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After two years of argument, experiment and preparation, OWI at last had its own broadcasting station in England. OWI Overseas Director Robert E. Sherwood told all the peoples of Europe about it last week, as the all-American transmitters opened up for the first time. Said he: "This is the American Broadcasting Station in Europe. . . . We Americans are here to join with the BBC in telling the truth of this war to our friends in Europe -and to our enemies. . . ." He warned against premature action, promised that Gen. Eisenhower from England and Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson from the Middle...
British children are now learning about the U.S. from British children who have been there. Quiz sessions are run jointly by Britain's interdenominational Talbot House (popularly known as Toc H) and the London OWI...
After tea about a hundred 14-to 17-year-old veterans of the London blitz gather around the fireplace in the headmaster's living room of Westminster School, adjoining the ancient Abbey. Under the chairmanship of an OWI girl, they fire questions at a brain trust of two or three young people repatriated after living in the U.S. The brain trust is coached by Author Christopher Morley's smart 24-year-old daughter Louise, now the wife of Cameron Highlander Captain James Cochrane...
...figure was something to make old-line admirals' eyes pop. The world's greatest navy, OWI announced last week, had reached a strength of 3,200,000 men. And that was not all. The U.S. Navy still needs 400,000 more men. By Sept. 1, when it hopes to have them all, it will hit a strength (3,600,000) never remotely approached by any sea force in world history...
...Constant Drain. The Army, OWI reported, has already reached its top strength of 7,700,000 (including more than 2,385,000 in the Air Forces). But OWI was quick to warn the U.S. public that that does not mean the U.S.'s manpower problem will be solved when the Navy finally fleshes itself out to full strength. On top strength there will always be a constant drain...