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Over one of Germany's powerful Zeesen transmitters last week plain Jane Anderson (TIME, Jan. 19) was going great guns. The middleaged, neurotic, American-born Axis tub thumper ("Lady Haw-Haw" to the British) was setting the U.S. short-wave audience straight on the Nazi food supply with a luscious description of a visit to a Berlin cocktail...
What the anthem still needed most was not new harmonies but a singable melody. (A streamlined, octave-cheating version by Bandleader Vincent Lopez had failed to catch on.) Best way to sing The Star-Spangled Banner is still the conventional way: by hum and haw...
...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...
...time on the Rome radio, beamed to America. He became a regular broadcaster on Rome's weekday noon quarter-hour. In his dry, rambling way he extolled "Brother Benito," lashed at Jews, English, the Gold Standard, gunmakers, Roosevelt. U.S. students of short wave bracketed him with barefaced Lord Haw-Haw as another, but more harmless, renegade. Up to December 1941 he was still telling the U.S.-disconnectedl-what Pound wanted: "I want Roosevelt out of post-war matters. Let him stick to North America even if it means diminished gun sales for his pals...
...Pound was no Haw-Haw. After Dec. 7 he was no longer heard...