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9/6/44
POLITICAL OVERSEAS RADIO ACCORD; REPORTED SAME AS U.S.
In accordance with the soldier voting law that political parties shall all be heard in overseas broadcasts, the War Depart¬ ment is expected soon to announce the result of an agreement reached at a meeting in New York attended by the following;
Republican party Henry Turnbull, Godfrey Hammond, Wells
Church,
Democratic Paul Porter
Socialist Harry Fleischman, George Novick.
Socialist-Labor Eric Hass
Prohibitionist D, L, Colvin,
MaJ, Gen. F, H. Osborn, Chief of the Information and Education Division of the Army Service Forces; Col, Robert Cutler, Co-Ordinator of Soldier Voting; MaJ. Paul G, Horgan, MaJ. Carter Herman and Capt, Ray King, the last three concerned with the soldier voting machinery of the War Department, represented the Army,
According to an International News Service dispatch, radio time for short-wave re broadcasts of political talks to troops over¬ seas will be allocated on the basis of network time purchased by national political parties for broadcasts within the United States.
This agreement was reached by representatives of the five major parties and the War Department who met in New York over the week-end to iron out the controversial problem on an amicable basis and is now being ratified by the parties”, the story goes on to say.
The understanding is designed to avert a recurrence of the confusion resulting from political charges and countercharges on the question of when President Roosevelt speaks as a candidate and when he speaks as CommanderinChief of the armed forces.
As an example of how the arrangement will work; If one candidate buys three hours of network time in one week, another party two and one-half, and a third one-half hour, this will determine the amounts of time they will be allotted for rebroadcasts of the talks over Army short-wave radio channels.
The new schedule means that it will no longer be possible for parties of diverse strengths and influence to claim absolute equality of treatment in the distribution of rebroadcast time. No speech will be rebroadcast unless it has first been heard over a radio network in the United States.
The agreement also serves to define the knotty problem of when is a speech a political speech, which last week threw the War Department into contortions to avoid a show of favoritism toward the President.
A political speech, according to the compromise, is one broadcast over a radio network on time bought and paid for by a pol¬ itical party.
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