Radio: Propaganda Pigeons

CBS last month unlimbered against enemy propaganda the kind of weapon which is mighty and shall prevail. Entitled Our Secret Weapon (Sunday, 7 p.m., E.W.T.), the program has nothing secret or even subtle about it. A CBS announcer reads a blatant statement from a recent Axis broadcast, then Rex ("Lie Detective") Stout uses it as a clay pigeon to shatter with the truth. A typical exchange:

ANNOUNCER (sharp German accent): "The best soldiers and officers in the United States Army are Germans. So are all the best baseball and football players."

STOUT (with lunch-counter...

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