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man radio, Whatever one may think of the British Prime Minis ter's role subsequently at Munich, it must be counted a gain that German listeners were able to hear in his own voice a declara- tion of devotion to peace with justice.
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Such is the world-wide human desire to be understood that. sincere actions in behalf of peace. can often pass the sentries. Citi- zens of democratic countries, even with the advantages of a free press, need sometimes to watch that they do not close: their minds with a kind of emo- tional censorship of their own that would keep them from re- ceiving certain information which would help them to comprehend and be assured of the peaceful. desires of the great body of peo ple in the authoritarian states.
The welter of hate-provoking:
Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 8, 1939. propaganda in either direction.
LIGHT CROSSES
BORDERS
may seem much more volumin- ous than the stream of objective: information. The same radio waves which are capable of shed- ding light across international The British Labour Party took borders are used to generate a bold, possibly even rash, step light is like the beam of the can- heat. Yet the power of one ray of in sponsoring a statement trans-le that caused Shakespeare to mitted on the British Broadcast-exclaim, "So shines a good deed. ing Corporation's German-lan- in a naughty world." Or like that. guage news programme recently blessed light" of which an old. hymn says, "The beam of Truth which appealed to the German displaces the darkness of.the. people "to do whatever you can night." to make it known to your Govern-
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It is a maxim of international
It used to be said that man-on- relations that one nation should the spot diplomacy had dis-- take no hand in what are regard-appeared as the result of instan- ed as the internal affairs of an-taneous communication. Ambas- other. Yet when that internal sadors were said to have been re- question is a potential decision be-duced to errand boys. Gone were tween peace and war, the inter- the days when a plenipotentiary ests and safety of other nations could start a war because he are inevitably involved.
couldn't wait for instructions At the time of President Roose from home. However, America velt's personal appeal to Hitler has long had a man-on-the-spot and Mussolini for no-aggression who became a kind of State De- assurances last spring when partment on his own in China many applauded that expression His name is Admiral - Harry E. of what they believed to be the yarnell, who has just retired as sentiment of the American peo-commander of the U.S. Asiatic ple Senator Gerald Nye raised Fleet..
pertinent question by asking, Admiral Yarnell has done yeo- "How much of our attitude, what-man service in one of the most ever it may be, is reaching the trying diplomatic situations people of these so-called, dictator-American history. His tilts with ships 70
the Japanese have been almost 1- The assumption is that press beyond number. And he has had in totalitarian countries is to act even more speedily than ld that nothing whatever modë communication permits rates this, censorship if the namely, as soon as the Japan- rities in command wish to ese moved agamst American in- ar it out. This is not quite corterests o
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act for there are some even- | Admiral Yarnell would be the : islities, so important that they first to acknowledge the aid, and
nd inevitably the
any censor to
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