Editors have no business trying to be free in matters of aesthetic criticism or anything else without deference to political necessities, according to a doctrine laid down by Capt. Wilhelm Weiss, head of the Reich Press Federation, the Havas News Agency reported.
In a speech yesterday, Capt. Weiss said the new Nazi journalism received inspiration directly from the State, as compared to former times when journalists submitted “to Jewish influence.”
The new regime has enabled the Reich to re-establish its military sovereignty, continued Capt. Weiss, to reoccupy the Rhineland, and to construct roads and gigantic monuments.
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