Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pointing out the effect of Nazi propaganda on the United States in "The Poison in Our System" lead article of the current issue of the "Atlantic," Carl Joachim Friedrich, professor of Government, advocates a counter attack by the Americas to undermine the morale of Hitler's followers...
Such efforts according to Friedrich, cannot hope to overthrow Hitler, but they can help to maintain the morale of America's friends and the believers in a democratic future. Even more urgent would be the destruction of the Nazi morale, itself. The task is not impossible, and it is only by effort that we can realize its potentialities...
...spreading his propaganda, Friedrich declared, Hitler does not assert what he wishes us to believe; he assumes it in his statements. To implant the idea that the Nazis will win the war, he does not say that "Germany will win" but instead "after the war, America should trade with a victorious Germany...
Russian promises, of course, are often superseded by subsequent arrangements, and in Moscow last week another German Ambassador, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, may have been discussing an arrangement about Turkey with Russia's new Premier. Access to the Mediterranean Sea is still a preoccupation with all Russian statesmen, and an offer of joint control of the Dardanelles might cause Premier Stalin to forget his promise to Turkey. In the meantime, in Ankara, Franz von Papen already had a jimmy in the doorjamb...
...From Moscow last week came a strong smell of diplomatic fermentation. On the eve of German Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg's return from a long stay in Berlin the Russian press made two significant announcements that: 1) 12,000 German troops had landed in Finland, within 50 miles of the Russian base at Hanko; 2) since March 18 shipment of war materials across the U.S.S.R. had been forbidden...