Posted on 12/31/2014 11:58:40 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
“Doug Edwards: Hitler will speak tonight. CBS Paris (via Army Signal Corps facilities): Charles Collingwood (who is introduced as Ned Kalmer): German counter-attacks are continuing. The French people are disappointed that the war is not over. (The report is cut short due to heavy static.) In a dramatized Admiral spot, a woman tells how, rather than going to hear a symphony performed, she and her husband invited friends over and played the same symphony for them on their Admiral automatic record changer. CBS London: Eric Severide gives his impressions of the mood of the British people at the end of 1944. The Churchill “spell” is broken and Anglo-British relations are souring. Although many believe that there will be peace in the coming year, they are worried about England being overshadowed by the U.S. in the post-war world. CBS Pearl Harbor: Don Pryor reports that Japanese troops on Pacific islands that have been cut off are now being “worn down” by air attacks. Admiral Nimitz made a radio broadcast to the Japanese people. Pryor interviews Marine Corps Major George Dooley, a pilot just back from Guam. The Major relates that, while flying missions over Guam, he would spot the enemy on the ground and then report their positions to PT boats. He predicts that Japanese opposition will get tougher as the Americans get closer to Japan. An unconfirmed announcement from Brussels Radio said that German Field Marshal Kesselring died in Italy on November 27th. [Albert Kesselring coordinated German defenses in Italy. On 10/25/44, he was seriously injured when his car collided with an artillery piece, and did not return to his command until January 1945. Kesselring survived the war and was tried for war crimes committed in Italy by Germans troops. Escaping the death sentence, he was later released in 1952. He died in 1960.] Major Eliot reports that the weather in Europe has cleared, allowing Allied pilots to attack German ground forces. In Budapest, the Russians are killing German SS soldiers without mercy in retaliation for the killing of Russian emissaries [on December 29th] who had approached German lines under a white flag of truce. Doug Edwards: the city of Yokohama is in a “state of alert.” Chang Kai Shek has called for a “peoples’ congress” in China. CBS Washington: Chris Coffin interviews LCDR Stanley a former heavy construction engineer and now a Seebee officer. Stanley, who has just returned from Leyte, describes the Seebees as being made up of skilled workers from 60 different construction and building trades. Seebees usually come ashore during the early hours of an invasion and often carry out their construction mission while under fire. The Filipinos he encountered were all saying, “We are very glad to see you.” Doug Edwards: A tragic train wreck occurred this morning near Ogden, Utah in the marshlands bordering the Great Salt Lake. [Early on the morning of December 31st, a fast-moving express/mail train crashed into the rear end of a Pacific Limited passenger train at Bagley, 17 miles west of Ogden, killing 48 people and injured 79.] A spot for the post-war Admiral electric range mentions the “complete meal cooker” and “Flex-o-heat” features. The program concludes with a New Year’s greeting from Admiral.”
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Eric Severide always seemed like such a dour fellow, knowing a lot, but having more questions than answers, content to be lost in a intellectual labyrinth usually leading tentatively to unconvincing conclusions that more government was needed whatever the question - the “intellectual elite” and vanguard of modern-day and misnamed “liberalism”.
Live is still better.
Eric Severide gives his impressions of the mood of the British people at the end of 1944. The Churchill "spell" is broken and Anglo-British relations are souring. Although many believe that there will be peace in the coming year, they are worried about England being overshadowed by the U.S. in the post-war world.
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