Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1940 — Page 11

FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1940

200 AT HONOLULU - T0 SAIL FOR JAPAN

HONOLULU, Oct. 18 (U. P.).— Nearly 200 Honolulu residents, including many young Americans of Japanese ancestry, will sail for Japan on the S. S. Asama Maru, Oct. 30, with “return certificates,” after having been denied passports, it was learned today. Customs Collector J. Walter Doyle pointed out he had been instructed to take up passports not properly validated after- Sept. 4, 1939, for European countries, or after Oct. 11, 1940.

By TOM WOLF Times Special Writer

PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 18— “Hello America. This is Berlin calling in the North America transmission.” For a year of war these words, spoken in a curiously Germanicized - Oxford accent, have announced that Berlin was about to bombard the United States with perhaps ‘the most powerful weapon in its peacetime arsenal—shortwave radio propaganda. \ Princeton University’s Rocke-feller-financed “Listening Center”

has just completed a study of the nearly 80 hours a week of news, talks, and commentaries that have been hurled across the Atlantic from Germany to America during the war’s first year. Outstanding aspec}’ of this study, soon to be made public, is the sudden change in attitude toward America which the German broadcasters took immediately following the invasion of the Low Countries. Prior to the end of May, with the exception of a short period preceding the Norwegian campaign, the Nazis’ commendatory references to

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the United States overshadowed critical remarks. Suddenly this “honeymoon” period ended. Criticism and vilification rose, sharply, starting May 25, and lasting through the first of September. In September they fell off, again without apparent reason, unless, as some of the Center’s students are inclined to think, the invasion of Britain had already been called off. Perhaps .it is coincidence, but criticisms of the United, States have been sharpest just before Hitler has loosed his armed might. This was true directly before the invasion of

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Norway, again directly prior to the start of intensive bombing of Britain. » SEs It did not hold true, on the other hand, before the invasion of the Low Countries, perhaps because at this time the military situation in Norway was occupying most of the German commentators’ attention. Most of the Nazi criticism of America has be aimed at press, radio, American policy makers, and, as always in Nazi propaganda, the Jews. The press is particularly berated. ; On the “Hot Off the Wire” pro-

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gram, one Gertrude Hahaw monologues on .U. S, press bias. She pretends to be the switchboard operator of the Pittsburgh Tribune (the Nazis either don’t know or don’t care that the Tribune is a Negro paper) and often reads letters from her boy friend, “Joe.” Joe is the “Berlin Correspondent” of the Tribune and his letters bemoan the fact that the Tribune censors his dispatches when favorable to the Reich. Fred Kaltenbach’s widely known “Letter to Iowa,” which begins “Dear Harry,” also carries out this

theme with! some frequency. Since Sept. 1, however, the Germans have apparently taken =& slight shift in emphasis. At present Berlin's commentators devote much of their short-wave time calling attention to U. S. domestic problems— unemployment, maldistribution of wealth, etc. With this tack, Center believes, the Germans hope to turn American eyes off Europe's war. To do this would be to accomplish - the aim of all Berlin's hours of short-wave broadcasting —keeping America out of the war.

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‘FLYING FORTRESS’ T0 MAKE LONG TRIP

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—A Boeing “flying fortress” was to leave today on a scheduled nonstop flight to Sacramento, Cal, a distance of about 2400 miles.

Maj. Dale V. Gaffney and a sev-en-man crew will carry engineering and supply data relating to cold weather flying experiments conduct« ed at Ladd Field here. It was ine dicated the bomber would continue fdom the Army air corps supply de= pot at. Sacramento to Washington and Dayton, O. :

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