The Archive · 1938

Propaganda Defeated

Till lately, it was thought that the astonishingly efficient and wily propaganda machine could work up any feeling whatever in Germany. For the first time the machine failed. Weeks of terrific propaganda against the Czechs made small impression on the national will for peace, and this during a period when British public opinion, played on by none but Nazi crudities, was coalescing with an extraordinary unanimity behind Mr Chamberlain.

It is well to remember that Mr Chamberlain and Lord Baldwin and men like them, had they been Germans, would have been excluded from public life since 1933, for th could not thinkably have acquiesced in National-Socialist morality. They tion.

Unemployment Nil The Government has reduced unemployment from 6,000,000 to nothing. That cannot wholly be. explained away in terms of absorption into &rmament manufacture, construction of barracks (of real architectural merit) and Autobahnen, "canalization of rivers to make them navigable, the grandiose" rebuilding of Berlin, fortifications on the Western Frontier, six months' compulsory service in a la-hour camp, and two years in the Army. A gigantic industrial revival lies at the back. The Nazis have

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