BROADCASTS TO ARABS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22774, 7 July 1937, Page 15

BROADCASTS TO ARABS

COUNTERACTING ITALY BRITAIN TO TAKE STEPS LONDON, June 30 Active steps are likely to bo taken bv the British Government to counteract anti-British propaganda broadcast to Arabic-speaking races.

Britain will not rest content with asking Italy, as the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, and the British Ambassador in Borne have already done, to restrain the tone of the broadcasts in Arabic from the Bari station.

Although, as Mr. Eden said in the Commons yesterday, these protests have resulted in an improvement, more remains to be done. liven when the more blatant propaganda h cut out Italy will continue Arabic broadcasts, which reach all regions around the Mediterranean, while there are 110 countervailing vernacular broadcasts from Britain. The British Broadcasting Corporation and Government departments are working out plans for broadcasts in Arabic and. possibly, other languages. Jt, is regarded as being highly important to reach the Arabic population of Palestine and neighbouring regions. The authorities are also giving attention to the question of broadcasts in Spanish for South America. The. subject of broadcasting iu Indian vernaculars has also been raised.