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Elmer Davis, who comes from Indiana and does know better, admitted that the article was badly done (by a White Russian writer he refused to name) and "presented an unfair and inaccurate picture." Then he set about correcting the mistake. For use in the Russian schools, OWI prepared a map of the U.S. showing the vast resources of the prairie states (with Wichita plainly marked as an airplane-manufacturing center). In a forthcoming issue of America Illustrated there would be a new article on the Midwest-by a new author. The writer of the offending paragraphs had been fired...
...conquered capital was divided like a pie into four slices (see map). The Americans occupied about a quarter, mostly residential. The British held another quarter, partly residential, partly industrial. The French occupied only one borough, a thin wedge between the British and Russians. The Red Army slice was biggest-almost half the city, including its business heart. As far as the Elbe River, the Russians controlled all outlying regions through which the Allied supply routes...
...nevertheless the first Viceroy to hold a press conference. Good-humoredly, he adjured photographers to picture his "bad" eye as well as his good. In his first address to the Legislature he criticized the Moslem League's plan for Pakistan (the idea of an independent Moslem state) (see map). Said Wavell bluntly: "No man can alter geography...
...Zodiac signs and constellations-Designer James Monroe Hewlett came a cropper. As one letter-to-the-editor writer once informed the New York Times: "The ceiling stars were all put on exactly backward. Their arrangement ii a mirror image. . . . This reversal is, of course, as confusing as a map showing New York on the West Coast and San Francisco on the East. . . otherwise, very accurate...
...streamlined and updated as Progressive Conservatives, increased their parliamentary strength sizably (and their national leader, John Bracken, entered the House of Commons for the first time by winning, easily, in his constituency of Neepawa. Manitoba). Even more significant: the election left socialistic CCF losers scattered all over the map. A few months ago many an astute political observer, even among the old-line parties, was willing to concede that the CCF had a good chance of running a reputable second. It ran a dismal third. Plainly the people wanted no economic didoes, no flagrant change in the status quo. Only...