INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 190, 14 August 1933, Page 6

INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS.

The problem of the use of radio broadcasting! by Governments for propaganda purposes is raised ,by Germany's recent action. The new Government may find that its -wireless propaganda is a two-edged weapon, for retaliatory methods might be adopted by other nations to enlighten the German people on the real happenings in some of the concentration camps and tho "Brown Houses." The Nazis have persisted in their wireless campaign in Austria, 'in spite of the undertaking given by the German Government to the Italian Government that it would check such propaganda. An embargo has been placed on several foreign newspapers because of their frank comments on German political methods, but Germany cannot place a similar embargo on broadcasts from other countries without the support of the Governments of these countries. The position would be aggravated if retaliatory methods were adopted, and the only wise course is for nations to refuse to use wireless to interfere in the affairs of any other country. Germany is at present the only country except Russia using wireless for propaganda purposes abroad. Restrictions have been placed on the use of wireless for advertising purposes, and it seems that similar restrictions will have to be placed on propaganda intended to influence the political situation in another country.