World Unity by Wireless

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 26, 11 January 1929, Page 7

World Unity by Wireless

Statement by England’s ' Premier [Ts forwarding us a cutting from the "Times" which we reproduce be: low, Mr. Owen, former president of the Wellington Amateur Radio Society, writes: "The cutting herewith is part of a speech delivered by the Premier, Mr. Baldwin, at the Guildhall Banquet, given by the new Lord Mayor. It is a fine tribute to ‘Radio.’ ao/The Lord Mayor’s Show, which } 4 essed ‘from the windows of the yal Empire Society’s Club premises in Northumberland Avenue, is said to have been the best yet; certainly ‘better than three previous ones I have seen. The smartest and most impressive ‘set’ was the march past of the Air Force, with a large plane on a huge lorry. There were 18 bands and 15 decorated cars, and it took over an hour to pass by." ‘The Bond of Wireless. TOLLOWING is the extract from ‘Mr. Baldwin’s speech referred to by Mr.. Owen :--"'There are two things today that I believe will. help materially to peace. I came down one Sunday morning at Chequers a few minutes before my breakfast was ready, and I went to the wireless set and tried all round .Hurope to see if anything was coming through at 9 o’clock in the morning. By chance I struck some exquisite music in Berlin, and heard "Ghortly the singing of a hymn. I thought immediately that when the day comes when nearly every cottage in this country can switch on to any station in Europe and hear the peoples of Europe at their music, their dancing, hymn-singing, and prayers, what a bond that will be throughout the world. "Look back on your own childhood. Look backvat the people in the country you used to talk to. We in England regarded every one who lived across the seas aS savages, pagans. We knew nothing about them: we were not interested in them; they were "those foreigners, and when the mass of the people realize that, in whatever country in Europe a man lives, he is a human being like himself, with a family and family life, a wireless set. with his services on Sunday, his dancing in the ning, and ‘with his lectures, war ments a very different aspect. I believe that wireless-or:* dinary, common, or garden wireless-is going to be one of the greatest bonds between the common people of the whole world. It. is the common people who, in the long run, will decide whether there will be war or not." .