Reviews, follows up, and coordinates theater requests with respect to reorientation and reeducation. Collects, prepares, and issues news and news feature material for use in the occupied areas. Recommends the procurement of books, textbooks, library, and religious material, visual display material, and other informational materials required to implement approved reorientation policies. Reviews and initiates or secures action, whichever is appropriate, on theater requests for above materials. Provides personnel for ad hoc or working subcommittees of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the State-Army-Navy-Air-Coordinating Committee, and the Far Eastern Commission. PRESS SECTION Prepares, collects, and issues news background, news features, and photographs for publication in the idigenous press and periodicals of occupied areas, including making arrangements for transmission and reception abroad and for servicing to indigenous news agencies in occupied areas. Maintains policy liaison with Department of State and prepares and transmits operational guidance for overseas personnel engaged in information control or dissemination. Acts on various special Department of Army requests for material within the scope of the section. Furnishes material for and guides the overt press in Germany (Amzone) and Austria. Performs necessary research and outside reporting to enhance quality and usefulness of section output. EDUCATION AND RELIGION POLICY SECTION Initiates policies with regard to education, religion, social organization, youth movements, and international exchange of persons in occupied areas, and for operational duties in connection therewith. Evaluates all cultural projects for usefulness in reorientation program. Makes recommendations regarding all matters pertaining to schools of all levels and adult education. Drafts SANACC studies, policy and action papers for guidance and control of theater commanders. Establishes and maintains liaison with government agencies, private industry, institutions, colleges and universities, educational associations and cultural societies to carry out the general objectives of the section. Processes requests for expert consultants and applications for exchange of persons for cultural purposes, and obtains necessary coordination with Department of State and other Department of Army agencies. INSTRUCTIONAL AND CULTURAL MATERIALS SECTION Supplies and services an estimated 64 information centers in Austria, Germany, Japan, Korea, and the Ryukyu Islands. Supplies through normal procurement channels and individual requests rights to translate and reproduce American copyrighted publications in the occupied areas. Reviews books and publications to determine their usefulness in reeducation and reorientation program. Keeps abreast of current foreign relations policy and recommends necessary changes in existing policy. Presents to publishers and others reorientation problems and obtains cooperation in meeting theater requirements. Works with individuals and committee at SANACC level in the formulation of policy in relation to the reeducation and reorientation programs. Reviews theater reports of reorientation and reeducation accomplished and evaluates them as to conformance with existing policy and as to their use as the basis for additional policy recommendations. SPECIAL PROJECTS Assists in planning projects designed to accomplish the program of reeducation and reorientation in occupied areas. Exercises administrative supervision and control over all budget, fiscal, and procurement action required to accomplish the mission of the branch. Prepares periodic revision of budget plans and estimates for purpose of reeduaction and reorientation in occupied areas. Screens theater requirements for reeducation and reorientation services, supplies and equipment, and plans procurement thereof. Prepares procurement and supply requests and transmits them to Logistics Division when procurement is to be accomplished in the United States, and prepares outgoing communications required when procurement is to be accomplished by theater commanders. ADMINISTRATIVE SECTION Performs normal administrative functions required to support above-described activities. The New York field office, under the control of the Chief, Civil Affairs Division, assists military authorities in occupied areas by initiating plans, policies, and directives applicable to the people of occupied areas in the fields of cultural materials and mass media of periodicals, radio, motion pictures, theater, art, and music; collects, prepares, and issues special articles, periodicals, and booklets; recommends the procurement of, and edits, adapts, or rescores completed motionpicture films (including news reels), still picture and film strips. On request from overseas commands recommends the procurement of plays, music, art, radio-program material, visual display material, raw stock, and film equipment required to implement approved policies for these information media; and, coordinates as necessary with other government and civilian agencies with respect to those matters. PERIODICALS SECTION Prepares, collects, clears for publication, and transmits magazine articles and specially selected features, on its own initiative and by request from the occupied areas, to military government agencies in the overseas theaters for use in the indigenous press and periodicals of Germany, Austria, Trieste, Japan, and Korea; as well as the editorial content of three government sponsored magazines published in Germany and Austria covering pictorially and in print a broad range of political, social, economic, cultural, and scientific subjects designed for the reeducation and reorientation of the peoples in the occupied areas. THEATER SECTION Selects, procures, and transmits to the occupied areas American stage plays, musicals, and other theater materials to promote the objectives of reeducation and reorientation through both the professional and amateur stage of those areas; investigates copyright ownership and obtains copyright clearance therefor; provides for such translations and adaptations as are required; prepares pertinent publicity and reference material for use in the occupied areas; maintains close liaison with the American theater industry; and maintains records of collected royalties and critical reviews. RADIO SECTION Initiates, formulates, and coordinates radio policy and facility planning for occupied areas; recommends the production of radio programs and obtains copyright clearance thereof; selects, makes available, and clears radio scripts and radio-program materials for occupied areas use; effects policy liaison with the Department of State for short-wave radio programs heard or rebroadcast within occupied areas; establishes and maintains liaison with the radio broadcasting industry, radio departments of educational institutions, professional radio societies, and such other governmental or private organizations as is necessary. MOTION PICTURE SECTION Screens, assist in selection of, and orders feature films; initiates, plans, develops, and coordinates motion-picture projects designed to promote the objectives of reorientation and reeducation; develops film ideas; oversees production under contract; recommends the procurement of, and adapts, edits, and rescores completed motion-picture film (including news reel) and film strips for commercial and educational or public informational showing in the occupied areas; prepares pertinent utilization materials; plans for the distribution of such films, equipment, and material in the occupied areas; recommends procurement and shipment to the occupied areas of requested United States motion-picture feature films, short subjects, and news-reel material. MUSIC AND ART SECTION Selects, recommends procurement, and transmits to the occupied areas orchestral material for the music rental libraries, color lithographs, and color slides of art subjects, recordings, and music for the collections of nonorchestral music for all information centers; obtains copyright clearance necessary for performance, broadcast, and recording of American music in the occupied areas; selects and prepares for display in occupied areas requested exhibits requiring major use of institutions and facilities; furnishes biographical and critical material incident to the appreciation of American music and art to the occupied areas; coordinates upon request from the details incident to visits to the occupied areas of artists, lecturers, and other experts in fields of music and art. Personnel statistics, New York field office, Civil Affairs Division Mr. STEFAN. What kind of radio programs do you use; how many people do you have working on the radio program out of the 75 people? Have you a sample of some of the script programs? Colonel BINNS. I do not have them here. May I furnish them for the committee? Mr. STEFAN. Yes; I think the committee ought to have that. Colonel BINNS. Colonel McMahon, who is in charge of that is in Germany, but I could furnish the type of the motion-picture samples. Mr. STEFAN. We are discussing radio; you already said you would do that with reference to motion pictures. Can you give us some samples of the radio scripts? Colonel BINNS. I have no scripts with me. Mr. STEFAN. You will furnish them for the committee? Mr. STEFAN. How many hours a day are you on the radio? Are you broadcasting anything from the United States? Colonel BINNS. No. Mr. STEFAN. In the occupied areas; that is, from Munich? Mr. STEFAN. How many radio stations do you control in occupied areas? Colonel BINNS. There are five in Germany. Mr. STEFAN. This is all for occupied areas? Mr. STEFAN. How many of them altogether in occupied areas? Colonel BINNS. Five in Germany; one in Austria; one in Koreathat is seven; and I do not know the number in Japan. Mr. STEFAN. There are five in Germany. What frequency do you work on; what type of radio stations are they? Colonel BINNS. I am not sure I understand the question You mean the power of the station? Mr. STEFAN. Yes; I want to know the kilowatts, the frequency, what time of the day you give to news, the time that is taken up with entertainment programs; how much of the time is turned over to regular business; do you operate these radio stations continuously; how many hours a day are they operated; does the military or the civilian part of the Army run them, or does private industry or both run them? Who owns the station? Colonel BINNS. The military government. Mr. STEFAN. It owns all of them? Colonel BINNS. Yes; it controls the time; on some of them they have personnel Mr. STEFAN. Give the ones that we own; the number the private industry owns, and where you control the time how much time is allowed to private industry? Colonel BINNS. Yes. (The information requested follows:) BROADCAST STATISTICS, OCCUPIED AREAS 1. In all areas broadcasting is supported through the listener fee for license method. This defrays all indigenous expenses. One exception is the United States military government broadcasting installation in the United States sector of Berlin. The indigenous costs of this operation are charged to the occupation and must be budgeted for by military government. 2. The only other known exception is in Bremen. Indigenous costs are met partly from license fees in Land Bremen and partly from the profits of ICD's overt operations. 3. In general, the purpose of the American radio personnel is to guide, instruct, and assist local broadcasting in implementing by radio the general mission of reeducation and reorientation. It is also their aim to see that broad casting in occupied areas develops along democratic lines, free from governmental control and domination. 4. In Japan the Broadcasting Corp. of Japan has been set up and is responsible for all broadcasting operations. This corporation operates under a charter from the Government but there is no other connection with Government. 5. In Korea broadcasting is operated by the Department of Public Information of the Korean Government. 6. In Austria, pending the return of all broadcasting to the Austrian Government, there are broadcasting operations in all four zones. 7. In the German Laender, with the exception of Land Bremen where political complications have made it necessary to defer decisions on the eventual disposition of the station there, it has been directed that the German land governments enact enabling legislation to permit the organization of broadcasting in each land on the lines of public corporations free from governmental control. It is anticipated that these Gerinan broadcasting organizations will be responsible to board or broadcast councils made up of popular representatives on a broad basis. 8. In all other areas broadcasting follows the network pattern. In Germany to implement United States decentralization policy military government has taken steps to prevent any future central German government agencies (such as the Post) from exercising influence on broadcasting. 9. Although the statistics show the number of licenses in each area this can by no means be taken as the figure of actual listeners. Japan, for instance, beams to the Asiatic mainland, Formosa, and islands in the south; stations in the United States zone of Korea, Austria, and Germany are listened to outside those areas. The United States station in Berlin, for example, is located in the center of the Russian zone of Germany and is known to have considerable listeners outside the United States sector of Berlin. 574 kilocycles.... 740 kilocycles 1. Hours of operation Monday through Friday: 06001000, 1130-1400, 1630-2330. Saturday: 0600-1000, 1130-2400. Sundays: 0600-2400. Monday through Friday: 06001000, 1130-1400, 1600-2400. Satur days: 0600-1000, 1130-2400. Sundays: 0600-2400. Monday through Friday: 06300945, 1115-1445, 1600-2400. Saturdays: 0630-0945, 1115-2400. Sundays: 0630-2400. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Fridays: 1330-1345, 1500-2400. Wednesdays, Saturdays: 1500-2400. Sundays: 0800-2400. 527 kilocycles.... Monday through Friday: 13001400, 1700-2300. Saturdays: 12002300. Sundays: 0940-2300. Radio Munich and Radio Stuttgart provide good nighttime service all over Europe. Radio Munich and Radio Stuttgart each operate a 100-kilowatt transmitter both of which are synchronized on 1249 kilocycles for the American Forces Network. At Radio Munich are located the four short-wave transmitters used for relay of the State Department's Voice of the U. S. A. |