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\l%0 r“AMERICAN PROPAGANDA”(j-iiiijAccording to press dispatches from London horic furor has boon raised in Cl rout. Britain by tho American war film, Tho Big Parade.” Doubtless the name wort of reception will be given tho film on the continent, while Australia has barred tho showing of the picture, becauHo*It in “American propaganda/’The “Big Parade” is a war picture dealing, with tho life of the American soldiers in the trenches. It. l« true that it does not play up the allied armies, and If this is American propaganda, then, of course;' the makers of the Him will have to plead guilty.It would seem to an outsider, however, who has nothing do With the picture, one way or another, that if Europeans are objecting to a war picture as* American propaganda, they are showing a serious lack of humor, to say tho least. For the United States has been flooded with European propaganda of all kinds for years: The real j«kh! started with the beginning of'the war back in 3 Ft 4 and none of the belligerents neglected an opportunity to present- Its side of tho eaao. The propaganda did not coaso with the Closing of tho war. It continued In the efforts to got us into tho League of Nations, and to-persuade us to cancel the European debts. And worst of all, we have hot been flooded at together with European propaganda from Europe, ptftt of it has been manufactured by publications, public speakers And so-called educators in the United States. _ ' • •We have had war plays from Europe which ontirefy ignored the American soldiers, and we seemed not to object. Therefore the aut-ftttirsfc against a picture which seeks to portray the American soldierIn the war would seem to be decidedly la bad taste. But tho lesson for in to learn is that if a ,tlny bit or American propaganda is bad for i^ropo. a„ veritable flood of European , propagauda is not good for America.-- [B15Itr.Jr.?
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Chicago Star Publications
Chicago, Illinois, US
Tue, Jul 06, 1926
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