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...Wind. With regular broadcasts in Japanese by the Navy's Captain Ellis M. Zacharias, the OWI hoped to persuade the enemy to surrender now and not delay until the situation was "complicated" by other possibilities-obviously a reference to Russian entry into the Pacific...
...blond Charlotte Louise Fitz Henry, Chicago night trunk-wire editor for the Associated Press. Others: Robert Joseph Manning, Washington U.P. staffman; Ben Yablonky, PM foreign news rewrite man; Cary Robertson, the Louisville Courier-Journal's Sunday editor; Arthur Wallace Hepner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter; James Batal, OWI feature writer; Richard Edgar Stockwell, Minneapolis's WCCO-CBS associate news editor; Frank West Hewlett, United Press war correspondent; Leon Svirsky, TIME'S science editor...
...Wichita, an airplane-manufacturing center, the Chamber of Commerce also saw red. Kansas' Representative Cliff Hope complained bitterly to OWI's Elmer Davis about his "presumably high-priced author." Said Hope: a fifth-grader would know better...
Elmer Davis, who comes from Indiana and does know better, admitted that the article was badly done (by a White Russian writer he refused to name) and "presented an unfair and inaccurate picture." Then he set about correcting the mistake. For use in the Russian schools, OWI prepared a map of the U.S. showing the vast resources of the prairie states (with Wichita plainly marked as an airplane-manufacturing center). In a forthcoming issue of America Illustrated there would be a new article on the Midwest-by a new author. The writer of the offending paragraphs had been fired...
...basis of his own firsthand knowledge, plus detailed reports from FCC and OWI, Albright pieced together a summary: Kagawa continues to express himself vigorously, sometimes without sufficient data on such touchy questions as the U.S. desecration of Jap bodies. His statements are shrewdly edited and used by the Japanese Government, but he himself has broadcast no anti-U.S. propaganda. Kagawa continues to preach, to organize relief work and to condemn warfare (both Japanese and U.S.). The Albright conclusion : Dr. Kagawa is "an earnest Christian leader who may yet be the hope of Japan...