NAZI PROPAGANDA
BROADCASTS TO AMERICA. Propaganda to America is now growing in volume and shows what a blow to German hopes has been dealt by the neutrality legislation. A recent broadcast picked up in London gave a full discussion of reasons why the United States was in danger of being "dragged into war,” and ended with the advice that the United States should keep burning the torch of freedom. The argument was that if the United States allowed itself to become entangled with the democracies, its democratic institutions, would disappear and a totalitarian State emerge. If American public men were allowed to conduct controversy with European statesmen then participation in the war must follow, for which "the children would pay." After all. the commentator added, if the democracies were defeated the dictators would be in no state for a quarter of a century to interfere on the American continent. American idealism had been and always would be contaminated by contact with European ideas about peace settlements.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1940, Page 7
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166NAZI PROPAGANDA Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1940, Page 7
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