Voices Oversea

> Early in the week San Francisco's shortwave station KGEI had Mrs. Jonathan Wainwright broadcast a message of good cheer to "Skinny," accompanied by three wagging woofs from the General's pet Labrador Retriever. When the end of Bataan came, KGEI's "Freedom for the Philippines" rose to the occasion with a solemnity by which the grim survivors on Corregidor were moved to tears: "The world will long remember the epic struggle the Filipinos and Americans put up. . . . But what sustained them through all these months of incessant battle was a force more than physical. It was the thought of their native land and all it holds that is most dear to them. ..."

> Endangered was the Philippines' own "Voice of Freedom," which has been broadcasting from Corregidor to the Islands on a patched-up, medium-wave sender ever since Manila fell (TIME, March 16). After reaching Australia from Bataan, TIME'S Correspondent Melville Jacoby last week cabled this account of it:

"The Freedom Station is the final proof of the effectiveness of radio warfare-we found Filipinos on every island quoting their daily broadcasts. Walking through remote interior sections of the jungle at noontime we suddenly hear The Star-Spangled Banner, then Freedom announces, 'Hello, everyone, everywhere. . . .' Filipinos from occupied cities and areas told us how the people cluster around muffled radios for the Freedom broadcasts, then pass the word along, via grapevine. The broadcasts have been successful because they are written assuming that the Filipinos are all loyal, which is true. ..."

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