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...though wetly during the 26-mile drive through Canada's wheat city. Dignitaries were warned against too hearty handshaking, for the King had pinched two fingers in a train door. It was Queen Victoria's Birthday-Empire Day-and the King, after listening to professions of loyalty broadcast from every colony and Dominion of the Empire, replied with his best speech of the trip...
...announced that henceforth it will issue regular licenses permitting short-wavers to broadcast sponsored programs. Instead of cheering, the big short-wavers grumbled as they inspected the gift horse's mouth. Reason: they fear that sponsored programs would be unpopular abroad, that their friend the State Department would then sponsor a Government radio station, that a Government station might soon become a rival at home as well as abroad...
...With its blessing on sponsored shortwave broadcasts, FCC slipped in a proviso that: "A licensee of an international broadcast station shall render only an international broadcast service which will . . . promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." In plain talk, this means the broadcasters will have to follow the line laid down by the State Department. To broadcasters who are already used to working hand & glove with the State Department, this proviso was just part of the game, but the sensitive press began to spit and fume...
Said the New York Times: "If our international broadcast programs are to be censored so that they shall not offend this or that foreign government, it is only a step to the argument that it is at least as desirable to censor our domestic programs so that they shall not offend our own Government...
...last murmur before giving in, the National Association of Broadcasters moved to have the regulations threshed out in public hearings. Meantime no short-waver signed up any advertising accounts, and one even so far endangered international good will as to broadcast to Germany in German how No. i U. S. Nazi, Bundfiihrer Fritz Kuhn, was arrested in Pennsylvania after an indictment charging grand larceny...