Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi Germany tuning in on foreign broadcasts has always been frowned on; for the last three weeks it has been treason. But right up to zero hour German listeners to U. S. short-wave stations kept writing in, asking for pictures of Benny Goodman, requesting that their names be read over the air. Last week, to protect innocent German necks, NBC's international short-wave division discontinued its weekly German Mail Bag program, halted the flow of pictures of Benny Goodman to Reich homes...
...rumors of assassinations. . . . Poles feel themselves betrayed by their Allies and tonight demoralization is spreading rapidly. The fall of Warsaw is expected tomorrow." Because of the announcer's accent, and because Warsaw 1, unheard for several hours, had been thought bombed, many listeners to this broadcast smelled a Nazi. Sure enough, later that evening Warsaw's Radio Station 2 came on, warned Poles against broadcasts purporting to come from Station 1, which had been disabled; assured its listeners that Warsaw still stood; sought volunteers for trenching and barricading; switched to Polish music...
...daily round of war capitals, NBC got through one night to Warsaw. Mendel Mozes, correspondent for the Jewish Telegraph Agency in Poland, wasted no time getting down to the details of his visit to the Nazi-bombed Centos Society home for Jewish children near
Propaganda was a questionmark, with Hollywood evenly divided between plans to capitalize on War headlines, and plans to make traditional escapist pictures. Samuel Goldwyn announced Blackout Over Europe; Warner Brothers, who fired the first shot this year with Confessions of a Nazi Spy, announced a string of comedies. Charles Chaplin continued with The Dictator, and Paramount bought the timely Battalion of Death. Though War Department plans for drafting industry naturally include the cinema, only hint last week from Washington was a request to advance the release date on two patriotic pictures: M. G. M.'s Thunder Afloat (about...
...Nazi Consul General at San Francisco, received a fake telegram demanding his resignation from swank Olympic Club. The fast-talking Consul General-trusted confidant of Adolf Hitler and good friend of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe, who was publicly called a "dirty spy" in London's Ritz (TIME, Sept. 11)-resigned. Day later he was back in, but club members were reported getting up a true ouster bill this time...