Radio: BBC Answers

Fortnight ago British Broadcasting Corp. began to short-wave to the U.S. the most effective bit of hands-across-the-sea propaganda it has produced since outbreak of the war. Answering You is a kind of international Information Please, with questions supplied by U.S. citizens, answers by a British board of experts. Garbled by sunspots its first time out, Answering You finally hit its stride this week. Formidable was the job of British wizards who undertook to outline Britain's war aims, answer, with appropriate deletion of profanity, such queries as: "Why the hell doesn't England bomb Berlin?"

Answering You makes no pretense at giving extempore answers....

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