NAZI PROPAGANDA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 100, 29 April 1940, Page 7

NAZI PROPAGANDA.

LATEST FLOUNDERINGB. British Official Wireless. I Received 1.30 p.m.) RUUBV, April 28. British observers are watching with intercut the contradictions in which Nazi propaganda has become involved in its laboured efforts to justify the liernian attack upon Norway. One example of many is the affirmation in the preface to the bogus documents published by Kibbentrop on Saturday: "The Norwegian (Jovernment was ready from the beginning; not only readily to accept any violation of its neutrality by Britain*, but also to join hands with Britain." If this were true —and of course it has no veslige of truth—it would show howmisinformed the Nazi liovenunent must have been about the (lovernnient and country, which in their first explanations of their sudden, treacherous, aggression, thpy represented they were hiking "under (ierniany's protection to prevent liosliii- alia. «.'" The Nazi (iovernineiit was not misinformed. Tl»o first explanations and the new explanations of the Nazi invasion of a neutral neighbour, are. in the Hiitisk view, alike merely calculated compositions, of allegations and inference invented to serve the purpose of the hour. It seems that Nazi propaganda, lost in admiration of its own versatility, has now entirely forgotten the importance of consistency.