National Affairs: Republicans on Radio

Ever since the New Deal began, Republicans have grown more & more convinced that for all practical purposes the Radio was a Democratic monopoly, that censorship was being enforced on anti-Administration criticism. Last week Publisher Ogden Mills Reid of the New York Herald Tribune supplied his fellow G. O. Partisans with a bill of particulars on which they could argue their conviction during the coming campaign.

Trouble started last May when Mr. Reid's Herald Tribune editorialized as follows:

"The radio, controlled by the Administration through its licensing power, was made the spokesman of...

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