INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTS

UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM APPROVED BY ASSEMBLY (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. The importance of international broadcasting stations controlled by the United Nations was stressed by Sir Hartley Shawcross (Great Britain), addressing the General Assembly. He was supporting the adoption of draft conventions for the purpose of negotiating with the United States Government certain matters, including the possibility of erecting United Nations broadcasting stations. Sir Hartley Shawcross pointed out that national press and national broadcasting organisations in different countries, whether under some measure of Government control or completetly free tended inevitably to discuss questions from a national viewpoint, emphasising the . speeches by 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 of the world might ascertain information about each other’s difficulties and viewpoints. The Assembly adopted rectpmmendations regarding the organisation of United Nations radio stations, also the organisation of the Secretariat and their amenities and privileges.