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...oratorical form that astounded the correspondents, who were only now discovering that Willkie doesn't like to talk, he likes to argue. A hostile audience is meat-&-drink to him. It was Willkie's best performance on the trip and his one major speech which was not broadcast...
...help the Nazis if they do anything to you and the King." Nowadays Their Majesties sleep and work deep down under Buckingham Palace in a shelter improvised out of what was once the sitting room of the royal housemaids (see cut, p. 31). From the Palace George VI broadcast this week on a globe-girdling hookup, announced that to reward "worthily and promptly the many and glorious . . . deeds of gallantry" now being done by British civilians amid the havoc of bomb raids His Majesty has created the "George Cross" and the "George Medal...
...middle-of-the-road, has aroused few good-sized controversies in his radio career. He got into one aerial row in 1931, when, following a rule of The Literary Digest, then his sponsor, that no material already aired be included in his script, he failed to report the first broadcast of Pope Pius XI. Promptly he was swamped with messages accusing him of being anti-Catholic. Wrote a Mrs. McCaffery: "I spit on you, you Orangeman." Next day Thomas related a gentle human-interest story about how Monsignor (now Archbishop) Spellman of New York made a big impression...
...Radio broadcasts in foreign languages and foreign newspapers are analyzed by the Committee on information. A weekly radio broadcast on the aspects of defense has been sponsored for the Radio Committee by the New England Town Meeting of the Air. On it distinguished experts have spoken and a panel of speakers has been made available for speaking throughout New England...
...official announcement, broadcast from Vichy over Germany's Transocean wireless, said that the six warships were bound for Dakar, on the coast of French West Africa. Later Vichy announced their arrival at Dakar. What was their object? Did they intend to put down the swing to De Gaulle in French Equatorial Africa? Whatever they were up to, the British must have known or the French would not have passed unchallenged. And whatever it was, the British must have felt safer with the French ships out of the Mediterranean, where they might have been seized by the Axis...