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...hour before the broadcast some 100 patriotic and prosperous members of the National Americanization League, led by a be-spatted onetime alderman from Manhattan's "silk stocking" district and a burly onetime major general in the Irish Army, appeared before the Columbia Broadcasting building, marched up & down the sidewalk with small U. S. flags and placards lettered SMASH COMMUNISM and BROWDER IS BORING FROM WITHIN...
...Universally my father's great qualities have been appreciated and valued," cried Edward VIII this week in His Majesty's first broadcast as King. "It now falls upon me to succeed him and to carry on his work. I am better known to most of you as the Prince of Wales, as a man who, during the War and since, has had the opportunity of getting to know the people of nearly every country of the world under all conditions and circumstances, and although I now speak to you as the King, I am still that same...
...This Incident." Japanese listeners heard the War Office Radio announce that the Premier had been "killed" (not "assassinated") and the official broadcast continued in so moderate a vein that Japanese censors later passed dispatches in which it was called an "implied defense" of the killers. They, according to the War Office, "decided to rise for the purpose of removing corrupt elements around the throne who, they considered, should be charged with the crime of destroying national policy, in co-operation with Admiral Okada, the Premier, senior military and financial factions and bureaucrats, at this juncture when Japan, is confronted with...
...since Adolf Hitler dismissed in a few broadcast phrases the butchering of scores of Germans in his "blood purge'' has there been a broadcast so scandalous. The Japanese War Department seemed to wish to make known to the public the vague excuses of bloody rebels for monstrous killings as though the motives of such dastards might be worthy of respect...
Within, Fly members sat down to roister together. Outside there was roistering too. In nearby Lowell House, Harvard undergraduates staged a mock broadcast of the dinner at the Fly. Play by play they reported the event from open windows: "Now the President is taking off his galoshes. . . . The President is choking on an oyster. . . . Now he is drinking champagne. . . . Flash! Al Smith has just disappeared in the basement. . . ." The broadcast came abruptly to an end when the police interfered...