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Show Notes of an Innocent Bystander: ine wireless: It Isn't hard to spot Hitler's angle in his short wave Invitation In-vitation to Americans to cable him advice, C. 0. D. If the message rubs him the right way. he flies the sender's name as a future Bunds-man. Bunds-man. If it's an insult, the man who signs it is one for the Hun errand boys over here to watch out for. Berlin is glad to pay $2.19 for each message that gives the Gestapo a line on U. S. citizens, good or bad . . . John T. McManus, reviewing Guy Lombardo's 10 years among the hcadliners, finds that the band leader keeps compromising with changing musical modes. His band, McManus adds, "says musical things nicely, like a William Lyon Phelps book review" . . . When the commentators get too gloomy you can always escape to some of the standbys . . , Easy Aces and Fibber McGee and Molly still hold up handsomely, with an undlmlnish-ir.g undlmlnish-ir.g quota of laughs. The Front Pages: One newspaper the Axis hasn't tamed is the Vatican Vati-can organ, Ossevatore Romano. Every Ev-ery edition nails the Nazi-Fascist lies that try to tell you the Catholic church is on their side . . . The shellackings the Fascist! have taken in Africa have made Ga-Gayda the leading humorist in Europe. He talks yet of "the fierce resistance" of Grazlano's troops In Libya-meaning, Libya-meaning, doubtless, their fierce resistance re-sistance to danger . . . Dorothy Thompson recalled a Huey Long crack that explains the conduct of a lot of popper-offers in Washing, ton. American Fascism, predicted Huey, would never emerge as a Fascist, but as a 100 per cent American Amer-ican movement. See? . . . The headlines reported that Franco and Mussolini met and agreed What most likely happened was that Franco said he didn't like the war and Benito agreed ... Hi Phillips Insists it. is silly to see D. Fairbanks criticize Lindbergh . . . Almost as comical as Lindbergh criticizing F D. It., Hi? The Story Tellers: Collier's claims mat H. R. 1778 is an all-out-for De-mocracy De-mocracy Bill. Their editorial points out that it may give F. D. R. a gn at deal of power, but without that power Britain might fall and leave the U. S. powerless . . . The SEP predictions of all kinds of gloom for America are put in a brighter light if you remember that it made siml-lar siml-lar gloomy warnings every time Roosevelt ran for President But America Is still here . . Some say a great American magazine Is writing its own Sepltaph , , , |