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OUR MISTRESSES: THE PRESS
… In June 1933, having read in the English Press of the riots in Germany, and of the s*******r of the Jews and of general acts of lawlessness, I crossed the Rhine fearing the worst. I found cities and countrysides orderly and peaceable as in England. I found a courteous, industrious people, absurdly like ourselves, a little resentful, but generally highly amused at the misrepresentation of the Foreign Press. I even met Jews in Berlin trading under their own names, who hardly knew whether to be indignant or scornful of the Semitic atrocities they read about. In Berlin there were fewer traffic police than in Sydney.
Then the deliberate misrepresentation as regards alleged “breakaways” in the New Guard, proves the unreliability of the Press to demonstration…
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