The Archive · 1939

The Munich Squib

Truth does have an unfortunate habit,—trom: he Nazi point of view,—of coming out, and the latest example is in connection with the alleged bomb attempt on Herr Hitler at Munich on November 8. It will be remembered that there were many suspicious features about the whole business, most of which have already been pointed out in these columns, and there was plenty of ground for assuming that in fact there was no attempt on Herr Hitler, who, contrary to his usual practice, was well away from the scene of the explosion before it took place, and when simultaneously with the dissemination of the news came the story that the attempt was doubles inspired by the British, long before any investigations could have successfully established the truth of such a tale, widespread doubts were expressed concerning the whole thing as being nothing more than a clumsy put-up job. One of the most interesting features of "The Times" is the almost daily publication of an article entitled "In Germany Today" dealing, for the most part, with revelations made by the various German broadcasters. On October 13, on. page 7, column 4, it printed the "behind the was brought to the microphone late night to give his views to German listeners. "We are trembling for the safety of our Fuehrer," he declared. "It something should happen to him through the fault of Britain, then we should have no one left in Germany to us calm." He added: "That Mr. Churchill might cost you your life."

Thg Wednesday on which the Rhinelander in question spoke over the microphone was October 11, so that 28 days before the alleged bombing attempt took place, a German workman was actually broadcasting a prophecy concerning it over the German radio, If there is one thing that is carefully supervised it is German broad-

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