NIGHTLY TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 11

NIGHTLY TALKS

8.8.C.'S GERMAN SERVICE

HITLER MAKES HIS

RESPONSE

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London Representative.)

LONDON, March 23

For some time the 8.8.C. has been giving nightly talks in German and French. The German talks were not to the liking of the Fuhrer, who declared in one of his speeches that unless the 8.8.C. stopped the habit — which was proving too popular with his loyal subjects—something would have to be done about it. The 8.8.C.'s reply was to continue the nightly talks.

So Hitler has acted. Last night while he was on. his way to Memel in .the Deutschland, suffering mal de mer in a choppy sea. three German radio stations —Hamburg, Cologne, and Zeesen (Berlin) —gave news bulletins in English. They contained many mistakes in pronunciation and grammar.

There was no violent propaganda— most of the news was colourless, and 90 per cent, of it was Press comment from English and German newspapers. The only difference between the news broadcast to England and that for home listeners was that in the news in English the abuse and Nazi adjectives concerning foreign countries and their statesmen were omitted.

The English broadcast was obviously given by a German who speaks good, but not excellent English. The 8.8.C. broadcasts to the Germans are in perfect German.