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NBC Repor </ > By Clarence L. Menser Vice President in Charge of Programs, Xiitioiiiil Broadcdsting Compinwj w CONTHOL ROOM KNGINEtltS fl'OKtGllOLNU) PUT NBC NEWS COMMENTATORS ON THE Am AT HADIO c:iTY. iiKHKNKii MEN ii<;iiT ill tliis \ast t;l(ilial war—on land, on sea and in till" aii-tluMi' NliC^ reporters arc on (lie job. .\e\er before in llie history ol man has a nation at war been so (jiiickly informed of the cataelysmic fortunes of battle, thanks to the braverv. the (l.iring and the intellijience of these \IK: men. These men have taken N'BC: listen- ers into the flame and fire of battle. Thev ha\e ranged tlie world from llussia to Africa, from Iceland to Egypt, from Jawi to Norway to bring their listeners the storv of the war as it unfolded from battle to battle. NBC listeners still remember the first warnings of the war to come in the Pacific in the regular broadcasts from Dick TennelK- in Tok\(i. It was N'RC's Martiii Agronsky who brought them realistic reports of complacency and nnprcparedness in Singapore, who fled before the Japs to Java and then to Australia. Few NBC listeners can for- get the exewitness report of the bomb- ing of Manila bv Bert Silen, Don Bell and Ted Wallace. And what NBC lis- tener did not thrill to John .\lac\"ane's thrilling report of his participation in the recent raid h\ the Commandos and Rangers on IDieppe? These are only a few of the more recent feats of a staff of forty reporters who have made the transmission of war news simultaTieousK with its oc- currence. The work of these men is a far cry from even the recent late 1930's when short-wave reporting was comprised ehieflv of occasional addresses by va- rit)us of tlie worlds statesmen. Since then. whereN'er the crimson tide of war has s[)read, there NBC reporters were on the job. The National Broadcasting Com- pany began assembling its world-wide staff of reporters in the distmbed days before Munich. There was as yet no war but w-ar was in the air. The first NBC reporters brought to their Amer- ican listeners the day-by-day political and diplomatic maneuverings which were to end in war. .\s far as censor- ship permitted, they reported to Amer- ican listeners the ominous rantings of Hitler and Mussolini. Becau.se of their [ 8 RADIO AGE