The Phantom Dictator
by Wallace West
Television has taken the country by storm. What changes it will make in the political life of the nation remain to be seen. We have had an instance already in the recent Kefauver Committee hearings of how it can concentrate a far greater public attention on a political matter than would have been the case in pre-TV days. The following story does not deal with TV, but with the motion picture as a medium, but its message has an even more pertinent bearing on TV. Without radio, Hitler hardly could have achieved the grip on the German mind that he did. What would the systematic use of TV and modern methods of mass suggestion do for a future Hitler? Wallace West, who was at one time connected with an animated-cartoon company, writes from experience of what could be done in that medium.
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