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Many thousands had enormous difficulty in getting to work. Bus schedules had been slashed way down. Retail deliveries were cut, from 10 to 100%; laundries, milk and other services were cut to a minimum. The people were ruled by ODT, checked up on by OPA and explained to by OWI. But the main thing...
Prelude to War (U.S. Army) was not made for civilians, but to teach U.S. fighting men why they are at war. Its makers neither intended nor imagined that civilian audiences would see it. But since OWI's Elmer Davis (and, reputedly, President Roosevelt) found it good, its general distribution was all but inevitable...
Once again the Roman Catholic bishops of Germany raised their corporate voice against religious persecution by the Third Reich. But this time both the character of their complaint (made last December) and the means of its publication (last week by U.S. official OWI) seemed more shrewdly calculated than ever before to implement their attack on the antireligious phases of Nazi philosophy...
...document came to the U.S. State Department in a diplomatic pouch from Vatican City, was soon in the hands of the Office of War Information. With OWI as its pressagent, it got wide and prompt newspaper coverage, was also assured of European circulation as a piece of first-rate propaganda against the Nazis...
There was a new unity, both of hope and of action, among the Allies. There was certainty now that the Fortress Europe would be assaulted at many points-as OWI's Elmer Davis said, "this summer"; as General Giraud said, "from the north as well as from the south, from the east as well as from the west...