job t
Of "unifying the publication and dis I
tribution of the nations newspapers
was taken over by the governments /
Board of Information.
w.
"SCHLUSS" l.
The German DNB agency, which
transmits news and propaganda for v
both domestic and foreign consump- b
ion, created an undue amount of com II
notion recently when its routine sign u
off" Schluss, Schluss" ("End, End') )
was interpreted enormously amid II
he military threat to Berlin as last
GESTURE of Nazi despair.
DNB transmits its material by wire ct
ess dot-dash and ont by voice. When W
finishes a transmission period, it az
igns off with the words "Schluss,
chluss." w
There was quality of urgency, st