ADITIONS OF A
FAMOUS
ECEMBER 25 PROGRAMME
Christmas ound the world by radio
By CAMPBELL NAIRNE
on
rters-announced a pro- mme entitled "Half the Hd Away: an Experi- it with Time and Christ-
he idea was that listeners in comfortably ain,
sented hd their firesides after a day traditional festivity, t in ht like to be put in touch,
abroadcaster in Lon bugh
distant with people in s of the Empire who had been celebrating Christmas, were about to celebrate it.
experience of
es brought direct to across occans and
and
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he conductor
world tour
of the round- Stephen
was
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a porter in the Tower
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Attic Service
BBC
broadcast
"THE HINGE. OF FATE”
"Chaffer 40
an easier.
Plan For A Supremester and
World Council
By Winston Churchill
to
peace.
Councils,
Filling the gap
were u
Force required
tice of Combined versations,
for Europe
10
it
to
Warn
the prac Staff con-
and; second, that
we should by constant contact talte whatever steps necessary to ensure
lines of our
were that the foreign
Mr Wallace asked what In Regional Council VERY stern mood On these Powers would rest
be would for practice
tho would have the effect of leuil- real responsibility Literary Editor of the "Radio Times" (London)
in the developed
if. with proceduro
for example, ing United States opinion They, together
in Europeans fixed and
Washington (during certain other
u dispute between disinterest itself Powers, should there
Mr Welles was not INETEEN years ago, which is
part of Christmas
the "Trident" con- form a Supreme World Coun- Peru and Ecuador. I answered affairs.
having regard the famous Christmas familiar
broadcasting in Britain. It has
three the first place by the American to the overriding responsibility Day programme of the been followed with little varia ference of May, 1943) about ell. Subordinate to this World that it would be dealt with in afraid of this,
but always of
of the Supreme World Council ever since. There was a
de Gaulle. Not a day passed Council there should be
one for Regional Council. ish Broadcasting Cor- tion
Regional
general overriding and the relation between tion was born. At quar- break in 1936, the year of the that the President did not Europe, one for the American under the
Abdication, but the following
the authority of the World Couneli. and the Regional Councils.
Mr Stimson said most empha- the to ten
Christmas
cuch an instance
O opinion Christmas King George VI con-mention the subject to me. Hemisphere, and one for
that This ht, 1931, a voice from tinued the
tradition
Although this was done in Pacine, speaking
I thought terests of countries outside the. tically As for Europe, often
Hemisphere would there would be a tendency that by Hill in London-at of his father as the "head of a most friendly and
after the war it might American
hostilities ceased, family whose worde jocular manner, I saw hc
some 12 States or hardly be affected: but plainly relax after consist of time the BBC head- great
to embark a reluctance brought
the happiness into
who would a dispute which threatened the and
new international ex- homes and hearts of listeners felt very strongly indeed Confederations,
the Regional European form
peace of the world might very upon
He believed that all over the world."
upon it.
Council. It was important to well not be susceptible to being periments.
would be much caster: to In 1949, for the first time, Almost every day he handed Cour
a strong France, In treated only on a regional basis, it
American agreement an important Innovation
me one or more accusing docu- recreate WAS
the prospect of having no and the Supreme World Coun- secure de Gaulle froin More than half the items ments against
quickly be brought during the war; indeed, that it made.
previously the of the consisted
Slate Department or the strong country on the map bo- all would
was a case of during the war in De tween England and Russia was In.
I was asked whether the o never. recorded impressions of three American Secret Service,
who had travelled Gaulle was alleged
lo have not attractive.
ascociation of nations which I
The others were disposed to be con- of miles
to offer British money through used
contemplated would various parts of the Common-Inducements to the sailors
Aned to the United Nations, agree, and we all felt that the པ་
best approach was to present I the neutrals. include wealth. The reason for the break the Richelieu to came over
Mercover, I said that I could or
such plans for the future as to n desire
Was ad- with custom was
Only polite- him personally.
that there foresee the United ret
replied and peoples ness prevented our hosts
from not easily
to induce continuation of our present co- from
transmitter remote
that our financial States being able to keep large vantage in trying
at suggesting
nations
present operation, and to do so while present places
relations with the United numbers of men Indefinitely on those sufficiently powerful to send a
the United the war was still proceeding. Great Br- neutral to join
I made two other suggestions, strong signal to London. Stand-
States made it in a certain guard In Europe.
tain could not do so either. No Nations before the end of the
carried hearing by
to both of which normally recordings are
sense almost American money.
and that we ought be necessary war,
after the war Savoy avai
available for use in ease direct
was at this Ume most doubt it would but indignant
for the United States to be as-
use all possible persuasion and assent-first, that sion breaks
we should continue down, contin- transmission
with de Gaulic.
sociated in some way in the pressure to secure this when It King's rule the
with safely to was still novel enough to by unwritten rilling, and the movement broadcast is never pre-recorded. felt that our continued support policing of Europe, in which could be done
lead to an CS-
the Bri- Great Brita'n would obviously the nation concerned. forwards from one Scores of BBC and Post Office of him might
trangement between ime to another gave the engineers control the routes to fish and United States Govern- also have to take port.
that in South- an added fascina- ensure that there will
I also hoped ments, and that no one would like th's better than de Gaulle. Eastern Europe there might be
An example was Turkey.
My main I brought all this forcibly to several confederations- Danu-
on polley was to help Turkey to policy ren closely together. Federation based
Mr Wallace said to the Am. AS bian the nolice of my colleagues
bassador as he left that it was Vienna and doing something to build up her own forces to the of In 1028 the
home,
It hung
the in
balance fill the gap caused by the din point where, at the right mo-
Austro- ment, she could and would ef- the most encouraging conversa- of the
in which
had ho whether we should not break appearance
Intervene. When tion
hen taken don and a lighthouse keeper for the first time the Festival of
the last two Bavaria fectively
part for Empire. Carols from coast of Eng- Nine Lessons and
finally at this Junclure with this Hungarian
"Then the United Nations brought the he northern
Chapel of King's College.
I was of course careful most difficult man. However, might join this group.
to the bar of years. f he called in Gibraltar and
should afforded there
be A Balkan gully nations patience and
but to explain that I was express- justice, I could see little moved, in a series of rapid Cambridge, and this also is now
Federation. the tolerable solutions.
an ineffective Capetown, Sydney, traditionally associated with the to
to
and inglorious ing only personal views. the
of Christmas
I said that I would like radio celebration
and Edmonton,
for Mr de Valera the role has always
БОС Pruss a divided from ara Falls, Montreal, across British broadcasting has
Prus- others rest of Germany, 40m. Allantic to Dublin (making a emphasis
"Christmasti of
manageable neutral to the end. On May
slans being
Force would clearly be re- The Vice President at op in mid-ocean to talk with signlfrance
first
portant conversation on the European unit. Many people
luncheon of quired to see that peace
with the President ers, aboard the liner Males- One of the
-tructure of a post-war settle wished to carry the process
I suggested an , it so back to Savoy Hill. broadcasts heard in the United
and me next day seemed and divide preserved. further Kingdom was a service conduc
ment at luncheon at the Bri- divisions ted on Christmas Eve in 1922
itself into component agreement between the United little anxious lest other coun Embassy. The Vice Pruss'n tish
about the minimum tries should think that Britain attics
The parts, from the top-floor
President, Mr Wallace:
but on this I reserved Nations
armed forces and the United States were Marconi Hause, London, he success of this 45-minute
The secular side, however,
each country made It perfectly clear that deast led the BBC to
has not been neglected. Pan-
might
twu be divided into the experiment the follow tomimes and parties have been
they ought not to be put off contingents, the one to form
rightful action the necessary and car. King
George V had broadcast since the early nine- of the Senate, Senator Con- dinavian countries and Turkey,
national forces of that by such suggestions. It WD3 d to speak to his people
the country, and the other to form the essence of my idea that his country home at Sand- teen twenties, and today tnally; and the
with popular broadcasters vie
its contingent to an Interna- citizenship should be retained English county in the
tional police force at the dis- in the Anglo-American sphere, orfolk, on the afternoon of one another in spreading Chirst-ary
mas conviviality.
posul of the Regional Councils
If this werc even
wholly ex- istmas Day, and it was felt
"Receiving sets everywhere,
under the direction
ceptional. t a round-the-world hook-
Supreme World Council. ising the unity of the wrote the future Lord Relth in emphasising
The President liked the ven- the eve of the first
Thus, if one country out of
of these itish
ideas, fellowship of nations, 1923 00
"Radio" Christmas, "are going
Mr Wallace asked about Bel-
in Europe threatened the filation
aspect. uld be a fitting prelude lo the
pecially the military of our guests. glum and Holland, suggesting 12 to be welcome additions
would 11 peace, contingents
We both thought ing's broadcast.
sa'd that the
Arst pre- that they might join France. 1
10 deal with that form Д bo ready to
that
of the minutes before many a happy gathering." His pressed desire 00 So, in the
the institution occupation the words have been amply
must be to pre- said that they might red light flashed
Low Countries country if necessary. The per Anglo-American Combined Staff the vent further aggression in
group of the
of the internationa! ng's study, the listeners heard firmed over the years.
Mr Wallace sonnel Christmas pro- In 1950 the
Denmark, by Germany or Japan. with
should be continued for a good by each 1 con- contingent provided whether
after asked
the war-at essages of greetings and good-
1 coming in to Broadens ing Pramme of the BBC will once future
of the
of
country would be bound, if it long time association
United templated the possiblity the BBC's new pre-
of with those
Britain and Switzerland
with were so decided by the World any rate, until we could all be Great
Joining puse,
sure that the world was safe. Portland
undertake ises in
opera- and Place, from Commonwealth
If the United States France,
but I said that Swit Council. to Russ'.
bobs against any country other ublin, a liner in mid-Atlantic, many other lands. Listeners all States,
Was a special case. wished to include China in zerland
Mr Wallace New
of than their own. Zealand, Australia, over the world will hear again Ru padh,
with the other association
Each of the dozen or so
TC- ship in harbour at Port Said, the Christmas bells of Britain and the senttered volces which.
countries should said that bases would be buth Africa, and finally, as
that this should be done; but, appoint a representative to the quired for these contingents. e hands of Big Ben moved though many thousands of miles thre, I was perfectly will the European count Regional Words three
o'clock, from apart, proclaim their belief in
however great the importance European the spirit of fellowship braltar.
Slates of Europe.
I thought hat memorable afternoon set goodwill which is in everybody's of China, she was not compar- thus creating a form of
Pable to the others.
Count Coudenhove Kalerg's pultera for a programme heart.
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King Speaks
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con-
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Not comparable
22 I had no im-
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who m'ght remain Little anxious
Wis
Secretary of War, Mr Stimson; judgment. Poland and Czecho- and maximum
each would maintain trying to boss the world. he Secretary of the Interior, slovakia should stand together which forces of
the
friendly
with of
relations Mr Ickes; the Charman the un Foreign Relations Commbles Russia.
left the Scan- This Under-Secre- which last might or might not Greece, to Mr of State,
Sumner be willing, with Welles,
were invited and
part in the Balkan of the tople before play some
system. apprised
The Embassy staff kept hand.
full record and of the statement which made of the formally ex-
of what passed Low Countries
To this end I contemplated an also link the people, again
and
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Similarly, there might be Regional Council for the Americas, of
which Canada would naturally be a member and would
represent
British Commonwealth. should
Council
of the
Something else
Komo
not exclude
of
I said that there was thing else in my mind which War
the complementary to ideas I had just expressed. The proposals for a world security organ'sation did special friendships devoid sinister purpose against others. I
the could see small hope for world unless the United States and the British Commonwealth in fraternal worked together the association.
the There
also be Regional
for the Pacife, which I supposed that Russia would participate. When pressure
on her western
believed that this could
frontiers had been relieved take a form which would con- Russia would turn her attention fer on each
to the Far East,
These should be
World Council.
and settle
of the World Council should sit and trade with freedom
on the
advantages w.th- out sacrifice. I should like citizens of each, without Regional Councils the
the subordinate to losing their present nationality,
The members to be able to come
and Councils in equal on the Regional
rights in the territories of the uther. which
There might be directly they wert
in common passport or a special interested, and I hoped that addition to being represented form of passport or visa.
There might even be some American Regional
form of citizenship, Pacific Re- common Council and the
of the which citizens zional Council the United under States would also be represent- United States and of the Bri- ed on the European Regional tich Commonwealth might enjoy
after Council.
voting pr.vileges However this might be, the sldential qualification and pubile ofice last word would reman with eligible
of the other, 'he Supreme World Council, the territories
laws since eny issues that the Re- subject of course to the
there pro- glonal Councils were unable to and institutions settle would automatically be valling. of Interest to the World Council.
agree
Central idea
for
re
bc
in
Then there were bas03. had welcomed the, destroyer bases. deat, not for the sake of the destroyers, useful these were, but because it wan
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United States the use of such
Mr Wallace thought that the to the advantage of both coun-
not tries that the other countries would
that the World Count'l should have should consist of the four bases in British territory as she
agreed, might find I
necessary to her own major Powers alone.
United and said that to the four defence; for a strong Fowers should be added others States was a vital interest to the from British Commonwealth, and vice rotalion from CouncUs. The versa. the Regional
I looked forward there- central idea of
of the the structure fore to an extension
use of bases for the why that of a three-legged common
defence of common stool-the World Couneli rest common
interests.
by election in
on
ng three Regional Councils.
But attached great impor
tance to the regional principle, Best approach
It was only the countries
All tho American guests whose interesta were directly
dispute affected
said that by a
who
they had prestnt be expected apply been think ng on more or less Colve with sufficent the lines which I had pro vigour to becure a settlement, pounded, and thought that
were
WOO not
tha Impossible opinion would se
thoso American among
It countries remote from A di putė called upon in the Drst in- cept them or something like stance to achieve a settlement then. the romult was kely to bo merely vapki · and academia Welles
that discussion.
asked
Halifax... Lord
MC
whether he thought the establishment of
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