EUROPE ON THE AIR

Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 12

EUROPE ON THE AIR

From Paris, Berlin, London, Borne, and Moscow every week radiate into the United States some half a million words of news and feature talks via the short waves Financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, Princeton University’s Listening Centre transcribes the programmes, analyses them for propaganda content and technique. Some of its findings: Most reliable foreign news service, until recently, came from Radio Roma, which has now gone haywire like the rest.

Berlin specialises in skits such as Schmidt and Smith, wherein Smith, a gouty Englishman, played by Lord HawHaw, who drops his baritone voice to basso range for the part, is for ever getting bested by calm, confident German Schmidt. A new German stunt is a series of features based on previous English-Ame-rican troubles (Revolutionary War, War of 18121. 8.8. C. plays up British power and determination.' Berlin pictures not -so much Gorman strength as English perfidy and weakness, makes a great point of moral issues of war guilt and war aims. One of the tabulations of the Princeton Centre suggests that an uncritical American listener, accepting all British and German statements at their face values, might easily decide Britain was morally wrong, but would win the war anyway.—New York ‘ Time.’.