OWI was in hot water again. To tell the Russians more about the U.S., it had been getting out a handsome, slick-paper magazine, America Illustrated, which is printed in Russian and sold in Russia for 15 rubles (90 cents). Of the first issue. 20,000 copies were distributed; OWI got glowing reports from Vladivostok, Murmansk and Tiflis. Last week it got reports, not so glowing, from Omaha, Nebraska, and Wichita, Kansas.
Omaha and Wichita were sizzling over an article in the magazine entitled "Profile of America," which had somehow reached the Midwest in translation. Describing the prairie land, it...
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