01 Elmer Davis

Elmer Davis, CBS News Analyst, will return this week from a five-week survey of conditions in the British Isles. At this time, takes the Columbia Network's nationwide audience on a personally conducted tour of the CBS Newsroom.

Mr. Davis will describe one network's coverage of the war. As you all know, the European war is at once the greatest and most difficult assignment radio journalism has had to handle since its inception early in the 20s.

The Columbia broadcasting system was prepared for thorough, precise coverage of the warmer. And now Elmer Davis, who will return over most of these stations at 8.55 p.m. tonight, Eastern Daylight Saving Time, for his first broadcast on the exclusive sponsorship of Pommel-Livesaupe, will tell you how Columbia covers the war.

Mr. Davis, most of you may be familiar with my nightly broadcast and perhaps have wondered occasionally about some of the things that take place behind the scenes prior to the broadcast. I would like to tell you now about Columbia's facilities and problems so that you can realize the scope of the forces that are being put to work for you. After a year and a half of

war, when many countries have fallen under foreign domination, it's naturally harder than it was in the beginning to get the news, or perhaps rather to get it the truth, for much of the so-called news that comes from Europe these days is not necessarily the same as fact. The story may be utterly untrue how it passes with consequent

effects on public opinion or on government action, or in the sense that some government or some group has an interest in putting out the story for purposes of its own. From that viewpoint it could be said that in this country the difficulty of getting at the fact is that we have too much news, too many