UNO MAY HAVE OWN RADIO

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24801, 15 February 1946, Page 5

UNO MAY HAVE OWN RADIO

NEGOTIATIONS WITH U.S. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. J 3. The importance of having international broadcasting stations controlled by the United Nations was discussed by Sir Hartley Shawcross (Britain), addressing the General Assembly of UNO. He was supporting the adoption of draft conventions for the purgose of negotiation with the United tates Government on certain matters, including the possibility of erecting United Nations’ broadcasting stations. Sir Hartley Shawcross pointed out that the national press and national broadcasting organisation in different countries, whether under some measure of Government control or completely free, tended inevitably to discuss questions from the national viewpoint, emphasising the speeches of representatives of their own country, to the exclusion of those of representatives of other countries. It was essential there should be at least one source from which the peoples of the world might ascertain information about each others’ difficulties and viewpoints. The Assembly adopted the recommendations about the organisation of United Nations’ radio stations.