Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1942)

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12/11/42 SAYS RADIO IN POWER OF GOVERNMENT Declaring "the time has come again when those of us who would undertake to save the "four freedomes” and all the others not mentioned in the Atlantic Charter and on the home front better realize what we are up against and fighting for, in comparison, so far as loss of liberty is concerned, Representative Charles A, Plumley, ( R. ) , of Vermont, paid his respects to the New Deal in a lengthy speech Thursday. Of the radio he said; "The Government already holds the power of life and death over radio. It has gone so far as to suggest it should control the discussion of controversial issues over the air. Think of Iti This, in a free country, " Quoting Stanley High in the Reader’s Digest, Mr. Pluraely said : "Last June, after some 20 separate and equally fruitless Government investigations and many times that number of contradic¬ tory official statements had brought the rubber situation to an epochal state of muddle, Fulton Lewis, Jr., Washington reportercommentator for the Mutual Broadcasting System, set out on his own to turn on the light and heat. He got the facts, named the names, asked his radio audience to make a fight of it, and, as a result, loosed on Congress and the administration the largest outpouring of mail protest and demand since Father Coughlin’s heyday, Lewis now cherishes several off-the-record letters which indicate that his goads and prods with those of the supporting press were the necessary precursors of the Baruch committee. "Newspapers, with the same unpalatable single-mindedness, ended the LaGuar dieEleanor Roosevelt era of civilian defense "That was no Joke except that the people were the goat". Congressman Plumley observed, "The movies take their orders, and are the source and sup¬ ply of New Deal propaganda, turning out Government pictures by the trainload, to Influence popular opinion. " "I believe the day of our deliverance is well nigh at hand", he concluded, "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition, " X X X X X X X Permanent licenses as radio announcers in Mexico have been granted 132 persons, eight of them women, and eight others, five of them women, as radio newscasters and chroniclers, by the Ministry of Communications and Public Works. XXXXXXXX 8