“THE LINK”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 5

“THE LINK”

DENIAL OF PROPAGANDA CHARGE CHAIRMAN RETURNING TO LONDON. CLOSE WATCH BEING KEPT ON ORGANISATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. August 5. Admiral Sir Barry Domvile, chairman of “The Link,” who was reported to be organising a branch in Germany. telephoned the “News Chronicle” from Salzburg emphatically denying the allegations of the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, that “The Link' was an instrument for German propaganda -or that one of tlie organisers was receiving inoney from Germany.

‘ Sir Barry Domvile is going to London today by aeroplane to refute the charges. Miss Alison Outhwaite, a member of a well-known Victorian family and at present assistant editor of “The World Review,” said she recently resigned from “The Link" owing to its pro-Fas-cist character.

In the House of Commons yesterday Captain Peake, Home Office Undersecretary, replying to Mr G. L. M. Mander (Liberal) said that "The Link” organisation was very closely watched all the time.

The “Daily Express” (states an Independent Cable Service message) reveals that an observer of the Economic League attended a meeting of the central branch of “The Link" on June 30 and reported that one speaker, who obviously was strongly anti-Jewish, made a vigorous defence of the methods of the Germans, Italians, Japanese and Arabs, while Britain was described as “the most evil corrupting influence in world politics.”