Sound-Effect Boos

One day last week German listeners, tuned to their home stations, caught the cultured enemy accents of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill himself, coming over the same Nazi radio that frequently refers to him as British First Lord of the Sea Bottom. Before he had talked for long, listeners got the idea. Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft was up to a slick trick in the European radio war of harsh words. As Mr. Churchill's voice purred on, it was suddenly interrupted by a tremendous clamor of sound-effect boos & catcalls. Then the Nazi announcer spoke up. "This," he explained, "is the record of how Mr. Churchill's recent speech at Manchester was received by his audience."

At Manchester (TIME, Feb. 5) Mr. Churchill was indeed interrupted, but only by three isolated and promptly shushed calls for British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley.

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