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Refugees. Until last week, Amsterdam was the most important point in Europe for news transmission. Accessible by wire and wireless to both sides of the front, with its own cables to the U. S., neutral Amsterdam had supplanted London and Paris as news centres. United Press had 15 men in...
Franklin Roosevelt, reading the cables day after day, saw something coming.
Newsmen who sit at the end of the cables spot and discount plenty of propaganda that comes in. They are also partly protected by their jobs from that special form of propaganda which says that all news received from abroad is propaganda. They know for example:
>That U. S. correspondents on the scene in Germany thoroughly-distrust the news releases of the official press bureau (Dr. Goebbels); that all such correspondents, when they get out, give much more unfavorable accounts of economic and social conditions in Germany than the cables generally carry. - That U. S. correspondents...
His chief recreation, as usual, was to drive his hand-control open Ford (license plates, GEORGIA FDR) over the bumpy roads in a smoke screen of dust. His evenings he spent reading (presumably detective stories). Quickly he shushed reporters looking for significance in Prime Minister Mackenzie King's visit...