GERMAN LIES
WHITE PAPER SUGGESTED
LONDON, October 22. Lord Maugham, in the' House of Lords, suggested that the Government should publish a White Paper in a number of foreign languages and also in English, containing a selection of the more striking German untruths ■with the statement of the actual facts. Confronted with such a collection of falsehoods, a man must be hypnotised or lacking in brains if the bandage did not fall from nis eyes. The DuKe of Devonshire, replying, said that ,a special branch of the Mm-: istry of information existed for contradicting enemy lies and making public the true versions. The Germans issued a lying statement that Hitler himself on one of his periodical flights-over I England observed his Majesty and Mr. Churchill dashing for shelter in abject panic. This lie gained a certain amount of credence in the Near East, and therefore special steps were taken to deal with it. The Ministry of Information was always looking for effectutol methods of countering German lies, but at present it was not inclined to issue a White Paper. Other methods were more satisfactory.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 100, 24 October 1940, Page 11
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184GERMAN LIES Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 100, 24 October 1940, Page 11
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