The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12
TRICK PROGRAM OF VICHY RADIO
 FOOLS PEOPLE
BY RALPH HEINZEN lUnited Press Staff Corresnondentl

Vichy, June 12.-(UP)-France has complicated the already troubled ether of Europe by officially spon- soring two "clandestine" broadcast ing stations-one "Degaullist" and the other revolutionary"
 Both are government controlled and although they come on the air with great mystery and shift around the wave bands as though trying to dodge the ether police, they are, in fact, broadcast from the government studio in the Vichy casino the same studio from which the regular "nonclandestine" national broadcast chain programs take the air.
 The creation or the two new "clandestine" stations Is intended by the government to satisfy the de- mand of those who do not believe the official radios and are always turning the dials in the hope of finding an announcer who will give them the real lowdown. The "clan- destine" stations have been operat- ing for several weeks and many listeners still are convinced that they are authentically clandestine.
 Drifts to Petain
 Radio Revolution" began its ca- reer with considerable allegorical waving of red flags on the ether. It played red hymns and pretended to be what it is not. Gradually, how ever, it drifted away from interna- tional revolution to the national Petain revolution and still mixes it's fare so that the average listener may still get the impression that the speaker is hiding in a cellar, broadcasting from a homemade mil crophone with the. police hot on his heels.
 The "Degaullist" radio broadcasts which come in on a wave-length suspiciously near to that of Radio Toulouse also make pretense of risking the fury of the law every time the speaker goes on the air. He talks in undertones and even re- sorts to double-talk as though he was afraid he might be understood. Yet when he quits the studio in the casino he walks across the street to the Ambassador bar and joins his chums of the Radio National.
 Lures Degaullist Listeners
 That station was created as an antidote to Brazzaville and Beyrout which are in the hands of real De- gaullists and which pour every vitri- olic abuse on the heads of those in authority in this watering resort. The government hoped to convince those who violate the laws to listen to dissident speakers that the De gaullist" transmitter on the Tou- louse wave length was more inter esting.
 In that way, they got them away from the Brazzaville and Beyrout | speakers. To hold them. the official "clandestine" speaker tells st ories of the heroism of "Degaullists" and once in a while takes few weak swings at Vichy. But the fare is watered in comparison with the real broadcasts from the hot colonies in the hands of the diSsidents.
 Learn How to Jam
 The French have learned a lot of | tricks from the authoritarian pow CTS in Europe, among them that of l tanning" It is now virtually im- i possible to enjoy London program l anywhere in France, but particu- larly in Vichy. To make sure that no one with pro-Allied sympathies can listen to anything favorable to that cause, a chain of tanning transmiters has been installed in a circle around Vichy.
 Most of the British and Degaul- l lists regular broadcasts are jammed. Thus far, the French official jam ming stations have not begun to isolate" American broadcasts and the French-language transmissions | from New York, Schenectady and Boston come through powerfully | and exceptionally clear. It has been made very clear to Vichy that any tampering with American broad casts would bring immediate re- prisals against Vichy's own colonial stations or the "Voice of France" and the tanning of French broad casts would deprive their American colonies of their last link with Vichy.