It would seem from what they told us that the
Stuttgart broadcasts resemble the Tales of Hoffmann which we receive from Hamburg in that they aim at disintegrating confidence by directing little darts and arrows of half-truths at the chinks in the armour. The main theme of Professor Ferdonnet the iniquity, duplicity, selfishness and cowardice of the British. Hour after hour does the Professor, in a gentle and most persuasive voice, distil into the ears, and sometimes even into the minds, of the French public the conception that there is no quarrel of any sort between France and Ger- many, and that the unhappy French people have been driven into this war by the machinations of the bloodthirsty British. Hour by hour does he explain to them that whereas in France one man in every eight is serving in the trenches, only one man in forty-eight over here has even been called up. Hour by hour does he repeat the question "Why is it that-your husband and your sons are at the front? In order that the husbands and the sons of the British can carry on their business as usual at home." Hour by hour does he din into their consciousness the fact that whereas in France all men up to forty-five years old are now in uniform, we otirselves have only just begun to enlist men of twenty-three.
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