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FRANTIC EFFORTS

TO DISHEARTEN FRENCH. MADE .IN NAZI BROADCASTS. Radio-Paris, broadcasting station entirely under Germon control, is making frantic efforts to discourage the French, telling them among other things that Germany has here and now won the war. One is reminded of the story of the man who shouted to his comrades that he had caught a prisoner, and when they shouted back to him to bring his along he replied that the prisoner would not let him. “We all have a friend ox - relative among the category of Frenchmen who might be called Anglophile, Russophile or Americanophile. Therefore, we speak Td’iight to such -friends and relatives of the heavy losses suffered by-the Russians, Americans and British in the Pacific, the Mediterranean, and on the Eastern Front.”—After saying this, the speaker got angry and distinctly vulgar, for he went, on: “WHen the prostitutes of the microphone prophesy, it is not only a burlesque farce, it is almost a crime. They know that the Soviets are crumbling, that the British Empire is being dismantled, and Roosevelt perhaps regrets having embarked on this foolish adventure. They consider that one supreme hope is left for them a few French guns hidden in houses and gardens.” , , Then the speaker after gratuitously advising people who still believe in Mr Churchill thatthey had lost all “intellectual dignity,” let this out: ::I confess I fear the German reactions to the sabotage advised by London and Moscow and to the de Gaullist sharpshooters.” The broadcaster ranted on about the only patriotism being to submit to Hitler, but his words are not worth repeating Enough has been reproduced to show the fear in the Germans hearts and the reality that the 'French refuse to despair and hope for and believe in ultimate victory of the United Nations. ...

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 4

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FRANTIC EFFORTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 4

FRANTIC EFFORTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 4

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