AN INTERESTING CONTRAST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 9 January 1940, Page 6

AN INTERESTING CONTRAST

NEWS AND COMMENT AUTHORITIES’ ATTITUDE IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY “LORD HAW HAW’S” OBSERVATIONS [British Official Wireless] (Received 9th January, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, Bth January. The attitude of the authorities in Britain and Germany towards the circulation of foreign news and comment affords an interesting contrast. Information reaching London shows that increasing publicity is being given in Berlin to punishments of growing severity imposed on Germans and even neutrals and foreigners caught listening in to British and other foreign news broadcasts. In Britain, on the other hand, the times of foreign news broadcasts are freely published in the Press and the character of these broadcasts is freely discussed. One German broadcaster whose anonymous and condescending observations on life in Britain have earned him the nickname of “Lord Haw Haw,” is the subject of interesting correspondence, in “The Times.” It reveals that there is a wide diversity of opinion as to whether his mannerisms of speech were acquired in the Midland Counties, Scotland or Chicago, but there is general agreement among correspondents that his broadcasts have a high entertainment value.