A TALK TO HITLER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 37, 12 August 1941, Page 7

A TALK TO HITLER

PROPAGANDA TRICKS

SCHICKELGRUBER'S

MISTAKES

WAKENING OF DEAD

RUGBY, August 10. The American journalist, Mr. Queritin Reynolds, whose recent broadcast to Goebbels from London was widely quoted abroad, tonight spoke to Hitler in the same vein. Throughout he addressed Hitler as Schickelgruber— the Fuhrer's original family name. After saying that it might be wise to change back to the name of Schickelgruber, because "no one can really be angry at anyone named Schickelgruber, and so many are really angry at the name of Hitler," Mr. Reynolds made a telling indictment of "Mem Kampf." "I find one paragraph j in it very interesting," he said. "It is your estimate of the value of propaganda. Your actual words are: 'By propaganda, with clever and permanent application, even' Heaven can be palmed off on the people as Hell, and the other way round, the most wretched life as paradise.' "I wonder if you believe that now?" i Mr. Reynolds asked. "Let us consider the propaganda you send outside Germany. Honestly, it doesn't fool any- | one these days. Oh, it fooled Britain and my country for years, and it fooled i Belgium, Holland, Czechoslovakia, and Norway. It didn't fool

Russia, though, did it? When you made that pact with Russia in 1939, you declared joyously to the Reichstag: 'Russia and Germany fought against one another in the World War. That shall not and will not happen again.' Then, on December 10, 1940, in a broadcast, you paid a' high tribute to the people of Russia, and you declared: 'In their terrible struggle the Russian people rose and freed themselves from the clique in power.' THE RUSSIANS REMEMBERED. "But the Russians remembered what you had said years before on page 538 of 'Mem Kampf: "The present rulers of Russia are blood-stained criminals, the dregs of humanity.' The silent man in the Kremlin said nothing, but he remembered and prepared. On page 539 you said: 'Bolshevism is an infamous crime against j humanity.' The silent man in the Kremlin said nothing, but he ordered more aeroplanes, more tanks. "No, your propaganda doesn't fool people any more, Mr. S. Every trick your little gabby man has tried to work in France has failed. You will recall that on June 15 last, in an effort to popularise the once respected j but now despised Admiral Darlan, he ordered every newspaper in both occupied and unoccupied France to print the likeness of Admiral Darlan on the first page. The order was obeyed. But didn't your agents notice that somehow most of the pictures in the shop windows, happened to fall face downwards? Did your agents tell you proudly that every paper in France published Darlah's picture on page 1? But did they add, Mister S., that almost half of the papers printed the picture in the fifth column?" Mr. Reynolds then dealt with the new German propaganda campaign, which, he said, 'starts tomorrow in America." He said: "You know, Mister j S., that Britain has eyes and ears all j over Europe and even in Germany, j and here we know all about your new peace offensive. It has died before it was born." THE GREATEST MISTAKE. Finally, Mr. Reynolds told Hitler that his greatest mistake was to "awaken the dead" in England. "When you bombed Plymouth, Francis Drake came out of his legendary past to live once more in the city from which he had so often sailed," he said. "'And when Slap Happy Hermann's futile fusiliers bombed and machine-gunned ti • lightships, do you think that Nelson slept? Once more Nelson was roused, and today his spirit rides the bridge of every ship that flies the I British flag. i "It is dangerous to awaken the dead, I Mister S. Do you think, then, that Wellington slumbers in his grave, or that Allenby sleeps? Old soldiers i never die, Mister S. Do you notice that thousands of naval officers wear their caps at a jaunty angle, half | covering one eye? You know that Ad- ! miral Beatty lives. "It is dangerous to awaken the dead. They live again in the hearts of men, and they know they died not in vain. They know that this island is as un- i assailable as the truth. These gallant ghosts of the past know they will be joined soon by thousands of their countrymen and women who are alive tonight, but ,who in this island fears death if he may then walk with I Drake and Nelson and Beatty and the j other immortals? j "It is dangerous to awaken the dead." j —8.0. W.