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This little difficulty was nothing to the trouble experienced by the German longwave station Deutschlandsender, which suddenly found its official news broadcasts interrupted by a voice from Russia that laughed, sang and injected in German such cracks as "Lies!" "A fairy tale!" "Hitler guilty!" This improvement of the jamming technique was quickly traced to the powerful transmitter RWL at Noginsk, 30 miles from Moscow, but the Nazis could do little about it. Sample broadcast, with interruptions by the voice, which Britons promptly christened Der Snag...
...journalist named Ernst Fischer. Russian circles in London also guessed that Foreign Vice Commissar Soloman Abramovich Lozovsky, who speaks perfect German and likes a little joke, slipped a word in now and then. The Nazis tried to jam out the voice, but succeeded only in jamming out their own broadcast. One night they put three news broadcasters on the air, one following another without pause so as to thwart the Red radio. They talked so fast that nobody understood a word they said...
...fact that I frequently addressed our Catholic and Christian citizens in my broadcast of July 27 was due not to any desire on my part to exclude the Jewish people from my remarks; it was the threatened division of the Catholics and Christians on this vital national issue of war or peace which I was striving to forestall...
...Fontainebleau last week squads of workmen yanked down statues of Lafayette and John Joseph Pershing. And in Vichy Marshal Henri Philippe Petain finally yanked off the veil of diplomatic phrasing in which for months he has swathed the face of French totalitarianism. He broadcast the basic rules of his new French order which he hopes will be profitably wedded to Adolf Hitler's new European order...
...night after the service-extension bill was passed he went on the air to broadcast a message to the Army...