World War: ON THE AIR: Ivan the Terrible

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The fun-loving Russians appear to have devised another way of needling the Nazis by radio (TIME, Sept. 8). According to United Press's listening post, last week there screamed forth from Moscow a character billed as "Ivan the Terrible," who gave in German an amazing imitation of Adolf Hitler. Der Führer has not yet made his annual speech for the Winter Help drive, so Ivan the Terrible made one for him. Excerpt: "So long as I am Germany's Leader, I will lead you from victory to victory to the final catastrophe. I will lead this war to the last German."

>Flustered by Moscow interference, Berlin's English broadcaster announced last week: "Our troops blew up an enemy musicians' dump."

>To dodge Russian interference, the Germans, sick & tired, announced last week that they were shifting their news broadcasts for home consumption from the long wave Deutschlandsender station near Berlin to a medium-wave station near Breslau. The Russians followed them, still interjecting "Lies, all lies,""More fairy tales tomorrow" between the German news broadcasts.