Radio: By Any Other Name

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¶"Diana Powers," who may or may not be Japanese, on a program which tries hard to convince G.I.s that it originates in Berlin.

¶"Miss Kao Ping," who operates out of Shanghai and swears she is a Chinese American graduate of Mills College, Calif.

Although Tokyo Rose and her colleagues serve principally to entertain U.S. fighting men, their programs moved the New York Times's George Horne last week to indict U.S. radio. Wrote he from the New Hebrides :

". . . The programs that reach the boys down here . . . could be a lot better. . . . They do not want to hear a single program about how evil and dumb the enemy is, or a single 'back the attack' program. They are backing it already.

"They would like to hear more dance bands, light love stories, light musical comedies. . . . They will probably continue to listen to Tokyo Rose, but no one at home need worry about that."

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