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That question President Roosevelt last week asked of 2,500 delegates to the eighth American Scientific Congress, meeting in Washington's big Constitution Hall; and his words, sent out on a worldwide broadcast, collided with reports of destruction as Germany's armies swept into the Low Countries...
Every hour on the hour Paris radio broadcast bulletins, but there was little news beside the fact that in the crisis the Government had at long last achieved a "Union Sacree" of all parties by adding to the Cabinet Professor Louis Marin and Conservative Leader Jean Ybarnegaray from the extreme Right. Everyone who understood English tuned in the British Broadcasting Corp. Disturbing to many of the French was the BBC announcement that Winston Churchill had been made Prime Minister. In Paris his reputation is for recklessness. The French remember that in World War I the ghastly risks and losses...
...short-wave broadcast, Dutch Premier Dirk Jan de Geer called the 21 arrested fifth columnists "dangerous to the peace and security" of The Netherlands, declared that they were not interned because of their political beliefs but because of their personal conduct. Nazi Chief Anton Adrian Mussert was not arrested last week. Neither was he impressed by the Premier's speech. "I am certainly happy to be living in a democracy-in a free country," sneered Mussert...
...begins every Friday night over Mutual affiliate station WRAL the prisoners' broadcast from North Carolina's brown, brick Central State Prison just a few blocks from the business centre of Raleigh. Started eight months ago by six-foot, 240-pound Ren Hoek as part of the recreational activities of which he was director, the show began with a kazoo player, a piano pounder, a drummer. Inmates took part on the program only as a reward for good behavior the preceding week, soon made it the "shortest half hour of the week" for their 900 fellow prisoners...
From the three-man band, the broadcast rapidly built up to 25 or 30 men a week; now boasts numerous guest stars, a white string ensemble, a colored quartet. Star of the Negro harmonizers, Lifer Joe Johnston introduces their numbers with homespun sermons; repents his past, bewails the future in haphazard doggerel. Sample...