MESSAGE TO HITLER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 189, 13 August 1941, Page 5

MESSAGE TO HITLER

TWITTED WITH WHAT HE WROTE IN THE PAST WHAT OF THE VALUE OF PROPAGANDA “DANGEROUS TO AWAKEN THE DEAD" Rugby, Aug. 10. The American jouimu.st, Mr. Quentin Reynolds, whose recent broadcast to Goebbels from London was widely quoted abroad, to-night spoke to Hitler in the same vein Reynolds throughout acldreseea Hitler 'as Schickelgruber—the Fuehrer’s I original family name. i After saying it might be wise io change back to the name of Schickclgruber, because “no one can really be angry at anyone named Schickelgruber, and so many are really angry at the name of Hitler,” Reynolds made a telling indictment of "Meir, Kampf.” He said: "I find one paragraph in it very interesting. Il is your estimate of the value of propaganda. Your actual words me: 'B\ propaganda, with clever and permanent application, even Heaven can be palmed off on the people as Hell, and tlie other way round, I lie moA wretched life as paradise.' “I wonder if you believe that now?" Reynolds asked. "Let us consider the propaganda you send outside Germany. Honestly, it doesn't fool anyone these days. Oh, it fooled Britain and my country for years, and it fooled Belgium, Holland, Czechoslovakia, and Norway. “Silent Man of Kremlin.” “It didn't fool Russia, though, did it? When you made that pact with Russia in 1939, you declaieu joyously to the Reichstag: 'Russia and Germany fought against one another in the World War. That shall not and will not happen again.’ Then, on December 10, 1940, in a broadcast, you paid a high tribute to the people of Russia, and you declared: In their terrible struggle the Russian people rose and freed themselves from the clique in power.' “But the Russians remembered what you had said years before, on page 538 of 'Mein Kampf. The present rulers of Russia arc blood-stained criminals, the dregs of humanity.’ The silent man in the Kremlin said nothing, but he remembered and prepared, On page 539 you said: 'Bolshevism is an infamous crime against humanity.' The silent man in the Kremlin said nothing, but lie ordered more aeroplanes, more tanks. "No, your propaganda doesn't fool people any more, Mr. S. Every trick your little gabby man has tried t'J work in France has failed. You will recall that on June 15 last, in ar. effort, to popularise the once respected but now despised Admiral Darlan, he ordered every newspaper in but li occupied and unoccupied France to print the likeness of Admiral Darlan on the first, page. The order was obeyed. But didn't your agents notice that somehow most of the pictures lithe shop windows happened to fall face downward? Did your agents tell you proudly that every paper in