TONI FROM AMERICA
Propaganda For Germans (Received Jah’ 2. 7' P.m.) NEW YORK, July 1. A 'beautiful young American actress who speaks German with the slightest trace of American accent, is being used as the medium for the transmission ot a subtle form of propaganda among the German troops in Italy, says the Rome correspondent of the Associated Press. She was originally imported by tae Americans to entertain the Allied troops. Thousands of her photographs are now brill" shot bv cannon into the German lines’, and the Fifth Army radio unit relnvs her enticing voice to the enemy. Renamed "Toni from America, the actress does not resort to anything so clumsv as ridiculing Hie German leaders, but gives the names of Germans recently captured and perhaps quotes an item from a German newspaper illustrating the food shortage in GermanyAllied intelligence officers are satisfied from their reports that the Germans are listening avidly.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 5
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152TONI FROM AMERICA Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 5
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