SECTIONAL AND CLASS PAPERS

These should he given special attention since they provide the opportunity to address individual classes in terms of their own particular problems. For example:-

Papers in mining and agricultural, districts should show what the miners and agricultural workers of Germany have to suffer - forced labour, forced removal from their homes, etc.

(There is too much loose talk about the working classes having little or nothing to lose. They will soon know what they have to lose if Hitler wins)

Papers read by middle-class men and women . The humiliation and subjection of the middle classes - the disappearance of their incomes, their culture, their homes - when German soldiers are in occupation can be made clear from real-life experiences. Many of these people are still not mentally at war. It is just a bore. They need instantly shaking out of their complacency by reading of what has happened to their class elsewhere and the straits to which the hitherto “comfortably-off” classes have been brought.

Professional papers read, by lawyers, doctors, solicitors, etc. can learn what Nazi rule would mean to them. These people, highly educated, well-read, possibly travelled, should be appealed to in such a manner as to make them furiously angry, not only at the Germans’ inhumanity but especially so at the savage manner in which they have trampled on all that clergy, doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc. have striven to build up since the birth of civilisation.

The anger campaign should make great capital of the German wrecking of established legal systems, of the wrecking of schools and universities, and the vicious impoverishment of men of learning. Stories should be told by refugee professional men of how they have been hounded and put to menial tasks - like washing dishes, and cleaning lavatories. Doctors who have escaped from occupied countries could be used as a means of spreading stories about the way in which the German brute, drunk with power, has stripped medical men of their professional status, prevented them from attending sick and injured women and children in their own districts and have even refused to allow them to be ministered to at all by banning all supplies of medicine and drugs to any other than Germans.

Women's papers in General should be provided with endless factual material dealing with:-

The inferior status of women in the Nazi slave state.

The State control of children and the poisoning of young minds almost from the cradle by the Hitler Youth etc.

The deification of war in Germany.

The responsibility of Germany for this war with all its hardships.

Papers read by Shopkeepers. Business-men. Black-coated Workers, and Industrial Workers should disabuse every reader's mind or the idea that “Things might go on much the same under Hitler”.

They must be made to realise that their shops, jobs, banks, savings, City Councils, Building Societies, Insurance Policies, Rotary Clubs, Members of Parliament, Trade Unions (and funds), Co-operatives, would all vanish and be replaced by the tyranny of a ruthless Nazi slave “protectorate” run by German gauleiters for German exploitation.

Only detailed facts of actual happenings to their own kind will bring these truths home and turn the querulous anger of the grumblers and disaffected “intellectuals” into healthy anger against the common enemy.