ANOTHER ENEMY CANARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 14 September 1940, Page 8

ANOTHER ENEMY CANARD.

,Pungent remarks on the tactics of the Nazis were passed by the commentator in the Daventry broadcast to-uay in a.lesion to the bombing of Buckingham Palace. Recalling that in Norway King Haakon bad been attacked in the Palace and chased by planes and that in the Netherlands .Queen Wilhelmina s life had also been attempted, the speaker remarked: “They have carried their simple little creed .over into Britain.” „ . . , , It was obvious tne Nazis hoped to drive the King and Queen from London, and thereby claim the collapse ot the nation. That wou.d not be difficult in a dictatorship; where there were millions of slaves and where if the dictator were bowled over, the dictatorship would collapse. But in a stout little State like Britain if you bowl over the King millions of his people, who are friends, become exceedingly angry.” The commentator quoted reports from Rome and Berlin stating in contradictory—and, of course, untrue — terms that the King and Queen were leaving for Ulster bv two destroyers and for Balmoral Castle. Tile jibe that the Press at Home had not been allowed to mention the “fact” was answered by the fact that neither the Press nor anybody else knew 1 anything 'about it —neither did the King