Tucked quietly away on page 6 of the New York Times one day last week, marked by a tiny headline, was a flat denial of some news which had rated front-page banners in practically every paper in the U. S. the week before. The great "invasion attempt"in which there were supposed to have been anywhere from 40,000 to 200,000 German casualties had been made up out of whole cloth.
The story's fabrication came about as follows: one dull night the British Air Ministry got together some of the invasion-attempt rumors which had...
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