Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Vienna: "Your news service is objective for our needs, though too short, as we are starved for the truth...
From Prague: "Perhaps we are too much in the middle of things to see clearly, or else we do not learn everything here in Europe. . . . You succeed in giving European news before it is given in Europe...
...radio receiving sets in Germany, some 5,000,000 are equipped to receive short-wave broadcasts. Not generally known is the fact that the U. S. has quietly entered the short-wave news propaganda battle. Every day in the week for the past year and a half, NBC's 25-kilowatt W 3 XL, its power stepped up to the equivalent of some 150 kilowatts by a directional beam antenna, has sent in the direction of Germany's 5,000,000 shortwave receivers an hour of news, music and Americana calculated to reach Germans between eight and nine...
Last week, for example, German listeners could hear in German news that might not otherwise have reached their ears-that Bridget Hitler, the Führer's sister-in-law, had been arrested in London for not paying her rent; that the U. S. viewed Dr. Schacht's dismissal with alarm...
These communications and other news last week indicated a few hitches in the Reich's campaign to limit public information. The cheap People's Radios are designed to receive mainly the medium-waveband domestic German broadcasts. But the popular British Broadcasting Corp.'s medium-wave news periods are frequently as easily received on People's Radios...