ART AND SCIENCE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4535, 11 February 1942, Page 2

ART AND SCIENCE

PROPAGANDA WORK “ Propaganda is both an art and a science. This accounts for a good deal of the controversy raging about the use that is made of it, and the form it has taken during the present war. “ The artist and writer, impulsive and inspired, have to provide the ammunition for the democracies’ great intellectual and moral struggle; the scientist, the strategist, weighing the pros and cons, discovering the weak spots of the enemy, working with graphs, maps, and time-tables, have to direct the fire. • “ The main difficulty seems to be to find the great strategist who unites in his person both gifts, possessing the power to lead all his troops into battle when and where they are most effective, and to override all the objections which old-fashioned or departmental minds put in the way of this comparatively new kind of warfare. “ After nearly two years of a war during which Germany had the initiative, both in the military field and that of propaganda, British public opinion has at last awakened to these facts. It suddenly realises that there is no Minister of Propaganda, but only of ‘ Information ’; no Com-mander-in-Chief and no General. Staff guiding the great army of enthusiastic and, on the whole, efficient fighters for a good and noble cause—the mere realisation of which should be able tb defeat the Nazis.”—Dr Stern-Rubarth (former head of Germany’s news bureau), writing in “World Review.”