The Foreign Service Journal, June 2022

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JUNE 2022 47 shoulder-to-shoulder with other American ethnicities in the plane, platoon and subma- rine. Today the films are remembered, but the rumors are long forgotten. OWI’s international broadcasting had its own ambitions and issues. Broadcasts in the German-language transmission began with the admirable promise: “The news may be good. The news may be bad. But we shall tell you the truth.” OWI broadcasts were, how- ever, more complicated. The out-put some- times included material that was deliberately OWI research workers in May 1943. (Inset) Elmer Davis, here seated at his desk, was appointed the first OWI director by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1942. Before joining, he worked as a reporter for The New York Times and later as a popular news analyst for CBS Radio. LIBRARYOFCONGRESS