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During 1942 and 1943, the OWI contained two photographic units whose photographers documented the country's mobilization during the early years of the war, concentrating on such topics as aircraft factories and women in the workforce.
During 1942 and 1943, the OWI contained two photographic units whose photographers documented the country's mobilization during the early years of the war, concentrating on such topics as aircraft factories and women in the workforce.
Mr. Eugene L. Garey, chief counsel of the Congressional Select Committee Investigating the FCC, speaking of these conditions said:
:"From the record thus far made it appears that, in one foreign language broadcasting station in New York City, the program director, the announcer, the script writer, the censor, and the monitor of the Italian language programs are all aliens or persons owing their positions to the Office of War Information, with the approval of the FCC….
:"…the Federal Communications Commission had no such lawful power, but the Federal Communications Commission did have the power to license and hence the power to compel obedience to its directions. The record now shows their unlawful use of this power….
:"A division called the War Problems Division was created by the Federal Communications Commission, and a staff of attorneys began to function.
:"This division was not a regulatory body. It was not formed to instruct, or supervise, or to correct. It was formed for the avowed purpose of unlawfully liquidating all of the radio personnel in the foreign¬language field that did not meet with its favor. A real gestapo was created and a lawless enterprise was launched.
:"It is suggested that we accept this unlawful situation as a benevolent expedient of the moment, but no such purpose as we find here disclosed, however benevolently cloaked, can justify the practices we find. All tyranny begins under the guise of benevolence. …
:"They even censor our [[Christmas]] and [[Easter]] [[religious]] programs, and tell us what music we may hear. The FCC is alarmed about whether we will react properly to news furnished by our national news agencies. Apparently we can still read the news in our press, but we can only hear what these aliens permit us to. What next medium of communications will receive the benevolent attention of these misguided zealots? Obviously, the press.
:"These interpreters of our national policy ¬ these slanters of our news - these destroyers of free speech - are alien in birth, alien in education, alien in training and in thought.
:"And still these are the people who are permitted to mold our thoughts - to tell us what America's war aims and purposes are. These people are in position to color, to delete, or to slant, as they see fit, in accordance with their own peculiar alien views and ideologies.
:"Persons are being accused of being pro¬fascist, and that without proof and without trial. Persons suspected of being pro¬fascist, and without proof, have been removed from the air and replaced by wearers of the Black Shirt ...
:"If the radio can thus be controlled in August, 1943, there is nothing to prevent the same control from slanting our political news and nothing to prevent the coloring of our war aims and purposes when peace comes.” <ref> Hearings before Select Committee (House) to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission, 1943.</ref>
==Personal==
==Personal==