World War: ON THE AIR: The Art of Heckling

For weeks powerful Moscow transmitters have interrupted German news broadcasts with a raucous, heckling voice called Ivan The Terrible or Der Snag (TIME, Sept. 8), which yells such comments as "Hitler kicks the bucket!" By last week the Axis had learned how to heckle back.

The British Broadcasting Corp. had to cope with a voice which was quickly nicknamed Harassing Harry or von Donald—the latter because of its high, rasping resemblance to the quacking of Donald Duck. Into BBC newscasts von Donald injected such quacks as "We want a national Government, not...

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