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OWI films ‘dangerous,’ critics say
George Washington undermines Congress, they hold
Washington (UP) – (March 13)
Three Office of War Information propaganda stars – Vice President Henry A. Wallace, George Washington, and Ol’ Joe Mazerak – performed on Capitol Hill today under auspices of Rep. John Taber (R-NY), OWI’s leading critic in Congress.
Rep. Taber presented for colleagues and reporters a one-hour exhibit of OWI movie and radio productions in which Mr. Wallace discussed world regulation – “sheer communism,” Rep. Taber called it – and the country’s first President described the pushing around he got from the Continental Congress.
But the piece de resistance was the transcribed radio story of Ol’ Joe – the Paul Bunyan of the steel industry.
Ol’ Joe, the OWI reported after an appropriate introduction of organ sound, was a man of steel – born in a thunderstorm, his relationship, if any, to superman – also billed as a man of steel – was not mentioned.
One Republican present saw in the production a threat to the opera market.
Mr. Taber saw in it the dark seeds of dictatorship.
Mr. Taber showed his audience an OWI film short on Vice President Wallace’s address last May to the Free World Association, in which Wallace described the present war as part of a “people’s revolution” which began with the American Revolution and included Russia’s revolt against czarism.
Mr. Taber said:
This is strictly Communist Party line, and propaganda of the rawest sort.
In an OWI transcription featuring Washington’s supposed thoughts during the darkest days of the revolution, Mr. Taber saw “an attempt to undermine the faith of the people in Congress.”