Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month unlimbered against enemy propaganda the kind of weapon which is mighty and shall prevail. Entitled Our Secret Weapon (Sunday, 7 p.m., E.W.T.), the program has nothing secret or even subtle about it. A CBS announcer reads a blatant statement from a recent Axis broadcast, then Rex ("Lie Detective") Stout uses it as a clay pigeon to shatter with the truth. A typical exchange...
Dead Japs Don't Lie. General Arnold cited many a glowing fact & figure from the Pacific war to prove the worth of U.S. fighters. This week a correspondent in Australia reported that P-40 squadrons at Darwin had downed 31 Jap bombers, 41 Jap Zeros, and lost only 15 P-40s in the last few months. Apparently the U.S. fighter commander at Darwin, like-General Chennault, is an exceptionally astute leader. Last week the P-40s at Darwin did what theoretically they could not do: bagged a flock of Zeros at 25,000 feet, far above their normal altitude...
...headquarters at Sedan lie right where they should lie, roughly halfway between the extremities of his danger zone. They are far enough from German headquarters in Paris to be out of the way of the Gestapo and the politicians (whom he despises, as do most of his class). They are close enough for an easy trip to the periodic conferences he must have with the people he despises, but who are part of the Nazi machinery that must keep the conquered peoples down...
North from Tulagi lie Jap bases which the U.S. and Australian forces will need soon to clean out: all the airdromes, troop centers and anchorages in the upper Solomons, within easy range of the Marines' southern toehold. The job even then would not be finished. For the Japs' great concentration point at Rabaul in New Britain would still be dangerously close-660 miles from Tulagi, 200 from Bougainville. The Japs would even then still be in upper New Guinea, a scant 350 miles from Rabaul. Above Port Moresby last week, an Australian force (with some U.S. troops...
...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 a graphic illustration of the type of interpretation needed...