Tokio Radio Is Comic
p. 17 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Oct. 5.
THE hideous monotony of perpetual jazz and the Ohio Dialect broadcast by American Pacific Coast radio stations has forced us to seek elsewhere for entertainment.
If our monitor radio stations are recording the propaganda broadcasts from Japan, they are providing a massive
reserve of humour for future writers of comedy. German propaganda has always been dull, clumsy, leaden, Teutonic.
Jap propaganda, on the contrary, is real entertainment. The voices are comic, the oriental reasoning is comic, the imi- Nation of Teutonic bombast is comic, the attempts to disguise loss of face are comic* Our grim enemy is providing amusement oi a higher order than the bar-room jokes the radio networks dig nify by the name of humorous enter tainment.