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Before Pearl Harbor Sherwood began to assemble his branch under the auspices of the Coordinator of Information, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Dorfovan. Last June the organization was transferred in toto to Elmer Davis' OWI. Now swollen to 1,800 employes, it has a high command in Washington, a sprawling operations unit in Manhattan, another in San Francisco and 18 outposts throughout the world. Its province is all the world outside of the continental U.S. and Latin America...
...Line. Handicapped by the absence of resounding victories, by the lack of a definite Government policy, OWI's Overseas Branch has concentrated on telling the simple truth...
...OWI's Paul Smith wrote a sizzling letter of correction to the New York Daily News's Washington Correspondent John O'Donnell. He was sore at O'Donnell's waspish cracks at OWI's proposed budget and his ribbing Archibald MacLeish about an OWI dinner at Washington's Carlton Hotel (TIME, Oct. 5). "You're nuts, John," wrote Paul. "Mr. MacLeish had nothing to do with the dinner check. It's nobody's damned business. I paid it. The dinner was $7.50 a plate-not $6 as reported. The total...
That the U.S., as the self-appointed spokesman for freedom "everywhere in the world," has a stake in India is abundantly clear, not only from Miss Mitchell's book but from the increasing number of U.S. soldiers, flyers and technicians in India. OWI would have done well to read India Without Fable before releasing in Delhi posters which said: "The U.S. has sent its fighting men to India as crusaders in the cause of liberty-pledged to crush those who would enslave mankind." Miss Mitchell and the Indians alike must have groaned at that...
...OWI has created a new organ of public enlightenment. Taking a leaf from, Goebbel's book, the men in Washington have climinated the bombast and the lies and have added accuracy, perception and historical depth. And, the resulting dose, of history is simple enough for the average attendant, Lone Ranger and Mickey Mouse not-withstanding, to savor, devour and digest...