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...reporters obediently reported all this. Scareheads about "500,000 casualties in three months" blossomed in the press. In the White House, Secretary Steve Early's telephone began ringing furiously. OWI Director Elmer Davis and the War Department both wanted to know what the hell. Late that evening the "high Government official's" press agent got the White House reporters on the phone, begged them to tone down their stories, go easy...
...aware, the OWI has distributed throughout the world lapel badges bearing the picture of President Roosevelt. ... It may be that Private Meyerson resented this propaganda at the battlefront and sought to counteract it. ... I suggest, therefore, in order to keep the Navy free of any charge of aiding New Deal propaganda within our Armed Forces that you make public the censored portion of Private Meyerson's letter, and, if necessary, inquire from him what he sought to tell his mother...
...which, considering transportation troubles, was something like saying that peace will come when the war is over. But Solid Fuels Administrator Ickes was gloomy: he predicted that manpower and machinery shortages will make the mines fall well short of next year's 620,000,000-ton goal. Said OWI last week: "While Britain has become accustomed to 'no coal for comfort,' the U.S. enters 1944 on a basis of 'minimum comfort...
...praised the U.S. press for not jump ing the gun, then to War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Knox, OWI Boss Elmer Davis be said: Hereafter no war information "having a security value" shall be issued in advance, on a hold-for-i'elease basis; such news will be available for printing or broadcast the moment it is issued...
...OWI announced, as well it might, that ODT was "especially pleased . . . with a Very successful' Great Lakes shipping season...