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...Without a Country? A team of U.S. civilian investigators-Author-Historian Dr. Saul K. Padover, Dr. Paul Robinson Sweet of Bates College, and Lewis F. Gittler, an OWI propagandist-went into western Germany to study German civilian attitudes. After chatting with scores of German workers, grocers, professional men, housewives, Nazis and non-Nazis, Dr. Padover reported...
...OWI propaganda magazines, America and America Illustrated are the only U.S. periodicals circulated widely in the U.S.S.R. Only British: The British Ally and The British Chronicle, also Government publications...
...Jill's show is an outgrowth of an OWI radio program begun in 1942 with her husband, ex-Radioman Mort Werner. As "Jack and Jill" they served up a mixture of jazz and banter called Hi, Neighbor. A.F.R.S. took over the program in the spring of 1943. Soon Jill (minus Jack) was doing a solo act called G.I. Jive (now AEF Jukebox...
...loves censors, but some-like those at SHAEF-are especially unloved. Said the New York Times's crack Drew Middleton: "The worst [censorship] I have experienced in five years." The OWI's brash George H. Lyon (former Buffalo Times editor) risked a reprimand by calling SHAEF policy "stupid," and was straightway backed up by his boss, Elmer Davis...
Besides bombs, the Japanese now have OWI radio propaganda to dodge. Beset by a new station on Saipan, near enough to reach ordinary sets on standard wavelengths, Tokyo last week countered with a bedtime message: "Let's turn off the radio," cooed an announcer, "as soon as [our] broadcast is over." He pointed out that his little listeners could thus "restore their vitality ... by going to bed as soon as possible," and could make their radio sets last longer "by giving them rest." (Just to make sure, Japan tried to jam the Saipan broadcasts...