Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Information – in the House of Commons on 24th February 1943.
asked the Minister of Information whether his attention has been called to the declaration embodied in his Christmas pastoral letter by the Bishop of Berlin, Count von Preysing, attacking Nazi philosophy and demanding that justice and right should be the governing principles among nations, of which a copy has been sent to him; and whether this pronouncement has been broadcast to the German people?
The answer to both parts of the Question is "Yes, Sir."
Will the right hon. Gentleman also send a copy of this admirable pastoral to Lord Vansittart?
Is it possible for copies of all these various pronouncements by anti-Nazi German bishops and others to be placed in the Library for our perusal?
In so far as we can lay our hands on them, certainly I shall adopt that suggestion.
Has the right hon. Gentleman any information as to what effect these broadcasts have upon the German people?
It is very hard for us to estimate what effect broadcasts by German bishops have upon Germans.
What effect do broadcasts by English bishops have here?