Though it was only recently that the news agencies referred to the advent of Ivan the Terrible, the Russian commentator who butts in on German home service broadcasts, and the appearance of Harassing Harry doing the same thing for Germany with the B.B.C. the war by radio has been goli speech for the Winterhilfe, so Ivan made one for him, and according to;"Time" perpetrated the following: "So long as I am Germany's leader, I will lead from victory to victory to the final cataistrophe. I will lead this war to the last German." This Moscow ion seems to have flustered Berlin's English language broadcaster who announced "Our troops up an enemy musicians' dump." It may noted that, in all the correspondence on the subject of the Municipal Orchestra, no one thas thought of that phrase for the Lyceum 7j That Ivan had the German radio si in the paradise of the Nazis. humour, his sparkling wit have about them all the grace of an elephant's foot. It appears to have been just another of those turgid they are really funny, with their goose-stepping and ridiculous but when they try to be funny they are ridiculous. That is clearly indicated locally when the Germans put on their two alleged back-chat comedians, who are worth listening to once; just to get to understand what abject fools they make of themselves. As humourist they would doubtless make very good municipal "scarlet runners."
Britain appears to have a ready-made remedy at hand. Berlin goes silent when there isan air-raid overhead, or in the offing. That fact can be availed of to give the German listeners on Berlin's own wavelength some idea of the truths which the Nazis go to extreme lengths to keep from the knowledge of their people. They can, of course, forbid their nationals to listen-in during air-raids, but that will only serve to raise the question in thinking German minds as to what it is now that the Nazis would like to withhold from them. It is clear that up to the present the Russians have the edge over their German enemies in the matter of using the radio as an instrument of war, and there is not the slightest doubt that the British radio engineers will find some means of circumventing Germany's Harassing Harry, or for that matter Garbling Goebbels, How the war in the air will ultimately develop only the future will show. Up fo the present both sides have refrained from "jamming" each other, though it is not at all unlikely that some such development will eventually deprive the radio of its fine status as a means of disseminating war propaganda.
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