Word: transoceanic
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...eight other cities under way, Dies brought up his heavy artillery, released his 413-page, thickly documented "White Paper." It had passages as juicy as any E. Phillips Oppenheim tale. The tome traced in particular the correspondence of mustached Dr. Manfred Zapp, U. S. director of the German Transocean News Service, with German Embassy officials...
Other sections revealed use of Transocean News in propaganda activities; attempts to indoctrinate Latin-American countries; use of friendly Americans as "fronts" for Nazi activities. Lauded in the German correspondence was Lawrence Dennis, approvingly noted as the author of The Coming Fascism in America and as "economic adviser of the gigantic firm of E. A. Pierce & Co., 40 Wall Street, which is probably the largest brokerage house in the U. S." Ralph B. Strassburger, of Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania was listed by Transocean as the only person taking two subscriptions. Mr. Strassburger, owner of the Norristown, Pa. Times Herald, later appeared...
...official announcement, broadcast from Vichy over Germany's Transocean wireless, said that the six warships were bound for Dakar, on the coast of French West Africa. Later Vichy announced their arrival at Dakar. What was their object? Did they intend to put down the swing to De Gaulle in French Equatorial Africa? Whatever they were up to, the British must have known or the French would not have passed unchallenged. And whatever it was, the British must have felt safer with the French ships out of the Mediterranean, where they might have been seized by the Axis...
Transradio Press Service prides itself on news it gets from overseas (through France's Agence Havas, Britain's Central News Agency, Germany's Transocean News Service, British Official Wireless, and its own private sources), distributes by air and teletype to some 210 U. S. and Canadian radio stations, 50-odd U. S. newspapers. With British United Press, Transradio offers the only news in Canada which can be sold to commercial sponsors. Canadian Press, Canada's third news agency, supplies its bulletins to the official Canadian Broadcasting Corp., cannot be sponsored...
...news of France, Transradio relies on the semi-official Agence Havas. Their agreement stipulates that Havas dispatches can be given only to newspapers, not to broadcasters. From Berlin, Transradio picks up short-wave bulletins broadcast by Germany's Transocean News Service. All news originating in London, no matter where Transradio happens to find it, bears a London date line...