NAZI PROPAGANDA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1940, Page 2

NAZI PROPAGANDA

NEW ATTEMPTS TO SWAY BULGARIA. GOOD EFFECT OF BRITISH ASSURANCE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 27. The cordial assurance given by Mr. Butler, Foreign Under-Secretary, in the House of Commons regarding respect for Bulgaria’s integrity and independence is seen in London as an effective reply to the recent German propaganda there. “It has been suggested,’’ states “The Times” in a leader, “that if the Bulgarians are so foolish as to refuse active support to the Axis they cannot expect Germany and Italy to prevent the Turks sidling into Bulgarian territory. It is an old game. The Turks have no desire to quarrel with Bulgaria while Bulgaria does not attack Greece, but that does not matter to the propagandists, who probably reckon on the memory of the former Turko-Bulgarian hostilities and the presence of an important Turkish minority in Bulgaria as factors in their propaganda. The British statement should silence propaganda of this sort. “Meanwhile King Boris and his advisers have shown no enthusiasm at the prospect of making the seventh member of the Axis by joining Hungary, Rumania, and Slovakia in the servants’ hall. It is not an inviting oiler and acceptance would not for a moment guarantee Bulgaria against haying to surrender her regained Dobrujan. territory to Rumania whenever the Fuehrer thinks General Antonescu desires a little encouragement.”