Churchill to World

The rolling, punching periods of Winston Churchill's oratory before Congress were heard not only in the U.S. over the national networks but in many distant places of the earth. To Europe the speech was broadcast "live" by NBC and CBS short-wave transmitters near New York; by WLWO, the Crosley station near Cincinnati; by WBOS, the Westinghouse station near Boston; by WGEO, General Electric station in Schenectady. The British Broadcasting Corporation picked it up and rebroadcast it by short wave to all the outposts of the Empire. In Singapore it was rebroadcast on long wave to the fighting zone of the Far East.

Peoples who know no English heard it in translations and summaries short-waved from the U.S. at intervals all night long. The translators worked fast, getting it out in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech. Beamed to the Orient by San Francisco's KGEI were summaries in Dutch, in Cantonese dialect, in Mandarin dialect, in Japanese.

In London, CBS's Bob Trout reported, the first thing British listeners heard from the U.S. was a boost for somebody's toothpaste. "That," said Trout, "astonished listeners to the non-commercial British radio, but it fascinated them too. As an English radio man said, it was very American."

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