Foreign News: Radio War

In Saudi Arabia, in Palestine, Syria. Egypt and the other Arab lands of North Africa many Arabs faced the New Year last week with little food and less money, but plenty of others had new radio sets, many of them two. All were delivered absolutely free by suave efficient young men who set them up, tuned and locked them at a certain wave length, and departed smiling amiably.

Not charity but an undeclared war of increasing bitterness caused this lavish dispersal. Ever since the British joined in voting League Sanctions against Italy during the...

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