TRUTH VERSUS LIES
South African Counters Nazi Propaganda
British Official Wireless
RUGBY, January 15.
Describing the outpourings from the ZCesen radio as “deadly poison gas for an unsuspecting public,” the Prime Minister of South Africa (General
Smuts? in a message to the soutn African Truth Legion dealt with the danger to the South African people of the insidious forms of Nazi propaganda which are being directed against them through the air and press. The Truth Legion is an organisation recently formed to combat such propaganda.
General Smuts said: “The only means of defence is for us to spread truth as against lies and create goodwill as against mischievous and Insidious malice, and hold aloft the light as against the mental darkness and the moral black-out with which we are menaced. Let us have faith in truth and its. all conquering powers."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21554, 17 January 1940, Page 7
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