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Network Linking u. 5.
And 76Latin American
Stations |naugurated
New c. B. S. Service
Hailed as Factor in
Mutual Understanding

System Network of the Americas"
linking this country with rs radio
stations throughout attn America,
was dedicated last night with an
international broadcast emphasizing
official recognition Of its Importance
in development of closer understand
ing among the American republics.
President Roosevelt's "gratiflca-
ton" at this linking together of
radio networks throughout the
Americas" was expressed by Under
Secretary of State Sumner Welles
m an address to dinner at the
Carlton Hotel here. from where a
part of the broadcast originated.
Other speakers at the dinner, at
tended by members of the Latin
American diplomatic corps here,
included Vice President Wallace,
who spoke in Spanish; Nelson A.
Rockefeller, co-ordinator of inter-
American affairs; DR.. Adrian Reel
nos. Guatemalan Minister. and DR..
Luis Quintanilla, Minister Counselor
Of the Mexican Embassy here.
Universal Interests First.
Mr.. Wallace urged the people of
the Americas to think of the future
and the need for them to subordi-
nate their national interests to uni
versal interests In order to demon
strate that unity Of this hemisphere
Is based on the general good.
Listing four companion obliga-
tions to the four freedoms which
have been enunciated by President
Roosevelt as democratic detectives
in the war, Mr. Wallace said the
Americas have an additional obliga-
ton for the peace of the future
to demonstrate to all the world that
Western Hemisphere solidarity is no
myth, but a practical concept OPEN
ing new horizons of progress and
happiness for humanity.
Three Presidents of neighboring
Latin American republics also were
heard on the broadcast. President
Manuel Prado of Peru spoke from
New York, where he is In the midst
Of an official visit to this country.
Presidents Gen. Anastasio Somoza of
Nicaragua, and Gen. Isaias Medina
of Venezuela spoke by short wave
from their native capitals Sched-
uled speeches by Presidents Juan
Antonio Rios of Chile and Gen.
Alfredo Baldomir of Uruguay were
cancelled because OF poor short
wave reception here.
Hollywood Takes Part.
From Hollywood and New York,
as well as from the dinner program
here, varied entertainment repre-
sentatives of inter-American culture
generally was blended into the dedi-
catory broadcast which opened full
scale operation of the new network.
The Latin american members of
the chain pick up programs sent
out by c. B. S. over powerful short
wave transmitters in New York, and
rebroadcast them to their own
listeners on long-wave frequencies,
assuring a much wider audience
than possible by direct short-wave
broadcasts.
Mr.. Welles emphasized the i'm
portance Of such a development in
communication between the Ameri-
cas-, in assuring distribution of ac-
curate information.
Pointing out that Axis radio sta
tons feed their listeners nothing but
Ties" to keep them lin ignorance
of the truth" Mr.. Welles declared:
ITO retain our liberties we re-
quire freedom of information. and
every means that can be devised to
increase and to perfect the inter-
changes OF accurate information be-
tween us constitutes an added bull
wark. not only to our own democra-
tic institutions. but to the security
of our inter-American system as
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For that reason I welcome. and
I am grateful for, this new service
to the cause of inter-American I'M
Outstanding which Is provided by
the Network of the Americas
Mr.. Rockefeller, emphasizing that
the war "can only be won by CO.
operation of peoples"
Dynamic Force for Unity.
That cooperation" he con-
tinued, will be active and efficient
and productive Of victory largely in
proportion as We build up with each
other a community of common ideas
and common moral detectives, of
shared tastes and traditions, and of
understanding sympathies.
This new transmission center
will strengthen and make
dynamic the common forces which
unite us.
I'm a period in which the diaboli-
cal forces of a new international
anarchy are seeking to win wars
and corrupt governments and en-
slave people by lies, this network
will be dedicated to the truth: the
truth in news. and in information,
and truth of the ideals of human
freedom and dignity for which this
war Is being fought"
Mr.. Welles praised American
broadcasting companies generally
for meeting their responsibility as
potent factors in our democracy"
adding that their "brOadcaSts of the