13 OCTOBER 1939, Page 15

A similar discovery made by the Mass Observers was that

the working classes do not really understand the B.B.C. News Bulletins. Here again my sympathy goes out to the officials whose duty it is to draft these bulletins in the simplest language. I feel myself that they do their task with skill, and that much of the confusion created is due to the fact that these bulletins unavoidably contain difficult foreign names or refer to places which mean nothing to the ordinary listener. From time to time, moreover, the B.B.C. has to include in its Home Service some communiqué issued by a Government Department. It is not their fault if the wording of that communiqué is ungainly in the extreme.