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Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 7, 25 August 1933, Page 26

NE of the British delegates to the recent Madrid Conference tells that the centenary of the invention of the Morse Code was solemnly honoured by the Conference. But on the next day a Spanish proposal to make certain changes in the Code came up for discussion; whereupon a delegate remarked that it was sad’ that they should honour Motse one day and try to destroy his work the next. At this up rosé a Spanish delegate, who in a fit of true Latin histrionics declared that if Morse eould rise from the grave he would support’ the Spanish proposal. The: proposal was adopted! . os