CREATING "BRITISH LIES"
One of the favourite devices of German propaganda is to attribute some statement to the British Press or the British Ministry of Information which they have never made and then to "expose" this "lie," says "The Times."! A typical example is given by the "Berliner Borsen-Zeitung," which busies itself with an apocryphal Bri-j tish annour.fcement that King George had decorated five British airmen for j their gallantry in connection with "the I attack on Kiel." There has, of course, j been no attack on Kiel, although, as Commander Bower pointed out in a letter to. "The Timee," the attack on Wilhelmshaven has sometimes been mistakenly referred to as such. This is quite enough for the German newspaper, which proceeds to make fun of, the clumsy British attempt to claim successes where none exist. It exlends its gibes to the Air Force film, "The Lion Has Wings," and remarks that it would.have been better to call the film "Puss in Boots," since "this animal out of the fairy story clearly has a better idea how to deceive successfully than the senile British lion."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 4
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CREATING "BRITISH LIES"
Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 4
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