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Goebbels'

Game

DR. GOEBBELS isn't do

ing too well just now. People are not believing him as they should. He should

the

remember that one of the

should maxims which written in poker-work above the bed of every good little propagandist is: "Thou shalt not be found out."

When the nasty little dwarf took over propaganda for his Fuchrer he obviously modelled his conduct on Hitler's great dictum: "In telling. lies the essential thing is to make them such big ones that people will say nobody could have the cffrontery to tell a whopper like that there must be some- thing in it.'"

That was all very fine in the good old days. He managed to undermine most of the small nations in Europe with it. He persuaded a very large part of the French people that the Germans weren't ao bad really, so why fight them?

The Nazis mado such fan- tastic claims that some people began to think "Perhaps we are losing many more ships than the communiques admit; perhaps our air losses must be faked, perhaps the Germans are obliterating our great factories and airports."

Now that's good propaganda technique-up to a point. But if you go beyond that point you are turning your propa- ganda weapon into a boome- rang which will return and give you a bang on the nose. And that's what's happening to. Dr. G. and his adenoidal underling, Lord

now.

Haw-Haw

Just Count Them! THE Air Minister in the

House of Commone drew attention to this a couple of days ago. Sir Archibald Sin- clair said: "I cannot help thinking that all this hard ly- ing that Hitler and Goebbels do must defeat its own ends

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Little Is Up

His Weapon of Lies Proves

to

be a Boomerang

before long. I noticed the other day that they had been giving out an account of the number of warships that we had lost, and if the German claims had been true the British Navy would now have consisted of four submarines, 63 destroyers, minus three air- craft carriers, minua 21 cruisers and minus 17 battle- ships.

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Dr. Goebbels has gone just a bit too far. He has made an nas of himself. Nobody-for some months at least, for the public memory is a bit short- is going to believe a word he says on British naval losses.

The case of the Ark Royal is an excellent example of what I mean. Haw-Haw's constantly reiterated question "Where is the Ark Royal?" began to have a considerable effect."

Then the Ark Royal appear- ed at Capetown was visited by journalists and photographers and found to be very much in. existence. The result was that Haw-Haw's assiduous pro- paganda became a boomerang.. and if the Germans did ink the Ark Royal to-morrow nothing Lord Haw-Haw could say would be able to persuade us that she was not still afloat.

They Don't Believe

IT is the same thing with regard to the air raida.. Fantastic German accounts of the damage they are doing, the planes they have shot down, and the few planes they have themselves lost may for a time have an effect in foreign countries though again, when the truth gets out this will prove a boomerang, America, Norway, and Swit-

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By Abner Dean

too optimistic, Dear, but I admira

PARKING

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zerland, to take but three

cases, are now frankly dis-

believing the German "news".

But why do the Nazis broad- cast their claims in their Why

Raglish programmes?

tell Londoners that central London is half-ruined and that a great pall of smoke hangs over n panic-stricken popula-. tion when the Londoner has only got to step outside his front door to see that it is not true? It is only spoiling the market for future Nazi lies.

Plain Blunders IT is no good telling a man who has the wrecks of four- teen German planes down within three miles of him that the total German losses for the day are only ten. Your lie- so far from spreading alarm and'

despondency-spreads hilarity and cheerfulness and has just the opposite effect from what you had hoped. It' actually raises morale.

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GOEBBELS-Vitriolic, club- footed Ministar of Public Enlightenment, controls the press, radio, all arts. Ho is answerable for public opin- ion. His wife is the adopted daughter of a Jowish family. Ho hates, fears other Naxi leadors, and is the most hat- ed man in Germany.

confusion of your enemies. In fact, propaganda is only an auxiliary weapon, and if you try to use it for any other purpose you

courting disaster.

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There were one or two glaring instances of its misuse during the Spanish Civil War, During the first six months- Dr. G. and Haw-Haw tried to

a porlod when they were persuade us that the Luftwaffe

retreating steadily-the Re- publicans announced an was invincible, and, it is not

of serics really their fault that they equally steady have been proved wrong. But "victories." Unfortunately, a the effect has now also been Belgian paper made a Collec- to prove that, as propagan- tion of their communiques and dists. Dr. G. and Haw-Haw are showed that, after six months not invincible, Frankly, I am of the war, the Republicans surprised at the blunders_of_had_among other things shot Haw-Haw and his master. They are the blunders of the amateur--not of the skilled professional;

Propaganda, if it is to succeed, must contain a grain of truth-at least if you are dealing with people who can find out the truth for them- selves sooner or later. That is perhaps the reason for Dr. He has G's failure here. become so used to dealing with Germans who cannot discover the truth for them- selves he takes good care of that that he has not realised that he has got to use a different technique with a free and well-informed people,

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Propaganda is a delicate weapon. It must not misused. There is no propa- 'ganda so deadly as the in exorable propaganda of fact. If your army is beaten in the field it is no good proclaiming that you have won a great victory-it merely makes your defeat worse. But, on the other hand, if you have won a victory, you can use propa- ganda to follow it up, to in- crease the enthusiasm of your

down 10,000 Nationalist aero- planes and had advanced near- ly 6,000 miles!

The Time Will Come-

SO, Dr. Goebbels, if I may give you a word of advice, don't over-egg the pudding. Don't tell us that we are panic-stricken and decimated when we are cheerful and un- harmed. It only makes you look a fool. And if I might. add one word more: I wouldn't, if I were you, tell it to the Ger- mans either.

You had a sound classical education; Dr. Goebbels, at a famous South German univer sity. So you will recall and bo able to translate one of the oldest sayings in the world: "Magna est veritas et prae- valebit"! (Great is truth and it shall prevail). That is going to be true in Germany, too. Your poor propaganda-duped fellow Germans are going to find out the truth one day. I should not like to be in your shoes when they do.

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Goering's £2,000,000 Funk Fund FIELD-MARSHAL

Goering has a ""funk fund" of between £500,000 and £1,000,000 in precious stones deposited in Italy and in neutral countries, says a Sunday Express special correspondent.

This fund is believed to the be in addition to £1,501,000 which Goering

was reported a year ago to have deposited in banks abroad.

"He is hoarding this trea- sure against the day of Ger- 'many's defeat, when he will have to flec," says the corres- pondent.

"A London diamond mer chant of very high standing told me that just before the war began Goering bought in London a pearl necklace valued at £25,000.

"This is now safely guarded in an Italian bank vault.

"Soon afterwards, Goering bought an emerald and dia- mond 'suite,' consisting of a and necklace, car-rings, brooch, worth £100,000. This was also sent to Italy.

"My informant says that all these jewels went off the mar- ket at the same time-more than a year ago....

The name of the purchaser was then a mystery, but it has. Bince been established Goering,

"With exchange restric tions, the query is how did Goering get the jewels to Italy.

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"The theory is that orders were placed with retail Jewel- lers in Italy, who transmitted them to England.

"The jewels were then ship- ped to the United States, from where they went to another neutral country thence to Italy.

"These jewels always have a market. They are the Nazi chiefs' insurance policy against disaster,

"While Goering prefers Jewels. Dr. Goebbels (Pro- paganda Minister) likes furs," the correspondent says.

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"A year or so ago he bought tens of thousands of pounds' worth of furs in London.

"I am assured they were some of the finest obtainable in England-mink, silver fox, sable and ermine. ́ ́ ̈""They are now keeping

Goobbels' future warm."

H. R. Knickerbocker, noted American newspaper corres- pondent," said soon, after the war began that seven leading Nazis had deposited £7,000,000. in banks abroad. Of this, £1, 501,000 was Goering's.

The Dally Express corres pondent said on Sept. 24 that " probably will dot reach the CoGoering's "funk fund". had er for three to x Jour

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