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AN article by Prof. M. Polanyi in The Manchester School, 7, No. 2, entitled “The Struggle between Truth and Propaganda”, although a somewhat polemic criticism of S. and B. Webb's “Soviet Communism: a New Civilization”, is of wider interest through its plea for a more determined stand by scientific workers and other intellectual workers for free and impartial criticism against propaganda. Unless thinkers make a fresh stand everywhere, regardless of political consequences, for the criticism which is freely admitted in a democracy, truth will remain powerless against propaganda, the power of which has been immensely enhanced by new means which scientific discoveries and their application have put in its hands. The reconciliation of rival social doctrines, which alone can save Europe from destruction, cannot be attained except through tolerance and the acceptance of truth and facts, no matter how unpalatable or disconcerting to particular theories.
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Truth and Propaganda. Nature 139, 666 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139666b0
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