in his first broadcast, and retained throughout, the nom de plume "Paul Revere"[1] (though he revealed his true identity in subsequent broadcasts). The introductory theme song to his broadcasts was "Yankee Doodle" played on a flute accompanied by the sound of galloping horses' hoofs. After six months of this work he took a leave of absence.
Then came the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor. Though he recognized that "Germany through its pact with Japan was technically forced to issue its declaration of war", he regarded this change in the situation between Germany and the United States as only a technicality. Other Americans were repatriated from Berlin, but Chandler chose to stay.
In January, or February, of 1942, he made arrangements for the resumption of his activity as a broadcaster. Heregular collaboration in the foreign-language propaganda of the Anti-Komintern, and the *926 Anti-Semitic Action, respectively." This aggregate compensation of 2500 marks per month made Chandler the highest paid commentator in the U. S. A. Zone of the Short Wave Station of the German Radio Broadcasting Company. His superior, the Chief of the U. S. A. Zone, received less than half this amount.
Defendant broadcast under these contracts two or three times a week uninterruptedly from February, 1942, to the end of July of that year. He then stopped for about two months following the death of his first wife, but he resumed on the same basis in October. After one of the routine conferences of the commentators, some time in February, 1943, he had a conversation with Wagner, the