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- ↑ Kuffert, Len (1 November 2016). Canada before Television: Radio, Taste, and the Struggle for Cultural Democracy. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-9981-9.
- ↑ Cull, Nicholas John (1995). Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign against American "Neutrality" in World War II . Oxford University Press. pp. 135–136. ISBN 0-19-508566-3.
