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moles not only acting on behalf of the KGB but a wide diversity of 'foreign interest' paymasters.
"The Foreign Office is well aware that quite a number of men attached to newspapers in foreign
countries are employed for the purpose of espionage. .... in the course of my wanderings around the
foreign capitals I have met newspaper men who have openly boasted of having been employed in this
and that country's secret service, who have accepted the hospitality of people whom they have
wantonly betrayed. That, you will argue, is all part of the business. But it seems to me a pity that
foreign correspondents should not be above suspicion and devote themselves to specific jobs and their
specific jobs alone." - G.E.O. Knight, In Defence of Germany
ERNEST BEVIN
"A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain, and the rest is to
mislead."
British Foreign Minister, Ernest Bevin, London Conference of Foreign Ministers, February 10th 1946
THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER
"Unhappily, bad feeling between nations is fomented daily by poisonous propaganda in the Press and
by other means. I cannot help feeling that if only we halt this war of words and some action is taken
which would tend to restore confidence of the people in the peaceful intentions of all the statesmen of
Europe - if only that could be done, then I still feel that I know of no question that could not and
should not be solved by peaceful discussions. The gain would be enormous. On the other hand, if
war should come, whichever side may claim ultimate victory, nothing is more certain than the victor
and vanquished would glean a gruesome harvest of human misery and suffering."
- Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, July 1939
THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR
"Many a time public opinion has been poisoned by untruthful statements in the Press, and by that
irresponsible sensationalism which endangers the peace of nations."
"In his Reichstag speech after five years of National Socialism, Chancellor Hitler spoke of this open
wound in the life of the nations. He gave a clear answer to those who incite the public, and appealed
to the governments not only to make international arrangements to prevent the dropping of explosive,
poison-gas and inflammable bombs, but also to stop the publication of all newspapers which have an
even deadlier effect on international relations.... "I have received many letters from journalists who
agreed with me. These are proof that many pressmen are working under the compulsion of
circumstances. It is the same with many democratic statesmen as with many journalists. They have
long recognized the depressing Press problem, but dare not deal with it." - Adolf Hitler
"Day after day the bourgeois world are witnesses to the phenomenon of spreading poison among the
people through the instrumentality of the theatre and the cinema, gutter journalism and obscene
books; and yet that are astonished at the deplorable 'moral standards' and 'national indifference' of the
masses. As if the cinema bilge and gutter Press and suchlike could inculcate knowledge of the
greatness of one's country, apart entirely from the earlier education of the individual."
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p.29
THE FRENCH PRESIDENT
"Thus, M. Lebrun, the French President seriously warned the editors of his country not to abuse the
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