Anyone Listening?

Many U.S. citizens have wondered who, if anybody, hears OWI's foreign propaganda broadcasts. OWI, which shortwaves 2,688 programs (80% news) a week toward the rest of the world, decided to find out. The findings could not well be much more than circumstantial evidence:

-- Proof that the Voice of America carries far into Europe are advertisements in Swiss newspapers announcing U.S. radio programs and advertising sets with which to receive them.

-- Best proof that the U.S. has a sizable Axis radio audience is the irritated voice of the Axis radio itself. Last year Radio Berlin declared: "No other station in the world is as bad as Cincinnati."

--Radio Rome once asked: "Who cares about American radio nonsense?" Apparently some Italians do, for the Italian stations are forever burlesquing U.S. broadcasts, Sample: "An American sub named Comfort Station, manned by five men and a lady assistant, Miss Higgins, has sunk the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean. All Italy's aghast. . . ."

-- Frenchmen continued to write to U.S. stations long after the republic fell, and during the last six months they have written more than ever. They say that transmission is perfect when there is no jamming. Recently Nazi-controlled Radio Paris inquired: "Have you listened to the American radio? No, of course not. It is prohibited. But we have listened for you." A detailed analysis of "the delightfully singleminded American radio" followed.

-- One week after OWI beamed two new transmitters on Spain, Spaniards thronged to the U.S. Embassy in Madrid to express their thanks for the new service.

-- Polish underground newspapers have appeared complete with OWI news.

--OWI's new medium-wave transmitters in Africa (when completed) should sound loudly throughout Europe and the Middle East.

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