Word: wrul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students in Cambridge University, England, heard yesterday a fifteen minute broadcast put on by the Crimson Network over Boston's WRUL and listened to a short greeting from President Conant in which he pledged the full cooperation of this University in the war effort...
This is the first in a series of three broadcasts, under the auspices of WRUL, intended to bring the universities of England and America to a closer understanding. Yale will go on the air in a broadcast to England's other great university, according to WRUL's present schedule, when the Eli undergraduate radio station speaks to Oxford in a few weeks...
These broadcasts in French, Tyler asserts, constitute only a part, but a very important one, of WRUL's total activity, which includes programs in over 20 languages. Explaining the significance of these French broadcasts, Tyler stated they are playing a vital role in giving moral support to the French people, which they need, especially since the rise of Laval, to resist the German propaganda and blackmail by which the Nazis have been trying to force French collaboration. In a broadcast last Sunday, for example. Tyler exhorted the French people to ignore the "Gaulieter Laval" and assured them that the Allies...
...French programs by WRUL were begun during the "phoney war" of 1939. Tyler states, but it was not until the defeat of France that a team of six Harvard French instructors, including Howard C. Rice, Edward D. Sullivan, Robert J. Clements, George L Picard, William N. Locke, and Georges Dumontet, played one of the most important parts in the success of WRUL...
...fact," Tyler said, "the genesis and development of the broadcasts to France rested largely with this group of Harvard volunteers, so that if may be truly said that the voice of WRUL reached France through men of Harvard. And what is perhaps even more important, the response to these early broadcasts was tremendous, proving that the bond thus formed between America and France was a potent one, helping to convince the French people of our sympathy and our confidence in their spirits...