What the U. S. Believes

Burned by the fire of War I, the U. S. shuns the blaze of War II. Believing themselves to have also been well singed by the Allied and German propaganda of War I, the U. S. people are on the whole reluctant to believe even what their world's most honest press can learn for them about War II. How skeptical the U. S. public is about war news, even that originating from its own Capital, was made digit-plain last week by a FORTUNE survey of U. S. credulity.

The question: Do you believe all, most, some, little or none of the war news items from these cities?

The answers:

Washington London Paris Berlin Moscow

ALL 13.6% 1.4% 1.3% 0.4% 0.4%

MOST 35.3 10.0 8.8 2.0 1.7

SOME 32.7 48.5 47.2 29.6 25.9

LITTLE 10.3 26.9 27.6 41.1 33.3

NONE 1.9 5.5 5.8 18.0 20.9

DON'T KNOW 6.2 7.7 9.3 8.9 17.8

A black mark against the efficiency of German propaganda was the fact that 59% of the U. S. people believe little or nothing from Berlin. Other black marks against Dr. Goebbels' machine:

> Only 6.3% believe the German story that Athenia was sunk by the British.

> 63.9% believe that the Germans deliberately bombed noncombatants in Poland.

> 22.7% believe that revolution in Germany is rife.

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