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June 6, 1931
AMERICAN PLAN IS BEST (Concluded)
"I inquired about the efforts of European radio program-makers to broadcast Parliamentary discussions. As you know probably, I have a bill pending in the United States Senate to make it possible to broadcast the debates of the Senate, and I was interested in finding out what was being done over here. I found the matter had been discussed in Sweden particularly, and they had decided not to broadcast it, for the reason they gave, that the Constitution of Sweden prohibits the King from hearing the debates of the Swedish Parliament, and if the debates were sent out by radio, the Constitution would be violated by his listening, but,
I was told the real reason was that they were afraid the Communists would take advantage to spread their propaganda throughout Sweden, and that ’whenever the Communists had gotten on the radio, the response had been so great as to frighten the Government. The truth of the matter is that every Government official with whom I talked is in mortal fear of Communism. The Russian broadcasts in Germany especially h^ve the Germans frightened almost stiff. They took a German Commu¬ nist member of the Reichstag from Germany to Moscow and had him broadcast from Moscow about conditions there to impress the German people,
"I haven't time to discuss some of the other things. I wish I had. The only thing in which the Government programs here surpass America is their service to the schools of the country, and that must be met in America. I wish I could tell you of the House of Rundfunk in Germany, and its new administration building, ’uit my time is up. I only want to close by saying that I start back to America more confirmed than ever in my belief in the superiority of the American system for the development of radio. It is superior because it brings radio programs designed to please, designed to inform, and designed to serve the needs of the people, ”
COMMISSION OPINIONS RELEASED
Statements of fact, grounds for decision, and opinions of the Commission in connection with action on reports submitted by examiners were handed down this week covering the following reports: Nos. 124, 125, 128, 130, 131, 135, 144 and 146. The action on these cases was reported in the last two issues of the NAB BULLETINS. Copies of these decisions maybe obtained, so long as the supply lasts, by writing tothe NAB, National Press Building, Washington, D. C.
DUNCAN REVIEW DENIED
The Supreme Court of the United States on June 1 declined to review the case of Robert Gordon Dtmcan, No. 937, who was convicted under the Radio Act of 1927 for using profanity over Station KVEP, Portland, Oregon, during May, 1930. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had sustained Duncan’s conviction below and the action of the Supreme Court makes this decision final. Duncan had questioned the constitutionality of the Radio Act in his brief end also con¬ tended that the Radio Act was a regulatory and not a criminal measure. This was the first criminal proceeding under the Radio Act to reach the Supreme Court.