THREAT TO LIBERTY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 169, 20 July 1939, Page 7

THREAT TO LIBERTY

NAZI PROPAGANDA IN EIRE JOINT INVESTIGATION' • Cab e Ser.ice.) Received July 19. 11.55 p.m. LONDON, July 19. It is announced that the Dominions Office and the Eireann authorities in Dublin are jointly investigating Nazi propaganda in Eire, which has developed alarmingly throughout the country. Until recently it has taken the form of encouraging cultural relations, the Ministry of Education in Berlin awarding prizes to Irish children who showed proficiency in German; also engravings of pictures of famous German artists were shipped to Dublin for distribution among schools. The Eire authorities are now trying to discriminate between I. -h Republican Army extremists, who are only antiBritish, and those vho are antiBritish and pro-German. Mr. James Dillon, a member of the Dail, addressing the annual convention of Hibernians in Dublin, said: “Three years ago the danger <>f Communism was on the left. Now the rising on rhe right is a more formidable menace German Nazi-ism is a monster which is grow ing to be the greatest threat to liberty and Christianity. The forces of Nazism are seeking to establish world domination for their materialistic philosophy, which denies the existence of God.*