Toothache

Dr. Lothrop Stoddard, Brookline, Mass. political lecturer and author, whose racial theories (he used to frighten the U. S. with the yellow peril) make him persona grata to Nazis, went recently to Germany as correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Last week glib Dr. Stoddard got an interview with Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Addressing the little doctor as a "master psychologist," Interviewer Stoddard asked how come the Germany of 1940, unlike that of 1914, has no hurrah spirit for the war.

"Listen," replied Dr. Goebbels, "if I wanted to get the German people emotionally steamed up, I could do it in 24 hours. But they don't need it--they don't want it. ... We Germans do not like this war. We think it is needless and silly. The average German feels like a man with a chronic toothache--the sooner it is out, the better. And he does not need brass bands and flowers to get it over with."

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