MOSCOW RADIO FAILS TO DISPLACE B.B.C. IN EUROPEAN FAVOUR

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 March 1950, Page 6

MOSCOW RADIO FAILS TO DISPLACE B.B.C. IN EUROPEAN FAVOUR

Broadcasting House, denounced by Moscow as that “crying radio crocodile, with its mad agitators and disruptionists, imperialist scribes and announcers,” has turned to calm facts I and figures to show who is catching ; the ear of the Western listening j world, states the News Chronicle, London. In 8.8. C. Quarterly the Controller of European Services (Mr Tangye Lean), who was described by Moscow as the “lackey of the dying capitalist system,” revealed that listeners to the 8.8. C. in Finland, France, Italy and Sweden far outnumbered listeners to i Moscow. j “While foreign broadcasts from the i West have slightly declined in volume , Moscow has increased hers year by : year without winning over audiences,” he wrote. Flow many Russians listen to London no one knows, but the 8.8. C. takes heart from the jamming and general violence of Soviet reaction. In Czechoslovakia, 1,000,000 listen . weekly to Sir R. Bruce Lockhart’s j talks, “and if there are fewer listen- , ers in Hungary, it is probably because ’ there are fewer sets.” | On the odium of propaganda, Mr Lean stated: “We shall incur that if, when the shouting dies, there is anything we have said which we should be ashamed to say again.”