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LldIl LcducIS IldfC pCCll bCVG111s IllCA
information on German, as well as
foreign affairs. by reading three or
four Swiss newspapers. The circu-
lation of the Neues Zurcher Zeitung
of Zurich, the Basler Nachrichten Of
BaSle, the Gazette de Zurich. and
the National Zeitung, to say nothing
of the Vaterland of Lucerne, has
grown by leaps and bounds-in Ger
many. At the same time the lead
ing newspapers of Berlin. Frankfurt,
Munich and other German cities
have seen their readers drop away
by tens of thousands. The result was
inevitable Seizure of Swiss news
papers. after they shave crossed the
frontier, has become almost a daily
occurrence. Excuses given the Swiss
Minister at Berlin are many, one
even being so honest as to admit
that the Swiss newspapers confis-
Gated on a certain date had pub
lished important foreign news
which the government believed de-
sirable to keep from the German
people, No charge that the news
published was false was ever made,
and Swiss publishers have been ad-
vised that if they wish to retain their
German subscribers they must be
more considerate of the political
necessities and eXigencieS" of the
situation. Whether the Swiss news
papers will publish one edition for
export" and another for home con-
sumption remains to be seen.
Austria Bans 100 Papers.
Germany is not the only neighbor
that is troublesome to Swiss pub
fishers. Austria, a few weeks ago,
officially banned 100 newspapers and
periodicals. The Fey ministry went
through foreign publications with a
fine tooth comb and when they
finished members of the Vienna
reading public were in much the
same situation as their German and
Italian brethren. Naturally, the
Swiss suffered heavily. although the
Fey edict hit many Nazi propaganda
sheets also
The tentacleS of the German cen
sorship reach far beyond the Father
lands frontiers in many ways. Two
years ago the German press had one
of the most efficient and highly re-
spected journalistic representations to
be found in Geneva-where the cream
of the worlds foreign correspondents
gather. Such names as Wolf Won
Dewall of the. Frankfurt Zeitung,
Jules Becker of Vossiche Zeitung,
Georg Bernhard of the Berliner
Tageblatt, DR.. Alfred Dang of the
Socialdemokratischer PreSsedienSt and
others were common. Now, like their
Italian colleagues of other days, these
bright lights of pre-Nazi journalism
are scattered to the four winds.
Becker is in Shanghai helping the
Chinese fight japanese propaganda;
DR.. Dang is in Argentine, conducting
an anti-Nazi school; Bernhard Is
editing a refugee paper in Paris, the
Pariser Tageblatt; Won Dewall, like
several other of his at-heart liberal
colleagues, is in London writing in
nocuous dispatches for his newspaper
and awaiting the coming of brighter
day
But even if they are "out" of Ger
man journalism, the once free-think-
ing and hard-hitting German cor
respondents are under the heavy
hand of Nazidom. Out of Berlin has
come the official announcement that:
Propaganda against the Nazi state
hereafter shall be interpreted as
treason new laws will diSplace
old ones relative to high treason
- Germans living both in Ger
many and foreign countries can
be guilty of atrocity propaganda '
the penalty is death production,
distribution at home and abroad OF
illegal propaganda in the form OF
pamphlets, phonograph records, broad
casting stations, etc. (and it might
be added by the spoken word Is for
hidden ="
From Peoples Court.
The above excerpts are taken from
the Peoples Court OF Justice laws ana
DEGREES.
Expulsions of foreign journalists
from Germany are so common these
DAYS that they are no longer news.
Most correspondents are cautious and
write their dispatches under nom de
plumes or after they have left the
frontier behind A British CORE
spondent who has just completed a
swing through the repreSSed countries
wrote his German dispatches after
reaching Austria, his Austrian dis
patches after crossing over into Italy
and his Italian stories upon entering
Switzerland. So far as known, the
NaZis have not as yet prepared a
Ill IL l;efD I,,,t
mitted a foreign journalist who has
once been expelled to return to Ger
many. Despite formal assurances
given the British government to the
effect that the London Daily Tele-
graphs Munich correspondent, M.
Painter, who was held under arrest for
more than a week without any charge
being brought against him, would be
allowed to return to Germany (after
a vacation in England). Painter was
promptly arrested and deported when
he slipped into Stuttgart.
AS was the case with the FaSciStS in
the early days. before poverty and
deaths and persecution all but stified
the fame of anti-Fascist publicity, the
German Nazis and Austrian Fascists
are being pestered by news sheets
which seep across their borders.
From France the spirited Pariser
Tageblatt finds its way into Berlin
and other parts of Germany through
secret channels. From Brno, CZecho-
slovakia, the Socialist Arbeiter Zeitung
pours into Austria. Singularly enough
the AustrianS have not made serious
efforts to bar the former Socialist
organ from the mails.
~-senge and Victory.
soctTtuss has conquered" Bauer
and Adler thunder, from across the
border, but opportunities for a re-
sumption of our fight will come with
revenge and victory"
And in between serious denuncia-
tionS creep the nasty little touches
made famous by La Libre Belgique,
which the German general staff could
not suppress during the occupation of
Belgium, and II Becco Giallo, anti
Fascist satire weekly which for years
screeched from somewhere in France"