Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sonorous voice boomed: "This is Radio Wales!" and was followed by a male chorus singing the blood-quickening March of the Men of Harlech, the war song recalling the last great uprising of the Welsh against the English in the middle of the 15th century. After 18 minutes of "Freedom" news, interviews, oratory and song, Men of Harlech roared out again, and the announcer said in Cymric,* "Nos da [good night...
Cultural Genocide. The illegal radio strongly backs the program of eloquent, poetry-spouting Gwynfor Evans, 43, president of the Plaid Cymru (Free Wales) movement. Plaid Cymru gets about 10% of the total Welsh vote, but has never yet elected a Member of Parliament. Among its grievances is the fact that the British government allows free campaigning privileges on the government-owned BBC radio and TV only to parties putting up at least 50 candidates; and there are only 36 Welsh seats in the House of Commons to contest. Hammering away at England's "colonialist" attempts at "cultural genocide...
...past 16 months the organization has consisted of little more than Hoosman, his portable typewriter and a pile of stationery. Working out of his tiny Munich hotel room, he has searched for sponsors, raised funds, got publicity, gathered statistics and lists. Last Christmas the Bavarian radio helped Hoosman put on a party for 40 Munich Negerkinder. He got headlines in the West German press by smuggling out of East Germany a little Negerkind named Roswitha Kubik. Louis Armstrong and his band raced over from a Stuttgart concert to put on a special Saturday afternoon party for Hoosman's Munich...
Emboldened by the new pact with the U.S., Iran's government radio and press sassed Moscow back with a bravado unknown in earlier days. To charges that Iranian oil is being exploited by outsiders, Radio Teheran tartly urged Moscow: "Liberate the enslaved Rumanian workers from the claws of Soviet soldiers and hand back the oil to the Rumanian nation. Moscow thinks Iran is a second Rumania, where people have but one freedom-that of dying...
...Radio Peiping broadcast a charge that reactionaries dictated the statement and questioned whether the 23-year-old god-king, a refugee in India, had in fact written...