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Outside the Third Reich, Lili Marleen has gone through various metamorphoses. The British changed it into a sentimental song. The Danes and Norwegians made up verses in which Hitler swung from Marleen's lamppost. Following this cue, the OWI has prepared a version for possible future use in propaganda broadcasts to Germany. Sample stanza...
...Office of War Information this week produced an unexceptionable report: a 22-page summary of "the battle of transportation in the continental United States." OWI stuck close to the facts, and of them all, one fact stuck out: any citizen who can read could see why joyrides...
...Rails and Passengers. U.S. population centers are bunched in the Northeast. The Southeast and Southwest have the best climates for training camps. Therefore, reported OWI, troop movements have necessarily been enormous, are now running at the rate of 1,750,000 men a month (exclusive of furloughs). These excursions consume 50% of all Pullman space (and could use 100%). In the last war each U.S. soldier made an average of three moves by rail; in this one a typical soldier makes eight...
...with one-quarter less equipment than they had in 1918-when breakdowns were wholesale and the Government had to take over. Normally U.S. railroads move freight east. Last year one-third of the total volume was westward traffic which Western roads, often single-tracked, were never designed to handle. OWI statistics underline the huge new burdens that submarine warfare placed on the rails: in peacetime one tanker used to leave Gulf ports almost every hour, to supply the 17 Eastern States...
...OWI Director Elmer Davis: "I presume that you are alluding to the fourth-term talk. Well, that is a lot of hot air at this time. . . . It hasn't reached the news stage...