Radio Warfare

> Rome's 9 p.m. newscast to Italians had scarcely got under way one night when an Italian voice from Moscow butted in, so rattled the announcer that he quit, after one three-minute round. Rome then made the mistake of shifting to Venice for a performance of the opera Andrea Chenier. When the opera began, every solo became a duet, every duet a trio, until Italian radiomen finally cut it off the air.

> The German radio was elaborately prepared to sabotage Sir Stafford Cripps's trip to India. CBS's Bob Trout reported to North America last week an "argument" about Cripps that began last month between two German stations that broadcast in English, pretend to be British. One, the "New British Broadcasting Station," accused the other, the "Workers Challenge Station," of stooging for Cripps. The "Workers' Challenge" boys made a show of defending Cripps--while subtly characterizing him as a revolutionist. Last week the German radio kept turning the screw with this latest twist on the Bolshevist Bogey theme.

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