Sweets & Cookies

Over one of Germany's powerful Zeesen transmitters last week plain Jane Anderson (TIME, Jan. 19) was going great guns. The middleaged, neurotic, American-born Axis tub thumper ("Lady Haw-Haw" to the British) was setting the U.S. short-wave audience straight on the Nazi food supply with a luscious description of a visit to a Berlin cocktail bar:

"On silver platters were sweets and cookies. I ate Turkish cookies, a delicacy I am very fond of. My friend ordered great goblets full of champagne, into which he put shots of cognac to make it more lively. Sweets and cookies, not bad!"

The following night Propagandist Anderson's bacchanalian bombast, translated into German, was short-waved back to her adopted country for all hungry Germans to hear. The effect was not bad. Plain Jane went off the air, has not been heard from since. It was a technical knockout for the U.S. Donovan Committee.

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