Show Hitler Seeks Seel to Bind Gel Germans All ll Over OTel W WorM World ol ld By r WEBB l MILLER R Copyright 1938 by United Press Press' BERLIN Feb 25 Adolf 25 Adolf Hitler is pressing ahead with a worldwide worldwide worldwide world world- wide propaganda campaign to build little homelands homelands' among the Germans or persons of German descent living Jiving in North America South A America erica Africa a and nd Asia 1 tic He seeks s to bind nina I THIRD them to Germany I OF A I by cultural and economic ties 1 SERIES The fue fuehrer's h r e rs r's e eyes yes may be on Austria and CzechoSlovakia Czechoslovakia Czecho Czecho- S slovakia for the moment but nazi o officialdom never for a moment forets forgets forgets for for- g gets ets the long view and never a abates bates its efforts to create sympathy sympathy t thy hy on other continents for the s swastika A special department in the foreign foreign for for- e eign ign office began this work andow and n now ow with Hitler's announcement of ofa ofa a protectorate over Germans living living liv liv- i ing ng in other European nations the c campaign has been intensified It s seeks seek to control the lives and t thou thoughts of Germans abroad by Telling them what storekeepers t they hey can patronize Forbidding them to retain Jewish l lawyers awyers or physicians V Must Register Co Compelling German citizens to r register egister with nazi consulates and andreport andreport report r any change in their address or personal status Appointing regional leaders under direct supervision of Berlin to in inculcate inculcate in- in c nazi principles in Germans l living iving abroad Establishing clubs at which Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans met V Providing those clubs with films newspapers and books that reflect nazi ideology Encouraging the club members to give the nazi salute and observe nazi holidays Discouraging Germans from marrying marrying marrying mar mar- V Jews or cven even mingling with Jews Any German citizen there citizen there are about of them in the 25 25 persons of German descent livin living abroad who abroad who fails to keep keepin in close touch with ith the local con con- sUb is subject to loss of citizen citizen- V ship A list of eligible lawyers and doctors doctors doc doe tors tars has been s 's sent ent nt to Germans living living living liv liv- ing In New York and the presumption presumption presumption tion is that similar instructions wen went to other large centers of tion Uon One new phase of this campaign according to semiofficial circles circle here will be a stiffening of the naz nazi attitude toward foreign newspaper correspondents There may even be reprisals against correspondents correspondents- expulsion from Germany would be bethe bethe bethe the most likely one one one-in in cases where foreign newspapers publish unfounded unfounded unfounded un un- founded reports 20 Expelled In la five years ears 20 correspondents of the foreign press have been ex ex- Several others have havo left under under under un un- un- un der pressure There appears to be a n. widespread wide wide- spread ml misunderstanding under abroad about censorship in Germany German There is no censorship in the sense that the nazis seek to control con con- trot the thc means of transmitting news Any correspondent can telephone to London Paris laris or anywhere else whenever he lie cares to do so and can transmit over o the telephone any information or misinformation without interference ence enco from the authorities There is however close restriction restriction restriction tion on sources of information in incases incases incases cases involving matters the government government government govern govern- ment wishes to keep secret This makes it extremely difficult to obtain obtain ob ob- ob- ob tam tain reliable information unless the nazis see fit to make such information information information tion public The government of course has a rigid censorship on OIl German news news- papers In the case of foreign correspondents cor cor- respondents respondents-in in the light of the 20 expulsions expulsions censorship censorship in Germany appears to be something that is in invoked invoked in- in yoked after publication not before |