SHORTWAVE BROADCASTS FROM AUSTRALIA
TRANSMISSION IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES SERVICE TO START THIS MCNTH CANBERRA, Dec. 8. World-wide Australian shortwave broadcasts will begin on December 20 with an address by the Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies. The service will serve Europe, North and South America, the East, and also India and Africa. The chief transmission will be to North Europe in English. French, German, and Dutch. Later transmission will be to the Mediterranean countries. The aim of the broadcasts, according to the Minister of Information, is to emphasise to the world that Australia is a nation of free-thinking and peace-loving people whose wholehearted support for Britain comes from the conviction that the Empire's cause is just.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 291, 9 December 1939, Page 8
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116SHORTWAVE BROADCASTS FROM AUSTRALIA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 291, 9 December 1939, Page 8
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