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Goebbels'

Game Is

DR. GOEBBELS isn't do-

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

be

remember that one of the maxims which should 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 Fuehrer 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 any nobody could have the effrontory 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. Ho persuaded a very large part of the French people that the Germans weren't so bad really, so way fight them?

The Nazis made 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- garida 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'

Haw-Haw underling, Lord

now.

Just Count Thom! THE Air Minister in the

House of Commons 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 defent its own ends

FUNNY SIDE UP

Little

Up

His Weapon of zurland, to take but three

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, cruisers and minus 17 battle- ships.

minus 21

Dr. Goebbels has gone just a bit too far. He has made an ass 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 1 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-How's assiduous pro- paganda became a boomerang,

enses, are now frankly dis- believing the German "news". But why do the Nazis broad- cast their claims in their Why

English programmes?

tell Londoners that central London is half-ruined and that a great pall of smoke hangs over a 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 lics.

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 lic- 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.

Dr. G. and Haw-Haw tried to persuade us that the Luftwaffe was invincible, and it is not really their fault that they have been proved wrong. But the effect has now also been to prove that, as propagan- dists. Dr. G. and Haw-Haw are not invincible. Frankly, I am

Haw-Haw and his master. They are the blunders of the amateur-not of the skilled professional.

and if the Germans did silk-surprised at the blunders of the Ark Royal to-morrow nothing Lord Haw-law could say would be able to persunde us that she was not atill afloat. They Don't Believe IT is the same thing, with raids. regard to the air 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

though countries -

there again, when the truth gets out this will prove a boomerang. America, Norway, and Swit-

By Abner Dean

PARKING

too optimistic, Daar, but

l'admiro, your spiri

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.

Propaganda is a delicate weapon. It must not be misused. There is no propa- ganda so deadly as the in- exorable propaganda of fact, If your army is beaten in the fleld 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-

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GOEBBELS-Vitriolic, club- footed Minister of Public Enlightenment, controls the press, radio, all arts. He is answerable for public opin- ion. His wife is the adopted daughter of a Jowish family. Ho hates, fears other Nazi loaders, and is the most hat- cd '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 дго courting purpose you disaster.

There were one or two glaring instances of its misuse during the Spanish Civil War. During the first six months-

period when they were retreating steadily--the Re- an announced publicans

of serics equally steady "victories." Unfortunately, a Belgian paper made a Collec- tion of their communiques and showed that, after six months of the war, the Republicans had among other things shot. down 40,000 Nationalist nero=” planes and had advanced near- ly 6,000 miles!

The Time Will Come

are

SO, Dr. Goebbels, if I may give you a word of advice, don't over-egg the pudding. Don't tell us that we. 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 be able to translate one of the oldest sayings in the world: "Magna est veritas et prac valebit" (Grent' 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 be in addition to the £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 flee," 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 £26,000.

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

"Soon afterwards, Goering bought an emerald and dia- mond 'suite, consisting of a necklace, ear-ringa, and 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 since been established. 13 Goering.

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

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 thence to neutral country Italy.

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

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

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

crease the enthusiasm of your Edward Denny am assured they were

friends and the depression and

Fuzzless Peach Developed

the peach is

After all these years, 100, getting a shavo.

The barber" is Dr. Fred W. Hofmann, director of horticultural research at the Virginia Agricultur

Experiment Station, who an-

Any standard variety can be made

The fuzzless peach, the fruit of nearly 40 your research by Dr. Hofmann, will be distributed soon among orchardists for planting, but

some of the finest obtainablo in England-mink, silver fox, sable and ermine.

"They are new keeping Goebbels' futuro warm."

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

The Daily Express corres-

nounced recently the development;probably will not reach the consum- pondent said on Sept. 24 that"

· of: a fuzzless penTA

The new peach le

only us

smooth and, waxy as a plum, but also as large as standard varieties

and just as delièlour, unkown

it is highly resistant to

er for three to six years, Gooring's funk fund". had

Dr. Hofmann has a patent on the peach, which he began developlnit in 1912, when he crossed standard varieties with a fuzzless type found among some Greensboro, seedlings

rot, and has a higher degree of frost resistance than the Elbering & In Nebraska.

since beer increased by 140,4 000 Rumanian Gold Corpora tion shares. Goering's brother. Herbert, held the shares as a **"dummy

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