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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Srexley who wrote (191604)10/13/2001 1:42:08 AM
From: asenna1  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
By "effective speech" of the sort we expect from National-Socialist speakers we do not mean the kind that sounds like a recording machine spewing its wisdom in a rather mechanically learned pitched; rather effective speaking for us is when the speaker suggests that his words do not come over his lips like the product of a formulated method; he creates his words out of his soul, and with the complete power of his faith and trust he brings understanding to his listeners. And for that there is no teachable rhetoric.To be sure, with a learned rhetoric a speaker can pull out all the stops of human emotional life; however nevermore will what he says come genuinely and truly from the heart; for now he must always be thinking of how the next word must be especially sounded.

We are convinced that the German people do not come to National-Socialist meetings in order to listen to talented orators.

Against [the author's skepticism of speech courses] the objection might be raised that here the end justifies the means; i.e. it might still be that a speaker who generally was absolutely ineffective in his speaking would improve by schooling in some technique. We cannot follow that. We take the position that speaking, as the Reichspropagandaleiter has already expressed it, is an art, and that anyone who is not gifted in this art can not be a speaker. To be sure, even the artist must learn and become accustomed to certain techniques. Always first, however, the natural gift must be present; it can then be built upon.
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