Foreign News: Fantasia Rules the Waves

If there were one man in the world who got his news exclusively by radio, that man would have known the world was crazy last week. The air waves sputtered with fantastic stories and propaganda.

> London bombarded the Continent with exhortations to the people to hold up two fingers like schoolboys, like schoolboys to write in chalk on German officers' backs (see above).

> Moscow reported: 1) Italians Achille Starace and Ettore Muti had formed a cabal to replace Benito Mussolini with Crown Prince Umberto, then sue for peace; 2) a monarchist had fired two shots at Mussolini; 3) Adolf...

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