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-8* n CROSS TALK n ON THE VOICE, Cf 1 AMERICA The State Department’s radio outlet, in perennial hot-water and political "static” succeeded again in late May in incurring the ire of Senate and House* Saddled apparently with the dual function of helping to wage the "cold war" and simultaneously of creating "good will" the "Voice" has many critics and many "helping hands." Latest explosion Y/as caused by a "farmed-out" script in Spanish, beamed to our Latin-American neighbors. Produced by NBC, on contract, the script allegedly defame- the virtues of several American states and gave a "distorted" picture of .life in the United States to listeners south of the border. NBC promptly fired the script writer, explaining that the script had not been re¬ viewed in translation at NBC And thought State Department was checking scripts. Later it v/as claimed portions of the script had been eliminated causing distortion* Sixty-four dollar question is how non-Spanish speaking Senate in a U.S. which does not listen to short-wave habitually felt so quickly the personal impact of the "slanders" on various sovereign states. Uproar resulted in three separate investigations of the "Voice" including White House, Senate and House scrutiny of the U.S* "display window" for overseas. MUTUAL MIXES WITH MADDY OF, VICE VERSA D r. Joseph E* Maddy, president of the Inte r lochon Music Camp (placed on the "unfair list" of the ATM in 1942) reportedly tried to make arrangements with NBC for broad¬ casting the American Youth Symphony from Intorlophen and was refused._Turning then to Mutual, he received a tentative acceptance. Following these conversations. Maddy was quoted as saying. "I’m glad theio’s one network that has the courage to give more importance to the law than to a union leader’s edict. " Mutual then cancelled negotations. and sent a heated wire to Maddy. charging that h e had taken "undue advantage of the network" a nd had used the network "as an instrument to further (his) controversies and intimating that in scheduling such broadcasts we (Mutual) are in support of your differences with union and other networks." Interlochen Music Camp in Michigan was placed on the "unfair" list by James C. Petrillo, AFM president in 1942. At that time he banned further broadcasts from the camp. Dr.Maddy, who had been active in a campaign against interference in edu¬ cational music broadcasting was expelled by AFM. MISSIONARIES TO BE RADIO-TRAINED FOR OVERSEAS WORK Rev. S. Franklin Mack, chairman of the World Radio Committee of the Foreign Missions Conference and Rev. Everet C. Parker, director of the Joint Religious Radio Committe- announced in New York that foreign radio personnel may be trained inradio for the foreign missions field. Religious programming techniques, it is said, will be taught to missionaries who leave the U. S. and England for overseas duty. .PLAN TO ATTEND THE WISCONSIN RADIO INSTITUTE—JULY 5-10— AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN IN MADISON. FULL DETAILS CAN BE OBTAINED BY WRITING TO DIRECTOR H. B. MC-CARTY, STATION WHA. MADISON, WISCONSIN. _ ; _