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The Lie Factory EVERY day produces fresh
Instances of the unscrupulous use the Germans are making of wireless in the war.
Their leading radio enterprise at the present time is to try for disunity between France and Britain and a powerful trans- mitter has been set up at Saar- bruecken for the purpose of hurl- ing propaganda at the French people.
The case of the Athenia, oc- cupies a place of its own in, the black record of falsehood that the Nazi radio stations have
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too faithfully they are living up to the principle of their Leader. that any lie is justifiable so long as it serves the purpose of its author.
The German broadcasters have announced so often that the Athenia was sunk by the British that they must by this time have begun to believe it. In a message to American listeners they have told the latter not to sympathise any longer with the British, who deliberately de- troyed the
liner. Doubtless Americans are well able to form their own conclusions about that, and have at their disposal a mass of evidence much more trustworthy than that of the servile parrots who speak on the Nazi radio.
As a wireless speaker said 're- cently, hate and humbug do not- broadcast well. The Germans' campaign of mendacity defeats itself. It lacks subtlety. It would not deceive a child. They
never were skilled at under- standing the psychology of other peoples.
Mrs. Hitler's Electric! Light Bill
"B. E. Hitler." called the warrant offeer at. Highgate (London) Police Court
B. E. Hitler was identified as Mrs. Bridget E. Hitler, the wife of Horr Hitler's half-brother, and she was sramoned for the non-payment of a charge of £1 0s. 10d. for electric light.
'It was stated, that the summons had not been served..
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WE'RE GETTING TO WORK,..
BRITAIN'S hidden ally
by
WILLI FRISCHAUER
HE British Government has made it quite clear that we cannot expect Nazi Germany to "crack
up one of these days," It would definitely be wrong to assume that after a short time of war- fare
Nazi Hitler and his satellites will disappear.
This is going to be a long war. It has only just started. And though wo know that behind all the Nazi truculence, behind the war fever and the magic faith in Hiller. there looms The Other Germany, we are not likely to hear of it for same time.
That Other Germany, the Ger- many of Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein, is under the control of Himmler and his black guards. The mass of the German Socialists, trade unionists, intellectuals and scientists, cannot yet raise their voice.
But those of us who know Ger- many well have faith in The Other Germany,
Has Hitler in six and a half years stamped out that Germany altogether? Has a whole nation changed?
Think back to the circumstances of Hitler's rise to power. He was never the people's choice.
At the fast free alection to be held in Germany, in November, 1932, the Nazis got only 33 per cent, of the votes.
Then in January, 1933, Hitler be- came Chancellor with the support of the Nationalists, but without a majority. President Hindenburg let him rule by decree.
NAZIS secretly set fro to the Reichstag, threw the blame on the Com- munists and started a great "Red scare."
New elections were held, this time in true Nazi style. All the Communist leaders and many of the Socialist leaders were put in jail The opposi tion parties had their newspapers banned, were forbidden to issue leaflets or to hold processions.
The election was a mockery, Voters were Jutimidated at the polls by brownshirt guards. Hut still liler
did not get his majority. He got leas than 44 per cent. of the voten
Only by arresting every single one of the 79 Communist M.P.a was he able to get a majority when the new Relchsing met.
What has happened since to those millions of Socialists. Communists and Catholics who made up half the nation and who to the bitter end retured to vote for Hitler?
Many of them have in the last six years been swept along on the Hitler ilde. Not all of them have been heroes. Not all of them have been able to see through Nazi propaganda. That is no reflection on them. It is only to be expected.
Most of them withdrew allogether from German politics and suoctimbed to the spirit of discipline that has always been strong among the German people.
AFTER all, most of them had families to provide for. They lived in deadly fear of the sack, the concentration camp and, oven, the executioner's are. Out of the sixty million Germans who in 1933 were azziitten by the Nazi plague only a handful owzitimuted to debt it.
These fighters were a splendid lot. They devoted their lives to their ideals. ·
A constant stream of anti-Nazi propaganda dowed into Germany from akroad. These fighters directed it in- to the homes of the German people.
They operated secret pristine Divanes and gave out bulletins from illegal wireless stations.
They were supported by Russian and other, diplomats who put their dinio. matic bags at their disposal. In this way they were able to correspond with the thousands of Germans living in exile.
One day the full story of this under- ground struggle against Hitler will be told and then the man who waged it will become the true heroes of this tragic century.
Their work has had its successes.. Many Germans have told me how when first Megul landeis and books were put into their hands by ingenious means they used to throw them bur riedly and disgustedly away,
But they told me how some time later they began to be curious about these strange papers. They would poep at them timidly before destroying them. Neighbours would catch one another's eyes and each would know that the other had been reading, ... In the secrecy of their homes, thiry
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
The management is sorry but for many years the unwavering policy of this establishment has boon 'No ticked, no washco
discussed these things a bit. But they never really knew which told the truth -the illegal leaflets, or Dr. Goebbeta.
Cermany became afflicted with a new craving-curiosity,' a longing to know the real truth.
People began to hunger for these leaflets and for the anti-Nazi bread- Casta They would indulge in Elieso illegallilés secretly. They dared not tell even other members of
their
family, least of all the children, all of whom were taught to repeat to the authorities any subversive talk by their parents.
Often they did not trust the foreign accounts. Yet again and again' theSS accounts showed contradictiona Hitler's statements, told of facts whose truth could hardly be questioned.
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Utter disillusionment with Nazlam was not always an easy thing to in culcate into Germans by these under- ground meana. But doubls could be inculcated and were.
Look Through The "Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1880. A man tried to neak off yesterday with an umbrella belonging to Talic Borgeant Witchell, but was taught by the Borgonet's "boy". As there ha been previous conviction last month against the same, party for stealing, a wilk Jacket in the same way. Mr. Wode. house ordered the man to give his manual services to Government' for three months,
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The Society for the Patting of Bol- diers has commenced its annual crusade. early this season, Lectures by Dr. Cantile
Bishop Burdon have already been given, in the Garrison Theatre, and inal night Mr. Bateman Improved the shining hour, ili wab- Ject was the novel one of a "Trly to
Japan". Eron long-suffering Tommy Atkins in getileg fed-op with these hackneyed narratives of peddling Hittle excursions bow the lecturer liked the voyage, and how much ricksha coolies charge, and so on, and the Theatre was Rev. very comfortably empty. The Douglas Hamilton proalded and. After setting Mr. Baleraan going, sat with pained expression on his cloricat coun tenance until the end of the diatribe. Mr. Bateman followed the usual lines good ship-forn-flying. feb-beautiful moon-Japan, land of chrysanthemum- belel-couldn't find one--expense-map of the place-cho-baths-tarifi-in- Vesligation- mixed bathing-dis- appointed-passports-price-church, Finished up with a slab sut'of a back. The "men"Mr. Bateman's, phrase seemed highly edified, and sang a bit of the National Anthem at the end with great lasaitude.
25 YEARS AGO
Nov. 4, 1914. - An Anglo-French Squadron bambarded the Dardanelles at long range at day. break on Tuesday.
The forta replied. No ships were hit. A large explosion, with volumes of smoke, occurred at Holles Fort.
10 YEARS AGO.
Nov. 6, 1929. British policy in regard to Busin will be fully debated in the House of Commons to-day, when the Government seek the assent of Parliament to it plan for the resumption of full diplo- matle relations between the two coun tries,
5 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1934. One of the larger China Merchants H. N. Company's ships, the Kako, bas beon pirated and, taken to Sami Polut, in Hong Hal Day, about sixty miles north of Hongkong.
Germans Told 'You Thrive on Rations'
RATIONING is fun in
Letters I have been receiving from Germany. At least, one
Germany for some years prove it.
Some of Hitler's greatest triumphs would imagine after listen- have helped to expose him to hiring to a broadcast over the
people as a fraud.
Austrians and Czechs have looked German radio. nt Germany from the outalde. They know what the world has known. And
when they have mixed with Germans they have told them things that Or mans have never before been told.
Austrian workers who went on a "Btrength through Joy" tour in Ger many were interned because they were telling people that Hiller was bring ing Europe towards war and that Oer- maris would soon be in the trenches again.
Do not think of the Ger- man people as if they were all brown-shirted storm-troopers commanded to chver
their leader.
The real German people is made up of solid, stolld ordinary people whe have never worried much about poli- ties and are only learning by bitter experience how important politics can bo.
An expert was brought to the microphone to explain that, following the discovery of a scientific way of measuring need for food, there was no Germans to rely on their ap petites.
"The amount of food does not matter so long as the necessary amount of albumen, fats, and vita mins are assured," he said.
When the expert had said his plece the announcer asked his audience to examine the question from a different angle.
"Ration cards help enormously to dinw people nearer to each other," he said.
"For example, when we wanted a abave wo used to go to the barber or shave ourselves. Now we have first to approach the mayor to gel a ticket allowing us to buy shaving
cream.
"You see, people are interested in us nowadays. Even the Slate. takes the growth of our an interest in
Now they are beginning to wake up, The housewife who cannot get enough food even with the help of her ratiónN cartis. The trader with nothing to sell. The worker whore wages are cut. who han frat been forcibly removed to some new place of employinent, and has now been sent to the battle-front beard!" All of them are today doublíul, half- hearted, depressed
SOAPLESS NATION SOAP. That is what the Germans When a woman says good-lage to her are most in need of. Tóllet soap is son as he goes to war, she stops ta
a thing of pre-rationing days. It hos think. The German people leathe war all been commandeered for use in They ace now that the glorious Hitler who came to lend Germany back to dla hospitals. nity and prosperity has brought hết way to agony and penury.
Bure chough the German soldiem have marched forward at the word of command. They are fighting bravely. But back home in the heart of Ger- many the mass of the people thinks and suffers.
Instead, the authorities have pro- mised a special "war soup, but it has not yet appeared. ***
Only one piece or tube of shaving. soap may, be bought in two and a half months.
HARVEST CLAIMS GERMANY, claims that her har- REMEMBER that for vest will amount to 27,500,000 tons, four years the Germans compared with a nonnal yearly con- hare lived under war sumption of 25,009,000 to 20,000,000 conditions Rationing and food short tons, thus leaving her accumulated ago are nothing new to them, They stocks Intact.
are as exhausted now as they were after two or three years of the last being overcome by recruiting labour
war.
Shortage of labour, it is stated, is from newly conquered Polish terri
Do you remember the day when | tory. hunger and despair roused the German people at the end of the last wart When starving women, carrying emacl- ated children in their arma, defied the guns of the polica?
AIR RAID FEAR INCREASING fear in Germany of British and French air rada la re- flected in the lightening up of black- out regulations, especially in western | Germany. Forty-five prosecutions in one day at Kolscheld, near Aix-lo-
the German Press.
Not for nothing does Hitler intend to keep over halt a million of his crack party troops, the B.B. black guards, to police the home front That is Chappelle (Anchen), are reported, in measure of the internal opposition to Nazim.
BRITAIN ATTACKED GERMAN newspaper continued their propaganda drive ajminst
These black guards are there to keep down the Other Germany, - the Teis many of the trade unions and the Socialista, the Catholics and the Britain. The Borsen Zeltung Liberais, the scientists, poets and thinkers
stated, "Britain destroya panica. For: two years sho has prepared war, The people of Germany are for the
against Germany.” Deutsche All- time being weaker than their rulers. But many Germania, perhaps `· most:
gemgina Zeitungi Britain In waging Gerrans, hate Nazism as much as war against Germany's women and Englishmen do. This war Is for their chlidren. While other notions have freedom as much'ea Britain's.
to give their blood. British strate They will prove Britain's strongest. glats stay at home organising econo»." ally.
mic warfare."