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Last week OWI reminded the President of a powerful German war-class-the Junkers. Said OWI: "The tremendous influence wielded by the Junkers for many generations stems from their state of threefold privilege. They are the owners of large estates in eastern Germany, they are the backbone of the Army, and they have been at all times solidly entrenched in important Government positions...
...said, are complacent because they get only the rosier side of war. (Example: pictures from Sicily, where the Allies suffered 25,000 casualties, have been mostly fluff-Sicilians tossing posies at U.S. troops, throwing fruit at Mussolini posters.) Said Elmer Davis to the President, in effect: either give OWI a new deal, or kill it; it is not much good...
...White House one day last week President Roosevelt, and OWI Boss Elmer Davis, who had been pointedly not invited to the Quebec conference, sat down to discuss news and news policies. The President and three representatives (War, Navy and State Departments) mostly listened. Elmer Davis, disgruntled over the shellackings OWI has taken from Congress, mostly talked...
...pointed out that OWI's function is to keep the public informed about the war, but that, in his opinion, too much war news is being suppressed and delayed by the Navy and (to a lesser degree) the Army. (Examples: the details of the Tokyo bombing were suppressed for a full year; the news of the loss of four U.S. cruisers in the Savo Island battle was delayed two months, while the loss of an Australian cruiser in the same engagement was reported almost immediately...
...discussion lasted an hour and a half. At its end a Presidential directive went out to War, Navy, State Departments. Its gist: henceforth Elmer Davis will decide when, where & how all war news is to be released. The only exception: if any Department feels OWI is releasing any item of news too soon, thus endangering the national security, it can appeal to the President, who then will act as arbiter...