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Magazines sponsored by the U.S. Government have usually met with limited success abroad. The reason is that Europeans and Asians view any government publication with suspicion. A notable exception is Germany's Der Monat (the Month), a monthly with a Harper's format that was launched six years ago by the State Department as a "weapon against Communism and Naziism." Although its circulation is small (30,000), Der Monat has become the most respected and influential magazine in Germany, helped spark a renaissance in German intellectual life, which was stamped out by the Nazis. Read largely by intellectuals...
...Occupation owns radio stations, newspapers, and magazines in both countries. In Austria the "Wiener Kurier," a picture tabloid, and in Germany the respectable "Neue Zeitung" undersell the national journals. The Government also supports in Germany a Life-like bi-weekly called "Heute" and a literary monthly "Der Monat...
...Government runs Germany's biggest publishing plant. Once its giant presses spewed forth Hitler's venomous Völkischer Beobachter; now they supply Germans with news of a democratic flavor. No force-feeding is needed: Die Neue Zeitung, a thrice-weekly paper; Heute, a picture magazine; Der Monat, a political monthly; and Neue Auslese, a cultural digest, all sell like piping-hot Kartoffelpuffer...
...HENRY A. MONAT...
Take down the "Fourth Eclectic" from the shelf, used in grammar schools. Here are ninety selections in prose and poetry. Familiar names catch the eye, Celia Thaxter Lucy Larcom, J. T. Trowbridge, James Buchanan Road, Lowell, Longfellow. Here is a part of the Sermon On the Monat. There is a scene from Tom Brown's Schooldays and again a part of Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy. Here also...