Radio: Goebbels v. CBS

Last week the Nazis barred CBS from making any broadcasts from Germany. The Nazis were sore about comments made by wry Elmer Davis in Manhattan as follow-up to a CBS radio interview in Berlin with Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse week before. Said Commentator Davis of Author Wodehouse, released from an internment camp and put at Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon so he could broadcast for the Nazis:

"Mr. Wodehouse seems to have been more fortunate than most of the other Englishmen in his internment camp, whose release would perhaps have had less publicity value for...

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