This plan fell apart when Churchill's Conservative Party lost to the Labour Party in the postwar British General Election on July 5, 1945.
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Radio 1212 or Nachtsender 1212 was a black propaganda radio station operated from 1944 to 1945 by the Psychological Warfare Branch of the US Office of War Information (OWI) under the direction of CBS radio chief William S. Paley, who was based in London.
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Nachtsender 1212 broadcast from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg using the former commercial radio facilities known as Radio Luxembourg, which had been occupied and then liberated from German control during World War II.
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He stayed on after VE Day and was hired by Stephen Williams to help him rebuild the English-language commercial service of Radio Luxembourg.
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Radio Luxembourg, a commercial, English-language station that broadcast to the United Kingdom, closed down on September 21, 1939 on the instructions of the government of the Grand Duchy to protect the neutrality of Luxembourg during World War II.
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Also using these facilities was the Psychological Warfare Branch of the United States Office of War Information (OWI) under the management of CBS radio chief William S. Paley.
Radio 1212, an Allied black propaganda radio station operated from 1944 to 1945
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