Tribune: "Short Wave Sets Ordered Changed ... Alteration of wave band is required." Manila took it grimly, cracking jokes. A sampling:

"There's only one thing left for us to do — read the papers backwards."

"Every time they deny something, we'll know it's so."

"Golly! They're going to castrate our radios."

"Cheer up! We'll be hearing bigger and better rumors everyday. Out of spite, I'm going to believe they're all true too."

Splashes admits we're still pro-USA: "How can there be a happy ending if the girl continues to love the man who deserts her?" Well, in the typical happy ending the villain gets bashed and the lovers reunite.