A Broadcasting Menace

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 9

A Broadcasting Menace

“DKOADCASTIXG is. so new audits applications for political purposes have been so little foreseen that wo are as yet without any code of law or manners for its application. But we clearly need one,” writes Mr. J. A. Spender, in the News-Chronicle, London, referring to Nazi broadcasting from Germany to Austria, which is causing wide concern to people in all European countries. “Secret diplomacy may be bad, but the prospect of Governments appealing

night after night to mobs in other countries is iiiiiniteiy worse, and, U it is permitted, will vastly complicate international relations. “The effect is entirely different from that of the occasional and measured criticisms passed by Governments ou oiie another in tlie ordinary forums of press and parliament. “But this again is a question which concerns not merely Austria and Germany, but us all; and il the appeal is to the League ,of Nations it should be for a rule to which all should conform. “On all issues 1 believe the sale.-t and wisest plan is to deal with the Austrian question comprehensively, and get to the roots of the trouble which will otherwise be chronic. But there is clearly nut much time to lose. ’ ’