"SCANDAL" RADIO

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25214, 29 May 1945, Page 3

"SCANDAL" RADIO

ALLIED PROPAGANDA TALES FOR WEH RMACHT WASHINGTON, May 2 The most famous of all anti-Nazi underground radios—Gustav Siegfried Kiris—was actually operated throughout the war by British intelligence from AJlied territory, according to information released in Washington. This clandestine station, known all over Europe and North Africa as the "scandal sheet of the air," was directed at the German Army. In coarse language it broadcast detailed stories of loose living in high Nazi circles. The most sensational revelation was the story of a beating allegedly administered to the German Propaganda Minister, l)r Goebhels, when the Italian Ambassador to Berlin returned home unexpectedly and found Goebhels there with the Ambassador's wife, lhe station gave German troops details, including the fact that Goebhels was seen around Berlin a few weeks alter swathed in bandages. The Nazis never denied the truth of the storv.

Daily programmes were anti-Nazi, anti-Semitic, anti-Italian, anti-French, anti-Russian, and anti-British. A study of the scripts reveals that the chief aim was to create n split between the professional army and the troops. The station claimed to be a portable transmitter inside Germany, representing a group in the Wehrmncht. which resented Nazi interference in armv affairs. Programmes were nationalistic in tone. Apparently British intelligence possessed good sources in high places in the German capital because it scored many scoops on internal affairs, some of which were confirmed later in official Nazi announcements. The station was also well informed about major personnel changes within Germany throughout the war. For instance, it announced the replacement of General Haider by Genera! von Zcitzler as Chief of Staff in October, 1912. weeks before the Nazis allowed the news to come out.

COMMON PURPOSES AMERICA AND THE SOVIET WORLD TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEW YORK. May 25 Those who claimed that the aims and purposes of Russia and the United States were irreconcilable were looking for war, said the Secretary of Commerce, Mr Henry Wallace, in an address. The United States and Russia had emerged as the world's most powerful nations, with America possessing nearly half the world's industry and Russia "on the way to developing a large share of the remainder," he added. "These two Powers, who have come to the top, have no colonies and do not believe in colonies. They both claim to have a great respect for the rights of small peoples, but both have occasionally over-stepped the line when the principle of national defence is involved. "In the years immediately ahead, the United States, Russia and the British Empire may produce 85 per cent of the world's industrial output, but there are stirrings of a rapidly expanding industrial consciousness in Latin America, China and the Near East. We must decide whether we will aid the industrialisation of these countries, and political and security reasons convince me that we must do so. "We must trade with Latin America because it is at our hack door, with England and Western Europe because they are at our side, with Russia to prevent the world splitting into two hostile ideological camps. "Eor a year or two there may he grave danger of inflation in the United States, when it may be necessary to continue certain, types of export licences, but once the inflation danger lias passed the Government must get out. of export licensing with all possible speed.

"Our real trouble will come in five or ten years, when our foreign customers try to find a sound basis of payment for the quantities of American goods they would like to buy from us." PARENTS CONCERNED SONS TOO SOON IN COMBAT A tlare-up of anger_ appears to be sweeping parents of America's 18-year-old draftees, says the United States News of Washington. It is related to the fact, that hoys of 18 are being sent to combat areas after 15 to 17 weeks of training and are turning up as casualties within six or eight months of their induction.

An impression is widespread among: the nation's parents that the Army had promised that, hoys drafted at 18 would hp given a rear's training before being ■sent, overseas. This, too, was the impression of some members of Congress when the draft age was lowered to 18. The anger now being shown by parents arises from a feeling that their bovß aro not receiving adequate training. The Army explains that it finrls boys of 18 ran be hardened and taught the nse of basie infantry weapons in 15 weeks, after whirh they make excellent replacements ti hen used with more experienced troops.