On Thursday, January 24th, a speech by the Prime Minister
was broadcast from the City Hall, Newcastle, to various parts of Northumberland and Durham. This was the first organization on a large scale of the broad- casting of political speeches which will be very widely used in the forthcoming electoral campaign. The method will have great advantages in conserving the strength of speakers, but one cannot help thinking that there .will be disadvantages, as personality tends to become lost in the mechanism. The Prime Minister said that industry was slowly recovering. The Labour Party had issued a programme of more than sixty items, of which one of the most important was the nationalization of industry. Labour asked the nation to believe, what had never been proved, that nationalization would make the country more efficient in meeting foreign competition, and would raise the standard of living. All that was clouded in uncertainty, but one thing was clear— that there would be no reduction of expenditure under nationalization.
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