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...India: OWI "has operated to the satisfaction of the Indian press without once disturbing the hypersensitive Indian people over a period of three years-no mean achievement...
...late to do it much good, OWI last week got several ornate wreaths on its grave. They were placed there by the British. London's World's Press News (the British counterpart of the conservative U.S. Editor & Publisher) asked correspondents throughout the Empire to say what they thought of OWJ. Their answers would surprise domestic critics who have insisted that the OWI was all thumbs. Most correspondents thought that the highly touted British information services could learn from OWI. Samples...
...John Albert, Chief of OWI's Intelligence and Analysis Division in New York, tells us that all during the war the Nazi radio "quoted" TIME more often than any other magazine to give believability to its lies-usually by taking sentences out of their context to distort their meaning. (Once a Nazi station that pretended to be broadcasting from inside the U.S. gave itself away by quoting a TIME report four weeks old a few minutes before that same quote came over the air from Berlin-"thus making it clear that the same issue had reached both stations...
Moving steadily along the way to normal times, he abolished the Office of War Information-with a nod of praise to OWI Boss Elmer Davis-and appointed his great & good friend, Washington Businessman George E. Allen, to find ways of lopping off other bureaus and agencies. From Budget Director Harold Smith he got an estimate that the U.S. would spend about one-third less in the 1946 fiscal year than the $100 billions it spent...
...finally took a hand, wrote a reply that seemed to please all concerned except the Japs and (probably) the Chinese. It was forthright, unmistakable-and it was undoubtedly a crushing blow to Tokyo's peace party. Some 27 hours after Tokyo's offer had first been heard, OWI transmitters in San Francisco, Honolulu, Saipan were broadcasting Byrnes's note (for the U.S., British, Russian and Chinese Governments...