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...observers had feared (TIME, Jan. 12), 73-year-old Generalissimo Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy has indeed become "a sort of Philippine quisling." That was how Douglas MacArthur's defiant headquarters on Bataan Peninsula defined him. From Manila', one day last week, General Aguinaldo broadcast a demand that Douglas MacArthur surrender immediately. Said a War Department communique: "The appeal was ignored by General MacArthur...
...Latin America. As unity grew out of the Pan-American conference at Rio, said Director MacLeish, the Axis beam to South America became a frantic torrent. Since most Latin Americans are Catholics, the Italian radio portrayed "Protestant Roosevelt" in an alliance with "Atheist Stalin" against "Catholic Fascism." Another Axis broadcast asserted that the Vatican had urged Latin America not to break with the Axis. This the Vatican promptly denied...
...first broadcast of the Council at the end of last term on "Our War Aims in the Far East" demonstrated the round table method that will be followed in the weekly broadcasts this winter. These will consist of discussions between professors and members of the Council on major problems of the post-war world, and will fellow the course of study that the Council is pursuing...
...things he was busy about was a new series of Plays for Americans, to be broadcast by NBC on Sunday afternoons at 4:30. For the first in the series, produced last Sunday, voluble, begoggled, little Arch Oboler went to Manhattan with fair Olivia de Havilland, the leading lady. Although protesting that he was being made a fall guy in the Garbo matter, Arch was meditative about the state of his radio...
Bing Crosby got a telegram from the office of the Coordinator of Information (Colonel William J. Donovan): "General MacArthur and Brig. Gen. Akin over private circuit have wired us specifically asking for you to broadcast to the men in the Philippines at Bataan Peninsula" -by short wave-"embracing, if possible, in the script that you hope the boys gallantly fighting are listening. . . . You might, if the policy O.K., the sponsor and agency permit, dedicate one of your songs to the soldiers...