PROPAGANDA FROM EAST GERMANY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27193, 10 November 1953, Page 12

PROPAGANDA FROM EAST GERMANY

NEWSPAPERS SENT TO ' NEW ZEALAND . j (New Zealand Press AssocurtMWt g AUCKLAND, November tj Communist propaganda newspapers which purport to be fra® publications is filtering into New Zer land from East Germany. Some JB it is very anti-British and yW American. It has been Leipzig for the last eight months, * J There appears to be no way in wjßg the Post Office can prevent mail being delivered, even at the reqM|j of the addressee. , Mr P. N. Cryer, Di the Post and Telegraph Departnw said today that the only solutkm ®i knew of was for the recipient to wjjji “returned” on the wrapper and tlttj the newspaper to the Post Office. J would then be sent to the dead officer. Letters, packets, and parteg returned in. this way were sent WM to the sender. Literature such as ttg in question, however, would be stroyed. M The Minister of Education (Mfr Algie) regularly gets unsolicited pwjj|| lications from behind the Iron Cunjjg It comes from Prague. He was cog Consul in Auckland for Czechwß kia. Although -he cannot read CMtg he has confirmed that the material Communist propaganda. “It is aPR ticularly subtle and nasty form of VJR fare,” he says.