The lines about the American couple who "traded in their baby for a Chevrolet," on the surface this seems to be a lurid story intended as misdirection, to distract from the smoking gun. It may conveniently serve other purposes also. One can imagine a Fascist demagogue trying to get people riled up--generating some hysteria helpful to his own ambitions--by spinning an outrageous fantasy. Then he can say, "Do you want our fine country to fall so far down as those dissolute Americans: whose sickening practices receive not only official sanction, but economic incentives?"
The lines about the American couple who "traded in their baby for a Chevrolet," on the surface this seems to be a lurid story intended as misdirection, to distract from the smoking gun. It may conveniently serve other purposes also. One can imagine a Fascist demagogue trying to get people riled up--generating some hysteria helpful to his own ambitions--by spinning an outrageous fantasy. Then he can say, "Do you want our fine country to fall so far down as those dissolute Americans: whose sickening practices receive not only official sanction, but economic incentives?"