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August 30, 1944
•'The Army rebroadcasts to the armed forces overseas over approximately seventeen different short-wave beams. The Army does not rebroadcast via short wave within the United States.
"In order to orovide orderly opportunities for members of the armed forces overseas to receive information by radio rebroad¬ cast with reference to the coming election, the Armed Forces Radio Service will make available from its allotted overseas rebroadcasting time a period each week for each political party, qualified under the statute, between early September and Nov. 1. Overseas voting should be completed by this date*
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"The Armed Forces Radio Service will establish a schedule of rebroadcasting times, in conformity with the law and within the prac¬ tical limitations of its facilities, and will notify each qualified party of the arrangements made.
"a party failing to use its scheduled time in any week will be deemed not to have requested time for such v/eek, but such failure will not affect the right of the other parties to use their sched¬ uled times for that week."
Following the War Department statement. Republicans immedi¬ ately raised the contention that any speech by President Roosevelt should come out of the Democratic time quota.
Senator Revercomb of West Virginia siimmed up the party view¬ point .
"Any troop broadcast time given to a speech by the President certainly should be a part of the time allotted to the Democrats.
He is a candidate, and whatever he says amounts to an appeal for support . "
The War Department, however, sidestepped that.
Commenting upon the situation in an editorial, "Shortwave Politics", the Washington ? ost saidj
"The War Department appears to have emerged at last with a sensible resolution of the furor raised over the President’s Bremerton address. Each of the five political parties having a candidate for President in at least six States will be granted equal use of the Array* s facilities for shortwave rebroadcasting of polit¬ ical addresses to the men in service overseas. This may be a little hard on I. Joe. It may give him a more intensive political diet than he will care to digest during the next ten weeks. But then presumably he retains the inalienable American prerogative of tuning to another station or turning off the radio completely. And it seems to be the only system under which all political candidates in this highly political season of the year can be treated with genuine impartiality.
"The War Department’s ruling neatly evades the onerous assignment of determining when Mr. Roosevelt is serving in his
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