The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-02


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 Nazi policy towards newspapers in Germany is best illustrated by this statement of Max Amann president of the Reichs Press Chamber: National Socialism knows only one press, and that is press run by National Socialists for National Socialists"
 The same fate which befeH the non-Nazi news papers has been meted out to religious organs Amann stated there were no more Protestant or Catholic daies left
 One method applied in eliminating non -Naz pub cations has been the forced incorporation of these journals with purely Nazi publications Editorial ano publishing staffs given the choice of living up to expectations clearing out Another way was the accusation from Nazi publications that they were fos- tering "beralstic and Free Mason" tendencies
 The Rechsbote, once widely read by Monarchists and the favored organ of Empress Auguste Victoria first wife of Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm was attacked by the Nazi press-before it was eliminated atogether-for having printed advertisement of Eastern trip to Palestine
 The Reichsbote accused of offenses amounting to high treason for saboagng National Socialism by inducing Germans to spend money among the Jews whereas every penny needed at home"
 Other Monarchist organs eliminated were the Daily Kreuzzeitung, founded in 1848 and regarded the last mouthpiece of the Hohenzollern family and Der Aufrechte semi-monthly periodical which was in existence 19 years
 One of the first tasks of the Nazi regime was the elimination of the Communist press in Germany; next came the Socialist newspapers. Prominent among the Socialist organs fall by the wayside the vorwaerts of Berlin founded in 1883, and the Muen chener Post of Munich founded in 1887
 The end for Jews, half-Jews and even quar- er-Jews in Germanys newspaper life with the intro ducton of Adolf Hitler iron rule" for the nations
 
 made Aryan descent and Nazi patriotism primary professional qualifications
 His decree spelled death too for most of the demo- cratic and liberal newspapers. a great number of which were owned by Jewish publishing houses Prom inent among Jewish publishing houses were the Ull stein verlag which published series of newspapers and the Mosse Verlag Outstanding among the Ull- stein publications was the Vosssche zeitung, of the oldest papers in Germany. It was founded weekly in 17O4 and from 1924 until its end on March 31, 1884. appeared daily. The day that this ven erabe newspaper went out of business black one for many of the nations old established news papers. Among others it marked the end of the 2O3- year-od Hamburgischer Correspondent and Hamburg ische Boersen- Halle, leading trade and shipping or gan the Hamburger Neueste Nachrichten the Ham burger Acht Uhr Abendblatt and the Hamburger Nit tagsblatt
 One of the most recent newspapers to be elimn- ated was the Berlner Tageblatt one-time leading democratic organ and one of Berns dailies best known internationally It ceased publication on last January 31.
 After German absorption of Austria, old and widely known papers like the 175-year-old Weiner Zeitung the Neuigkeits Wetblatt and the Kleines Voksblatt disappeared while the Neue Freie Presse the Neue Wiener Journal and the Neue Wiener Tag blatt were amalgamated into one German organ.
 Such is a sample of the press in the dictator countries But it is not new What has become the modern newspaper had its beginnings in England 300 years ago Between 1642 and 1649 ITO newspapers were started in England When Oliver Cromwell be- came dictator he like the current dictaors drowned upon freedom of the press and in 1855 decreed that there should be only two newspapers in the nation and that each must be edited by government agents. How Hitler and Mussolini have taken leaf out of Cromwelrs book!
 free press is the right of all the people and the chief institution of representative government With free press gone gone also the other three free doms guaranteed in the bill of rights namely, free dom of speech freedom of religion and freedom of assembly.
 Examiner who heard the Bridges case has 25O0,OOO words of testimony to review before he reports to Secretary Perkins A little light reading for an idle hour. eAF ss*