Talking of Flit – Carol Alcott on Station XMHA 8pm Daily – Tune In

In 1940 Carrol Alcott was THE Shanghailander to listen to on the radio – he may have been slightly overweight in real life (see the picture of him and bio in my book Through the Looking Glass – China’s Foreign Journalists From the Opium Wars to Mao). He nightly antagonised the Japanese about their aggression in China (and they tried to assassinate him several times for his trouble). If you want to read more about XMHA radio as well – Shanghai’s leading English language station – try Michael Kysko’s recently published book American Radio in China.

That Alcott’s show was sponsored by the great brand of FLIT was humorous in that Alcott would liken the Japanese aggressors to annoying flies in need of eradication…driving the Japanese propaganda goons to new heights of distraction and rage.