TOO MUCH PROPAGANDA

Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 3

TOO MUCH PROPAGANDA

Lord Horder, speaking recently on propagandism, said that its rapid increase through the medium of books and the Press had now been supplemented by radio, which not only, reached vaster audiences, but was enhanced by the unique addition of tha human voice. He felt anxious lest mankind should be stampeded and that the individual’s liberty should become of no avail in a world gone mad. If the whole community ran amok there was little to be gained if the individual preserved hia sanity. Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries had lagged behind others in the use of the radio for propaganda, and he considered this might be the ultimate saving of civilisation. He doubted, however, whether this useful “ bloc ” would be assisted if the 8.8. C. foreign propaganda service with which they were threatened came into being, together with a £2,000,000 radio city for London, backed by powerful business, advertising, and entertainment interests.