O W I Y v. B E P A

O W I Y v. B E P A The British Empire Parliamentary Association (800 M.P.s and peers) laid back its ears and bayed last week. What set them off was a letter, written by Newscaster John Hughes, of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, to his father a London journalist. The letter said that OWI and associated U.S. agencies had virtually monopolized the Australian radio. Wrote young Hughes:

"The job is being done in the usual thorough American way -- that is, competently, slickly, attractively -- and Britain and what she is doing to win the war and her cultural background generally are hardly ever heard of. . . ."

The breakdown of British propaganda in the Dominions (especially Australia) has been under inquiry for some time. Hughes's charges were not the first that someone had bungled badly. BEPA could not be certain who the bungler was, but it knew who could tell them: carrot-topped Brendan Bracken, British Minister of Information. OWI men could understand his predicement.

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