Propuzaina rose, Guna. ave, Japan, A Syanind taker and Autee Bin PhD, Foreword, ey Wits Ee Bruno Lasker and Agnes Roman have made a very interesting study' of the propaganda methods indulged in by the two parties to the present, dispute in Asia. It is claimed on the ust-cover that this book attempts thow how evidence of propaganda may be recognized in the information ent out from the two Far Easlern countries now at war to influence American opinion. The authors have produced no particularly good recipe, bnd the perusal of the replies of various American editors on the subject of Asiatic, propaganda shows that even those journalists, so far removed 22 from the seat of hostilities, can smell propaganda directly it is served up fo them, no matter how eloquently' it may be presented.
"A Wissing and 2 Dyword"
It fs a wonder to the reviewer, and has been for a very considerable time, why either Japan or China should have embarked upon the enofmous propaganda campaign in. Which they have now been engaged,|for a large number of years. For the purpose of convincing the people who Know, propaganda is useless. They' are able to judge the facts for themselves, ad no high falutin' language makes those fects any more striking for more weighty. If it is designed to convince the ordinary man-in-the-Street Its effect Is by no means com-tonsurate with the effort. put into it for it is still a happy fact that it is rot the man-in-the-street who dictates foreign policies, but the people who know. Not only that, but during this last' quarter of a century the World has had such a bitter experience of propaganda that the word has Become a hissing and a byword. Consequently: it seems somewhat of a. work of supererogation to endeavour to point out to the American public methods by which propaganda can be smelt out. The answer seems to be that such a book Is unnecessary (even though it is very well written), for, paradoxically, it may be pointed out {hat if people do not know when propaganda is being served {o them, They most certainly do not deserve 10 have it—ar.-<.
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