Monday, September 02, 2019
What did neutrality feel like?
What was it like to live in a non-interventionist neutral country? I've cited lots of examples from the media of the '30s. The radio manufacturers advertised radio as a way to understand all sides in the European war.
Here's another example along the same lines, from E H Scott in October '39.
Each of the four major countries now at war has a large number of superpowerful transmitters on the air practically 24 hours a day. England is transmitting daily programs on 16 different SW channels; Italy on 11 channels, France on 5 channels, Germany on 4 channels. Although we know that the "news" broadcast at regular intervals during the day from the transmitters of London, Berlin, Paris, Rome and Moscow is highly seasoned with propaganda, these broadcasts at least enable us to hear all sides of the story.Note that England is grouped with the others. They're all belligerents, so all of them are turning out "news", not news. This attitude DIDN'T CHANGE during WW2 when we became one of the belligerents. Our broadcasters still correctly informed us that the "news" from all belligerents, INCLUDING US, was propaganda. The attitude changed sharply in 1946 when Deepstate regained total control. We resumed our 1918 lunacy, and it's only grown worse since. Sidenote: A more poignant piece from the E H Scott newsletters.
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