Walter Koch

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Walter Koch

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German Ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

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German Ambassador To Czechoslovakia Confirms Masaryk’s Intentions To Back Polish Invasion 1933-04-25

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Walter Koch the German ambassador to Czechoslovakia sends a cable to Berlin stating that there is “no doubt” that preemptive war was under careful consideration in Prague. He also says that Masaryk had been making statements in favor of Poland attacking Germany and that the Czech government would fully back the attack.

Of these the most influential is what is called "education." Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part. What is essential in mass psychology is the art of persuasion. If you compare a speech of Hitler's with a speech of Edmund Burke, you will see what strides have been made in the art since the eighteenth century. What went wrong formerly was that people had read in books that man is a rational animal, and framed their arguments on this hypothesis. We now know that limelight and a brass band do more to persuade than can be done by the most elegant train of syllogisms. It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if the can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.
-Bertrand Russell