Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

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38 letting the people of each nation really know the peoples of other nations through the medium of a world' wide free press and freedom of international news exchange. If governments will only stand aside, with a beneficent attitude toward the effort, the principle of community interest and understanding known to each of you in your own community can, through truthful news exchange, ultimately come true internationally. Then you will need neither pact nor military power to enforce friendly relations in international society. Without mutual international acquaintance, the future is just too horrible to contemplate. The longer men concentrate on war, the more ghastly war becomes. So, if the future is to be anything Swlnf April, 1945 that we care to contemplate, if the engines of war are to be what they will be, it is plain that the world must learn to apply internationally the simple principle of peaceful community Hfe that each of us knows in our home neighborhood. Now, actually, there is no secret about it at all. It is so simple that we fail to recognize it. Communities live peacejuWy because the people of a community \now each other. The peoples of most nations do not know the truth about peoples of other nations, and it is a matter of considerable astonishment to many when I say they have never had adequate means of knowing each other. In fact, the channels of international news communication were long used, systematically and usually clandestinely, not to make them know and understand but to make them fear and hate the peoples of other nations. Right up until this war, most of the principal news agencies outside the United States were controlled by or were subservient to their governments, and what they reported as news, and what they did not report, reflected that fact. Hitler, on coming into power 6 years before the war, took control of all media of publication, and completely regimented every form of public expression into his propaganda machine. I was in Germany a year before this war began and I found the peoples of other nations being depicted by the German press and radio as so monstrously fictional as to