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I SPENT one afternoon recently looking over the strangest card index in the world, writes John Slee, in the London. "Daily Herald."
One after another I turned thr folders over-"Gloats," "Dark Hats,** "Machinations" and "Distortions."
It was a creepy business.
I was only in the Anti-Lie Bureau
of the Miniatry of Information in Bloomsbury.
It was the first time any journalist) luid been allowed to see Britain's;
Human Lie Detectors at work..
AND THIS IS HOW A
NAZI LIE IS BORN
HERE IS a little lesson in the technique of lying. It
There are dozens of them nearly should prove instructive to those who may be inclined to all women looking for German lies. believe the Bremen broadcasts, particularly when "proof"
Sunday's Prixe One One Human Lie Detector, a pretty of the statements is blandly they claim are denied. Then a court- brunette, brought in Sunday's prize given.. German Lle with a smile of triumph.
It read:-
A lie in the mouth of a Nazi It was a broadcast from a neutral station she had just picked up, and begins this way:
From the Bremen station-The "According to American technica: Daily Mail. reports that Britisli pilots court- experts, English aircraft production have been questioned by a
martial, having made false reports of i only 550 planes a month.
"Present German production is alleged successes. estimated to be 1,300 planes a Montil
From "The Daily Mall"-No such
martini on different grounds—is re- iported. Therefore, say the Germans, court-martial are admitted." Te that report of one court-martial they add their own version of the reason for 11.
And lust night, the newspaper Volkischer Beobachter took up the radlo story,
It said: "The Daily Mail mys two named In connection officers were
report ever published, nor anything "Only 50 German bombers have resembling it. No court-martial of with the session of the court-inartial. Then It says there was no court- this description has ever been held.
Now take a lesson in the gentle art martial. Then it says the two officers
are on active service. of fabrication. Note the words "no court-martial of this description has jever been held."
been trought down since the war begin.
I saw the answer given out. It was
Invention
the report of the suicide of Wing Neat! Then the puper reproduces
|Commander Blomfeld.
What About Francke ?
Issued to all the neutral Press (or publlention and broadcast. and the 1.B.C. broadcast it in 19. languages.
was also sent to all British em- A ittle later Bremen quotes the bassies and legations for the Press case of Wing Commander R.-G. Blom-
field, DS.Ö. found rassed before It says truthfully-that the court Attaches
decision knowing the
(B) courtant (so did we). It says the officer took his life (so did we). martial
Bremen invents the "fact" that the court-martial was for giving false
during reports of damage done Hellgoland rald.
Jugglory Germany had transposed the Agures. It was British plane pro- duction that had reached 1,300 planes a month.
The "American technical experts" had cabled this to the United States.
As for the number of German
Then follows the charge that The Daily Mail has stated that a number of almen have been punished for mak making similar statements.
bombers brought down, the German High Command admitted the loss of The Daily Mail repeats its denial.
85 bombers only recently.
Then the inference is made that because there was a court-martial the aNazi version of why it was held must
be true.
Heading .. les lead to that. And, in the end, to exposure.
One question we might ask the Volkischer Beobachter:
What
happens to Nazis who make The Air ministry also issues one false reports? Leading Aircraftman Dozens of lies like this are answer-They add that two officers named by Francke said he sank the Ark Royal. ed every day by the Anti-Lie Bureau, the Nazis, for from having been They made him a lieutenant and gave Germany broadcasts nearly 250,000 court-martiailed, are on active ser-him the Iron Cresa, First and Second words a day in propaganda, mostly (více.
Class, for "outstanding courage in lies, In 27 languages.
the face of the enemy." The Ark Royal is still afloat-undamaged.
They do appreciate a good liar!
"Germany," said Lie Detector No.
1,
"answers most of the lies herself by contradictions.
Backing Down
Now comes the supreme twist to the He:
"One day the econonite blockade is "Court-martial proceedings are no 'inhuman': the next day is 'com-longer denied," says the Nazi radio. pletely ineffective. And so on." "Clippings from The Mail confirm
For every neutral country there is this.
Y'S MEN'S MEETING The next meeting of the Y's Men's Club will be a Ladies' Night at the St. Francis Hotel to-morrow at 7.30 pm. Mr. Wei Tat will spealt on "The
an expert who, decides, when the See how the announcer shifts his German lies are detected, whether ground? Court-martials of the kind Book of Changes," - they are worth answering in that particular country.
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