MOULD GERMAN OPINION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 234, 6 November 1940, Page 2

MOULD GERMAN OPINION

SEARCH FOR CALM VOYAGE! AND PEACEFUL HARBOUR BRITAIN ONLY OBSTACLE "The world political and military outlook, as presented in National Socialist organs designed to mould German public opinion, indicates a calm voyage and peaceful harbour for the ship of State of the Third Reich," writes Mr C. Brooks Peters in a dispatch from Berlin to the New York Times. "German newspapers, radio broadcasts and news reels all stress that the single obstacle barring complete victory of the Reicli in its struggle for "freedom" is Britain., but unanimously they declare that this is not a- serious obstacle. They assert Britain will soon be crushed, as have all other hindrances in the very-expand ing path of National Socialism. Although such a rosy portrayal of the world's events obviously has inherent dangers, it follows the pattern for the dissemination of news in the Third lleiich set down by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels shortly after the Czech crisis in 1938. The function of the Press, Dr Goebbels wrote is to collaborate ■with the foreign policy of Germany so that formulators of that policy will be assisted in pursuing their goals in the best interests of the Reich."