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Goebbels' Little

Game Is

DR. GOEBBELS isn't do

ing too well just now. People are not believing him

Up

His Weapon of zerland, to take but three

as they should. He should Lies Proves to

bebe a Boomerang

remember that one of the mexims 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 thom such big ones that people will say nobody could have the effrontery 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 tho small nations in Europe with it. He persuaded a very large part of the French people that the Germans weren't so bad really, so why 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 props- 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 Haw-Haw

now.

Just Count Them! 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 defeat its own ends

FUNNY SIDE UP

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, minua three air- craft carriers, minua 21 cruisers and minus 17 battle- ships.

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 I menn. 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

assiduous Haw-Haw's

pro- “paganda” became a boomerang, and if the Germans did sink the Ark Royal to-morrow nothing Lord Haw-Haw could say would be able to persuade. Es that she was not still afloat.

They Don't Believe

IT is the same thing with regard to the air raids. 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 there again, when the truth gets out this will prove a boomerang.. America, Norway, and Swit-

By, Abner Dean

PARKING

20 MIN

too optimistic, Pear, but I admire yo

enges, are now frankly dis-

belleving the German "news".

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

English programmes?

tell Londoners that central London la 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 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.

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

Propaganda, if it ja 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. G's failure here. He has 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 field it is no good proclaiming

that you have won a great victory--it

makes merely 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- crcase the enthusiasm of your friends and the depression and

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GOEBBELS-Vitriolic, club- footed Minister of Public Enlightenment, controls the pross; radio, all arts. He is answerable for public opin- ion. His wife is the adopted daughter of a Jowish family. He hates, fears other Nazi loaders, and is the most hat-

ed man in Germany.

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

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There were one or glaring instances of its misuse during the Spanish Civil War. During the first six months- a. period when they wore retreating steadily-the Re publicana announced an equally steady. serics -of "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, ncar- 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. I 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 set 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.

By

Edward Denny

Fuzzless Peach Developed

After all these years, the peach is" (Any standard variety can be made

getting a shave.

fuzzless, Sa

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

al Experiment Station, who an- nounced recently development

the of a fuzzless peach,

The new peach is not only as

fuzzless perch, the frull of nearly 40 years research by Dr. Hofmann, will be dislesbuted soon among orchardists for planting, but probably will not reach the consurf- or for Uree to six years, des made a patent on the

amoothinnd waxy as a plum, but sommern 17 PROSENT TAS

also as large na, standard, varieties and, Just as dallalonder SET=Thighly remisiantzata - brown Frot; and, but a higher degree,”

frost resistance than the pubert:

which he began developing

In 1912, when he crossed standard Varieties with a fuzzless-type found' among some" Greensboro..seedlings in Nebraska.“

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- aure against the day of Ger- many's defeat, when he will have to flee," says the corres- pondent.

"A London, dinmond mor- chant of very high standing told me that just before the war began Goering bought in London a pearl necklace valued nt £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 riecklace, car-rings, and

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

The name of the purchaser was, then a mystery, but it has since been established 48 Goering.

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

"The theory is that orders were placed with retail jewel- lera 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 insurance chiefs'

policy against disaster."

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

"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 Goebbels future warm."

H. R. Knickerbocker, noted American newspaper" corres pondent, sald 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 Gouring's "funk fund" had airice been increased by 140,- 000 Rumanian Gold Corpora- tion shares. Goering's brother. Horbert, hold the shares as a "dummy,"

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