NAZI PROPAGANDA.
Meet Lies With Truth, Says General Smuts. DEADLY RADIO POISON. (Received 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, January 15. Describing the outpourings froin the German Zeesen radio as "deadly poison gas for the unsuspecting public," General Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, in a message to the South African Truth Legion, dealt with the danger to South African people of insidious forms of Nazi propaganda which were being directed against them over t,Jie air and through the Nazi Press. The Truth Legion Is an organisation recently formed to combat such propaganda. General Smuts said: "The only means of defence is for lis to spread the truth as against lies, to cveate goodwill as against mischievous and insidious malice, to hold aloft the light gfl against the mental darkness and that moral black-out with which we are menaced. Let us have faith in the truth and its ail-conquering powers,"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1940, Page 7
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