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...political triumph was made even clearer by the conduct of enemies. Adolf Hitler made a curious reference to the Kaiser's flight from Germany (see p. 36). The German radio clamored about "brutal assault . . . shameless breach . . . gangster methods . . . imperialistic aims . . . piece of impudence." In keeping, Tokyo broadcasters squeaked and hissed: "Illegal . . . international banditry ... a most ungentlemanly act." Bern reported that Rome was in a state of "stupefied pessimism," and Rome's radio spokesmen admitted that "the horizon is black. . . . Tonight the Italian people . . . is facing a terrible trial...
...Midway may have been "accurate in themselves, but that the Japs' total carrier strength had been underestimated. Even the statement by Expert Hanson W. Baldwin (see p. 67) that the Haruna probably had not been sunk was no longer much of a jolt. Laymen could turn a clearer eye upon tabulations indicating that the Japs, to date, had lost perhaps a third of their known (and probably underestimated) cruiser strength, nearly one-third of their destroyers, six of their carriers, some 75 warships, while the U.S. had lost only 58 in the Pacific. Present Pacific naval strength...
Except among politicos, there was hardly any pre-election excitement at all. The light registration had long been noted; it was an axiom that this year voters were "apathetic." Whether it was really apathy, or some deeper discontent or bafflement, would be clearer after the results were...
...beginning she just answered individual calls for cooperation and advice, but as the trend of the requests became clearer, she organized regular services to take care of the most frequent ones. For example, she now gets up a discussion outline every fortnight in collaboration with America's No. 1 expert in current events discussion, Professor Lyman Bryson of Columbia. She supplies monthly and semi-annual news quizzes, special enlargements of TIME maps for platform use and several other services tailored to club needs. In some of our most active clubs she gives a prize each year to the winner...
Reston is most at home in the field of War Information and it is in "The Illusion that the Facts will Speak for Themselves" that his analysis is most acute. Many of the author's other themes are integrated here as Reston calls, not for more news, but for clearer interpretation of what is available. Figures are meaningless until they are broken down and their significance explained, and news services have so far ignored this portion of their responsibility. In this failure lie the roots of many of the illusions at which Reston strikes. "Prelude to Victory" is, in itself...