The Archive · 1941

Real Facts Lacking

And where are the facts th to speak for these Much can be done, it is true. in a totalitarian country where all the means of ne dissemination can be controlled, but acts to speak for themselves, they have to be real not manufactured Real facts are. that the war which was to have ended last year is still going on as the British Prime Minis-said it would be, that Germ s have penetrated no further outside the Continent of Europe than the territory of vassal Tay, that hostile air squadrons daily rain struction on Germany's largest cities ud best guarded industrial These facts may not be written ju Germany. they may not be spoker but they are very thoroughly stood Political power pon the loyalty of men, and the lo alty men can be enlisted in by an appeal to s appeal to fear. and by an reason, Each of these methods used by the Axis Dictators at right moment. They have captured the sympathy of their people by appealing to the intense passions of nationalism. by telling their people the things they wanted to hear. When the machinery of Government had been captured by these means, they used the appeal to fear. brute force. cruelty, sadism. Then when all opposition had been cowed they came cut with the appeal to re: n by displaying their impressive achievements, These methods, as 1 pended on success for ancy, and that success Nazi and Fascist p exhausted itself and the field is c for the quiet voice of truth. What more overwhelming proof could be needed that the mirror of illusion is shattered than the defection—th escape. of Rudolph Hess. No 3 the hierarchy of Nazidom, incorruptible and uncompromising "Party Member Hess", We know that Hitler's skilfully contrived "Propaganda Pattern" has been and remember that this has been done by actual achievements by the frets that have been made real by the forces of Great Britain and her Allies Police Officer Succumbs Report in Chinese Papers To Wound; One of Best Ridiculed; S.M.C. to Detectives in S.M.P, Protest to Mayor Chen Acting Superintendent Yeu Ah-The man, who started the shooting keng, attached to the Louza police affray at the corner of Bubbling Well station, succumbed to Road and Avenue Haig, succumbed the Lester Chinese Hospi to the wounds he received. This was yesterday after hovering between life Tsai Kwang-hwa, the chauffeur of and death for more than 36 hours. Mr. Wu Sze-pao's car. who started The late police officer. it may be the shooting by firing three shots at recalled, was riding in a rickshaw Probationary Sergeant A. Wickdahl. ar the intersection of Hankow and The chauffeur died at the Police Hos-Yunnan Roads at about 5.30 p.m. on pital at 5 pin. on Wednesday.

Tuesday when three gunmen fired Officials of the Shanghai Municipal several shots, killing a Chinese bookseller and wounding a Chinese Detec-Council ridiculed reports appearing un the Chinese pro-Nanking papers, tive Sergeant and hitting the two hich claimed that Inspector E. E rickshaws-in which Mr. Yeu and his Williamson, officer in charge of the colleague were riding at the time of Bubbling Well police station, had the attack.

The deceased. who was considered apologized to Mr. Wu. They also dismed any knowledge of reported

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