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Britain's speed-up was typically Russian. During the week tank factories all over the country increased production 20% above previous weeks. BBC sounded like the Moscow radio: "A South Wales factory has already turned out more guns for tanks than was believed possible in the time. A factory in the northwest reported: we are flat out in production and the women are leading the way. From a Midlands factory, the workers and management gave the pledge: all possible support to Russia until the job is finished...
...Germans had been killed in an explosion in a Czech munitions plant. The next day British Broadcasting Corp. elaborated, said that the explosion was in the great Skoda munitions works at Pilsen, that afterwards hundreds of German troops had been rushed to the plant. Despite the troops, said BBC, another explosion ruined the power plant at the works...
...says Charles Arthur Siepmann, veteran British educator and BBC director, who last week began a course on radio at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. It will be no ordinary course because Teacher Siepmann has his own ideas. One of six children of a German emigre to England, Siepmann attended Oxford, won the Military Cross in World War I as a British artilleryman in Italy. Pioneer headmaster of one of the Borstal schools for delinquents, where he introduced radio into the curriculum, he joined BBC in 1927, organized radio discussion groups until 1932 when he was made director...
...BBC scoffed: "Hitler pretends that he has lost less than four men for each mile of the front per day. Any soldier who fought in the last war knows that a hundred casualties a division each day is an absolute minimum, even in trench warfare. With 15 divisions engaged, the minimum would...
...summer palace outside Teheran, tough old Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran listened intently to his radio. In London a BBC announcer was reading a famous Persian ballad, and through the spitting of static the Shah could hear an old story: how in the Middle Ages a heroic blacksmith named Kahveh killed a Persian tyrant. The poem ended, the announcer asked: "Where is Kahveh today...