Similar considerations apply to the problem of broad- casts to
foreign countries. People who compare our propa- ganda with that put out by Germany and draw unfavourable conclusions from such comparison do not realise that we and the Germans are aiming at different things. The German wireless aims at a radio Blitzkrieg without con- sidering the ultimate effects of such impulsiveness. We endeavour, by the moderation of our language, to create confidence and to establish credit. Naturally the German method is infinitely more " amusing." That is not the point. The German methods may, for the moment, arouse con- fusion, interest and class-suspicion in the ranks of their enemies. Yet the time will come when Germany will passionately want to be believed. It will then be that their system of untruth and hatred will tell against them. It will then be that our duller, more sober, less dramatic methods will prove to have been wise. Let us not, in a mood of flurry, deny the very values for which we fight.
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