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Curiosity Cannot Be Stifled “It is not only forbidden to listen to Britain and France,” says the Manchester Guardian; “the Nazi decree covers neutral broadcasts, and even benevolent Moscow must go unheard lest the souls of German listeners ‘ferment.’ There is more comfort for us to be found in this new decree than that our broadcasts are being successful. It shows that the German Government’s elevation of the State has led it from despising its subjects to misunderstanding them. Its contempt for its tools, men and women, has led it into a blunder whose effects will increase. They have not allowed for the power of curiosity. Curiosity cannot be legislated against and it cannot be rooted out by the death penalty. In time of war if men are not given the truth, and even when they are, sometimes, they will accept the first malicious whisper, like that which unofficially ran through Berlin and said that Mr Chamberlain had resigned and peace was on its way. They will also brave the worst penalties to hear some new thing in stealth. One more effective measure lies to the German hand, and that is the confiscation of all wireless sets.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21098, 27 April 1940, Page 6
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