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...OWI was not to blame for the tardy news release. When it first heard last November of the Japanese atrocities to U.S. prisoners, it tried to break the story, and failed, as usual. The fact that it was late to learn and slow to free the news underlined its basic defect. Last week the $36.5 million current investment in the war of words was tongue-tied while its two top men squabbled...
...debate appeared to be over whether the tail should be allowed to wag the dog. Tweedy, twangy Elmer Davis once headed a twin-sized domestic & foreign organization. Now the Overseas Branch, headed by Robert Emmet Sherwood, 47, the lank three-time Pulitzer Playwright, has about 97% of all OWI employes. The overseas budget is $34 million; the domestic is $2½ million. As a friend and speech-doctor to Franklin Roosevelt, Sherwood has easy entry to the White House. Davis, presumably the nation's No. 1 news dispenser, is not even close. All the U.S. remembers that the President...
...clash between Davis and Sherwood started in Manhattan, spread to London, and focused in Washington. The men who actually guide OWI Overseas-newsman Joseph Barnes, economist James Warburg, editorial chief Edd Johnson-operate OWI's vertiginous New York office. Their job: to tell the truth, but not the whole truth about the U.S. to its friends and enemies, and to neutrals abroad. (News of U.S. strikes, for example, is not sent.) Critics have accused the Manhattan psychological warriors of being leftish, of being faction-ridden...
...every 1,000 Army student pilots were killed in training. Since the war the fatality rate has risen to 20 in every 1,000. These and other figures, based on Army Air Forces' Office of Flying Safety tables, were released last week by OWI. Considering the vast expansion of A.A.F., the greenness of its new hands and the "hot" aircraft needed for war training, OWI echoed the average airman's opinion: A.A.F. had done a good job of keeping accidents down. Other items...
...Dominions (especially Australia) has been under inquiry for some time. Hughes's charges were not the first that someone had bungled badly. BEPA could not be certain who the bungler was, but it knew who could tell them: carrot-topped Brendan Bracken, British Minister of Information. OWI men could understand his predicement...