PEOPLE AND THINGS
By HAROLD NICOLSON
FEW problems of modem politics are more fascinating than the problem of propaganda. The average Englishman, in that he regards propaganda as an ungentle- manlike procedure, seeks to believe that we as a race are the worst propagandists in history. This view is not shared by foreign observers. Many sincere and even intelligent Americans have written books to prove that it was British propaganda during the War that spun a silken web in which the innocent white soul of the United States became ensnared. Herr Hitler himself has, in Mein Kampf, paid a generous tribute to the effectiveness of our propaganda at the front. Yet still do we, in our dislike of something so vulgar, proclaim that this branch of politics is one which no Englishman can either practise or understand.
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