UNO RADIO STATIONS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21947, 15 February 1946, Page 4

UNO RADIO STATIONS

APPROVAL BY ASSEMBLY (9 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 14

The importance of international broadcasting stations controlled by the United Nations was stressed by Sir Hartley Shawcross (Britain), addressing the General Assembly of UNO. He was supporting the adoption of draft conventions for the purpose of negotiation with the United States Government 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 a national viewpoint, emphasising the speeches of the representatives of their own country to the exclusion of those of the representatives of other countries. It was essential that there should be at least one source from which the peoples oi the world might ascertain information about each other’s difficulties and viewpoints. The Assembly adopted recommendations regarding the organisation oi United Nations’ radio stations and also the organisation of the secretariat and their amenities and privileges.