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...days Palmer Hoyt tried to run the Domestic Branch of OWI the same way he used to run his newspaper. It had taken him twelve years to grow from copyreader to publisher of the Portland Oregonian; it took him six months to convince Washington once more that the often-lamented shortage of Westerners in the Federal administration is Washington's loss...
When Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt left OWI last week, he had faithfully kept his three promises of last June: 1) to serve as "a people's advocate" inside the Government; 2) to squeeze real news out of the war agencies instead of participating in the fancy hide-&-seek game of domestic "propaganda"; 3) to go home after six months...
...Oregonian Hoyt accepted last June was actually a receivership: he took over OWI's Domestic Branch at the very moment Congressional fury had broad-axed the agency, cutting its budget by 75%. Hoyt realized that OWI's strength is derived not from the size of its payroll but from the credit it has with public opinion. Instead of telling the newspapers, he invited them to tell OWI...
...Beggar's Power. As Palmer Hoyt looked back at six months in Washington, he understood the structural sickness of OWI. Formally, the agency exercises the President's power to direct all other agencies' communications to the people. Actually, and particularly in its dealings with the military, OWI has the authority of a beggar asking alms. The reason: instead of being present at the military chiefs' daily reports to the President, and advising him on the spot what parts of the report should be instantly released, OWI's directors are at the mercy...
...British Empire Parliamentary Association (800 M.P.s and peers) laid back its ears and bayed last week. What set them off was a letter, written by Newscaster John Hughes, of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, to his father a London journalist. The letter said that OWI and associated U.S. agencies had virtually monopolized the Australian radio. Wrote young Hughes...