East and West United

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 28, 25 January 1929, Page 31

East and West United

Another Wireless Bond AS it not Kipling who gave utterance to the phrase, now classic in literature, "For East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet’? True as these are, they have’ in another sense been contradicted by wireless, for a recent cable message states that China has been linked up with the western world by radio, The link is yet less than a week old, but it is another achievement of wireless, another link in the chain of internationality that radio alone can successfully forge. The cablegram states that there has been inaugurated a radio service capable of communicating with the greater part of the world. Twenty-two important cities have been linked up with the central station in Shanghai. Inauguration messages were successfully exchanged between Shanghai and New York. The service is to be maintained and controlled by the Chinese Governnent. And so wireless paves the way to a fuller understanding between nations, a greater degree of confidence and comradeship, and to national peace and goodwill. Strained relationships are the result of misunderstanding; any-

thing that will contribute to the prevention of this untoward state of affairs must be a national harbinger of peace; thus the real service of wireless telephone. ---- yy ;