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Portly, senatorial George Lyon, veteran newspaper editor and OWI man, supported them. Lyon rumbled: "SHAEF's policy on this matter is stupid. . . . Everybody across hell and 40 acres knows what's going on. The American people are entitled to know...
...There are at least 4,000,000 of him. U.S. soldiers have killed a "minimum of 277,000" (according to OWI). U.S. dead in the Pacific war total 21,000-a ratio of 1-to-13. Since 1937 Jap losses in dead are estimated at 850,000. More than a quarter of a million are now "isolated in island pockets," bypassed by the U.S. drive to the west. But there are still plenty of reserves. Japan can train and equip 2,000,000 more soldiers without hurting war production...
...opposite from mine as .it can be, and -that I envy him. T wish" I could walk into a room like Charlie. . . . To me it's quite remarkable that this carved piece of wood . . . should be so ... important. He can be invited to the White House, consulted by OWI, received by the royalty of Europe. . . . It's ridiculous, even, that my appearing any place without Charlie is a complete failure. I do think it's a case of the tail wags...
Said one correspondent: "It's beginning to look like a publicity junket for the opening of a supercolossal movie." On hand to cover the Philippine invasion (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), along with assorted writers for OWI, Yank, the Red Cross and the British and Australian press, were no less than 45 U.S. newspaper and magazine correspondents-a Pacific war record.* And more were...
...withdrew its support from Surgeon General Thomas Parran's campaign against venereal disease. The council is a nonprofit organization of advertising men which prepares the publicity and posters for such drives as WAC recruiting and war bonds. It helped the venereal disease cam paign at the request of OWI and the U.S. Public Health Service. It stopped cooperating at the request of conservative groups of Roman Catholics. (Surgeon General Parran is himself a Catholic...