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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April

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PROPAGANDA

"CELLS"

But Germany's Prestige Never So Low as it is To-day

KUNGSGATAN is Stockholm's

Regent-street; the Rigoletto

By GEORGE L. STEER,

"Telegraph" Special Correspondent who, white, visiting Stockholm, wrote this article to show exactly how Germany is trying in Scandinavia to overtake the effects of Nazi political blunders,

next to its more light-hearted

orications.

22 German newspapers and periodicals are sent to Stockholm library throughout the year.

in Kungsgatan is Stockholm's largest and newest cinema. Above a splendid plate-glass

al Socialist party which, in spite yachting and sometimes visits the Siegfried window next door, on

Hotels are supplied free with the Third of the decrease in its numbers, Swedish coastal towns in search German papers. Stockholm doc-

a site Line will prove a bed of roses whose rent costs

is still influential with certain of a good story. He is party tors are sent three or four Ger- has still to be shown, but the Reich 32,000 Swedish broer, civil servants, officers and par- Fuehrer of the German journ-man papers free every day.

or £2,000, a year, stands the ticularly N.C.0.8; and, finally, alists in Sweden. And another Germans, with their characteris-word Tyskland-Germany.

Stencilled instructions, more- on the kroner, provided by a leading light is Dr. Sigurd Paul- over, are issued to the German Skilful wood carvings flank large export trade to Sweden, sen, who is supposed to be read colony and to "friendlies" by the window display, represent which enables the Third Reich regularly by Herr Hitler. ng the six "German" towns of to buy a colossal quantity of

an unknown source, for whisper- Since the Swedish Press went ing propaganda. The general. Nuernberg, Cologne, Luebeck-paper and ink.

a litle anti-German with the line is to suggest that the Allies and Danzig, Salzbury and Pra-

sinking of Swedish ships, this want to force Sweden into war DISTORTION FOR PRESS gue. Between these sets, in

large corps (so far as they are against Germany; that Germany nocuous pamphlets are to be seen, Sweden's resident Germans journalists proper) spend most is the victim of encirclement; This indicates the largest piece demonstrating that France had are by far the largest foreign of their time and a fair amount that the Finns are anti-Swedish of landscape gardening that been planning the war against colony. They number 5,973, of of the Reich's foreign exchange at heart and ought not to be

the Third Reich for years; had whom 2,481 are in Stockholm telephoning back Europe has seen for many a year, not M. Campinchi told the Ger- alone.

Deutsche- helped; and (in Finland) that As Germans, they are Nachrichtenburo's Berlin mes- the Swedes dislike and are not and it is all the more gratifying mun Commercial Secretary in shepherded with facility into 14 sages which have appeared in helping the Finnis. In fact, Ger- at the present time, when beauty Paris (or so the Secretary said) German pens which act as pro- the Swedish Press, as if they many makes a perfect omelette has tended to be pushed into the that a war was inevitable and paganda cells for the Nazi party, had been written by the Swedes of propaganda out of any bad

that if Poland were attacked These aro: the colony; the themselves. Britain and France would aid Winterhilfe; the Ortsgrupe of

egg to hand. HIGH PRESSURE OUTPUT.

The struggle is all the more her, not to save Poland but to the NSDAP; the Arbeitsfront;

urgent-because next to Rumani- bar Germany in South-Eastern Bund Deutscher Frauen; Deut- But since straight news, on an oil the most desirable Reich. Europe?

scher Kulturbund; German Club; the whole, is not at present mport is Swedish ore. And it German Sport Club; A.D.V. playing on their side, the ox- ON ALLIED PROTEST

s all the more difficult because Frohsinn; Reichsdeutsche Jug-perts in the German Legation of the changed attitude of Allied gunners, it is hoped, will

And there are photographs to end;

HJ;

Svenska Tyska and Travel Bureau must labour sweden to Germany since 1918. turn a kindly eye on the plant-show how normal German life Foereningen; German-Swedish in other directions. They pam. Three events have progressively ing operations, and not take is, including aircraft production, Chamber of Commerce; Riks- phleteer and post letters and reduced German influence in.

during war-time. Round the foereningen Sverige - Tyskland. magazines, and broadsheets by Sweden. perverse delight in blowing up corner one would almost believe All these are marionettes in the the tens of thousands. Here are every root as soon as it has been that Germany was Christian hands of the German Propaganda some examples of their work.

They are, at home, the emer- gence of the Social-Democratic firmly trodden in. The enemy's also, for in another window Ministry.

25,000 of Stockholm's muni-party during the period of post- there is a pretty little model of love of colour deserves

German citizens must fill in (cipal employees and business war pacifism and social reform; a small German town nestling forms at their Legation or Con- men have received copies of the in Germany the emergence of couragement. Once his roses about its church.

sulates. They must register little pamphlet known as Mr. Hitler and his armed millions; have bloomed, he may think of

Invisible, on the third floor of such things as their knowledge Chamberlain's dagger-umbrella. and above all, the signature with this turning his spears into pruning- there are six Swedes, writing fuchrerschein, or "special quali- ornament comes out of its paper the colossus Russia.

German Travel Bureau of modern languages and their The handle of that celebrated Sweden's one traditional enemy, hooks, and that might well be a pamphlets for the Fuehrer at fications."

sheath and discloses a knife

OLD FEELINGS CHANGED prelude to the setting up of the high pressure.

When to this drilled society remarkably like that worn by Once it was not quite so dis-is, added the organisation of the the S.S. new, peaceful Europe which all

The addresses of the

Sweden had much sympathy for creet as that. There was a time, Swedish National Socialists on municipal employees are secret felt that she had been harshly treated Germany after the Great War. She peoples, as distinct from one or at the beginning of the war, one side and the Swedish Com and can only have been copled at Versailles and as harshly at two totalitarian Governments, when the crudest anti-Allied munists on the other (for offici- by a Swede "in the know," pre- Geneva, But sympathy is not proof stuff was pasted up in the win-ally these two still have orders sumably a National-Socialist. against economic reality. It was a dow. The Empire was breaking to cut each other in the street),

fact that 100,000 copies per issue of But cynics are always with us.up, the Poles had committed it is clear that Germany has Dr. Ley's publication, "Freude great markets to exploit, the goods.

and im Germ They suggest that the devotion unmentionable ntrocities at a useful propaganda army to und Arbeit," published in Swed- to buy, were British and American. of the German High Command Bromberg (photographs oblige!) manipulato in Sweden. Its staff ish and German, with a little This transference of Swedish in-

and Mr. Winston Churchill had is represented by the Press English, are sent free to indivi-educational

is expressed in the Swedish rose-culture springs more sunk the Athenia single-handed. Department of

Bystem. the German dual Swedes - including

On the whole the people learn languages in order to do probably from a shortage of The Allies proteated and a Legation. The German Legation clergy. This magazine used to business and, a language once learnt, barbed wire, in whose stead the photographer irritated the Ger-counts regularly over 110 hands be distributed to cafes and re. they absorb the ideas of which it is Dutch roses, chosen for their mans, as photographers always on deck, Of these the Press staurants throughout Sweden the currency. Germon used to be the Arst foreign language in the. do, taking incessant panoramas Department claims about 25, of before the outbreak of war. formidable claws, will bo used.

Swedish and Danish schools before of their window from under a whom two have diplomatic pri 9.600 trades organisation of the Great War; subsequently, it was It is strange that Germans large black cloth the other side vileges, two are officials merely, the great Lands-Organisationen, displaced by English, In Denmark should 80 seldom be given of the street. Their mood and the rest are secretaries.

German fell third to French. or Swedish T.U.C., are supplied Great Britain also began to buy credit for high-souled motives. [changed. In any case, superior Dr. Gerhard Kleeberg is the free with German pamphlets in Swedish Iron. It is noteworthy, that Through their most admired British propaganda was being commander-in-chief nnd accord-which Britain is declared res-the Ideological links of Swedish in- spokesmen they tell the world run quite unconsciously noxting to all his acquaintances, a ponsible for the war.

dustry are more British an German

The old loor, where "Mr. Chips" drew very charming person. almost daily that they are the audiences for weeks on end. beginning of the war he report-ceive free copies of Swedish Great War ruled the

4,000 Swedish libraries re- Swedish ocetyn feeling

who before the cream of mankind. But we

country, linger- The German Travel Bureau be-ed to the National Zeitung, then translations of the speeches of ed on; even to-day the great land- British and other backward

came more suave, more serious, his especial paper, that Great Hitler, &c., distributed by the lords in Skane, in spite of the ruth races,

war-mongers saturated more subfuse. Only in the last Britain had demanded Swedish Swedish publishing house Svea conservative ideas, retain an affec

handling given by the Nazis to with blood, see a nigger in overy few weeks has it sharpened its aerodromes for the R.A.F. and Rike, whoso chief, Ingenioertion for Germany. But they woodpile, and a hand-grenado one.

British troops were on the point Carlberg, has attended the only n aliadow of what they were. behind every rose tree. This is The Travel Bureau, neverthe of landing in southern Sweden. Nuerberg Party rally and actu-widened the Intellectual breach.

The arrival of the Nazi regime just the sort of thing that dis-es, is the most striking of Dr. Hitler had to accord Dr. Kleeally seen the Fuchrer face to vestigation has shown that in higher

Goebbels efforts In Sweden, if berg diplomatic immunity in the face.

eduration, where long are the thought courages and annoys the Nazis in their altruistic campaign tot is part of a huge network

t is not the most insidious. For nick of time.

Thousands of young Swedes of Kant, Hegel and Fichte reigned Then there is Captain Her-Interested in sport are sent an subject where there is the highest supreme, the German language is the enable us to participate with based on the German colony in mann Bolte, a former submarine anti-English Press bulletin from percentage of examination failures. thom in thoir millennium. Sweden, on the Swedish Nation-¡ officer who is interested in Berlin which prints sport news! PLEASE Turn To Pago 5.

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