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...ships was unnecessarily drawn out. In this respect Maas was merely intensifying a point that has become increasingly obvious to careful news followers. His other point, that unity of command is still a vision on the horizon and a glib phrase in the mouths of military authorities and the OWI, is much more directly questionable, and has already been challenged by members of the army and navy general staffs...
...Said OWI Director Elmer Davis: "[The] willingness to accept wildly exaggerated rumor in place of fact is doubtless due to honest bewilderment. I can assure you that up to noon today [Oct. 28], when I last talked to Navy representatives, all sinkings of major United States vessels have been reported...
...Rather than lose his astute adviser, Chiang last week gave Lattimore a leave of absence to head the OWI's Pacific branch...
...present, short-wave broadcasters will continue to do business at the same old stand, keeping the best of the present good will programs. But in time OWI plans a 24-hour-a-day schedule to Europe in English, German, Italian and French, and to the Far East in English, Chinese, Dutch and Japanese. The Government's main contribution will consist of news programs. CIAA will continue to broadcast to South America in English, Portuguese, several dialects of Spanish. To do a bang-up job, the U.S. will need more transmitters than it now has (for instance, a battery...
Once, after a hard fight for a sensible, democratic censorship, newsmen had been reassured by the appointment of Byron Price as head of the Office of Censorship. When able Elmer Davis took over as head of OWI last summer, with executive powers straight from the President, newsmen believed that the military news jam would be dynamited. Yet within the last weeks have come some of the war's worst examples of inept, demoralizing suppression of war news...