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...hard fight for a sensible, democratic censorship, newsmen had been reassured by the appointment of Byron Price as head of the Office of Censorship. When able Elmer Davis took over as head of OWI last summer, with executive powers straight from the President, newsmen believed that the military news jam would be dynamited. Yet within the last weeks have come some of the war's worst examples of inept, demoralizing suppression of war news...
Without mentioning these figures, which make strange reading in other United Nations' capitals, the President told a press conference his opinion of the jam-packed shopping districts around Washington. Three-quarters of the display windows, he pointed out, were crammed with luxuries-just luxuries. If the merchants would only put these luxuries out of sight, people would not ask for them. If people did not ask for them, shopkeepers would not try to reorder them. If shopkeepers did not reorder them, manufacturers might conserve vitally needed manpower...
...pains taken by the Nazis to jam United Nations' broadcasts is a guide to the willingness of Germans to listen. Some experts guess that perhaps a million Germans still...
With the dogged persistence of antiaircraft batteries blazing away at attacking bombers, Axis radio transmitters are fighting off United Nations' broadcasts with strange and unpleasant noises. When World War II began, Nazi jamming was unpredictable. Today Germany, Italy and Japan all jam regularly, systematically, most of the time.* In spite of their efforts, their jamming is far from 100% effective. The jammer's basic difficulty is that a determined listener can follow a speaker's voice through almost any kind of a din, can grasp the gist of a message even though he hears only a word...
...principle, jamming is as simple as ABC: the jamming station sends out a conflicting broadcast on the same frequency as the offending broadcast. But United Nations broadcasters have various means of fighting back. San Francisco's KGEI sends its programs across the Pacific on at least five different wave lengths, jumps from one to another to evade the Japs. BBC sometimes fights interference by changing its wave length slightly in mid-broadcast; by the time the jamming station catches up to it, it may be on the move again. Furthermore, BBC's European Service...