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Under monolingual Director Gerber now work eleven listening linguists, each of whom knows at least three languages. For 19 hours a day the squad listens to both Axis and United Nations broadcasts. Each day the monitors compile a 20,000-word digest of news and propaganda slants, another 30,000 words of direct transcriptions. Carbons are turned over to the OWI, important stories are relayed to press associations by teletype, but the main purpose of the listening post is to aid CBS in its fight against Goebbels...
Schlesinger has regularly been speaking over station WRUL on the program "Digest of American Editorial Opinion." Among the courses which he has been giving is the second half of History...
Last month Catholic Digest printed an article by Episcopalian John Erskine in which he termed Protestant missions south of the Rio Grande "the work of pure destruction," urged their abandonment. Catholic Digest in turn suggested that such missionary activity "violates our Good Neighbor policy" and that the U.S. "should cease to make divisions in South America." Last week the Christian Century, leading Protestant weekly, returned the salvo: "There are enough religiously indifferent people in South America to give Protestant missionaries an ample field for a century. What if they do proselyte? So does the Roman Catholic Church...
This week Catholic Digest was back in the battle with another article by a Protestant, the New York Herald Tribune's veteran Correspondent John W. White. Said Newsman White, who likes to keep his categories separate: "My interest in the problem is purely patriotic and political, not religious. If we are sincere in our desire to make the Western Hemisphere safe for democracy, we must have the real friendship of our South American neighbors. The first and most important step in winning that friendship would be to call home our missionaries...
...sprawling complexity of Government orders and regulations. OPA lawyer language makes decisions difficult, clogs the steady flow of goods in a business which depends on turnover. Trade associations have done much to clarify and expedite the intentions of these orders, and Washington promises a "Retailer's Digest" which will put them into storekeeper's English so that men with crops to catch and seasonal buying to plan will know which way to jump...