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Helnl Radio-Television News Se r v i c e
7/12/50
"RADIO IS MIGHTY WEAPON IN NATION'S SERVICE" TRAMMELL
Referring to the present crisis in Korea, Niles Trammell, Chairman of the National Broadcasting Company, speaking at the FBI National Academy in Washington, reminded his audience that radio proved itself a mighty weapon in the nation's service in World War II*
"On December 7» 19^1* radio in the United States shouldered arms and, together with the American people and American industry, geared itself for total war", Mr* Trammell said. "Throughout the long years until victory was won, it carried the responsibility of broadcasting for the United States government. The story of its contribution is too large ever to be recorded in its entirety.
Every wartime effort found its support in radio. Bond drives made compulsory savings unnecessary. Armies of workers were recruited in topping quotas for enlistment of nurses, and the idea of a nurses' draft was dropped. "
Mr. Trammell spoke particularly of the great value of radio in civil defense training, rationing, conservation, psychological warfare and the entertainment of troops from the Aleutians to the South Seas*
"We won the shooting war, and on the heels of victory came a new threat to the liberties of free men: the expansion of Commun¬ ist power wherever national weakness permitted — by open aggression, by exported revolution, by propaganda which confuses and conquers, by espionage and by infiltration", Mr. Trammell concluded. "America, guarded for 150 years by two oceans, is not safe from this threat today. The consequences of defeat in the cold war can be quite as fatal to us as defeat in a shooting war.
"As the most powerful media of public expression, these same broadcast services mobilize our moral forces. They can forge a consciousness in the minds of our citizens of the meaning and value of our democracy. Our forefathers created this way of life by be¬ lieving in it, fighting for it and making it work. If we are to keep it, we must believe in it just as deeply, practice it just as con¬ stantly, work for it daily .... and fight for it if need be. As in wartime, radio is again shoxiring Americans what they can lose by defeat in the cold war and is awakening them to all that is at stake. And in bringing this message to the people, television is adding the gift of vision to radio's voice."
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