22 SEPTEMBER 1944, Page 4

The leading article in last week's Spectator suggested various forms

of propaganda which might now with advantage be directed towards Germany. My own suggestion—perfectly serious--would be to drop millions of leaflets bearing simply the classic words "Wir Danken Unser Fiihrer—We Thank Our Fiihrer." Germans are not quick in the uptake, but they would hardly fail to realise what they have to thank Hitler for today, particularly since all Goebbels' exhortations are now, for some reason, deliberately couched in a vein of black pessimism.

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