Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1940, Page 22

Subtle War fo Guide American Opinion Rages in Europe U. S. Newspapermen Under Pressure to Paint Rosy Picture By WILLIAM L. WHITE, 8. 5. SATURNIA (in mid-; Medl- terranean)—Out here in mid-Medi- terranean is as good & place as any to tell you about the battle which is going on in Europe to influence American public opinion, and what the American reporters are up against. And in all of it the Ameri- can public has very definite in- terests and rights. We are either going to get into this war or stay out of it, and most of the informa- tion on which our judgments are based is being sent from Europe by American reporters. Our people should know just how free these boys are to send home the absolute unvarnished truth from a 100 per cent American angle. And the only place I found that they were really free was England. ‘The British, of course, censor mili- tary information, as any country at war has a right to do. But aside from this you are as free to write with your gloves off in abuse of them from London as you would be in your office back home. You are also free to circulate among the people, and to report any disaffec- tion you can dig up, without neces- &ity of covering your source of in- formation so that the secret police will not look him up and shoot him, as would be the case in Ger- many. No Punches Pulled. 50 when you read the stories out of London, you know you're getting the truth about the British, warts .and all, as the American reporters see them, with no punches pulled. This is not true of any other warring European capital, nor is it true in some of the neutral coun- tries. The dictatorships try to American reporters around and get out of them as rosy a picture of conditions and events as possible. The Nazis are more liberal than Yyou might think, but they are get- ting less and less s0. They are very THE HAGUE—NAZI AR- RESTED—M. M. Rost Van Tonningen, member of Parlia- ment and editor of a widely circulated National Socialist newspaper, was among 21 persons arrested yesterday as the government investigated reports of “fifth column” ac- tivity in Holland. —A. P. Wirephoto. careful now about whom they let into the country. And they warn the ones who are there against being “tendentious.” It's a new crime; it means being too firmly and outspokenly pro-democratic in your attitude. It means being too consistently curious, in print, about what they are doing in Poland. The things they are doing there are not nice, and while they are going on, the Nazis are not admitting any American reporters to take a look at them. Pressure Put On. The Nazis are keenly aware of the fact that when a reporter who works for a big news agency is kicked out of a country, his usefulness is lim- ited. He is like a traveling sales- man who is debarred from a certain territory—not quite so valuable to his company as a man who can go anywhere. 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