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Others had. Passionate Internationalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer, for instance, who last February had resigned from his job as deputy director of OWI to conduct an uninhibited newspaper column on world affairs, submitted the hottest : "This Pravda piece means simply the breakdown of Anglo-American diplomacy." And the Moscow edict may indeed have been a unilateral P.S. to the Teheran communi...
Early in the war, OWI passed the word around: call Hitler & Mussolini any fighting word that comes to mind-but go easy on Emperor Hirohito...
...slight, myopic man known as O-Tenshi-Sami, Son of Heaven, is a religious symbol, explained OWI. As such, he is a potent puppet in the hands of the warlords-but some day he might be an equally useful puppet to the Allies...
Plainly the Presidential directive of last September ordering all official Government statements to be funneled through OWI was still being ignored-and with the President's knowledge & consent. But the real issue was still this: Is U.S. public opinion something to be manipulated by alternating kicks in the pants and doses of soothing syrup, or should the people be given the facts and allowed to make up their own minds...
...reading room of the U.S. Consulate at Valencia, 40 young Spaniards sprawled in cozy comfort. They pored over OWI Spanish-language publications, gazed at the bright posters glorifying the U.S. war effort...