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WILL WAR GUMS
1^0 statement made in these articles on the amazing part radio will play in the events of war, European or otherwise, is intended to reflect upon the courage or honor of any nation, broadcasting organisation or individual. Much of this hitherto unrevealed information is based on statements made privately by officials on the inside of governmental and military affairs, who were endeavoring to cooperate with the author in creating as complete a picture as possible. The names of nations are used only to make this picture clearer to the reader, not to suggest that they would necessarily undertake actions ascribed to them here. — Editor.
IF WAR comes. . . . Your radio set may crackle and roar with the brawlings of battle as tense, gray-faced announcers of the front line rap out reports of combats.
The most innocent-sounding programs may conceal coded messages of hostile spies.
Your loudspeaker may suddenly turn into a demoniacal chanter of enemy propaganda.
And if that happens, your favorite stations may be dom
inated by stern censors, may even suddenly become silent, as grimly silent as the death which is hovering over the battlefields.
In a desperate extremity, even your receiving set might be seized by determined troops.
Even as this is being written. National Broadcasting Company executives are gravely disturbed over reports that the rebroadcasts from Addis Ababa have been deliberately interfered with by an unfriendly nation. A responsible spokesman unofficially denied that it occurred in these particular cases, but he did admit that it was regarded as a factor to contend with in future broadcasts. That is one more indication of the turmoil which war guns could create in the radio world.
Every one of these things can happen. Don't think for a moment that they can't. How many of them will happen depends upon how deeply war thrusts at us. You hope that we can stay out of it. But war dogs are growling overseas, and whether we remain sturdy neutrals or go in fighting with everything we have, armed conflict stands to make almost unbelievable changes in the radio we know today.
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