A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
ELABORATE as Herr Hitler's arrangements for the broadcasting of his speech on Tuesday night were, his advisers seem to have left the world outside Germany out of account altogether. That, from their own point of view, was a considerable mistake, for if the speech was addressed primarily in one sense to National Socialists throughout Germany it was addressed primarily in another sense to the •world as a whole. And a speech that ends at 10.30 can get no adequate treatment in British, still less in French, papers. Not only was there no time to write considered leading articles, but not even an adequate report of the speech was possible. No English paper, I believe, gave it' Verbatim on Wednesday morning, and it was a speech in which every sentence needed study. Even as I write, on Thursday, I am unable to find in any English report passages which I see are commented on by the Press of other countries. It was certainly not the fault of the London Press. The papers did astonishingly well in the circumstances. But Dr. Goebbels' very active propaganda department would do a great service if it would print the speech in full in English and circulate it freely. *
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