ITALIAN PROPAGANDA IN EGYPT
Commentators in Cairo declare that the Italian offensive is at present confined to propaganda spread by wireless through paid Egyptian agents and by the dropping of pamphlets from aeroplanes. The lamentable quality of this propaganda was illustrated on June 23, when aircraft dropped pamphlets on delta towns near Cairo informing Egyptians that there were only two choices for them —"liberty or a lifetime of servitude.'' As Egyptians at present are free, servitude would apparently be the inevitable result of an Italo-Lierman victory. The day after a raid o'n Alexandria, when three Egyptians were hilled, a whispering campaign tried to attribute the raid to the ritish, but next day Rome broadcast a fictitious description of a very successful raid, "carried out with tremendous bravery on the British fleet at Alexandria."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 194, 2 August 1940, Page 3
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133ITALIAN PROPAGANDA IN EGYPT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 194, 2 August 1940, Page 3
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