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6 produced no real effect on the enemy peoples." He admits failure, too, in propaganda efforts on the fighting fronts. In the East, he says, the Russians were the authors of their own collapse. In the West, "the fronts of our enemies had not been made susceptible by the state of public opinion in their home countries, and the propaganda we gradually introduced had no success." He records his efforts to induce the Imperial Chancellor to create a great organisation, as it had become "undeniably essential to establish an Imperial Ministry of Propaganda," and he was convinced that no adequate counter-campaign to Allied propaganda could be organised except by an Imperial department possessing special powers. "At last a feeble step in this direction was taken in August, 1918. A totally inadequate organisation was set up; besides, it was then too late. In these circumstances it was quite impossible to achieve uniformity in propaganda work between Germany and Austria-Hungary, as was conspicuously the case with our enemies. The Army found no ally in a strong propaganda directed from home. While her Army was victorious on the field of battle, Germany failed in the fight against the moral of the enemy peoples."