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New Delhi and to assist in mapping plans for parts of the exhibit structures at Karachi and Jakarta. Fifteen experts of the RCA Service Company, many of whom had earlier demonstrated television in Western Europe, were selected to carry out the assignment. Arrangements were made to ship 35 tons of equipment — including cameras, monitors, amplifiers, receivers and the myriad other pieces of apparatus — so that it would arrive on a precise schedule for installation at the re- quired time. In all, the equipment was valued at more than $500,000. Curtain Goes Up The curtain was rung up on the first fair at Jakarta on August 18. The American portion of the show, which starred RCA television, was an immediate hit. As one of the local newspapers put it: "At the American pavilion, Indonesians are con- stantly jamming the opening space outside the glass- walled television studio, where simultaneously they can see the same scene on the stage and on a number of screens outside the studio. RCA TV exhibits really 'stole the show.' Live television programs, produced in a big circular theatre, and twenty-four TV sets on a closed-circuit, gave the people opportunity to watch mechanics of production, engineers, technicians, pro- fessional talent and themselves as the cameras picked up audience shots now and then." Everywhere the story was the same. Massed crowds daily witnessed the five hours of programs carried throughout the fair grounds. In all, an estimated 12,000,000 Asians viewed television for the first time at the three expositions. The New York Times, in a dispatch from Karachi on the opening day of the fair there, summed up at least part of the benefits of the U. S. participation in these words: "The Soviet representatives were obviously annoyed when their outdoor display of trucks and automobiles was blocked off by the backs of several hundred tele- vision fans." And so television proved anew that it is much more than a medium of entertainment. It can be — and is — a potent instrument for factual international under- standing of the benefits of freedom. Praise for Demonstration Crews A bright footnote to the Far Eastern exhibitions was provided by the representative of another American company, who wrote to Frank M. Folsom, President of RCA, in praise of the RCA team which conducted the TV demonstrations. The letter said, in part: An interested visitor to the RCA television exhibit at the New Delhi fair was Indian Prime Minister Nehru. At the Jakarta trade fair, Indonesians jammed the area outside the RCA exhibit to see television in operation. Operation of television film pickup was explained to Indonesian visitors by Chester Davis, of the RCA unit. RAD/O AGE 23