NAZI PROPAGANDA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 253, 26 October 1938, Page 13

NAZI PROPAGANDA.

MIDDLE EUROPE UNDERMINED "GERMAN" COO K Sl' RKDN" E S S." (By Telegraph. — Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. "If there was a general election in England to-day Mr. Chamberlain and his National party would be returned," said Dr. A. H. McLintock, of Dunedin, who has returned from a two and a half years' residence in London and on the Continent. Little hope for peace in the world la held by him. He bases this conclusion on a tour of Czechoslovakia. Austria, Rumania 'and other Central European countries prior to the recent crisis. Had a peace settlement not been obtained at the time it was. he believes the tension in England would have broken. Their city a tempting target. Londoners, he said, were keyed up to a high nervous pitch during tiie war talk and reaction had to come. Foreigners in Britain left in a hurry when the war talk first became general, and a large number of American students, who had just come over for the season, returned almost immediately. All large transatlantic liners were heavily booked, while it was impossible to secure a passage on the Mary. "There is a tremendous amount of cock-sureilness in (iermanv," said Dr. McLintock. '•Anion? adolescents, this is especially so, for both girls and boys have been fed on Nazi propaganda from childhood. Hermans simply sneer at democracy and are firmly convinced it has failed, and they believe that to be a German is to be the highest thing any human can be. Nazi propaganda, on its present eolo«*al scale, is not conducive to world peace. Vienna appears to be one of Germany's most patriotic cities. The word 'Juda' on shop windows is very conspicuous, while not to have Nazi flags and emblems de-orating a building makes it conspicuous." Vienna, he said, had ceded her claim to being Europe's gayest city to Budapest. with the result that the tourist traffic had practically stopped. "Photography / tourists is forbidden.. Hungary is almost Nazi now and absorption by the Fatherland would not radically change the people's political beliefs, but in Rumania it is a different tp.le. The atmosphere changes on crossing the bor-d-r and the threat of Nazi invasion has left a fear-stricken people." "The growing power of Hitler and the strengthening of the Nazi doctrine as a result of his repeated success was evident in Europe." added Dr. McLintock. "The whole of Middle Europe was being undermined by Nazi propaganda and Hftler, the supreme man, was the centre of it all."