NAZI EFFORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1941, Page 6

NAZI EFFORTS

SPREAD OF FALSEHOODS IN U.S.A. STORIES ABOUT BRITAIN. PRESIDENT'S TERSE COMMENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Juno 6. President Roosevelt declared today that the American Ambassador to Britain (Mr Winant) had not brought from England even “the tenth cousin of a peace offer.” German propaganda, Mr Roosevelt added, was responsible for peace talk. Britain was far from collapse. A false impression was being spread in the United States that Britain would not last for more than a few months without increased American help. This had never been said except by Berlin. Two orders had been issued by the official German pro paganda agency in Berlin to Nazis and Fascists in the United States. The first told them to stress the idea that Germany had no thought of ever doing anything against any country in the entire Western Hemisphere. The second ordered Nazi and Fascist sympathisers, as soon as Mr Winant arrived back in the United States, to spread a | story that he was bringing a scare- j head report that Britain was all in | and was talking peace.