WORKING AGAINST BRITAIN

Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 11

WORKING AGAINST BRITAIN

INSIDIOUS FOREIGN PROPAGANDA PRESS AND WIRELESS SERVICES USED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 9. “Subsidised foreign news services aiming directly and indirectly at injuring British interests have become a serious menace,” declares the ‘ Round Table.’ The paper adds that impartial news has almost disappeared from the Far East. The Italian, German, and even the French Governments supported news agencies to supply Chinese and Japanese Press services at a fraction of the cost of the British services. The ‘ Round Table ’ quotes numerous items published in newspapers in the Far East emanating from the Continent, which emphasise British timidity and weakness, with the object of showing that Britain is becoming a secondrate Power. The ‘ Round Table ’ also draws attention to Italian propagandists in the Levant, who are assiduously spreading the doctrine that Britain is everywhere on the run and the Empire will shortly break up. It draws attention to the Italian, German, French, and Russian wireless services in Egypt and Afghanistan and elsewhere, which are all working to Britain’s disadvantage and seeking to undermine her influence,. These services also supply tendentious news to all the European Press at nominal rates, thanks to Government subsidies. As a result, everywhere Britain is discredited, and interested Powers are winning greater victories through the dissemination of falsehood than is possible by the force of arms.