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...blame for the tardy news release. When it first heard last November of the Japanese atrocities to U.S. prisoners, it tried to break the story, and failed, as usual. The fact that it was late to learn and slow to free the news underlined its basic defect. Last week the $36.5 million current investment in the war of words was tongue-tied while its two top men squabbled...
KFBB, the radio station at Great Falls, Mont., is the kind of broadcasting station that U.S. radio-network executives envy. Almost all of its programs are heard by almost all of its audience. The reason for this idyllic situation is that KFBB's territory has one basic interest - the weather - and that KFBB has been sharing that interest for 22 years. As a result, most receiving sets in Montana's 15 north-central counties (about the size of the State of New York) were tuned last week, as usual, to KFBB...
...Army's boast of how well it (and the press) kept the secret of the jet propulsion airplane (see p. 66) when its basic principles were expounded and diagrammed Sept. 11, 1941 in the British aviation magazine Flight...
These points alone will not secure peace, Vansittart wrote, but no peace is possible without them. His basic reasoning: The German Right is beyond redemption; its militarists, Junkers and heavy indus trials must be liquidated as a class and as a political force. He growled that the German Left is not much better; most German Socialists have been infected with militarism. In both wars, said he, the Allies have had to fight the German people in arms. The main thing is to destroy their power to rise again: "We must realize that this is by far the greatest, most barbaric...
...book, in easy, gossipy pages, presents the most up-to-date picture of Germany from within. It is the picture of a war machine that is being run without provision for maintenance. It is coughing and bucking, and a couple of broken pistons are gouging into the cylinder block. Basic reason: the Nazi inability to comprehend the fallacies of their own "total" war doctrine...