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Nazi Propaganda A Failure: BOMB DAMAGE Facts Too Strong For Hitler

An analysis of the reason why Nazi propaganda is failing today and why it was so successful before the outbreak of the war was

TO BRITISH HOMES

.CABLE

CLAIM BY BELGIAN GOVT.

REQUISITIONING OF FAR EAST

LINERS

TOKYO MYSTIFIED AT U.S. ACTION”.

TOKYO, Jane 5 (Reuter)-Jap- ese shipping circles are ap- parently mystifled at the with- drawal of four American President liners from the Far East as re- portedly ordered by the United States Government.

LONDON, June 5 (Reuter)—A made recently over Stallion XCDN by ME. JOHN HARFORD, in one LONDON.

£52,000,000 has been BOROUGHS claim for of his series of talks, "As I See It" reports the "North China Daily

made by the Belgian Government News

CHIEF

SUFFERERS on the French Government, ac- LONDON. June * (BWS)-In-cording to the Belgian Finance

has returned tofa teresting figures relating to bomb Minister who

England from the United States. damage to house property were

The claim is for gold deposited given by the Minister of Health yesterday when he disclosed that with the Bank of France by the as many as 80,000 men had been Belgian Government

The case will be up for hearing throughout the country in repair by an American tribunal, Squads

Before the war the Nazis were able to tell the German people what they wanted to hear, they were able to point to successes won in many different fields. Now, however, they cannot tell the German people what they want to hear. They cannot say that Ger- many is invincible or that the war will be won in a short while.

Mr. Harford's talk follows:

How amazing it is to realize what of these so essential and convinc- mobilised by the local authorities can be done and what has beening props.

done by propaganda with modern CONDITIONS NOT APPLICABLE methods, especially when used upon receptive material like the herd-loving sentimental Germans,

fine dower

Imagine the

of modern propaganda-a Nazi mass meeting-during the years leading up to the outbreak of war; these meetings followed q weh recogris- ed pattern, but how elective that

pattern was!

THEATRICAL EFFECTS

Consider a Nazi mass meeting

London, Mr. Ernest Brown said.

held today. Ask yourselves which has suffered twice as much damage of the three conditions I have to private houses as the rest of mentioned are present? You will the country put together but in And that the answer is, none of mast London districts damaged them.

houses have received first aid re- pairs.

Giving a typical example of the damage done to more vulnerable London boroughs. Mr. Brown sald

The speaker cannot tell his audi- ence things they want to hear, for what they want to hear is that the So unaccountably prolonged Blitz krleg has succeeded. They want of 49,000 houses Comprising one

to

Considerable, Widespread Air Activity

Over Britain

LONDON, June 5 (Reuter)

Information reaching A local Japanese shipping company from San Francisco states the United States Government requisitioned 18 vessels. including four President 1thers' which hitherto had been on the Far Eastern run.

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Japanese circles are at a loss to determine whether the requisition had been designed as a precau- tionary measure against worst eventuality in the Pacific in view

of the Increasingly tense relations between Japan and the United States, or as a means to facilitate

The vast hall impressively drap to hear that the end is in sight such borough 3,423 have been Three enemy bombers were des

the transportation of American ed and H The expectant crowds They want hear that they destroyed or damaged beyond re-troyed during Tuesday night, ac-

goods. worked into a frenzy by martial themselves need expect to suffer pair. 19.240 damaged but repairable cording to an Air Ministry com...

There is, however, said to be no music and community singing. The no more, and that they need not of which about 5.000 could not be munique referring enemy air

activity over Britain which it des intention on the part of Japanese uniformed youths with their ban- fear another winter of hardship, made it by first aid repairs,

Taking the country as a whole, cribes as "considerable and wide-companies to make, any change in ners. Finally the climax when at poverty and death. What do they

the present routing of Japanese a signal, the lights go dim and hear? The only conquests he men- more than 80 per cent. of repair-spread."

vessels on the American run, the lonely gure of the Fuhrer, tions are those on the Continent able houses have been made wind picked out by a spotlight, steps of Europe the value of which they and water-tight and work on this forward from black, curtains, and have learned to discount. As far was being speeded up. the well prepared mass of people as the end is concerned Hitler has is swept away by his flerce oratory even given up acclaiming each into an orgy of hatred and stupi-year as the year of victory. As für dity,

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as suffering is concerned, he may censor the outgoing reports, but he cannot censor the suffering of those who have to endure it.

little was needed to shake that feeling and so much has occurred;

Not only has a hostile Air Force appeared in the skies that were

Last week. over 39,000 houses were so treated in London alone.

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both ends of the Mediterranean."

The communique says: "Bomos were dripped in the Midlands an South-East.

"The number of casualties was not large and extensive damage has been done.

"

**Bonits also fell at points in the North-West, East Anglia and in the London area.

"Some damage was done these districts and a small num- ber of persons were reported In jured."

Major Marray declared that the Spare Time Training

terms of the last agreement be-

If you analyse this performance you will find that its success" was due to three

The conditions. 'speaker succeeded, first because his Then what of the impression of audience wanted to hear the irresistible force that achieved things he was telling them: they such miracles of conformity? So wanted to hear that the defeat of Germany in battle and her suf- ferings after the war were not due to any failures or shortcomings of the German race as expressed in alleged to be inviolable but they tween Admiral Darian and Herr

wherever their actions leading up to the have penetrated last war and subsequently. but whenever they have chosen, they were due to the treachery of Jews, have rained destruction on those Communists. Pacifists. Democrats industries that were said to be so any Intel the speaker found it safe from attack, they have shaken convenient to apply at any par- the con5dence not only of the ticular meeting.

sheep who seemed to have absorb- ed the Nazi lesson so satisfactori- ly but also of the leaders them- selves. the teachers from whom

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Be succeeded, second, because all elements of criticism and all differences of opinion were care- fully excluded, leaving only one impression-unanimity and devo- tion to the movement-and only one ideal-power.

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and

they had it. Is it conceivable that criticism can be stifled in the light of these events?

Plan For Airmen

Hitler were stated to include the

LONDON, June 5 (BW6)-Since by Germany Use permanent

of the Instguration of the Empire aval bases in the French colonies. Air Scheme. 180.455 men have ap- That showed the worth of the sa-piled to enlist in the Royal Aus- ut the French tralian Air Force and it is an- called defence Colonial empire.

nounced that the Federal Cabinet Gen Deniz had declared that has approved the spare time train- Will defend their ing plan which puts members of the French

BRITAIN'S WAR EXPERIENCES: REPORT

WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuter) -Mr. J. G. Winant, United States Ambassador to Britain, returned. with a complete report of Britain's war experiences as available to United States military observers, it is learned authoritatively.

The report is said to cover not only military experiences but" de- tails regarding British economy, food situation and social back-- ground.

Mr. Winant told the Fress at an Interview: ""The •British have made available through the Em- bassy to this Government their war experiences. It is of great

colonies single-handed and so she the R.A.A.F. in skilled occupations military value in preparing & na-

would. Germany thought the whole Idea was marvellous because they knew that it meant only the defence against Britain.

NEXT TARGET

the

there. General Wavell has complex situation at his fingerends and we can trust him, to do the right thing, at the right time and at the right place."

after the war,

The scheme, costing £50,000 per year, will assist skilled men to re- fresh the knowledge of former oc- cupations and help others to secure suitable work.

North-East Scotland Bombed, Strafed LONDON, June 5 (BWS)-An Alr Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states:-

REAL FACTS LACKING The whole set up of parades and "And where are the facts that

"I would say that Syria is Ger- applause, skilfully organised to were to speak for themselves? many's next target." "continued give an irresistible effect, were de- Much can be done. it is true, in a Major Murray. "From there she signed to impress the people with totalitarian country where all the will be much more easily placed tu a feeling of overwheining power means of news dissemination can attack Cyprus. Don't get the idea and an uncomfortable realisation be controlled, but for facts to that we are not very wide awake that a strong physical force was speak for themselves, they have to Jurking in the background ready to be real not manufactured. Real deal with anyone who dared to facts are, that the war which was interrupt T expres contrary to have ended last year is still

his afternoon an enemy air-

views,

going on as the British Prime Min-

craft dropped bombs at a place on ister said. It would be. that Ger-

the north-east coast of Scotland man armies. have penetrated no

and machine-gunned other points further outside the Continent of

nearby causing some damage and Europe than the territory of vas-

of Mosul by the British troops injuring a small number of peuple. sal Italy, that hostile air squadrons The British now had troops close "Three enemy bombers were des- day rain destruction on Ger- to the Syrian-Turkish frontier. It troyed raids on this country many's largest cities and best was not yet known to what extent last night. guarded industrial areas. These the Germans had penetrated there "It is now known that a third facts may not be written in Ger. but the Vichy Government had al- enemy bomber was destroyed dur- many, they may not be spoken, ready been warned about what to ing the night of May 30-31. but they are very thoroughly un-expect if any detrimental act to

the British prosecution of the war was done.

to

derstood,

Political power depends upon the loyalty of men. and.the loyalty of men can be enlisted in three, ways; by an appeal to sympathy, by an appeal to fear. and by an appeal to reason.

AXIS METHODS

APTEALED TO FACTS He succeeded, thirdly, and I am speaking, remember of the prewar perlod-because he was appealing to facts. He was able to point to actions that seemed at the time, and were, incredible; and was able acclaim them 25 speaking louder than words his own hys- terical emotional spate of words No wonder they applauded. the poor sheep, when he flourished before them the successful ze- armament of Germany; the re- militarisation of the Rhineland the rape of Austria, the seizure of Czecho-Skvakia.

They didn't reason, they didn't look ahead

said They merely “Ah!" with fatuous unanimity Each of these methods have been when he produced these rabbits used by the Axis Dictators at the out of a tin hat as proofs of Ger-right moment. They have captur- many's invincibility.

ed the sympathy of their people These three conditions have been by appealing to the intense pas- the necessary basts for all Fascist slons of nationalism," by telling and Nazi propaganda-s receptive their people the things they want- audience, an impression of power,ed to hear. When the machinery and the corroboration of facts. of Government had been captured Hitler's power. Mussolini's power, by these means, they used the ap- any dictator's power is based upon peal to fear, brute force, cruelty, the clever combination and use of sadism. Then when all opposition these conditions, but this type of had been cowed they came out propaganda has its obvious weak with the appeal to reason by dis- points. Nothing succeeds like auc- playing their impressive record of cess, and nothing falls so com achievements. pletely or so rapidly as the pro- paganda that lacks one or more

"MORE" POWERFUL THAN BISMARCK

Major Murray concluded by re- ferring to the bright light in the situation, as seen in the occupation

Mr. Eden had declared that people should be careful not to confuse the will of the Vichy. Government with the will of the French people.

From their long experience the French people had learned to loath and despite the oppression. The sad thing was that there did not

GERMAN SEAPLANES

ÖVER GOTLAND” STOCKHOLM, June 5 (Router) Several German seaplanes yester day morning flew over Swedish territory on the western coast of the Island of Gotland, it was offi- cially announced.

tion to defend Democracy."

Warehouse Workers

In N.Y. Strike

NEW YORK, June(Heuter)- Labour leaders are now agreed that the strike of 1,400 warehouse

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NAZI RULE DESCRIBED

AN INTERESTING INSIGHT INTO CONDITIONS IN workers in New York's 74 dry and cold storage warehouses will not DENMARK, UNDER NAZI OCCUPATION, was given in a Interfere with the movement of broadcast talk from London yesterday by a Danish resi- dent, who spoke of the many hardships that the Danes goods for Britsin.

were experiencing.

The warehouses have millions of dollars worth of defence materials for Britain which, it was first an- nounced, had been immobilised.

The strikers are demanding an increase in wages

"If the Nazis expected the Danes to accept them as friends," he said, "they have been bitterly disappointed.":

The speaker quoted "ex- spring of 1939 showed the Danish tracts from a Swedish news-attitude. The Nazis had only ob- tained three out of 145 seats in the paper which declared that

Lower House. EMIR ABDULLAH'S

the invaders had not got CONGRATULATIONS closer to the real Denmark

June LONDON,

5 (Reuter) owing to the icy attitude of Emir Abdullah of Trans-Jordan the Danes. The Germans had has sent a message of congratula-only revived a great deal of tions to

the British Government anti-German feeling in the on the collapse of the rebellion undertaken by Rashid Ali and his country. followers in Iraq. "without there- by affecting the spirit of friend- Arabs and British." ship which exists between

the

REGENT ATTACKED JERUSALEM, June 5 (Reuter)--It

GERMANS VERY LONELY

The saddest chapter of the story was that when the Ger- mans decided to occupy Den- mark with military force, it was not only to gain control of important strategie positions at. the entrance to the Baltic, but to secure for themselves Den- mark's agricultural products. A large part of Denmark's live- The Germans in occupation were: really very lonely, as the man-in-stock had beeri killed and accord- the-street always cut them. An-ing to official figures, the produc-

declared that tion of milk had been reduced by- other newspaper is now revealed that the Regent these foreigners could threaten 35 to 40 per cent.

Egg production was now only of Iraq was bombed and machine and frighten the Danes, but their They were driven off by anti-gunned repeatedly throughout his resistance

Insurmountable" one-third of what it used to be. four-day journey from an airfield The Danes wished to remain Danes. There were no stocks of butter in All the evidence available went the country. Not only did the in Iraq to Baghdad,

to show that the Germans had Germans refuse to pay cash for gained nothing in Denmark and a what they purchased, but they also N.E.I. REPLY wave of intense patriotism had refused to make payment in kind spread throughcat the country. In the shape of fuel, war materials, BATAVIA, June 5 (Reuter)-The The invaders had promised that etc. Danish credit in Berlin was

therefore mounting up. ernment to the economic proposals military nature, but that promise, submitted by the Japanese will be like all other promises made by the handed over to Mr. Yoshizawa, Germans, had been Chlef of the Japanese delegation. disregarded. tomorrow at 10 a.m, in the presence of both delegations;

seem to be d spark of this hatred aircraft fire.

in the Vichy Government. which, The Island of Gotland les in prodded by the German bayonet, the Baltic. off the southern tip of controlled, France.

Sweden.

WHERE DOES

was

answer of the Netherlands Gov- the occupation would not be of a JAPAN

STAND WITH THAI?

BANGKOK, June 5 (Reuter)-Where does Japan stand with Thalland? This question was obliquely answered by the SRIKRUNG which is known to reflect nationalist Thai opinion

The paper contests the Japanese asserton that Britain dominates Thailand's national economy because she has the Hon's share of Thai export and import trade.

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LAEMTHONG,

rubber

completely

LIFEBOAT SERVICE HAS QUIET MONTH

LONDON, June 5 (BWS)--May

The speaker went on to describe the strict censorship that was im- No official publication whatever posed on foreign news. Herr Hit- about the contents of the answerler and Signor Mussolint could not has been the quietest month for 18 expected.

be called dictators. The Nazi war lifeboat service since the war be- Lords had deprived the Danish Par-gan. Boate were launched 50 Mament of its ablest members. times to vessels in distress and 27 They had even tried to remove the lives were saved. Prime Minister from office,.: but had failed.

KING CHRISTIAN

These methods, as I have sald, depended on success for their as- cendancy, and that success is now lacking Nazi and Fascist propa ganda has exhusted itself and the field is clear for the quiet voice of

EVACUATION OFFICE If in future Japan steps in Bri- ousting Chinese from truth,

markets in SET UP IN COLONY What more, overwhelming proof tain's shoes, it will not mean that, estates and rubber WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuter) could be needed that the mirror of Japanese Influence will penetrate South Thalland is, revealed by a

SHTUKWAN, June 5 (Reuter) --High naval commanders had illusion is shattered than the de- every nook of the Thai commerce corresponent

of the

newspaper In view of the steadily worsening conferences yesterday with Colonel fection-the escape. of Rudolph industry.“

of the International situation and Frank Knox, Secretary for Navy. Hess, No 3 in the hierarchy of

He says that the Japanese al in order to save the Chinese in "King Christian has proved to Proceeding, the Srikrung says and Admire) Harold R. Stark. Nazidom, incorruptible and un-that with the fall of France Thai- ready own several estates in Song- Hongkong and Macao of possible be the strongest opponent of the Chief of Naval Operations.

compromising "Party Member land ceased to be a buffer state be-khla and have bought enormous losses caused by the war, the Nazis," continued the speaker. "He Col. Knox told journalists that Hess."

twech Britain and France, but it quantities of rubber in South Kwangtung Provincial Government is the true symbol of Danish na- the new American battleships We know that Hitler's skilfully seems that Thailand bas not Thailand by crashing the com- has decided to organise a com- tionality. He was never more res- North Carolina and Washington contrived "Propaganda Pattern" escaped the doubtful benefits of petition of Chinese merchants, mittee for the evacuation of the pected by his fellow countrymen than after April 9 last year and would greatly exceed the power has been disrupted, and remember being a buffer state as Japan bas

Severaj Russlan and two: Jap Chinese from the two ports,

It has also decided to set up an he has spared his country many the German battleship Bis- that this has been done by actual

anese ships are expected to arrive stepped in France's place." marck."

achievements by the facts that

in Thailand. in the middle of June | office at Hongkong, Macao and "Our armour is better and our have been made real by the forces

carry off the rubber stocks other suitable place to attend "to of - Great Britain and her Allies. How the Japanese have been stored ready for shipment,

the affairs of evacuation... guns Jarger."

of

RUBBER ESTATES

to

humiliations."

There were three times as many launches and twice as many lives saved as an average for May in the years of peace.

MUNIFICENT N.Z. DONATION

WELLINGTON, June 5 (Reuter) The New Zealand Patriotic Or-. ganisations Conference decided to The speaker declared that the send £100,000 to Britain: for the Parliamentary elections in the relief of air-raid distress.