An Observation Of Adolf - Raymond Gram Swing Analyzes Hitler - October 5, 1939
Since the War in Europe had been going on a little over a month, there was no letup in the amount of propaganda emanating from Germany in the days just following Chamberlain's declaration. But since the U.S. was not actively in the war, we still had reporters covering Berlin on a regular basis and the goings on of the Hitler regime.
Raymond Gram Swing was a News commentator for the Mutual Broadcasting System network and his astute and articulate daily assessments of the war were just part of that growing community of news gatherers taking to the networks ever since the Munich Crisis of 1938 legitimized broadcast journalism.
This commentary, given on October 5, 1939 talks about the attraction of Hitler to the German people and how people in general are mesmerized by his presence.
Raymond Gram Swing: “It’s well to bear in mind that Hitler never speaks at the microphone without the background of a frenzied audience. He never tries to talk quietly and persuasively to an individual listener. He talks to crowds who must give a crowds response. This is an essential of the totalitarian leadership."
Hmm. Frenzied crowds . . . Never talking quietly or persuasively. . . . .
Fascinating.
Hitler did speak persuasively to individuals. But not to them all.
"..There is no doubt that Hitler had a power of fascinating men, and the sense of force and authority is apt to assert itself unduly upon the tourist. Unless the terms are equal, it is better to keep away".
Winston Churchill wrote that in The Gathering Storm (pg. 250). He had been invited to meet with the dictator during his wilderness years. He prefaced that by writing:
"I would gladly have met with Hitler with the authority of Britain behind me. But as a private individual I should have placed myself at a disadvantage. If I had agreed with the dictator-host, I should have misled him. If I had disagreed, he would have been offended, and I should have been accused of spoiling Anglo-German relations. Therefore I declined, or rather let lapse, both invitations. All those Englishman who visited the German Fuehrer in these years were embarrassed or compromised. No one was more completely misled than Mr. Lloyd George.."
It looks like another Whitestock Republinazi rally, this one in Germany rather than Washington.
...and thus are doomed to repeat it.
Bellamy salute
There was initially some resistance to dropping the Bellamy salute, for example from the Daughters of the American Revolution,[5] but this opposition died down quickly.(DAR's motto is "God, Home, and Country.")
[5] Fried, Richard M. (1999). The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America. New York: Oxford University Press (USA). p. 12.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
That was interesting.
far left loon >.<
Havelock Ellis (1859—1939) British physician, sexual psychologist, and social reformer. Author of the seven-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex, which until 1935 was legally available only to the medical profession. Coauthor of the first English medical textbook on homosexuality, which he did not consider a disease, sin, or crime.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Hmmm... wonder if the Beckster speaks German... he's got all the rest down pat
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Study the symptoms not the virus...
Well, actually I think that's a Russian uniform, but I'm sure he does.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
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It's OK to Sieg heil him nonetheless.
far left loon >.<
Not me... but the baggers certainly seem to.
I could think of a whole lot of other things I'd like to throw at him... but certainly not a salute of any kind.
smile
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