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erman conveys some of its harsh meaning of slow deathby starvation. Another title with a special appeal to thephilosophical German is ** The Future of Germany—Freedom or Militarism?’The enemy did not let the attack of the Allied press gounchallenged. They issued counter-offensive propa-ganda, circulated by small, colored-paper balloons, whichwere shot down by American snipers and forwarded to theIntelligence Department after souvenir hunters hadobtained their copies hot from the press. Americanveterans recall their anticipation of the weekly arrivalof ** The American in France.”‘The American in France ~ was published in Englishat Strasbourg, according to information in itscolumns se seIts earlier issues were on heavy gloss paper. All werewell prepared. The columns contained numerous adver-tisements of beer gardens, theaters and amusementplaces behind the German lines, the German idea of aninvitation to the Yankees to go across and be comfort-able se seThe photographic reproductions in the publication wereexecuted beautifully. Some of them were of cuts fromEnglish publications issued in Civil War times. Otherswere of American soldiers who were prisoners in Ger-many. A favorite grouping was of a dozen or moreapparently intact Yankees sitting in a beer garden withmusical instruments in hand and steins on the tables,proving something about good fellows getting together,perhaps. Study of the photographed faces of theAmericans showed in every instance that at least onein the group was glowering.The object of the old English cuts was to show thatEngland had tried to aid in dismemberment of theUnion. That was the appeal one week. The next week— 142 it was to Irish-Americans among the troops to remem- Worip WARber Ireland. ArlItsTo the student of the methods and effects of publica- Oy, ry4xtion there always appeared some flaw in the German ,method of argument. A logical set of premises would be ¢built up and an oblique conclusion drawn. For instance,it was argued: England and Ireland never gotalong se seBritain has oppressed Ireland. Irishmen have hatedBritons for centuries. Germany hated England. There-fore children and grandchildren of Irishmen and Irishwomen should join Bergdoll.Reflections on the foregoing make a publisher think thatmaybe the English language press amounted to morethan a little in the war. Not only were the newspapersof the air working, but there were such publications as“La Libre Belge,” one of the most gallant ventures innewspaper history. All the world knows how thatimpish sheet pestered the German occupants of Belgiumwith the reminder that possession may be nine- -tenthsof the law, but that there is another tenth compoundedout of human genius, spirit, and gumption that a mankeeps no matter how down he is, a tenth that keeps himfrom going out.William Allen White, the seasoned Kansas publisher,in similar recollections of mildly martial adventures,commented on the unreality of it all in France.Henry and he, he wrote in effect, referring to GovernorAllen, of Kansas, should have been home waiting forfour o’clock to arrive and the call to play golf to cometo end the daily battle of business with paper manu-facturers and advertisers. Yet there they were inFrance sa se{So were we, like the old classical poet, a part of thethings of which we tell, and among the most pleasant— 143 — Woritp War of them the experience at Radinghem in learning that ArIrs food didn’t win the war, tanks did n’t win the war, Crmax Lhrift stamps and Liberty bonds did n't win the war, =» peach pits did n't win the war, nor knitting needles, nor chocolates, nor cigarettes, any of them alone, but theboys and all of us, and the press doing its bit.
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