SAYINGS OF THE TIMES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 February 1941, Page 6

SAYINGS OF THE TIMES

HOW GOEBBELS SEES US LONDON, 18th January. While Musso Slept: Many English plutocrats are staying at the fashionable seaside resort of St. Remo on the Riviera where they convert fat dividends into champagne and other pleasures. (German broadcast to Germany, 3.1.41).

Deportment Please! “Germans should display more dignity consistent with the master role they are called upon to play in world affairs. If German children must learn English, that degenerate pseudo-Germanic dialect, it is not fitting that they should be taught ‘Tipperary’—a backstreet ballad which is totally imbecile in content and utterly unsuitable to the purpose in hand.” (Das Schwarze Korps, 10.0.40). Cads All! “A. G. Macdonell’s ‘Autobiography of a Cad’ has found an enthusiastic reader in Dr Goebbels. ‘One cannot put down this revealing portrait of British plutocracy,’ he writes, ‘without being impressed by the British disregard of cleanliness of thought and decency.’ ” (Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. 12.2.40). Hot Waffles !

Continuing his literary studies. Dr Goebbels has been tackling “Gone with the Wind.” He has just finished it and hurries to give us his considered opinion: “Everybody knows, including the millions who have read ‘Gone with the Wind’ that the struggle for liberty there referred to was directed against Britain, who had given her utmost support ; to the Southern States.” (Deutsche AlJlgemeine Zeitung, 27.12.40). | Scotch Grouse or The Campbells Cross *the Border: “Scotland bears England a deep ‘ grudge for the brutal treatment meted i out to her at Glencoe. The Campbells, whose licentious English soldiery were the first members of an expeditionary corps which was regarded with horror on the Continent.” (Die Grun Post, 8.12.40). Splendid Isolation: “Great Britain is completely cut off from the world. A Swedish reporter who was shown over the General Post Office in London hunted everywhere but oucl donly find one foreign letter.” (Neues Wiener Tageblatt, 12.2.40). Goebbels Calls it a Flop: “In London a few cinemas are kept open from noon to nine p.m. but there

are no audiences apart from one or two people who use the cushioned seats to ' have a good sleep.” (German radio in English for Far East, 17.1.40). Someone must have forgotten to tell ; Goebbels that “ the Great Dictator” is ! playing to full houses in no less than three big London cinemas. Tail Piece: Invasion prospects or Pegasus a la mode: “A traveller returning from Germany reports that horses are being tested daily for air worthiness. Horses i which bolt after landing from aeroplane flights are not taken into the Army.” 1 (Socail Demokraten Sweden, 4.1.41).

Such of the cable news in this issue as is so headed has appeared in “The Times” and is sent to this paper by special permission. It should be understood that the opinions are not those of “The Times” unless expressly stated to be so.