Show the debates for listeners in 16 countries the french spanish chinese and russian sections of the radio dm divi sion also are preparing to broadcast adaptations of one of the U N pro grams which will be offered in transcription to stations unable to relay the original broadcast the two services most widely re bayed because of the high quality of reception are those in spanish to latin america and in chinese the programs all carry the latest news on work of the assembly and other united nations bodies inter views with delegates background talks recorded excerpts from speeches in debate and short tea fea tures As the bickering and obstruction ism increased at the current sessi session on and it became clear that confidence in the united nations was being undermined the importance of the work of the agencies distributing in formation concerning the topics dis cussed by the general assembly be came more and more evident the reason was this it became clear TRYGVE LIE san francisco spirit that under the present structure of the united nations where a anam agreement on the part of the major powers before major steps could be taken is required the only force behind the whole idea is the force of public opinion As this is being written the ques tion of the report of a committee on tele communications telecommunications is being dis cussed the plans envisioned by the men on the united nations who realize the importance of strength ening the opinion forming force of the organization are not too gran those to be practical but they do in volve expenses which make their completion uncertain nations of the world are all feeling the pinch of poverty and there is a strong move to cut expenses A part of the tele com munica eions plan was a radio network which would dispense objective world news tor for all the world to show you how well the meagre efforts along those lines already have succeeded I 1 was told by the radio liaison division that even the russian reporters who as you know work for news papers which are under a strict censorship which permit no news which doesn doean t suit their needs have begun to ask tor for items issued by the united na eions because they are so fair so objective that no one could accuse them of containing propaganda for any one nation the men on the staff of the united nations are not all perfect there are a number of weak sisters but on the whole it is surprising to see how the majority of them has been able to develop a world wide view point an attitude whose whole pol icy is based on world understanding and the perpetuation of peace |