PEACE OFFENSIVE.
BRITAIN URGED TO SEE REASON. > GERMANY’S FALSE IMPRESSION. LONDON, July 22. The German wireless launched an extensive peace offensive, repeatedly urging Britain to accept Herr Hitler’s appeal to reason. All speakers emphasised that this was Britain’s last chance to save herself. If the Fuhrer was forced to'do what he did not want to do, his order for the utter destruction of England would be irrevocably given. Germany is basing her propaganda on the British reaction to Herr Hitler’s speech on the entirely false premise that the war-mongering British Government has withheld the contents of the speech from the British public. This is quite untrue, as the following statistics show. On the night of his speech the British Broadcasting Corporation devoted six minutes, or 1500 words, in its 9 p.m. news bulletin to a summary of what the Fuhrer said. The next morning the six leading British newspapers,” “The Times,” “Daily Chronicle, “NewsChronicle,” “Daily Herald,” “Manchester Guardian” and “Daily Mail,” each gave it more than two columns, and among thefil devoted no less than 8| metre columns of newsprint to their summaries.
In addition all newspapers carried long comment. As a result England from end to end knows all about it.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 245, 24 July 1940, Page 5
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