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11/23/43
Guests at the dinner Included Senators Capper, Republican, of Kansas and Green, Republican, of Riiode Island; FCC Commissioners Clifford J, Durr, Paul J. Walker, Ray C. Wakefield and T. A. M, Craven; Brig. Gen. Frank E. Stoner of the War Communications Board, which Mr. Fly also heads, and Justices Justin Miller and Henry White Edgerton,
Robert Kenney, Attorney General of California and National President of the Lawyers* Guild, acted as toastmaster. Thomas I, Emerson, Deputy Administrator in charge of OPA enforcement, who is president of the local Guild chapter, presided.
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IMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS MERGER URGED
"I cannot over-eraphasize that our own house must be put in order before we go to the next peace conference. The very least we should do is to establish a single American international Carrier."
This was one of the conclusions reached by Chairman James L, Fly of the Federal Communications Commission on the matter of international communications, when he addressed the National Lawyers Guild dinner given in his honor.
Mr. Fly advocated a five-point program to Insure a "worth¬ while world communications system”:
1. Uniform rates for all messages throughout the world in all directions.
8. Lowest possible rates for such services,
3. Instantaneous radio communications between all important areas of the globe.
4. Establishment of a uniform and low press rate throughout the world to provide for the dissemination of information to all people,
5. Free ingress and egress of information and freedom of all peoples of tne world to communicate with each other,
"Let us see what restrictions on tne free flow of world communication the system of control has meant”, Mr, Fly said, "For example, as early as 1931, RCAC negotiated a contract for a direct radio circuit between the United States and Australia. Despite the fact that the Australian Commonwealth was desirous of having the dir¬ ect circuit established we were forestalled. This meant that any message from the United States to Australia had to be transmitted first to Montreal or Vancouver and thence to Australia. Similarly, any message which an Australian desired to send to the United States had to go first to Montreal or Vancouver to be retransmitted to the United States,
"After twelve years, a direct circuit was finally author¬ ized between Australia and the United States but this was limited to the duration of the war and as a condition to the authorization it
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