Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fashioned. Only Poland made no gestures toward the great gallery, broadcast no appeals for sympathy. Twenty-one days after the German-Russian pact, eleven days after the German invasion began, nine days after Britain's declaration of war, four days after Germany announced the capture of Warsaw, three days after Goring heralded victory and for propaganda purposes offered peace, the Polish gate between totalitarian Germany and totalitarian Russia was still defended. To convince the world it had fallen, Germans raced breathlessly in a week through the cycle-war for the sake of effect, victory for Germans at home, peace...
Meanwhile officials set about explaining to Britons, and trying to explain to Germans, why peace with Adolf Hitler was impossible. In a broadcast to Germany Prime Minister Chamberlain was polite: "You are told by your Government that you are fighting because Poland rejected your leader's offer. . . . The so-called 'offer' was made to the Polish Ambassador . . . two hours before the announcement by your Government that it had been 'rejected...
...filled with rumors of assassinations. . . . Poles feel themselves betrayed by their Allies and tonight demoralization is spreading rapidly. The fall of Warsaw is expected tomorrow." Because of the announcer's accent, and because Warsaw 1, unheard for several hours, had been thought bombed, many listeners to this broadcast smelled a Nazi. Sure enough, later that evening Warsaw's Radio Station 2 came on, warned Poles against broadcasts purporting to come from Station 1, which had been disabled; assured its listeners that Warsaw still stood; sought volunteers for trenching and barricading; switched to Polish music...
...home comment on the news, NBC picked big-name specialists General Hugh Johnson and Dorothy Thompson. In her broadcast of last Friday night, Miss Thompson sounded as if she were itching to get her fingers in Hitler's hair. When Commentator Thompson was just getting warmed up, the first important application of U. S. radio's self-imposed censorship code occurred. St. Louis' KWK cut Miss Thompson off the air. Said KWK's president, Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson...
...grey warships at sea, to its land forces overseas the U. S. Government last week broadcast: "Germany has entered Poland. Fighting and bombing is in progress. . . . Govern yourselves accordingly...