CHILDS, HARWOOD L., and JOHN B. WHIT- TON (Eds.). Propaganda by Short Wave. Pp. xii, 355. Princeton: Princeton Uni versity Press, 1942. $3.75
| Author | Belle Zeller |
| Published date | 01 November 1942 |
| Date | 01 November 1942 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271624222400150 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
211
Indication
of
the
author’s
approach,
and
of
his
detailed
conclusions,
is
given
in
his
prefatory
queries
and
declarations.
&dquo;At
the
time
of
annexation-45
years
ago-
Formosa
was
economically
on
about
the
same
level
as
Japan....
Insofar
as
land
was
more
abundant
in
the
colony,
its
popu-
lation
was
probably
better
off
than
that
of
Japan.
What
has
happened
in
these
last
45
years?
How
did the
islanders
fare
in
their
political
and
cultural
development?
Had
they
any
chance
to
perfect
their
cul-
ture
enriched
by
contact
with
the
Japanese?
Have
they
any
semblance
of
political
free-
dom
or
any
opportunities
to
advance?
If
they
are
not
masters
of
their
own
fate
po-
litically,
do
they
control
their
own
eco-
nomic
life?
If
the
answers
to
these
ques-
tions
are
of
a
discouraging
character,
it
is
not
because
of
the
author’s
attitude
but
because
of
the
facts
revealed
in
the
Japa-
nese
reports.&dquo;
Despite
criticism
of
British
rule,
&dquo;conditions
in
British
India
cannot
even
be
compared
with
those
in
Formosa.
The
Indian
people
can
organize;
they
use
their
own
languages
in
middle
schools
and
even
in
the
Universities;
they
publish
their
own
newspapers
and
books
in
their
own
languages;
they
have
their
own
political
groups
and
parties,
their
voice
and
their
criticism
are
heard
in
the
provincial
as-
semblies ;
certain
important
industries
of
India
are
now
in
the
hands
of
Indians.
However
limited
all
these
rights
and
the
opportunities
to
use
them
may
be
in
India,
they
are
infinitely
greater
than
those
of
the
people
of
Formosa.&dquo;
Mr.
Grajdanzev’s
analyses
and
presenta-
tion
of
material
are
primarily
statistical,
the
figures,
as
indicated
above,
being
taken
from
Nipponese
sources.
The
book
abounds
with
tables
dealing
with
the
eco-
nomics
and
certain
other
aspects
of
life
in
Formosa.
Here,
as
has
so
often
been
stated
by
Japan’s
critics
with
respect
to
Korea,
great
advances
have
been
made
in
material
ways,
e.g.,
roads,
railroads,
har-
bors,
radio,
schools,
and
hospitals;
but
it
is
pointed
out
that
it
is
the Japanese
in-
vaders,
not
the
natives-in
this
case
Chi-
nese
and
aborigines-who
prosper
in
the
main.
During
the
years
immediately
following
its
annexation,
Formosa
was
known
as
Toncan
no
sehi,
i.e.,-
the
stone
aiming
at
the
south.
The
supplementary
chapter
(fol-
lowing
the
three-page
Selected
Bibliography
with
accompanying
Note
on
Weights
and
Measures)
dealing
with
this
aspect
of
Tai-
wan’s
role
in
empire
construction
is
excep-
tionally
interesting.
Granting
that
an
au-
thor
has
the
right
to
organize
the
material
of
his
book
as
he
pleases,
it
still is
not
clear
why
the
valuable,
if
too
brief,
chapter
en-
titled
Administration,
Education,
Social
Af-
fairs
and
Political
Movements
should
be
placed
in
the
Appendix
instead
of
in
its
logical
position
after
the
somewhat
sketchy
chapter
on
the
History
of
Taiwan.
That
the
author
is
not
lacking
in
a
satirical
sense
of
humor
is
evidenced
in
the
paragraph
on
p.
163
in
which
he
points
out
that
Taiwan
has
one
policeman
for
every
580
persons,
whereas
Japan
proper
has
to
worry
along
with
only
one
guardian
of
the
law
for
every
1,052
persons;
that
there
are
more
police-
men
in
Taiwan
that
teachers;
and
that
in
1937
there
were
almost
three
times
as
many
policemen
as
physicians.
The
Japanese
militarist
who
peruses
this
volume
will
feel
that
Mr.
Grajdanzev
is
a
very
demon
in
his
exposures
of
truth
as
shown
in
Nippon-
ese
statistics.
HARLEY
FARNSWORTH
MACNAIR
University
of
Chicago
CHILDS,
HARWOOD
L.,
and
JOHN
B.
WHIT-
TON
(Eds.).
Propaganda
by
Short
Wave.
Pp.
xii,
355.
Princeton:
Princeton
Uni-
versity
Press,
1942.
$3.75.
For
twenty
months
prior
to
June
1941,
the
Princeton
Listening
Center,
financed
by
a
grant
from
the
Rockefeller
Founda-
tion,
constituted
America’s
listening
post
for
the
radio
propaganda
of
the
world.
After
these
pioneering
efforts,
the
Federal
Communications
Commission
now
monitors
short-wave
broadcasts
on
a
more
compre-
hensive
scale.
However,
for
the
period
covered,
the
Center’s
volumes
of
short-
wave
transcripts
represent
the
only
reason-
ably
complete
file
of
war
propaganda
by
short
wave
in
the
United
States.
The
stud-
ies
in
Propaganda
by
Short
Wave
are
based
primarily
upon
material
collected
and
re-
ported
by
the
Center,
or
constitute
projects
closely
related
to
the
activities
of
the
Cen-
ter.
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