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...Broadcast...
Extract from a broadcast by Adolf Hitler from South America, Christmas...
...midst of this week's heat wave, CBS gave a Sunday broadcast of music that was as distinguished, and as warmly unseasonal, as a boiled shirt. One of the world's half-dozen ablest conductors, England's goateed, salt-&-peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, struck up with the CBS Symphony. His tangiest item was a seldom-played piano concerto, the only one written by England's late, blind Frederick Delius, who once lived in Florida. At the keyboard in the concerto was a third Briton: pretty, blonde Betty Humby, 33, who has supported herself by expert piano...
...gone too in the forest of Compiègne where Shirer broadcast the signing of the Franco-German armistice, and got one of his great news scoops-some three hours ahead of all newspaper correspondents. "Through my glasses I saw the Führer stop, glance at the [Alsace-Lorraine] monument...
...last the Nazi censors made it impossible for Shirer to broadcast anything but propaganda. They made it hard for him to broadcast even that. A favorite trick was for the censors to hold his copy until it was too late to go on the air. Once when this happened, the German Broadcasting Co. cabled New York: "Regret Shirer arrived too late today to do broadcast." So Shirer went home. As his ship moved out of Lisbon harbor, he observed that European civilization had shrunk to little more than the coast he was escaping from...