PEACE OFFENSIVE
NAZI PROPAGANDA 1
BASED ON FALSE PREMISS
(U.P.A, and Official Wireless.)
LONDON, July 22. The German wireless has launched an extensive peace offensive, repeatedly urging Britain to accept Hitlers appeal to reason. All. the speakers emphasised that this was Britain s last chance to save herself. If the Fuhrer was forced to do what he did not want to do, his order for the utter destruction, of England would be irrevocably given. . Germany is basing her propaganda on the British reaction to Hitlers speech on the entirely false premise that a war-mongering British Government had withheld the contents of the speech from the British public. This is quite untrue, as the following sSistfcs^how. On the night of £• speech the 8.8.C. devoted six minutes, or 1500 words, in its 9 pan. news bulletin to a summary of what the Fuhrer said. Next morning six leading British papers—"The Times," th» •Daily Telegraph," the "News Chron? iSe^the'Sy Herald" the -Manchester Guardian" and the. "DaJy Mair-each gave it more than two Xnnl In addition, all the papers carried lengthy comment As are suit, England, from end to end, knows all about it. -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 9
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190PEACE OFFENSIVE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 9
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