NAZI PROPAGANDA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1939, Page 7

NAZI PROPAGANDA

ALARMING DEVELOPMENT IN EIRE JOINT INVESTIGATION IN PROGRESS. THE DOMINIONS OFFICE CO-OPERATING. (Independent Cable Service.l LONDON. July 19. It is announced Thai lhe Dominions Office and the Eireann ant liorit ies in 1 hibliii are jointly investigating' Nazi propaganda in Eire, which lias developed alarmingly tit roughon ( 1 lie. count ry. Until recently it had taken the form of encouraging cultural relations, the Ministry of Education in Berlin awarding prizes to Irish children who showed proficiency in German; also engravings of pictures of famous German artists were shipped to Dublin for distribution among the schools. The Eire authorities are now trying to discriminate between the Irish Republican Army extremists who are | only anti-British and those who are anti-British and pro-German. Mr James Dillon, a member of the Dail Eireann, addressing the annual convention of the Hibernian Society in Dublin, said that three years ago the danger of Communism was on the Left. It was now rising on the Right, and was more formidable. The menace of German Nazism was a monster that was growing to be the greatest threat to liberty and Christianity. The forces of Nazism were seeking to establish world domination for their materialistic philosophy, which denied the existence of God.