Newspapers Urged to Publish Analyses of Nazi Anti-jewish Tirades

Pointing out that “great harm” is done by the disseminate on of Nazi libels against Jews through the American press “without concurrent analyses of these diatribes, of the reason they are uttered, of the phobias they involve,” Prof. Clyde R. Miller, secretary of the Institute of Propaganda Analysis, last night urged the press increasingly to “apply analysis to its own news stories.” Dr. Miller spoke before a Conference on Intercultural Education for Teachers at the Riverside Church, convened under the auspices of the New York round table of the national Conference of Jews and Christians, on the subject: “The Propaganda of Prejudice.”

Referring to the press, he said: “What I have in mind is this: some official in Germany will make a statement reviling Jews. The statement will be picked up by American news agencies and released as a news story to newspapers in every city and state in the union. The statement comprises utter. Untruth and outright libel. There is every reason for printing it as news because not to do so would violate that freedom of speech without which analysis is impossible. few newspapers, however, and few news agencies go to the trouble at the time these statements are issued to include in the news story from reputable sources analyses which would go far toward undoing the evil effect of the hysteria-producing libel.”