through a series of staff conferences. Chandler with other English-speaking broadcasters regularly attended the daily conferences held by the chief of the U. S. A. Zone, at which the standard propaganda directives as well as the daily directives were relayed and discussed, and instructions were given to the various commentators with reference to particular subjects. The commentators were not left in doubt as to the war mission of the Short Wave Agency. Wagner, the News Editor of the U. S. A. Zone, referring to these U. S. A. Zone conferences, testified:
*927 "We said that German propaganda during the war was to be used chiefly to create disunity among the Allies, England, America, Russia, and also to create disunity within the individual countries. As far as the United Stateswere concerned, in particular to build up racial controversies, to create unrest regarding the economic inequalities in the country, to work on minority problems and similar ideas, with the purpose of ultimately driving a wedge between the people and the Roosevelt Administration, and if possible to get a new election in which a government would be elected in the United States which would be against interference in European affairs, in other words, which would be isolationist in character."
Further, along the same line, he testified:
"The commentators were told to use the threat of inflation, of the collapse of the dollar after the war, as a means of propaganda, all to create unrest along that line. Similar ideas were brought up in connection with defeatist propaganda. Commentators were told to