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[On March 3, 1945 Goebels, Minister of Propaganda…]

Socialist Press no. 88, 22 February 1978 · scan pp. 5–6 · about 435 words

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On March 3, 1945 Goebels, Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment made a significant entry in his diary:

"In England strike fever has reasserted itself. Labour in the docks and ports stops work for trivial reasons. One does not have to look far to detect political reasons behind. these strikes. The Kremlin is taking a hand in the game. The Daily Mail has just made a truly sensation admission; it says that for two years now 1 have been the only person to analyse the case of Poland correctly and forecast accurately the way in which England would succumb to the Kremlin.

"Churchill comes in for criticism of rare severity. In general terms the Daily Mail entirely supports our viewpoint in its estimate of the Polish problem and accuses Churchill of more monotonous repetition of the battle cry 'Beat the Huns' while Endand is slowly going to the dogs" It is good that the Observer has decided to reprint (for reasons of its own) extracts from Goebbels' diary in the last months before his suicide in a Berlin bunker. The quotes have come at a Pat Warly mail rate o The Daily choose between fascism and what it incorrectly diagnosed as Bolshevism made it clear that it would choose Hitler.

As in 1945 so in 1978.

The Daily Mail enlisted the NOP to poll blacks in Britain last week and published its results blazoned on its front page under the enigmatic heading "The Urge to Go Back Home"

What their polisters discovered was that a significant percentage of blacks of West Indian origin said there was some chance of them taking the money and going if they were offered a £5000 inducement. The Mail has learned from the outery following the Sun's 1976 stories on Malawi Asians nothing but a little circumspection. It reminded readers it was cold. It warned readers against too hasty adherence to the obvious conclusion it was trying to draw--that the racist "solution' of mass deportations was justified. The HOIS victims themselves supported it ! There is no need to play the percentage game. Every single one of the blacks interviewed -100%-is victim of capitalism. Why should we be surprised at how many express their trustration in a search for a utopian solution?

The Daily Mail may be saving up for their air tickets.

We have another proposal.

We propose to bring them Bolshevism-and this time the real thing.

The answer for the black workers is the same answer for the white workers. A turn to the Bolshevism-against which the Dail Mail and the successors to Goebbels stand united.

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