The Headmaster of Blundell's does well to draw attention to
the insidious propaganda which disseminators of Communism are endeavouring to plant on suitable recipients—in this particular case copies of a journal called the New Central European Observer, published, it appears by the Czech Government and devoted to the exposition of the political views which that Government notoriously professes. Propaganda more or less disguised is, of course, more dangerous than the cruder kind ; the paper in question could prob- ably claim to provide the former product and a public-school might seem a good seed-bed. Some European Governments waste what must be a substantial sum in sending cyclostyled reports of their activities to chosen recipients once a week or oftener. I say waste, because I can hardly imagine that anyone does anything with the documents but put them in the waste paper-basket unread.
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