Evening star., 1935-12-01
Bv the Radio Editor.

visage the development OF
new comfy among nations
~ by means of radio voices
across the seas" the practical approach
to that ideal is meeting Europes
usual stumbling block-censorship'
Their eagerness to be heard in other
countries, typified in daily outpour-
ings on the international short waves
and demonstrated in the creation OF
increasingly powerful domestic sta
tions whose purpose obviously Is to
carry beyond the national boundaries,
Is unfortunately not accompanied
among European statesmen by an
equal eagerness to be frank and out
spoken on the radio. Except for the
so-called stunt broadcasts" the CEN
soriai lid Is definitely clamped on the
spoken word broadcast from Europe.
One Who still entertains hopes that
the nations of the world will some
day send radio plenipotentiaries to the
conference table, there to sit down to-
gether and agree upon complete free
dom of speech on the air, is DR.. Max
Jordan, continental European repre-
sentative of the National Broadcast
ing Co. station at Basle, Switzerland.
DR., Jordan was in Washington last
week during a short American visit.
TT was DR.. Jordan who arranged the
first relay broadcasts from Ethiopia
to the United States recently, broad
casts which have been repeated with
more or less success and to which.
some European broadcasting stations
have tuned in-that is, where national
policy permitted. 1t was distinctly
an example of American as against
European enterprise. But the Ethi-
opian affair has also had the effect
on radio of bringing out glaringly the
fundamental differences in the Ameri-
can and European points of view re-
garding radio.
In the wake Of the British Post
Ofice Departments recent refusal
to allow the Italian delegate to the
League of Nations, Baron Aloisi, to
talk to America from Geneva via the
London short-wave relay station, it
is reported that the British Broad
casting Corp, likewise a government
monopoly, has declined permission
to Guglielmo Marconi to broadcast
a speech on the Italo- Ethiopian war.
This, though the eminent italian in
ventor of wireless first won recogni-
ton for his invention in Britain as
q youth, is regarded as an honorary
citizen Of the British Empire and has
most of his business interests in
England.
Presumably the refusal was due
TO Marconi'S well-known pro-FaSciSt
sympathies and hig friendship with
Mussolini. AS in the case of Aloisi,
who was frankly barred by the
British authorities as their first i'm
position of sanctions against Italy,
Marconi thereupon simply spoke via
the short waves direct from Italy
to America. But he was not heard in
England.
The problem Of censorship of the
international wave lengths, it should
be said, really had not arisen in
about five years of international
broadcasting, at least so far as
America is concerned. 1t was not
until war broke out and the matter
of sanctions came up that we here
felt its effects. According to the
British Broadcasting Corp, which has
disavowed having anything to do with
the Aloisi affair, there were 149
broadcasts from England to America
and 1875 from the European CONT
nent to America, nearly all relayed
via short waves out of London, during
the IL months preceding November /
Of this year.
TELEVISION will burst its labora-
tory bounds this Winter and next
Spring under plans already laid out
in the secret councils of the Radio
Corp. of America, largest indus
trial unit in American radio.
This statement can be made on the
basis Of Developments currently
under way in the radio field, the
basic facts of which have been veri-
fled. The prospect of television should
not, however, deter prospective radio
set buyers from their plans to pur-
chase new radios, for the most opti-
mistic prediction now Is that it will
take from two to four years before
the public acceptability and market
ability OF new nd-and -sight-re-
ceiving apparatus can be proved.
From David Sarnoff, r. C. A. presi-