Paris, Nov. 20.
Latest outbursts by German and Soviet propaganda show a striking similarity in theme and method, French political quarters pointed out today, indicating that the hammer and sickle is slowly but surely gaining the ascendancy over the swastika even in Germany itself.
Dr. Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry in Berlin, it was reported, has created a new department—the Communist Bureau—the task of which is to spread Communist teachings wherever Adolf Hitler may believe such action detrimental to the Allies and favourable to Germany.
This policy of emulation is causing dangerous confusion in the Reich itself, for veteran Nazis used to anti-Communist preachings find it hard to swallow the new-found love for Soviet Russia. This confusion, added to the November 8 attempt on Herr Hitler's life and the recrudescence of revolt in Bohemia and Moravia is even said in many quarters to be responsible for the usually dynamic Reich's inactivity of late.
German aeroplanes recently dropped "bomphlets" over France merely to give the Nazi-Communist version of the speech made by the Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Viacheslav Molotoff a few days before.
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