IMPROVING PROPAGANDA
Snt,—Mr. Gets, in his letter which you published in your issue of December 3rd, says : "After four years of war we can hardly see any effect of our propaganda on Nazi Germany." I am sure that all your readers will agree with that statement, not because there has been no effect, but because we are not in a position to see it. We have sent no delegation of psychologists to Germany to investigate the matter. We have conducted no Gallup poll there.
He asks : "Why don't we give Hans some indication that the Four Freedoms of the Atlantic Charter will give him the same rights and privileges as us, if he recognises the evil for which he is fighting?" I think that the answer to Mr. Geta's question is this: Hans has a certain , amount of common sense and would find it impossible to believe that there can be any forgiveness for the appalling outrages that he and his fellows have perpetrated on neighbouring countries. Promises of relief and rehabilitation after the war he would very naturally look upon as the feeblest of lying propaganda. If he knows the British and Americans well enough to realise that we, not having experienced his bestiality in our respective countries, are willing to forgive him for what he has done in other countries, he would remember what he has done to Russia, and flatly refuse to believe that Stalin is going to forgive and forget—Yours, W. B. HOWELL. Southview, Ringmore, Shaldon, S. Devon.
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