The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-05

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by the Nazis actually did put trans.
mitters in trucks and move about
the countryside, changing location
from night to night, operating
'FreiheitsSenderS" or freedom sta
tons to keep alive resistance to the
oppressors. But gradually every one
Of these underground stations has
been run down and put out of bust
ness, so that, according to the U. s.
and British Foreign Broadcast In
telligence Services, which do a "a
hour day, 5-dayS-a-year Job OF
listening in on everything on the air,
there are no clandestine broadcast
ers left.
Instead, there are only the phony
claDdestine stations, operated by the
NaZis and falsely representing them
selves as being a part Of the under
ground. Germany operates some 20
of these programs today.
ANYTHING GOES
The propaganda line Of the black
radio stations gets pretty complicat-
ed. They pretend that they're anti
German, or anti-Vichy, and pro-
Free French, or anti-Mussolini and
pro-B adoglio, or anti-NaA and pro-
Catholic, or Polish and anti
Communist, or pro-old- line Bolshe-
vik and anti-Stalin, or pro- British
but anti Churchill, or pro-Scotch
and British, or pro-American
and anti-ROOSeYelt.
The black radio station beamed
at America is station Debunk. 1t
went off the air last August but Is
now back on the job, representing
itself as being an underground sta
ton located in the United States.
Actually, of course, it's in Germany
and is 100 per cent hokum. Debunk's
announcer is one Joe Scanlon, whose
accent is pretty genuine midwest
ern, but whose real identity has
never been disclosed.
Joe lets on to be veteran Of the
last war. His show is full of scoops,
flashes and inside dope, all dished
out to cater to the gullible public
which believes that gossip and
rumors are more important than
news.
One of the black radios neatest
tricks was to report 1t had conduct
ed public opinion poll in the IN
tied States, in which 1t was learn
ed that a majority Of Americans
would rather die in battle than in
an automobile accident, SO loss of
100000 lives would mean nothing
to this country. What was Subtly
being put over was the idea that
the war might cost that many cas-
ualties.
For other countries, the black
radio does equally agile mental gym
nastics.
SALES JOB
To Soviet Russia, a station iden-
tifying itself as 'Lenin's Old Guard"
claiming to be inside the U. S. S. r.,
broadcasts advocacy of the over
throw of Stain AMI a return to
Bolshevism. Another station, claim
ing to be the voice of the Militant
Union of Russian Nationalist, tries
to sell the lost cause of the White
Russians.
Newest of the "clandestine" sta
tons is Radio swift, which in Pol
ish means dawn" It Is another
Germany phony, outwardly anti
Nazi but really trying to convince
the poor Poles that their worst en-
envy is the Soviet.
For French consumption, the Ger
mans run a station claiming to be
in Algiers, actually located near
Vichy. This station takes the prize
for fast changes of line. 1t claims to
be probe Gaulle, but it makes the
Fighting French obnoxious by over
stating the de Gaulle position, in
that regard doing just what de
Gaulle position, in that regard doing
just what de Gaulle does himself. 1t
gets over its pro-Axis line by adj
hitting events unfavorable to the
United Nations and building up the
thought that the U. S. and Giraud
are out to double-crosS de Gaulle
and Great Britain.
The Germans beam four black
radio stations to the Arabs and two
to India. using 10 dialects for the
latter. Azad Hind station, "the voice
of free india" claiming to be in IN
dia but known to be on the out
skirts of Berlin, has had as one Of
its broadcasters Subhas Chandra
Bose, just made head of the new
Jap-sponsored Provisional Govern
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apore.
The Nazi propagandists even run
candlestine black radio stations In
German to deceive their own dis
gruntled populace, but perhaps their
cagiest operation has been fake
Italian underground radio, purport-
ing to be anti-Axis, but really to
admit reluctantly" the weaknesses
Of the United Nations.