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...more than his share of 1940 Mother Goose. When British aircraft flew over Germany one night last week, Nazi transmitters (including Lord Haw-Haw's station at Hamburg) blanked out as usual so that their waves could not be used for directional purposes by the invaders. A BBC funster gibed: "He shouts with rage and screams with fear, but pipes down when our planes are near...
Actually, Lord Haw-Haw is no better informed than any one of several other English speakers on the German radio. The difference is that he has been ridiculed to fame. The Daily Express's Jonah Barrington dubbed him Haw-Haw last September. BBC comics lost no time ribbing him in rhyme. He became a character in a revue, was impersonated at Mayfair affairs. Trying to figure out his real identity became a national British pastime. He was spotted as (among others): 1) a German professor who once preached Naziism in Scotland; 2) Norman Baillie-Stewart, famed ex-Seaforth Highlander...
Great Britain, like the rest of warring Europe, has had a strict taboo since war began on the broadcasting of weather news, because of its likely value to enemy airmen. But last week frosty Sir John Reith, press-dodging boss of Britain's censors, melted sufficiently to let BBC tell the world a bit about British weather.* Said the BBC newscaster to folks at home & abroad: "We have been having the coldest spell for 46 years. Actually, it began a fortnight before Christmas. . . . London one day had 25 degrees of frost. The Thames was frozen over . . . from Teddington...
...reprimanded or sacked employes who got drunk or were divorced. He once admitted: "The BBC has never attempted to give the public what it wants-it gives the public what it ought to have." As his first official act, the new Minister of Information last week had his "secretary," Sir Samuel Hood, throw reporters out of his office. A few moments later the bell of the Ministry's great hall rang three times, indicating an important announcement. The microphone boomed: "Sir John Reith cannot see journalists." Journalists chuckled at the choice of the word cannot...
...Science Department of the London School of Economics. According to the Telegraph, Minnie some 25 years ago published privately in aid of an Indian charity a book of verses called The Desert, and the lines quoted by His Majesty are in her verse God Knows. After further inquiring, the BBC challenged the Telegraph's, God Knows theory, went on the air with an announcement that the lines occur not in any verse but in the prose introduction to The Desert-of which nobody seemed able to find a copy...