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hearts, that will make our soldiers drop their tommy-guns and feel for their hankies to wipe away the tears of remorse for their own wickedness. He would even make us think we're him and he is us. "Let her go, Gobbels!" And forthwith comes a new flood of perverted logic and lop-sided argument to prove that Nazism is innocent; Democracy is guilty; Hitler is a man of Peace chosen by his people; and Churchill and Roosevelt are wicked dictators who have imposed themselves on Britain and the United States. These Jewish-Bolshevik-plutocratic arch-conspirators and they started the world war. They invented the hideous horror of bombing. They torture prisoners. Innocent Germany, Italy and Japan had unwillingly to take up arms to defend themselves from their unprovoked assaults. God will protect Innocent Germany, Italy and Japan against these barbarians determined to lay waste civilization.

Well, I have said many times in the past on this microphone that the Nazis would finish up by declaring that it was the British and not themselves that invaded Poland on that fatal September day of 1939, and now we are getting round to it, sure enough. Is all this ridiculous nonsense beneath contempt? Of course. Yet it should be taken seriously. It will soon be four years since the war started; and a lot of water has run under the bridge since 1939. Besides a rapid succession of confusing events, there has been an unending flow of cross-talk from national leaders, contradicting one another, calling one another liars, arguments, refutations, accusation and counter accusations. I suppose a great number of people are like a neighbour of mine, a simple person of more heart than head, who found a piece in his newspaper, a report of a Nazi broadcast. "Good lor", said my friend, "we're at war with Hitler and his pals and determined to beat them, so I don't suppose it matters now, but DID we start the war? DID we invent bombing? It's all so long ago and such a lot's happened that I forget. . ."

Well, it DOES matter, by very much, that we should NOT forget. It matters very much to the enemy that we SHOULD. So much, that he works twenty-five hours a day trying to help us to forget. You know what Hitler thinks of the intelligence of ordinary people - the basic assumption of his whole propaganda system. Listen to him: "The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget." Read it for yourself.