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...flock of resignations from OWI's London staff signaled a shift in emphasis from civilian propaganda to military information (i.e., no information...
...Deal? Some Republicans feared that the President might appoint a couple of New Dealish GOPsters to the proposed War Ballot Commission. Others feared that the Administration had a natural advantage with soldier voters. Ohio's Robert Taft, proffering an amendment to forestall overseas Government political campaigning, complained: "OWI is engaged in propagandizing the entire world in behalf of the President . . . [and will] continue unless we prohibit that kind of propaganda...
Reuters, the British news agency, was deeper in the black books of the U.S. press than it had ever been before. And that was saying something. OWI's Elmer Davis was madder than he had ever been, but apparently just as helpless...
...Didn't!" This sort of thing had happened before, and OWI, expressly created to keep the U.S. informed as rapidly as possible about war developments, had often promised that it would not happen again. The U.S. press went after Elmer Davis. Red-faced with shame and anger, he uprose, turned a bitter blast on his opposite number, British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken. Barked mild-mannered Mr. Davis: ". . . flagrant and possibly dangerous breach.... I hope . . . you will take steps to make sure that British censorship . . . keeps Reuters in line." Before a critical House of Commons Brendan Bracken indirectly replied...
...OWI last fortnight issued some surprising statistics on the ratio of men killed to men wounded in World Wars I and II, and on the number of neuropsychiatric cases in both wars: >Generally speaking, the ratio of killed in action to battle casualties is twice as high in this war as in the last, but the mortality rate among the wounded is only half as high. . . . More are killed out right." > The ratio of killed to wounded in the Army is one to three; in the Navy, one to one; in the Marines, one to four...