DARK DAYS REMEMBERED

New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 376, 6 September 1946, Page 19

DARK DAYS REMEMBERED

: Denmark and Holland Honour BBC OTH Denmark and Holland this year expressed their gratitude to the BBC for the help they received from its broadcasts during the occupation of their countries by the Germans, and the BBC has sent us photographs (which we print here) of the plaque presented by Holland and the Copenhagen porcelain vase presented by Denmark. Denmark’s vase was presented at Broadcasting House a few months ago by a radio delegation. It is pale green. and inscribed with these words: "In gratitude from the -listeners of Denmark and the Danish State Broadcasting." It is contained in a wooden box made from the trunk of an oak, believed to be 2,000 years old, dug out of a Danish bog. Seen in the photograph above are the Danish delegation (left to right): Mr. Jensen, Director of the Danish State Radio; Peder Norgaard, President of the Union of Danish Listeners’ Association; Julius Bomholt, President of the Danish Radio Council and of the Danish Parliament; Sir Allan Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC, and Sir William Haley, K.C.M.G., Director-Gen-eral of the BBC, to whom the vase was presented. Holland’s plaque (left) is of bronze, and was presented recently by the Royal Netherlands Ambassador in London, Jonkheer E. F. M. J. Michiels van Verduynen, on behalf of the "Netherlands Thanks the BBC" Committee. The plaque, designed by the Dutch sculptor H. J. Etienne, depicts q kneeling man with shackled arms over his head, listening to the voice of freedom from the West, and it bears the following inscription: "The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1940-45. For fortitude and consolation given to the Netherlands in years | of oppression."