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...Most celebrated: the Winchester, nicknamed "The Cigarette" because of its narrow beam...
...Latin America. As unity grew out of the Pan-American conference at Rio, said Director MacLeish, the Axis beam to South America became a frantic torrent. Since most Latin Americans are Catholics, the Italian radio portrayed "Protestant Roosevelt" in an alliance with "Atheist Stalin" against "Catholic Fascism." Another Axis broadcast asserted that the Vatican had urged Latin America not to break with the Axis. This the Vatican promptly denied...
From Unoccupied France, the Vichy radio chimed in on the South American beam. Vichy's Ambassador to Paris, Fernand de Brinon, was heard intoning: "The Marshal [Petain] believes that Bolshevism is the greatest enemy of all, and therefore earnestly desires a German victory. . . . Washington leads the alliance of Jewish capitalists and Soviet Communists." This must have made curious listening for the U.S. State Department, which still sought to avoid giving Vichy " excuses" for falling inert into Hitler's arms...
...those who had debated against the Prime Minister, one was Conservative Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, who said: "In its desire and determination to win the war this Government as a whole is to me a great and shining light, a beam like a searchlight over the horizon, and that is why I shall support it. But when it comes to other matters I am afraid the light does not shine anything like so brightly. Sometimes it is no better than a gas jet, and I am afraid that in their determination not to change any system that we have been...
...Japanese radio, devious by habit and well coached by the Nazis, could boast several propaganda exploits. It cut in on the Far Eastern beam of California's KGEI to give phony "flashes" on the "bombing" of San Francisco. It presented an American "Lady Haw-Haw" to inform America of the "annihilation" of the U.S. fleet. Last week it fished for U.S. listeners by promising to announce the names of prisoners "as soon as they are available" -i.e., in driblets, to keep the audience tuned...