SCOTS CHUCKLE OVER GOEBBELS

Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 14

SCOTS CHUCKLE OVER GOEBBELS

LETTERS RECEIVED BY GOLF CLUBS Dr Goebbels has written to Scottish golfers. Aberdeen sees this as another of those jokes which the German. Minister of Propaganda recently went to such pains to deprecate. In a letter to the German Press, Dr Goebbels ordered newspapers to stop making jokes against Scotsmen on the grounds that most of the jokes emanated from Jewish sources. He also indicated his “ sympathy tor the Scottish “ minority ” on the grounds that the Scots were the healthiest, most decent, and also most Germanic people living in the British Isles. , . Scotland has chuckled over this effusion at the “nineteenth green, but that deep Scottish sense of the ludicrous has been touched at its most responsive spot by letters bearing a German post-mark which have been widely delivered to the Scottish “ minority,” and particularly to golr Each envelope contained a letter of several thousand words entitled m heavy Germanic type, “A Reply to Eng is i Propaganda, by Reich Minister, Dr Goebbels.” REPLY TO NEWSLETTER. Actually the letters are a reply to the newsletter addressed to Germany in his private capacity by Commander K T!ie^ a state; "In a pamphlet letter which* van, Stephen King-Hall, have so kindly addressed to various residents in this country, you state you are desirous of reaching the German people. “ Unfortunately for you, it happened that quite by chance we learned that you are in the service of the British Foreign Office, and that your letters are written, printed, and despatched by the order and with the benevolence and inquired help of Lord Halifax. ■ “ It does not mean that this childish, absurd schoolboy bit of propaganda need necessarily be regarded as less pronOrou contrary, the fact that it emerges from the Downing Street workshop is a sufficient stamp that it is all the more crude and repugnant. You can tell these tales to the Marines, you honest old British jack tar. the recipients of the letters from Dr Goebbels expressed surprise that their addresses were known to the German Ministry of Propaganda. Many envelopes, however, were incorrectly addressed,. St. Andrew s Golf Course was located in England, but the post office delivered the letter- without delay.