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Hal Boyle to prove a point about the enemy. Here is the text of that broadcast — and it still is timely.
By CEDRIC FOSTER
H<il Boyle hailj /rom Kansas City. Worthed for AP here, while going to Junior College, and again after graduation from Missouri University's School of Journalism. Lived in an apartment out on Armour near Gillhdm.
POSSIBLY the easiest manner in which to tell this story is to quote it . . . quote it to you exactly as it came from Hal Boyle of the Associated Press today under the date line of an American front line clearing station somewhere in Belgium, the seventeenth of December.
My broadcasts have honestly, and I hope, fearlessly, attempted to point out for the past three years the character of the enemy whom we fight in this war of survival. It is sheer folly to try to cope with any enemy if we do not understand him. And by "understand him" one means to acquire a knowledge of his philosophy and his creed and of the tactics he employs in giving life and breath to that creed. In many ways this broadcast has tried to do this. Many people still refuse to believe. It is understandable why they so refuse. They refuse because the stories of German brutality are such that they cannot conjure up
C/. article by Cecil Brown, "Wh.it John Smith Thinlls cf Hans Schmidt." printed in the January "Swing."
in their minds any persons who claim to cling to even the slightest vestige of a Christian civilization perpetrating the crimes which have been placed at the German door.
This broadcast today is directed to a man who Uves in Dallas, Texas, at thirtytwo hundred Greenbrier Drive. He has written to me from time to time extolling the high qualities which he declares are to be found in the German people. His latest letter to me declares: "You are the bravest man I ever saw behind a microphone. You condemn a great race of people at close range, about three thousand five hundred miles. It takes courage to do this. Of course, many of our innocent boys are a wee bit closer. I was a wee bit closer in the last war. They are learning, and we learned, that the German people were a great race. They fought well and bravely. They treated our prisoners with great consideration and it appears they are doing likewise in this war. The greatest trouble with all wars is that old men like you declare them, and the young men, most of whom have never voted, fight and die. You have never heard and you never will hear a veteran who actually faced the Germans at close range, rant as you do over