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...chose the bomb. Most shocking revelation of Japan's fear of Koreans came in the Tokyo earthquake. Then, because the rumor grew that Koreans were taking advantage of the disaster to blow up bridges, cut wires, Japanese went into a wave of hysteria that made the Orson Welles broadcast scare look like a session of the Supreme Court. When it was over, at least 500 (perhaps as many as 5,000) Koreans living in Tokyo had been slaughtered...
Mary Livingstone, ill with a sinus infection, read her last line on a Jack Benny broadcast, fainted, was carried offstage by Husband Benny...
Fifty last week was Pastor Martin Niemöller, now in his fifth year in a Nazi concentration camp. In Britain the BBC celebrated his birthday with a German broadcast of his 1937 New Year's sermon on Germany's "de-Christianization" by "the forces of evil who despotically govern us." In the U.S. fellow German Thomas Mann paid tribute: "Here is a man who went his way to the cross with full awareness of the terror...
Assailing "the childlike radio broadcast of the average Protestant group," the United States Baptist editorialized that "the Protestant message and program is gradually becoming a sort of laughing matter in this country. It is surprising that radio stations continue to accept most of the programs offered-even for pay. Baptists are no exception...
...radio code called for particular caution in quiz programs, interviews, and forums, lest enemy agents broadcast information disguised in innocent-seeming phrases. Most such programs on the big networks had already been modified; e.g., for several weeks, questions from the floor in America's Town Meeting of the Air have had to be submitted before being allowed on the air. But there were still plenty of pluggable holes in local programs...