Berlin, Oct. 28.
I have been rather interested in the tone of the propaganda in view of Hitler's statement in "Mein Kampf" that Germany would never again make the mistake of belittling and under-estimating the British. But those in charge of the propaganda are again making the same old mistake and the general tendency is to regard the Tommy as something of an Eton scholar with a high-pitched voice who does his fighting with an umbrella between cups of tea. Chamberlain is portrayed as an ossified Puritan with vulture-like tendencies who is calculating in a cold-blooded manner on how to kill the greatest number of German women and children. Churchill is always a monster and liar who is in the pay of capital-Here-Belisha who is spelled reb Elisha" in the "Angriff," is a scheming Jew intent on destroying the Aryan race, and Eden and Duff Cooper are portrayed as lesser devils in the hierarchy of hell.
"Boiled Potatoes Free"
Berlin, Nov, 3.
I never go into a restaurant nowadays without being amused at the pathetic note at the bottom of every menu: "Boiled potatoes will be served free if yoy want them." The implication is, "We know this is a hell of a meal, but if you are still hungry, fill up on the potatoes."
The first tales of woe are coming in from the sweet little 18- and 19- year-old girls who were sent out to help the farmers' wives pitch manure and milk the cows. The only means of escape is marriage and what with most of the young men at war even that is difficult. The general result is that sweet little things are wild for matrimony and are throwing themselves at anything in trousers.
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