A writer in the current issue of Science and Society,
dis- cussing the censorship in Germany, points out that, while the daily papers are disciplined with an iron hand, some of the weeklies and monthlies have developed a technique of their own for giving publicity to strictures on the Nazi regime. The recognised method is to quote foreign criticism as an example of the enormities of which foreign critics can be capable. An interesting illustration is the use made of a leading article in The Spectator in March of last year, advising British universities not to send delegates to the Gottingen University celebrations on account of the way in which learning had been subordinated to politics in that institution. This was duly attacked by the scientific journal Geist der Zeit, which took care, however, to italicise such passages as : " Science does not exist in Germany any longer except as a humble helper of the State and the armaments industry" and picked out other similar sentences in blaCk type. " There is little doubt," says the writer of the article, "that Geist der Zeit deliberately printed the quotations from The Spectator at length in order to express the opinion of many university people in Germany who are forced by the State to hold their tongue." It seems probable enough.
Previous page
