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British authorities claimed last week that 100,000,000 people in Europe listened to BBC broadcasts of the Morse dit-dit-dit-dar, the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, various versions of V propaganda. In Gibraltar British Tommies with paint pots sloshed Vs on all cars passing into Spain. The campaign spread to South America, where Brazilian students plastered Vs on the walls of an Italian newspaper building...
...County Derry Irishman named William Connor, who writes for the London Daily Mirror under the pseudonym "Cassandra," sharpened his Celtic fangs last fortnight, grabbed a BBC mike, and proceeded to chew up Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, who now broadcasts out of Berlin for Goebbels & Co. (TIME, July 7, 14). Strange stuff for staid old BBC were his scarifying comments...
...public split neatly in three. Group One contended Wodehouse was an artist who shouldn't be held responsible; Group Two said Wodehouse was wrong indeed, but that attacks like Connor's were in execrable taste; Group Three was for more all-out acid-throwing instead of BBC's usual drawing-room argument...
...British Broadcasting Corp.'s shortwave program one night last month was heard the voice of a Colonel Britton. There is a Colonel Reginald Brittan in England, a 76-year-old retired Colonel of the Sherwood Foresters, but BBC made its Colonel Britton a mystery man. He spoke polished English, French, German, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Norwegian...
Posers for BBC are such rigged questions as "Doesn't Mr. Cooper, by soft-pedaling British war achievements, create the impression that England is fighting to the last Australian...