Frederick Voigt to W. P. Crozier.
Location: Paris.
He believes that the paper's current German service is not working well and that Hitler has in effect silenced the Manchester Guardian. He hears that interest in German affairs has never been greater in England and the United States.
The situation in Germany is changing and non-official sources of information are drying up. The Times is not as informative as it was. Foreign correspondents are less well informed about what is happening in the provinces. For example, the persecution of Catholics is almost confined to the south eastern provinces. Silesia, Bavaria, the Palatinate and Hessen [sic] are almost wholly closed to investigation now. The Times' Berlin man may go to Paris. Wolf is good. Daladier has given instructions that he is to be helped; the use of the French diplomatic bag is invaluable. Fodor uses it to send him good material. The Jewish news-service is willing to supply him with material.
The Russian government are going to change their German policy to make its newspapers speak up about the Hitlerite Dictatorship. The foreign editor of Izvestia and a Russian correspondent who is arriving shortly will keep in close touch. The Communists supply him with a daily German news service. They send him their weekly periodical five thousand copies of which circulate illegally in Germany. The Catholics are helpful too.
He talks about the second Terroristic Wave, the religious crisis in Germany, and the persecution of the Jews which grows 'more and more systematic, more and more comprehensive and more and more terrible'. The same is true of the militarisation of Germany. He says an occasional explanatory article after the event is no good. Germany is in the news all the time and should be access to news about Germany all the time. He talks about how this might be possible, given the expense of a daily phone message.
He strongly believes that' civilisation must be defended tooth and nail' and that to do this, events in Germany must be understood. He mentions the fall of the German Left; and Italian Fascism.