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...Professor of Western Literature at the University of Peking. There she worked with China's foremost scholar, slight, charming Dr. Hu Shih. She came to the U.S. in 1940, broadcast one of Mme. Chiang's speeches to the Nazis in German, headed the Chinese desk at the OWI for thirteen months...
...House ripped up the requests, or saddled the appropriations with crippling amendments. In one long, fierce, exhausting session the House made a shambles of the Administration's whole subsidy and price-control program, wiped out the domestic bureau of Elmer Davis' OWI and the National Youth Administration, and, as a final stab, killed the President's pet little bureau, the National Resources Planning Board (which is headed by his uncle, Frederic A. Delano). The "killings" were tentative, since the Senate must concur, but it is unlikely that the House will give...
...OWI monitors picked up Tokyo's interpretation of U.S. zoot-suit riots: "The zoot-suiters are isolationist fighters. They are strong, courageous young men who have banded together in a nationwide army to express by physical force their disapproval of the war. They are intent on spilling their blood in their own country for their own sacred ideals...
Benign Elmer Davis, OWI director, addressing the American Newspaper Guild convention at Boston this week, said Washington news is "less adequately covered than any other news in the world." The American war machine is now "rolling," he said, "but many people in this country seem unaware of it." He implied that some newspapers and newsmen, because of their "antagonism" toward the Administration and "hostility to some of our allies," have deliberately created the impression "that Washington was a synonym for muddle, confusion and bickering...
Washington reporters, hamstrung by Army & Navy censorship, trussed by red tape, and generally sunk by OWI's own inability to break out the news, were spluttering...