Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently the Nanking censor passed dispatches saying it was only the Japanese Domei News Agency which had invented "that appalling falsehood," the story of the broadcast from Sian having said the Dictator was dead. The kidnapper had indeed broadcast, said the Nanking Government, and the modern electrical transcription machinery of Nanking Central Broadcasting Co. had recorded what he actually said. Before quoting his words, the Government called the Young Marshal and his troops "mere bandits," declared it was beneath the Government's dignity to treat with young Chang, and clarioned that for him to be killed by a Chinese...
Japan Listens. If any such policy as the above had been broadcast to the Chinese people by their Government, except as a policy urged by a Chinese kidnapper meriting worse than death, it would have had to be considered in Tokyo by every Japanese from the Emperor down as the most extreme Chinese provocation and invitation...
...rumble of thunder on the Left- an inexorable warning that China, under no matter what leaders, was in course of shifting its political centre of gravity from Right to Left as the necessary prelude to enlisting Soviet aid for a Chinese war with Japan. The Young Marshal's broadcast was clearly a clarion call to 450,000,000 Chinese to rise against 84,000,000 Japanese, and it seemed to suit the Nanking Government that this tocsin should be sounded with loudest fanfare...
...Communists to Sian with his Government troops, was likely to upset Kidnapper Chang so much that he would murder her husband instead of joining up with the Dictator in a deal to fight Japan. It was rather tactless for Dr. Kung to say of her husband in an official broadcast by the Acting Premier last week, "While we are all anxious that Generalissimo Chiang may be rescued . . . our attitude is that the personal safety of one man should not be allowed to interfere. . . . It gives one a pain in the heart that this extraordinary development should have taken place...
Meanwhile the real Mrs. Simpson in Cannes continued to receive sackfuls of most vile letters from England, suddenly began to get from the U. S. for the first time sackfuls of friendly letters. Apparently these were written by people who listened to the abdication broadcast of the Duke of Windsor, a broadcast so moving that last week the official B. B. C. in London for the first time refused to let His Master's Voice Ltd. make and sell in England phonograph records of a royal broadcast.* It would be a travesty of British facts not to say roundly...