Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-06
Enemy's Lies
About u. S.
Side-SpIitting
AXIS Radio Propaganda
Provokes Only Laughs
BN PAUL MALLON

me only gOOd lCtlon tndt inns
war has produced the AXIS
propaganda broadcastS.
Where in American prose, for
instance. is there a match for
this squeaky mouse-like news
broadcast by Tokio?:
I'm special message written
for the benefit of his country
men, an officer Of the United
States Army who was captured
by imperial forces in the fierce
battle OF Kaysngas Bay de-
Clared: Surrender. comrades OF
the American army =. and
the United States In wish to beg
you To pray for free peace be-
tween the United States and
Japan"
The United States Army here
is wish TO know where the
laps found an American who
addresses troops as comrades. -
RUT probably the best thing
~ that Toxic has ever done in
A literary way was its announce
ment that Columbus did not dis
cover America y. the Japs did!
THE cultural organization of
the American continent Is proved
to have been created by the
Asiatic race" the Japanese have
announced.
ut Is said that Columbus dis
covered America. but II was not
discovered FOR THE FIRST
TIME by him.
Ills was the first time
European discovered the Amer
lean continent. People of Japa-
nese race advanced along the
shore Of Alaska and North
America as far as the coastline
OF Peru"
ITALY. too. has newly dis
i covered The Jewish Issue"
Its commentator tripped around
the ancient Italian lineage of
Fiorello LaGuardia by announce
ing he has little Italian blood
and the soul of a Jew"
Rome hews strangely to the
line that Americans are dumb,
silly, foolish" and declares that
the collective naivete of the
Americans lis greater than their
individual simplicity
Mind you, all this stuff is pre-
pared for American consumption
exclusively, and represents the
Axis effort TO destroy American
morale.
If you can think of anything
less cleverly designed for that
purpose than the Jap claims
that our cultural forebears and
the Italian denunciation Of us
as stupid. you no doubt could
sell 1t TO Toxic and Rome.
VET the most comforting OF
Il alto us is the Berlin radio.
1t recently announced.
Colonel Knox cannot find
peace even In his private bomb
shelter. He tried yesterday to
go away for weekend. He
did not want TO he there when
the congressional investigation
against kimmel began.
But he could not find peace.
As soon as he arrived at his
destination Western Union
tcorrectD arrived with a tele-
gram reading:
"Return Immediately. Must
see you on urgent matter.
(signed) FRANKIE'."'
DERLIN also made feature OF
ID the mysterious disappear
ance of the Sultan of Johore."
His family was concerned.
A few days later Berlin
cleared the mystery. The sultan
had been found in Japanese lines
and restored TO his family.
All the time the sultan had
been fighting with the British IN
Singapore where he was re-
Gently interviewed and photo
graphed by American CORE
Spondents.
The Nazis like this mystery
method.
They announced America had
a miracle weapon. 1.-The NINA
ture airship." They even had
the type number. "K-3, and
said 100000 would be built in
year.
a few days later they an
nounCcd the United States had
hoaNcd the world about that
ship, that there was no such
ship as indeed there wasn't.
They only failed 10 say that
they had concocted the straw
ship TO DESTROY IL.
Another all too obvious Ger
man trick is 10 aSCribe the raw
est OF It's hctions TO remote
towns, a. IN this.
"StHNanger, NOrw ay- The
Japanese Times and Advertiser
IN Tol.io reports today that Ad-
miral klmmel and General short
have been sentenced to death
for Pearl Harbor."
Thus Berlin broadcaSts a dis
patch from Norway OF what a
newspaper in Toxic is supposed
10 know about what happened
in Washington. whereas every
one in the United States knew
both kimmel and Short had not
even been Court-martialcd.
TllE ANS nations have a law
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