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...Russians in occupied territory who were overwhelmed before they could turn in their sets, the Germans provide powerful medium-wave propaganda out of Smolensk, Kharkov, Odessa. These stations lure listeners with a vast amount of Russian religious music...
...Born in Odessa in 1895, familiar with 14 languages, veteran of hundreds of children's broadcasts, including the first (over WEAF, New York, April 7, 1924), Author Dorothy Gordon knows the faults of radio critics as well as those of radio. She chides educators and parents who "have consistently refused to cooperate with anything that has the word 'commercial' in it" and advises them to "accept the disadvantages of commercialism that go with the advantages of sponsored programs...
...safely over Turkey and on toward Syria. Said one of the officers in Ankara: "We accomplished our mission in the Black Sea"—a statement which could cover bombings of Rumanian wells, an attack on the German besiegers to relieve endangered Sevastopol, assaults on the Nazi-held Russian port of Odessa, or blasting Axis ships in the Black Sea to prevent German landings in the Caucasus. Correspondents hazarded all these guesses, with emphasis on the oilfield bombings. The U.S. has lately received specific information on the locations of the most productive Rumanian wells, and bombing from Syria was feasible...
Jallez comes in by way of Odessa. Romains' account of the run-around the Russians give him is as icily slick as the run-around itself. But his reporting of the famine is harder to swallow whole. The drought and the European blockade, Jallez finds, are far less responsible for the famine than the subhuman corruptness of the local officials. This and other arraignments, just or not, are set down in much too general and unqualified terms. But the volume ends with much, obviously (and as usual), still to be said...
...Lost both Kiev and Odessa...