Radio: Fourth Front

Two years ago, when the Italian radio station at Bari was engaged daily in shooting revolt-inciting broadcasts at the Arabs in the Near East, British Broadcasting Corp. decided to have a go at the blighters. The first BBC bulletin in Arabic was not too bright: it told how the British had executed twelve prominent Arabs for riotous assembly. Since then BBC has got the hang of the Eastern propaganda game. It now issues The Arabic Listener for fortnightly distribution wherever Arabic is heard by radio.

On the propagandist Fourth Front, as important as the military, economic and diplomatic fronts, BBC puts out...

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