A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
THE recent appointment of Mr. Lionel Fielden to take charge of broadcasting in India draws attention to a rather interesting situation. As things are, broadcasting in India, which is much more an official enterprise than it is in this country, is under the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, which is subordinate to the Minister of Labour and Industries, a British member of the Viceroy's Council. Under the new regime an Indian Minister will, of course, he in charge. That is as it should be, but broadcasting as it develops gradually in a country so illiterate as India may be a weapon of enormous potentialities. Any hint, for example, of communal partisanship as between Hindu and Moslem, to say nothing of national bias as between India and Great Britain, might have grave results.
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