ATTACK ON GOEBBELS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1936, Page 9

ATTACK ON GOEBBELS

THE "PRAVDA" VIOLENT

LONDON,, September 12. The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that tha newspaper "Pravda" violently attacks Dr. Gocbbels, who is lanic. The paper refers to "this dwarf, with crooked legs and an enormous twisted caricature of a nose—a complete clinical specimen of a degenerate,',' and adds: "Wo quite deliberately mention the loathsome appearance of this chief theoretician of German Fascism, this apostle of the purity of the. German race." Dr. Joseph P. Goebbels was born with a club-foot which, in the opinion of Mr. John Gunther, was the most important event of his life, as it forced him to make his way.by skill, cleverness, and "conspiracy. He wais .born in the Rhinelarid in 1897 and had to stay at home while .the war was fought. He took a Ph.D: at Heidelberg and his highly musical wife has been'an asset to him, attracting the v attention of the passionately-musical Hitler to her parties. Dr. Goebbels is scarcely sft sin high, and was converted to Nazism in 1922 after hearing Hitler address a meeting in Munich. He went to the Rhineland to organise party groups and soon became a most valuable asset < because of his ability as an orator. I