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DOES HOLLYWOOD WANT WAR? 91
based on the opinions of somebody else; somebody who told him the enemy were ' unconscionable dogs ' as well as dangerously ambitious. And — this is the point — his decisions were chiefly based on inaccurate information. He believed what he was told and acted accordingly.
Inaccuracy is one of the greatest crimes of communal life. Where our actions are based on those of our fellow human beings, as they generally are, it is essential that we should know what those actions are. That is why propaganda is so dangerous. That is why the Press, the Broadcasting authorities and the Cinema hold the reins of influence in their hands and can juggle with good and evil, as they too often do.
If The Daily Mail, for example, were to say that strange atmospheric conditions had rendered the carrying of pocket-knives dangerous, many thousands of the millions who read The Daily Mail would dive their hands hurriedly into their pockets and hurl their knives from them. For weeks the railway lines would be scattered with knives and those nimble persons who can untie knots with their fingers would be at a premium. It would make no difference that The Daily Mail's story was nonsense. It would make no difference if it were true. The result would be the same, for we do not live by what is but by what we are told and shown ; and as we do not possess completely the power to divide truth from falsehood our conception of life must nearly always be different from the realitv.
There will always be strife while there is misunderstanding, and it is the duty of all who believe in peace to do everything in their power to remove it. In the past they have had to contend mainly with the Press, but with the world-wide popularity of the cinema a new and more terrible force has arisen. A newspaper can sow the seeds of misunderstanding only in the area of its circulation, which, vast as it sometimes is, cannot reach people of more than one language. But the cinema is