I Have Since Had Plentiful Opportunity To Gauge The Extent
to which the microphone can diminish, blur, misinterpret and indeed libel even the neatest voice. In the old days before the war, before human progress had reached the V.2......
Few Tasks Can Be More Difficult Than That Of An
exiled Minister who from a distant capital seeks to claim the attention, and retain the confidence, of his own countrymen who are suffering under enemy occupation. The gulf......
Marginal Comment
By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE microphone is a misleading instrument, since it fattens and thereby softens the human voice, and in so doing distorts character. In the days when I used......
There Are Some People, However, Whose Timbre Of Voice Seems
in no way to be diluted or transmuted by the alchemy of the micro- phone. One of these people is Mr. Jan Masaryk, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czechoslovak Republic. When......
What Were These Methods? Truthfulness In The First Place. "
The situation," he began on May 29, 1940, " is even more serious than a week ago." It was. " There is no doubt," he warned them a year later, " that the coming months will be......
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