Three Dots & A Dash

British authorities claimed last week that 100,000,000 people in Europe listened to BBC broadcasts of the Morse dit-dit-dit-dar, the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, various versions of V propaganda. In Gibraltar British Tommies with paint pots sloshed Vs on all cars passing into Spain. The campaign spread to South America, where Brazilian students plastered Vs on the walls of an Italian newspaper building.

Best measure of the campaign's success were the efforts of the Vaterland and its vassals to neutralize it. From the Eiffel Tower hung a V flag. Nazi propaganda photographers snapped V-stenciled trains in Prague, bored workmen V-painting tenders (see cut). To good Nazis, these Vs of course stood for the unfamiliar word Viktoria.

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