PLAYING A LIVING PART
Millions of people all over the world are experiencing the anxie- ■■ ties and sufferings of a second ' grslat; Wai% Within the span of a generation history is being re- ■ peatfd—and made. : The British ? Empire’s present sacrifices in the interests of the principles of justice and liberty are a repetition of the fateful events of 1914-18. But, simultaneously, history is being made by the fact that, for the first time, the Empire is waging a war in which the new science of radio plays a living part. True, it was a factor in the fighting mechanism of the earlier war; but now it has become a potent influence on every man, woman, and child in the civil community—an influence the value of which may be assessed by the lengths to which nations have gone to place their propaganda before their adversaries.
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Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 4
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144PLAYING A LIVING PART Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 4
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