“ROTTEN THING”

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 239, 27 September 1939, Page 3

“ROTTEN THING”

;> AZI ' I’KOI’AG AN DA N.Z. IVH lilM S Vil'AV An inlei esting commentary oa the cuoouvelK’S- ol -Nazi propaganda is contamcu m a lottei 1 received by Air. ;i ini .ms. W . Lynch. ,'toittord Lodge, Ha-ti a us. ~..11 om 11 1 *• i r -on, Air. \). i.xueii. who vi-itcd Germany ia- the course oi a bicycle t<*ur ol Lurcpe just bcimc the invasion <jt .Poland. •• \\ ha & a rot ten tiling is propaganda. ' lie writes. “ In Germany they |,e | i eve .most of wlmt they read—oi Hitler lining a man ol peace and Caamhei lain a man of war. oi: Germany’s strength and TJnglaud’s >vealine .5 s, and of Germany’s rights to colonies.” in Poland tJif peci>le helieved that war would mean an e fully victory lor them hecause ol internal Get man t? i 11 hies, he >aid'. The Poles seemed to believe that war was inevitable. rui tlier evidence ol the Nazi antiBritish «ittitlicit- was the fact that a iiaiu in which Ah'. Lynch travelled in rices were printethin four languages. German, French. Italian and Polish, but Wiiglisli was omitted. Air. Lynch had the strictness of militi.rv censorship in Poland brought homo to him when he was detained at pinch, Polish town just north-east i Warsaw. I<rf taking photographs while travelling mi a steamer on the it• ver Vistula.