Broadcasting
Found in 506 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 13 Nov 1934
Letter from Orme Sargent, Foreign Office, to WSC, thanks for sending advance copy of his BBC broadcast on the series "The Causes of War", enclosing notes, querying passages suggesting that Germany was plotting a war of aggression in the immediate future "I am inclined to doubt whether this is Hitler's purpose, and to look somewhat further and deeper for the causes of war in the Europe of today".
(Untitled), 16 Aug 1934
Letter from Sir John Reith, BBC, Broadcasting House, London, to WSC, reporting that the long deferred series of talks on India would be initiated before the end of the year. Asking if he would be willing to contribute to the series, which would be "conducted on controversial lines" and which would "take the form a critique of the Report of the Joint Select Committee".
(Untitled), 25 Aug 1934
Letter from WSC, Chateau de l'Horizon, Golfe Juan, France, to Sir John Reith, BBC, accepting invitation to broadcast on India. Making suggestions for amendments to the draft programme, and asking for opponents of Government policy to be given equal representation. Stating that in the draft programme the Government had the first and last word, and eight out of ten speakers [carbon].
(Untitled), 16 Feb 1935
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1938
Letter from Marshall Davis Hogan (Boonton, New Jersey and Dover, New Jersey [United States]) to WSC in which he says he enjoyed and appreciated WSC's broadcast to the United States and hopes WSC will be able to "awaken our peoples to arm themselves against brute force." Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1938
Letter from Oswald Veblen (58 Battle Road, Princeton, New Jersey [United States]) to WSC in response to WSC's broadcast to the United States. He says that he agrees that "decent people everywhere should unite" against [Nazi Germany] but feels that many Americans do not have faith in the present British government because they have not opposed fascism and the outrages in Manchuria [part of China], Ethiopia, Spain and Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia]. Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 17 Oct 1938
Letter from W D Anthony (Registrar, Potomac State School of West Virginia University, United States) to WSC thanking him for his broadcast to the United States; wishing that Britain and France had acted to prevent Hitler acquiring "such formidable power"; commenting on the failure of President Woodrow Wilson's policy of a "peace without victory" [at Versailles]; and expressing good wishes for WSC. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 17 Oct 1938
Letter from G D Kirkland (683 West Monroe Street, Jacksonville, Florida [United States]) to WSC in response to his broadcast to the United States. She says that she considers WSC "guiltless" for Great Britain's failure to pay its debts and for [the Duke of Windsor earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] "being driven out as an exile for preferring an American wife [Wallis Simpson]" and that many Americans feel that WSC belongs with them. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 19-20 Oct 1938
Letter from John Hemingway [United States] enclosing a press cutting (see CHAR 2/609A/2a) on anti-British sentiment in the United States and the need for Britain to pay her debts and the low opinion of the Churchills held by those who have read Thackery. Signed typescript. Includes a cutting from an American newspaper of an article by George Rothwell Brown on resentment at WSC's broadcast to the United States.
(Untitled), 19 Oct 1938
Letter from George E Bailey (New York [United States]) to WSC in response to WSC's broadcast to the United States. He says that he would not like the US to play a part in another European war, since Americans are still paying taxes to make up for unpaid loans, and feels that Great Britain should have prevented the German occupation of the Rhineland to prevent the Dictator [Adolf Hitler] becoming so powerful. Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 19 Oct 1938
Letter from J Peckell Nathan (416 N Eighth Street) to WSC expressing approval for his "masterful, courageous" broadcast to the United States. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 21 Oct 1938
Letter from Benjamin H Kizer (Old National Bank Building, Spokane, Washington [United States]) to WSC expressing approval for his broadcast to the United States and commenting that WSC's phrase "recuperative power of the democracies" reminds him of a phrase used by Benjamin Franklin. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1938
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1938
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1943
(Untitled), [Aug] [1926]
Telephone message from the Managing Director of the BBC [John Reith, later Lord Reith] stating that Havelock Wilson has not approached the BBC [about broadcasting an appeal for industrial peace] and that Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland does not think such an appeal desirable.
(Untitled), 26 Aug 1926
Telegram from WSC to the Managing Director of the BBC [John Reith, later Lord Reith] asking him to accede to the request of Havelock Wilson to broadcast an appeal for industrial peace. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), Aug 1926
Telegram from Havelock Wilson to WSC asking him to help in getting the BBC to allow Wilson to broadcast an appeal for industrial peace.
(Untitled), 04 Mar 1928
Letter from Herbert Vivian (Hotel Sola, Arles-sur-Tech, Pyrenees Orientales, France) to WSC explaining that he is setting up a Royalist International and an international anti-Bolshevik newspaper and plans to use the radio for propaganda purposes, and offering to send WSC a copy of his book on secret societies.
(Untitled), 22 Mar 1932
Letter from Charles Siepmann, BBC Director of Talks (Savoy Hill, London) to WSC on WSC's dissatisfaction with the fee he has been offered for making a broadcast.
(Untitled), 28 Mar 1932
Letter from [WSC] to Sir John Reith [later Lord Reith] offering to give a broadcast on the general political situation in the United States and Britain. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), [17] [Mar] [1932]
Telegram from Sir John Reith [later Lord Reith] to WSC inviting him to broadcast about his trip to the United States. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1932
Telegram from WSC to Sir John Reith [later Lord Reith] asking what fee he would receive [for broadcasting about his trip to the United States] and how long the talk would be. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), [Mar] [1932]
Note from [Violet Pearman] to WSC explaining why the BBC's fee for a broadcast is lower than that for a written article.
(Untitled), 22 Mar 1932
Telegram from Sir John Reith [later Lord Reith] offering a fee of fifty guineas for a broadcast of two thousand words.