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Algiers to Teheran. Brightest results are on the press side. The percentage of OWI news in Turkish newspapers has skyrocketed; the Anatolian News Agency in Istanbul has more than doubled its news take. Africa was very backward about U.S. news: four papers in the Union of South Africa took the United Press service; Britain's Reuters went to Cairo. That was the sum total of U.S. news going to the Dark Continent. OWI now sends news, and lots of it, to Algiers, Casablanca, Accra, Brazzaville, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Asmara and Cairo. The news differs in treatment: that for Sweden...
Weakest spot is short-wave radio. The transmission is often weak and reception poor. The Nazis have some 100 transmitters to the U.S.'s 21. But OWI cares more about quality of reception than quantity, in this way: from private sources OWI knows that one Norwegian underground operator will be listening in-perhaps in his basement, perhaps on a mountainside. He does not need his news "angled": he just wants the truth. When he gets the news he fans it out to others-by letters, seditious handbills, etc. With the Nazi death penalty enforced for listeners to U.S. news...
...head of this organization Davis' main concern-and job-is to connect OWI with the White House, and with the people. Actually he does nothing much in particular, either way, and this is not necessarily his fault. For, speaking largely, no one has conclusively proved that OWI has fulfilled any of the purposes for which...
Davis at Work. OWI's front man, still solid and sensible, has kept his old habit and attitudes. He had trouble getting used to a secretary, often typed out his own letters in the uneven, x'ed out style that is the mark of a working newsman. One night an OWI underling, faced with an emergency call for an advance copy of a Davis speech, wandered through the dark, empty hallways into the executive offices, found a tired man in shirt sleeves picking at a typewriter with two fingers. It was Davis at work. The underling asked...
...hear that this week Elmer Davis goes back on the air. Every Friday night henceforth he will broadcast to the people at 9:45 p.m., C.W.T. This was what the U.S. wanted: there are lots of Administrators, Czars and such in Washington, and other agencies whose muddle is like OWI's-but in all the U.S. there is only one voice on the radio with that dry, reassuring twang...