NBC Transmitter (Jan-Nov 1945)

February 1945 7 STATE DEPARTMENT ON AIR Listeners Hear U.S. Officials Present Views on World Peace NKW YORK. — For the first time in radio, the three major governmental bodies charged with the formulation and execution of America’s international policy are joining in discussion of the plans for building the peace. The exclusive series, part of the ABC University of the Air, is titled “Our Foreign Policy,” and started Saturday, February 24. The first five or six broadcasts of the new series were to be under the official sponsorship of the Department of State. Secretary Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., was scheduled to appear on the oj)ening j)rogram to launch the State Department portion of the series subtitled “Building the Peace.” Assistant Secretary Archibald MacLeish was assigned the role of chairman for all the department broadcasts. After the State Department series, 12 or more additional programs will be devoted to American international policy by the legislative branch, with many members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee participating. Among those signifying that they will appear are Chairman Tom Connally, and ranking minority member Hiram W. Johnson, of the Senate Committee; and Chairman Sol Bloom and ranking minority member Charles A. Eaton of the House group. In later broadcasts. Senators and Representatives who are not members of the twm committees rvill be heard. These, too, will represent various shades of opinion. “The prime concern of every American citizen today must inevitably be America’s foreign relations.” said Niles Trammell. president of NBC. in announcing the series. “Winning of the war comes first. But as vital as winning it. is the necessity for finding means of keeping it won.” “The search for these means is, in a Campbell to NAB Post DALLAS, TEX.— Martin B. Campbell, managing director of WFAA. Dallas, w as elected a director for the 13th District at the NAB meeting held here January 17 and 18. Hugh Halff. of WOAI. San Antonio, is retiring district director. democracy, the responsibility of the citizens, wlio must provide enlightened support for their leaders.” “It is for the purpose of contributing to the enlightenment of all our people in this vital field that the National Broadcasting Company launches this series, ‘Our Foreign Policy.’ ” On the State Department broadcasts. Under Secretary Joseph C. Crew and all the Assistant Secretaries of State will a}>pear before the NBC microphones with MacLeish to explain their functions under the recent reorganization and to explore the major peace proposals. They are: William L. Clayton, Nelson A. Rockefeller, James C. Dunn, Brigadier-General Julius C. Holmes and Dean Acheson. “Our Foreign Policy” will undertake first to study the Dumbarton Oaks agreements. Subsequently, the series will turn to the other United Nations organizations and agencies now in existence: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; the International Labor Organization; the Bretton Woods monetary agreements; the Hot Springs, Virginia, agriculture conference; the Chicago aviation parley, the International Education Assembly and the World Court. Ranking officials of the departments of government concerned w ill d iscuss with the heads of the organizations how these Ihiited Nations agencies fit into the structure of the peace. From time to time, distinguished foreign diplomats and statesmen will be invited to participate in the broadcasts. Entirely non-partisan in character and aiming to present diverse views of the policies under discussion, “Our Foreign Policy” is ])art of NBC’s long-term objective of kee[)ing the American public informed on the vital issues confronting the postwar world. OWI Relays KYW Program PHILADELPHIA.— Recordings of four recent programs of “Junior Town Meeting of the Air.” a weekly educational feature broadcast by KYW, have been turned over to the OWI for shortwaving to the Armed Forces overseas. HOST TO EDITORS— Harry Stone, general manager of If SM, speaks to editors and publishers of Tennessee dailies and weeklies, urging cooperation between the Fouilh Estate and radio. (Story below). WSM Entertains State’s Fourth Estate in Nashville NASHVILLE, 4ENN.— The editors and publishers of the state’s daily and weekly newspapers, holding their annual midWinter meeting in Nashville recently, were guests of General Manager Harrv Stone of WSM at a breakfast here. Speakers who addressed the newspapermen during the two-day session included James I). Hoskins of the University of Tennessee; President Guy Easterly of the Tennessee Press Association; Jack Lockhart, director of the press division of the Office of Censorship and Kenneth Olson, dean of Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern LIniversity. Chicago. Nashville’s ,S0,000-watt NBC affiliate has spent several thousand dollars for newspaper space exploiting the Parade of Stars, promoting election listener interest and advertising WSM-NBC’s far-flung World War II news coverage. “Bis 3" Scenes on WNBT NEW \ ORK.— Dramatic first newsreel pictures of the historic Big Three conference recently concluded were flashed over NBC’s television station WNBT in a special telecast on February 20. These first motion pictures, flown to this land from overseas, portrayed President Roosevelt's meetings with Prime Minister Churchill on the Mediterranean island of ]VIalta. ^’iewers of this special V NBT telecast also saw scenes at the Black Sea. where President Roosevelt and his staff conferred with heads of state Josef Stalin and Churchill at Yalta.